Manga Gamer and Nutaku want to sell Kurovadis and Eroico, so I took it as a chance to fix some of the game's long standing problems. Eroico's CGs have been revised, and Kurovadis is getting redone pixel art CGs. There are also some things I know I'll change for certain;
Both games:
Updated control code (The root of some keyboard problems)
Vibration function (and the ability to disable it)
Cheats/speed run tools (Such as restarting rooms)
Add at least 1-2 new instances of H-content.
Removal of overture interactive screen (Who the hell is that? I'm just Kyrieru)
Kurovadis:
Add options screen
Add CG and sprite gallery
Change the way starting a new game and loading works (it's easy to erase your game by mistake)
Fix a couple jumps
Gears.
Menu glitch (extra slot)
Add "level up" or "Press start to level up" text to teach player about menu screen.
Balance changes (Succubus boss)
Eroico:
Add powerup in first level (sword wave) to other levels (I forgot about it at the time.)
Make changes to final boss fight? (Add alternative damage methods, teach player about mechanic earlier in the level)
possibly add Infinite health in "animation viewer" rooms.
Give Hud eyebrows.
Make hud change expressions? (The sprites were always there, but un-implemented)
I'm going to be doing a short runthrough of each game to determine what else should be changed. However, if there are any mistakes in the game that you can think of, or things that annoyed you about the games, then now is the time to mention them. Some changes will take very little time, especially if I've already done it other games since then (such as Noaika), so feel free to mention something, even if you think it's unlikely.
So your going to revise your old games in place of moving forward with new games for now?
ReplyDeleteI suppose progress is progress
Yay! How do you add new instances of H-content, do you add new enemies/traps?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone won the animation poll or did I miss anything? The Miku animation was awesome!
Also nice chibi art on your Twitter, sure is chibi XD
Priscilla won the poll.
DeleteNew H content could be anything.
The internet likes its giant dragon ladies huh XD
DeletePlease no traps. There are people like me who never comment but when it comes to this i have to say this.
DeleteOP here, just to clarify I meant traps like a trap door to a pit of tentacles, sex machine traps... a.k.a. obstacles that are not enemies. Not "trap" traps. XD
DeleteMore "trap" traps are always good though.
DeleteThe discrimination has to end!
This conversation is great. I'm all for whatever, but personally the more fetishes the better.
DeleteHe who tries to please everyone will please no one at all. Eroico is good with the gender dynamics it has, there are plenty of other game available if you want dick girls. The unwilling male protag genre is sparse enough, by comparison at least, as it is.
DeleteWould you consider putting a list in Eroico that explains how to do all the moves? There were a couple things I didn't know how to do even after 3 playthroughs of the game.
ReplyDeleteSeconded. Moreover, maybe in the options menu for both games add a tab where button combinations for all possible moves would be shown? Controls in both Kurovadis and Eroico were really badly explained (or not at all). Eroico especially suffered from this, as there were more possible actions.
DeleteOh man I'd LOVE some cheats, or at least a very easy mode.
ReplyDeleteOption to use room entry as a checkpoints? I don't want to use cheats to beat harder parts, but I also don't want to repeat large sections that I have no problems with, it's just wasting time.
DeleteAfter playing the game again (As in, with a more player-esque experience), I found the checkpoints to be too far apart at some points, and there's at least one part where a bad platforming section is at the end of a long section.
DeleteNot sure how I'll fix this, since adding just one checkpoint could make the part too easy, since it's a full heal where before there wasn't one, and health was spaced based on the absence of those checkpoints.
One way might be....mid-way checkpoints that cost sparkles you get from enemies. Meaning you choose to use them or not.
This might be a really dumb question on my part,but figure I'll ask anyway for myself and a few friends of mine. If we already bought the game will we have to buy again when you update?
ReplyDeleteYes.
DeleteThat will be 3 simple, one-time payments for the low cost of $19.99. Order before July 9th to also get a free box of (usually) live chickens.
Order at:
www.Frauds.com
Well, now we know why Gordon Freeman usually doesn't speak.
DeleteYou wont have to pay for the update. Same unlock code will work.
