The future... of... monbre...The future... of... monbre...
Vael Victus 
"See you, fantasy monster game."
Posts: 2200
08/31/2009 12:58 | I wonder how many topics I'll make of this. It is 11:40 AM and I've just spent the majority of my morning thinking of how to make MonBre "cooler". I sit here with icyhot on my wrist because I'm clicking too much, and icyhot on my back because I sit incorrectly at this terminal. (I'm in training to not sit like this)
I'm taking a week off from development. I'll fix some bugs, set up paypal, and I'm gonna add AJAX to the forum. (and fix the bottom-forum-page thing) Basically I looked at how many people stuck to the game and... I understand, the old city page was ugly. This one is sooo sexy. The new combat is pretty great, right? It's a lot more fair and makes it feel like a real game.
I sent out 94 emails to people who quit in the past month. (13-30 inactivedays) My friend signed up, totally grinded on the game, I think he really liked it... and then lost interest. So I get a mail back from some guy who has no idea what he's talking about, but still, he said one thing: it is lame. Do I think MonBre is lame? No. Do I think it's bursting at the seams with fun? No. So here I go again, making crazy ideas.
Life expectancy. Fuck it. Seriously. I've been trying to think of a way to put it on the backburner, but I was using it to balance the eggs types a bit. Well the new idea I've got won't even scratch that.
So here's the idea. Think about your monsters. Compare them to someone else's and they are going to be the same. They'll have different equips, maybe, but really they are the same. Right now you can select what your monster is going to look like when you evolve them, but it doesn't do anything different. Well that's going to change.
I'm going to change the monster page so that when you click on your monster's individual picture, it brings up a skill menu. There's going to be a lot more skills in this game. Passive, active, attacks, all those wonderful things. So you now think, okay, each evolution, I will get the choice between 6 skills. That makes a total of 18 new skills per monster. That's a lot of skills for you to code, Vael. I know it is.  I might end up removing a single selection from each monster but I don't know at this point. The good news is if I do that, I at least have some more mob pics to use...  Anyway that's not the point now. Lots of skills, great.
But now with life expectancy gone, won't splicing be worth less? (worth less, not worthless) Indeed it might seem that way, but here's where the magic happens. This is where the game gets depth without complication. When you splice this monster with another one, you will get to merge their skills! Yes! So now finally you can get a cool healing ability for your evil monster.  But don't get too excited. This doesn't mean you just completely assimilate their skill sets into each other, there are going to have to be tradeoffs. When you splice, right before confirming, you'll need to select the skills you want for each level of the monster: child, teen, adult. HOWEVER. Depending on the splice rating, there will be the possibility to get more, and there will be the possibility to keep "solid" techniques that will never be lost.
Ultimately this will make many monsters unique and open up way more possibilities than we have now. Like, did you know I can EASILY create a "drain life" skill? Piece of cake. How about a passive skill to have +10 energy? Not too hard. (but still sorta hard) How about a passive skill to give the monster constant bleeding status but their attacks surpass 50% of the opponent's armor?
All of these things will be possible. If you are worrying that I will run out of ideas for skills, I admit I fear that too. Well I found this wonderful game recently called Heroes of Newerth and they have inspired me with their depth, to create this very system I am describing to you now.
To sum it up: monsters will be more detailed, life expectancy is gone, and maybe perhaps I will have a genuinely fun game finally. I have already done three major things in the past week to make the game more enjoyable: moving quickly in exploring, a better combat system, and a new city page. No matter how long it takes, I am not going to let this game die... I simply have no choice.
I will spend this week on my next project and meanwhile plan the next moves for monbre's cruel dream of conquest.
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MonBre is an unlisted game of Tinydark Studio.
Personal Website: vaelvict.us |
Demi Lune
"The what now?"
Posts: 909
08/31/2009 15:23 | I'm liking the sounds of this. Do you have an idea of what you'll do to unlock the solid skills yet?
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Killer Killer
"die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Posts: 824
08/31/2009 16:38 | MOst of the html in the city 2do scrolls are still there, 'cause the alt tags on images use quotes and it pulls in the exact text from the quotes, stupid html just forgets all about html in quotes! (FYI i checked out the source code; I had had that problem myself when messing about with html!)
Combat system is great, and effectively compensates for hp defficits when fighting off mobs that are your size!
Exploring: great!
LE going away, which will relieve you of the need for No harm done in skill tree, remember that! New skills for monsters, yay! Just immagine, combine a normal with an evil, and whenever thy need to heal, just use halistic heal right afterwords to regain all the lost energy man won' i be beast then, hahhaha
And, you should put hints for each of your eggs, so we blind people know what abilities we're getting.