DeleteMy only problem with Kurovadis was performance. Eroico was a big improvement in this sense.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I'd like but I'm not sure is feasible: An option to slow down the game.
ReplyDeleteI used to play these games on an old macbook in a VM, which meant if I set them to fullscreen, the machine got maybe 15FPS on a good day.
Which meant the physics loop got delayed, and the game effectively ran at half speed.
Which was great! Finally my no-good-at-twitch-reactions ass could get through the fiddly platforming sections and dodge those projectile-flinging enemies.
I figure slowing the game down is a much less "impactful" change than giving the PC more life or reducing enemies' lives.
That said, depending on your engine it might not be practical to do so, without some interesting creativity...
It isn't really properly possible without delta time, which I probably wont be implementing since everything has to work under it. Maybe I could include normal slowdown under cheats though.
DeleteSpeaking of cheats, cheat engine has a built in function that allows you to lower the fps of any game via a hotkey.
Hey Kyrieru,
ReplyDeleteI bought your two games a long time ago, but I can't seem to find the unlock code (I think you emailed it to people who bought it?) Is there any way to check who bought the game with specific email addresses and to resend them?
Thanks!
Send me an email ---> the one in the top right.
DeleteI'm having the same problem as Anon. How do I get the updates?
DeleteThe updates aren't out yet.
DeleteJust a minor one for Kurovadis and maybe it was intentional, but the flies in the last area don't knock you over and it always struck me as weird. Actually I think the yeti thing might have that problem as well but I can't remember.
ReplyDeleteWould be interested into Eroico besides already knowing all enemies from a youtube video. Anyway if i buy it from your site will this version include the update? And what do you mean by 1-2 new instances of H-content? New enemies or something?
ReplyDeleteThis version will replace existing versions. Everyone gets it.
DeleteI mean either some hazard or level element with an H animation, be it a new enemy or otherwise.
Both games:
ReplyDeleteAdd visible timer option. mmm:ss.sss
Kurovadis:
Add Eroico's volume and scaling options.
Ground pound needs some kind of nerf. You can stand on almost every enemy's head and kill with complete safety.
CON is worthless compared to DEF. Maybe give DEF diminishing returns and CON an additional bonus that makes it easier to break out of holds? (Give a global hold strength increase to compensate.) Give some enemies / attacks an "ignores DEF" property?
Add a Hard mode. Enemies (and projectiles?) move 20% faster, half hit-invincibility duration, half xp gain, 0.75/1.5 damage/defense ratio, holds/knockdowns are inescapable while the bar is green, no ground pound(?), and no invincibility on plain rolls. Ideally you'd only be able to roll through or ground pound a target if they deal enough damage to kill, but that would break up the flow too much and would require a damage boost, which leaves the door open for the player to pump ATK and mow everything down. You can already do it with charge attacks, but that requires pumping two stats and, you know, charging. Losing charge on hit goes a long way towards taming that.
Eroico:
i r8 8/8, no changes m8
I'll be adding some speed run centric tools, so I'll add a timer.
DeleteThe ground pound is powerful, but it also requires a lot of confidence to use, since some enemies can hit you from below.
I'll have to look at the stats, since I completely messed them up at the time. I think the original idea was that one was better against enemies, and one was better against hazards. Cant remember if it worked out that way.
Lol hardcore mode. Maybe.
Tried it out on spike pits and the smaller Kuro-eating plants. The damage is a percentage of max health, ignoring DEF. I suppose that makes it better against enemies :p
DeleteIf there was a hardcore mode in both games, I think taking damage during H-scenes would give players more incentive to get out of holds, get up faster and make enemies feel more dangerous.
DeleteEroico: I think you should make it if you fail to escape the H-animation before "finishing" you should take some damage.
ReplyDeleteI'll probably add an option for it.
DeleteYeah, I think I'd like enemies in any of your current or future games where getting caught can result in a fail state if you don't escape. So I'm highly in favor of that option. Maybe even design some enemies that specialize in the capture of the player as opposed to beating them down.
DeleteFor those of us who bought your game via the old method (not DLsite), will there be a way to download the new versions/updates from your blog or other source?
ReplyDeleteAs far as changes go, the only one I can think is maybe slightly alter the controls for the dodges in Kurovadis on controller/gamepad? It's been quite a while since I last played the game, but I remember it being a little awkward to use the dodges on controller using the stick.
Pretty sure if you rename the file to .dll the old text files will just work. The new versions of the game will just replace the old ones, meaning everybody who bought it gets it.
DeleteAs for the stick, I didn't really design the game to be used with it, but I'll look at the possibility of adding a button.
DeleteHow about you just actually work on the current game and not old ones that EVERYONE has played a thousand times?
ReplyDeleteHey Kyrieru,
ReplyDeleteSomething that always bugged me about Eroico is that when your struggle bar got all the way into the red, nothing happened. Obviously, it's hard to change that without going back and potentially doing a lot of work, but have you given any thought into doing anything with it (also, what was your initial idea for the other half of the struggle bar?)?
I think the cheat menu is a good idea. I really, really like your games, but I tend to always use cheatengine to freeze my HP to get through the hard parts. Eroico's platforming was the hard part for me.
ReplyDeleteDon't take this comment as a: "MAKE IT EZ YA GIT!". I'm just voicing how fucking casual I am with platformers.
I don't have the patience to play some games without 3x fps, and there have been games where I've reached the "Alright, this has stopped being worth my time" stage.
DeleteThat's more or less why I think it's fine to add cheats. Let players enjoy the game how they want, and those who want the challenge will have it.
Will there be a "cheat" that makes you only have 1 hit of HP? :)
Deletethe Eroico Ghosts would appreciate some love
ReplyDeleteI don't really have anything to add, so I just want to take the opportunity to say that I recently beat Eroico for the first time and loved the way the music on the final boss stops for you to have a solemn Pong match with her. For some reason it gave me a really good laugh, which was not something I was expecting from a fuck-hard platforming H-game.
ReplyDeleteMaybe throw in a couple Easter eggs for the update.
How long is this going to take?
ReplyDeleteOh don't even tell me. I rather not know.
I'd say about 3 months or less since most of the work will be coding
DeleteWhat could possible go wrong?
DeleteJust add more monstergirls to Eroico and i would buy your game again.
ReplyDeleteI second this.
DeleteThe Dancer, the harpies and the Barbarians with Axes were the best btw.
DeleteYeah I love the mechanics of Eroico. I would be happy just to have a sequel with new levels and enemies. No need to build another entire game from scratch.
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ReplyDeleteKYRIERUUUUU!!!! PLEASE GIVE IN KUROVADIS THE CUTE KITTY CAT´S A CG! >o<
ReplyDeleteAND IN EROICO A NEW GENDER BENDER LESBIAN CG FOR THIS SHANTAE LIKE BOSS! >_<
PLEASE! PLEASE! >o<
Are you earning mad money now?
ReplyDeletePlease add the last bit of hp to Eroico. That and if you can more stages.
ReplyDeleteKurovadis seemed to have a lot
of empty areas that you could have added something to after i got to
lvl 32
atk 15
def 20
con 20
chg 20
after that nothing could kill me since even the last boss hit me
for 1 it was awesome but was it a glitch?
thanks for hearing me out and good luck and no new glitches
I'm just curious what you mean when you say you want to rebalance the Succubus.
ReplyDeleteWow! Well this may take long time, right?
ReplyDeletewhat's going on with Noaika?
ReplyDeleteStill in development.
DeleteOne request, don't wait with release of one revision until second one is done :-)
ReplyDeleteRIP Noika.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of getting a screenshot or gif of noika, kyrieru? Not being a dick and saying "where's the game?!" like a lot of people. I'm just genuinely curious what Nokia is going to look like with your improved art skills. Mentioning your old games made me appreciate how much your stuff has been improving over the years. Anyway, good luck with everything as always. See you around. ^ ^
ReplyDelete*noika. Stupid auto correct. X'D
DeleteYeah seriously, you switched to the high res sprites but we have yet to really get a sample of what they look like in motion
Delete+1, this would be nice. Just something without context, not spoilery. But just a crumb to keep us from starving.