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The rule of wildlife: Survival of the fittest.
If u want a challenge, I'll kill u with1swipe!
Die die die!
Your life is mine for the taking! Ha ha ha!
Stomp all over 'em like they was cookie crumbs!!! |
Garr Slayer 
"It's a good day."
Posts: 702
08/31/2009 18:18 | Wow! Wow! Mmm... Just wow!
Sounds awesome! Can't wait to try it out!
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When life hands you a lemon, it's up to you what to do with it.
Half of anything is better then a whole of nothing. |
Vael Victus
"See you, fantasy monster game."
Posts: 2200
08/31/2009 22:37 | Well I'm glad you all like the sound of this. Killer: good point, totally forgot about that skill. I might end up adding more to the tree now that I can, we'll see how it goes. By "most of the html" do you actually mean "some" of the HTML? Because I cannot see much in the alt tag myself.
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MonBre is an unlisted game of Tinydark Studio.
Personal Website: vaelvict.us |
Killer Killer
"die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Posts: 824
09/01/2009 06:01 | Like the
is just about it, everything else like the <strong> is gone. But yep. Maybe you should make a visual aid version of the city pages. Yeah it will take time. But what other choice is there? The HTML isn't much of a hassle, but it looks more pro if you take it out.
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The rule of wildlife: Survival of the fittest.
If u want a challenge, I'll kill u with1swipe!
Die die die!
Your life is mine for the taking! Ha ha ha!
Stomp all over 'em like they was cookie crumbs!!! |
Killer Killer
"die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Posts: 824
09/01/2009 06:07 | I mean the br and codes. it actually used it instead. Haha haha
And speaking of html codes, I can make links yay.
Warning: OT:
Oh. There is this program that I found, you can adapt it to anything. It's called my brain. Don't worry, it's not like a trivia game or something. It uses a bunch of sounds you put in a folder and plays specified nnumber of sounds, form 1 to 9, together al at the same time, but it's smart enough to wait till each sound in the sequence stops. I have made a couple. TO play them, just execute the brain.exe file and follow the instructions.
Garr, have you seen SoundRTS, the free rts for blind people? My first two are of the soundrts game, if you haven't seen it, check these out!
SoundRTS battle: <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/128948428/9e8b60c2/rtsBattle.html" target=_blank>rtsBattle.zip</a>
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The rule of wildlife: Survival of the fittest.
If u want a challenge, I'll kill u with1swipe!
Die die die!
Your life is mine for the taking! Ha ha ha!
Stomp all over 'em like they was cookie crumbs!!! |
Vael Victus
"See you, fantasy monster game."
Posts: 2200
09/01/2009 13:28 | Your post reminded me to fix the HTML stuff so now it looks like you are crazy. lol
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MonBre is an unlisted game of Tinydark Studio.
Personal Website: vaelvict.us |
Garr Slayer
"It's a good day."
Posts: 702
09/01/2009 14:36 | I tried to get to it but it's not possible without signing up so, no thanks.
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When life hands you a lemon, it's up to you what to do with it.
Half of anything is better then a whole of nothing. |
Killer Killer
"die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Posts: 824
09/01/2009 16:19 | Sure it is. There's a download link on it. Along with the file properties. You need to sign up to UPLOAD files, not download 'em look again
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The rule of wildlife: Survival of the fittest.
If u want a challenge, I'll kill u with1swipe!
Die die die!
Your life is mine for the taking! Ha ha ha!
Stomp all over 'em like they was cookie crumbs!!! |
Curitya Bloodleaf
"Working On Peace. Or Something"
Posts: 22
09/02/2009 21:27 | http://sharebee.com/ is a great uploading site.
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Enjoy yourselves and each other and strive to make the best of everything. |
Deroh Ryumaru
"Strength comes in many forms."
Posts: 82
09/13/2009 16:48 | are you sure it's a legit site? Like, is doing that legal and all that crap? Just making sure we're not slapped around by "The Man".
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If you wind up living in an illogical world, you must become illogical yourself. If you know your surroundings are of fantasy, you also know that your imagination controls your fate. Be unbreakable. |
Killer Killer
"die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Posts: 824
09/13/2009 17:33 | Sure! It is. No p2p, no bitTorrent, just sounds, that's all.
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The rule of wildlife: Survival of the fittest.
If u want a challenge, I'll kill u with1swipe!
Die die die!
Your life is mine for the taking! Ha ha ha!
Stomp all over 'em like they was cookie crumbs!!! |
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