Delete(Also, you realize your single-handedly created Noika is almost certainly going to be better than the "Triple A" title that was Mighty No. 9? That's got to feel good.)
Spoiler alert: He hasn't gotten much done on Noika. Between all these bi-weekly animations, the past game reworks, and seemingly endless 'side projects' that never get finished, there is a laughably small chance that he was somehow able to juggle all of that AND be productive on Noika in any remotely timely manner.
DeleteActually, that's what you're supposed to do at that point. I don't think anything else even hurts him at the end of the fight.
ReplyDeleteIn Kurovadis, could you make my country, New Zealand, a tiny bit more than just a dot? Many thanks. xD
ReplyDeleteAs for something somewhat serious, I countered a bug that caused my game to crash, in one of the red zones (the one just after the first checkpoint in the red area) I managed to get two of those mouth eater guys together and ground pounded them, something else must have occurred during it because the camera moved to the upper left corner of the map and I lost control of my character (though I was able to break out of a struggle), the game was unresponsive afterwards.
Fortunately I haven't been able to re-create it, so maybe it was just a one-off.
If anything, I'll make it so it's not Earth.
DeleteAs for the bug, that's something I've heard about, so I'll look into it
Sounds good. While I'm on the subject of bugs I've noticed being knocked down with enough force to push you out of the room makes it so that you're unable to get back up. Entering an H scene allows you to continue as normal, but if nothing is around to grab you then you're only metaphorically screwed instead. =P
DeleteIn Kurovadis, I'd put some more emphasis on ground pound somewhere in the game. I didn't even remember it was a thing by the end and had to look up how to kill the last boss because of it.
ReplyDeleteAs for Eroico, could level replays be a thing? Or at least the ability to go backwards through levels? It's always irritating reaching a check point or finishing a level and realizing you missed a heart piece or power-up.
I might include a level select. I've also made it so you can go backwards, from any door.
DeleteBeen forever since I played Kurovadis, but I remember there being a door transition that didn't quite match up, when leaving the...buried mansion? The Castlevania area.
ReplyDeleteDoor was like half the size on the exit side, compared to the entrance.
I think the second room is that one that's split in half horizontally with enemies dotting it, when you're almost out of the area.
I think I already patched that out, actually. Not sure.
DeleteSo should we expect his in 2020, or 2025?
ReplyDeleteKek but true.
DeleteIn addition to adding a menu or something that tells you your special moves in Eroico, I would add similar functionality to Kuro, just in case a player forgets what powerups they've picked up, or how to do them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, maybe adjust the sword lunge move in Eroico? It's not very useful as an actual combat move and is mostly only good for speedrunning.
Hmmm..Honestly, I'm not so sure what I would make it do, other than more damage or knockback.
DeleteLuckily it will have a little extra use now that the sword wave power-up will be in other parts of the game, since it makes it go farther.
Hey kryieru, love your games so far. Two things I can suggest though:
ReplyDelete1. Make clothing/armor more of a mechanic in your games. I always think it's a bit odd when you clothing magically just returns to you. (Could be especially awesome for noaika.) Armor/clothes could provide damage resistance or resistance to being knocked down too.
2. Keep the h-scenes as a mechanic for sure and maybe add more consequences to it. Maybe they are harder to break out of, more difficult to stand up so it really becomes a menacing factor in the game. You can pretty easily beat any of the games without getting caught.
Thanks again for the hard work and keep up doing what you do! Especially excited for noaika.
When it comes to clothing, it's usually a matter of practicality. In a 3d game, you just change model and use the same animations. However in 2d, you need a separate sprite for every animation. So if you have say, 100 H animations, and you want 5 other outfits, then you're going to have to do 500 edits. Then, if you decide you want to change anything about the animation, you need to change every edit. (Thus why you do alts at the end of development)
DeleteAs for H scenes as a mechanic, Noaika has plenty of that. For Eroico and Kurovadis, though, it's more or less meant to be tacked on. However, it's entirely possible that I may have some kind of H mode where the adult content is more relevant.
That's a good idea! I'm guessing the h-scenes you wouldn't have to alter if you had other outfits or a more simple (armored/unarmored) state in the game. The reason being (especially with noaika) all h scenes are in the unarmored state. Really what I was thinking for that is your armor wouldn't just come back. You would have to get it back.
DeleteThen the only animations you need to alter are the basic fighting, running, jumping etc for unarmored mode.
i dont know man that would break the flow of the gameplay and make the h feel repetitive, also that still feels like more work, kyrieru said the most he thought of doing would be armor piece variants and choosing breast size, and even that is more work than you probably think
DeleteI wonder how much easier, if at all, it would be to use low-poly 3D assets instead of 2D sprites. It would make multiple characters, outfits, situations, and other variations a lot more feasible, right? I do love the look of low-poly 3D art.
DeleteIf you're doing a lot of things that benifit from 3d, ten it would be faster. However, everything that doesn't benefit from it is going to be more or less slower, since 3d modeling takes longer than low res sprite (just the textures of the model could take as long as the whole sprite and animations would have).
DeleteDon't make the H-scenes harder to break out of. All those Japanese H games where you have to button mash to get away are HORRENDOUS in gameplay. When the porn becomes a torment you try to make go away, something has gone very wrong.
DeleteIn Kurovadis I would like to see a change for those large plant-like creatures that do massive damage when they grab you. I would like for them to have a sexual climax animation and then spit out the player, instead of instantly killing you. It would be like a special reward for building up your defense/health.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could make some slight changes to some enemies in Eroico so they don't feel tooo samey like:
ReplyDelete* making so the minotaur can't be stopped by shielding so you have to dodge as a way to make it different from the cat-girls...or at the very least make it so you get slightly stunned if you shield
* maybe change the attack patterns in the mummies or alraunes so they are also not pretty much the same thing, maybe by making the mummies attack just by stretching their bandages to catch you and have the alraunes attack you by sprouting their vines directly underneath you =/...
* in other news, maybe change the purple hair girl so rather than just being paralyzed you walk towards her?
* make it so bosses can get their way with you through different methods in the fight rather than just by losing all your health? maybe have the 2nd boss use her gender-changing magic to make you more vulnerable during the fight ala ghost'n'goblins?
In terms of Kurovadis you could just change the succubus boss so her temptation induced kill continues into the GO screen rather than the usual sequence?
Maybe Voice Audio for enemies?
DeleteSome sort of audio cues for enemies besides attacking or exploding would be nice. Like, periodic sounds. Basic growls for zombies, screeching for the manti.
DeleteMight be a bit much for a patch but...CG seemed like a bit much, too.
Will the people who bought both games be able to download the patches?
ReplyDeleteDerp, should have read the comments first. Ignore. :)
DeleteI would love some more game over screens for some of the enemies that don't have one, like the cat girls. In terms of bugs, I found that sometimes when you get knocked down into the big turrets you can get stuck, the only way I've found to get out of this is to restart the game.
ReplyDeleteSame Anon, talking about kurovadis.
DeleteIn Eroico: the dude's forward thrust attack doesn't break pots, and the downward thrust attack doesn't break breakable blocks.
ReplyDeleteNot related to your older games, but in Noaika, I once managed to duplicate the player character while breaking out of an H situation. You should check the code that adds the controllable character back into the game world, I think it sometimes runs twice.
Hey, Ky, I know you like to play other games, but one that's less heard of, but has been on PC for a while just came out on console called 7 Days to Die. Have you played this Minecraft on steroids yet?
ReplyDeleteNope. I've never really explored the fps indie scene, for the most part.
DeleteMeanwhile it's Winter, 2017, and Noika still won't be done.
ReplyDeleteHe's probably abandoned it by this point, maybe it was too ambitious?
DeletePretty much my theory as well. I have no doubt Noika is a lot of work, but is it really 4 years of work? When seeing the progress that people like Eluku make while working on two games at once, it's hard to believe Noika isn't done yet, but then again, it took almost two years just for the demo to be released after it was announced. Kyreiru does great work on what he actually manages to release but I get the feeling the motivation just isn't there anymore which is why we never see any progress posts(Or barely any posts at all anymore). And now he's going back to older games to add content?
DeleteNoika is almost guaranteed dead.
Hopefully. Since smaller games would be more entertaining and productive.
Delete...
DeleteAs if this wasn't talked about here a thousand times before.
It's not dead, it'll be done when it's done. There are other games, H and normal, that have taken just as long if not longer with even less communication or obvious progress.
DeleteIf you can't be patient then don't pre order stuff, and if you didn't pre order then stop complaining and just wait until it's done.
There's 'patience', then there's just silly amounts of wait time. He lost motivation, plain and simple. People with motivation don't drop their major project that they are doing for profit to work on, what, has it been 4-6 'side games' that never saw the light of day? Weekly-turned-into-monthly patreon animations before being cancelled? Going back to redo content for games made years ago? Unless he's the absolute king of time management and an absolute work-horse, it's entirely unfeasible that he's been giving Noika any sort of productive levels of attention. Heck, the last screenshot of content for the game was on March 16, 2015. Over a year ago. 2016 is already halfway over and there's been zero evidence that he's actually done anything with Noika. No screens, no videos, no demos. Anyone that's followed H-devs before knows the 'flags' for the death of a project when they see one.
DeleteJust like Parasite in the City 2 isn't going to randomly jump out of the shadows, Noika also isn't going to show up any time in the next 1-2 years, if ever. Considering Noika has been in 'development' for nearly for years now, almost two of which were consumed before the demo released, when both his previous games took half the time to go gold, all signs point to Kyreiru not wanting to work on the project and having to drag himself to do it at this point; Leading to slow, if not entirely halted progress. It's a side scrolling 2D hentai game, not a flight sim or some AAA 3D FPS. Unless this is the most ambitious side scrolling H-game ever made, with 40+ sex encounters fully animated, deep gameplay mechanics that extend beyond 'jump, shoot, and cycle what type of bullets you use', full blown voice acting or robust text story telling, and a huge gallery of CG's; I seriously doubt the majority of the time has been spent actually developing the game. Especially when he's cranked out high end pixel animations in a week just for the fun of it.
I mean I appreciate what the guy does, and admire his work, But being a little frank with people about your motivations would be nice, especially if you want to cancel an overly-ambitious project you either can't or don't feel like finishing to the point that you actually start making games on the side.
Also, just for reference, 'Noika' was announced in October, 2013. It lasted for about 6-ish months before having it's aesthetic and gameplay changed, and shortly after, was declared nearly finished in this post http://puu.sh/q9RdN/db6c1db33a.png two years ago. Since that point there's only been two screenshots of content, one being a mini-boss, and the sprite rework of the main character.
DeleteEither Noika was secretly completely reworked a 2nd time, the content increased exponentially to be several times larger than planned, or he lost motivation.
hey man, how about this?, you stop checking the blog already?, i mean you seem to know its dead already or atleast decided it for yourself, so why bother everyone else? theres alot of other h games you can go support, honestly this just feels like your trying to goat kyrieru into releasing stuff cause you just cant wait, i mean unless you have a terminal illness you got time to wait, like everyone else
DeleteI understand the frustration, I myself has been anxiously awaiting at least an updated demo or something to play. I also know that sitting here bringing it up every chance I get isn't going to magically make it go faster so instead I just see what other good games I can find and when it does finally come out I'll play it.
DeleteI've spent more money on games I didn't enjoy than I have on this, and worse games have taken far longer with far more manpower.
I get the whole "don't want to spoil" thing, but can't we at least get the new sprites to the enemies already in the demo?
ReplyDeleteas a big Eroico fan i really want those extra enemies that were cut from the game to be implemented in a way kyrieru sees fit. love the spritework and enemies in that game, and more of that would be greatly appreciated
ReplyDeleteIs this your occupation or your hobby?
ReplyDeleteBoth. But it's my sole source of income.
Delete"Unlikely"
ReplyDeleteWhy not have the schoolgirl uniform for New game+ bonus run or a bonus level?
Everybody has said stuff I would have suggested already, so I have a simple one. The ghosts in both games could get a sex animation, as both were prominent in a room and caused constant knockdowns.
ReplyDeleteThe ghosty thing in Kurovadis does have an animation, it just doesn't trigger most of the time.
DeleteI played Kurovadis a lot and I think the skeleton should have an animation! Maybe not a CG, but at least an animation (else he's glitching in the player's corpse when approaching it).
ReplyDeleteYour games are awesomes (Because before being H-games, they are GOOD games, and some h-games developpers seem to forget that a game needs to be good before being hentai)!
Keep up the good work!
Huh, just for curiosity, it seems Nintendo of America is in the mood of cracking down on hentai of their characters on Tumblr. Maybe it would be preferable to not have their characters in future polls.
ReplyDeleteLet them come. I'll put their cease and desist on my wall.
DeleteAs much as i like Nintendo... "Nintendo of America" seems to be a big pile of s..t.
DeleteQuestionable censoring and things like that?
Not to mention that if you make play vids for Nintendo games on YouTube and try to monietise them, Nintendo gets all your revenue.... How the fuck they get away with that is beyond me.
DeleteI wonder if they demand royalties from anyone that writes reviews or articles....
There's a pretty big difference between writing a review for a game and using somebody else's work to make money for yourself.
DeleteYou probably already know this Ky, but for those that don't..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nutaku.net/blog/nutaku-and-kimochi-a-match-made-in-adult-heaven/
It seems that Kimochi is back and has done some super sentai robot combo with Nutaku! Will awesomeness be born from this fusion?! Find out next week on super-super sentai NutaKimo!!!!!! *insert awesome rock music with creds*
And yes... I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!
DeleteOne of the things that always struck me as odd were the ghosts in Eroico. They are the only enemies in the game that lack any sort of h-content. What's up with that? Also I like that you can be raped and still recover, but I'd like some lose by rape alternate scenes if possible. Don't want to overwork you, you're quite talented at it already. XD
ReplyDeleteProgress report? Anything?
ReplyDeleteWorked for quite a while on Eroico just to get it running normally in new GM, made some small changes and fixes, fixed CGs, was sick for a while, and now I'm working on Patreon animations for this month.
DeleteAnd new sprites/enemies? Are you interested in that?
DeleteI just want you to know, that every post here doesn't have to be very long, or even very frequently. A screenshot, a teaser, hell if you're generous a little gif (like you did with Noaika wayyy wayy back) would work wonders with your fans. I'm starting to feel like you hate some of us or feel a certain way about how we act. It's hard to keep excited with news so scarce.
DeleteIf I had to describe how I've felt in the past year, it's "tired", and when you're tired, a lot of things just don't seem worth the stress -HOLD ON THERES A GOD DAMN SPIDER BRB-
Delete-Anyhow, I'm more or less of the state of mind that this part of my life is just going to have to be the part where I felt awful all the time and screwed up a lot. Like the asshole spider that prevented me from writing until I killed it, I don't think that the constant lethargy and lack of motivation is going to be resolved until I've finally dealt with everything I've worked on over the years, since Eroico.
Once Noaika, the projects few have seen, and my other obligations are over with, I'll feel a lot better. Until then, though, I'm probably going to be about as depressed and devoid of energy as I am now, and those aren't problems that I think are worth complaining about or blaming. I'd rather just try as hard as I can to do my work and fix my mental state, post stuff when it's done, and eventually come out the other end.
I am sorry you are feeling depressed. The work you do does bring happiness to people and I'm not just talking about the porn. It's excitement, we get to see some creativity, and break our fingers trying to get through your ridiculous platforming, jumping puzzle bullshit sections. Depression is not something to be taken lightly, and if you really are experiencing things like this, I strongly recommend you do find someone to speak to you, whether it's a friend, relative, or professional. I hope you pull through and don't take this is a sign of pity from me or anyone, or even concern. You should do this for you. And do something that makes you happy. If nothing makes you happy right now, that's when you know you must reach out for help. Depression can become a giant ocean of shit. You are not alone.
DeleteAs far as this anon is concerned man, the pressure's off. You're a real nice dev who's always took very clear steps to make sure people know you aren't trying to rip them off or anything, and your only beef is with your own lack of energy and I sympathize with that like crazy. Forgetting the whole porn thing, your stuff has played a fair role in making me want to try making a full platformer in Game Maker and getting good at spriting, and that's why I lurk here at all. I hope you'll be able to see it as something besides a stack of obligations eventually, or at least work through it, but for now imma just wait patiently and get excited when there's something new to see.
DeleteWell, only some of them are obligations, (as in, they were promised, therefore I have to complete them). As for the depression, I don't think it's an excuse to take pressure off myself. The quicker I get stuff done, the quicker I'll have alleviated the stress that's probably causing it.
DeleteWell, I wasn't talking too literally, just as in obligations to yourself and mental pressure. I think having loads of people expecting you to do things sort of melts creative fervor into busywork chore grinding even more than just time spent and quantity of work does, as seems to happen a lot to people who do commissions and such. I'm not saying to give up or even work slower, just to be more relaxed and natural about doing it and to not let people grind your head against the desk too much while you try to get things done.
DeleteHey, maybe none of that even makes any sense but I'm just saying you're cool in my book. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are there any good, recent H-games that you can recommend? I noticed that the featured games on the side haven't been updated in a while.
ReplyDeleteEh, not really. Some recent ones/ ones in development art;
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Guilty Hell
Future Fragments
DeleteCrisis Point: Extinction
You might've been on to something with showing the character's expression at the bottom of the screen. I've only seen it done in an H-game once before and it could really add to the experience if you have the time. (Though, it was used more as a magnifying shot.)
ReplyDeleteAanimmaaashuuuun!!! :<
ReplyDeleteI'm curious what you came up with. Priscilla is not exactly your typical animoo girl :3
OK sillybuns :3
Deleteany update? are you still doing patreon animations?
ReplyDeleteYep. Took a break around my birthday to visit family and such.
DeleteWell then....Happy Birthday Mr. Ru!
DeleteDid you get a tasty cake?
Family? We're your family now Kyrieru. So get back to the work dungeon where you belong.
DeleteFrom a gameplay standpoint damaging 'grapples' would be enjoyed. As it stands when you get downed you can just sit there for some enemies and not others.
ReplyDeleteHmm, i prefer the painless grapples but hey why don't make it a way that everyone is happy? Example: Easy mode: Grapples does not damage! heavy mode: Grapples does damage! Hell Mode: Grapples one hit you! ; P
DeleteI'd be happy with just a Hard mode that adds this and other challenges. <3
DeleteHey Kyrieru what do you think of this demo call Lost Soul Aside(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5El-yYNUwU) Apparently this game is being work on by one person.
ReplyDeleteThe graphics and environments look neat, but the combat looks somewhat boring. It's hard to tell if the pacing of combat is any good without playing it.
DeleteI see. Is it because the combat look to fast and flashy? The gameplay from what I seen look like it going be a button masher. As in you just need to tap one button over and over again to do all these move. Like there no light attacks and heavy attacks. To make different combinations of attacks. Althought that could change later on. Anyway the Guy who made this trailer it took him 2 years by himself and he had to buy marketplace items to speed up developement time. Which is not a bad thing to do or anything. Kyrieru I got to give you alot of props. The game you working on Noaika. All of it is being drawn by you,the coding,and the soundtrack is also being done by you. You started 2 years ago and you release the demo of it at that time. Dude not alot of people can do what you can do. Creating the entire game from top to bottom without outside help.
DeleteBy the way Kyrieru do you accept people demos? I'm not sure if ask you this. But if I have Eroge/game demo. Can I sent it to you for advise and constructive criticism?
DeleteWell, with combat involving multiple enemies, generally the game paces the attacks so that it becomes about attacking/reacting and utilizing the abilities you have. The enemies in that looked a simple (go right up to the player, attack, etc.) That was just my impression, though, I can't really give it a fair critique without having played it.
DeleteOf course I'm willing to give feedback on stuff people show me.
By the way Kyrieru do you accept people demos? I'm not sure if ask you this. But if I have Eroge/game demo. Can I sent it to you for advise and constructive criticism?
DeleteCan we get a status in the next week? No pressure just wanna know.
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Deletei check in just a little more than weekly and seeing you (Ky) reply to people is a good indicator you're not dead (which we all fear). Can we maybe get a broad scope of what's left to finish?
Seriously Kyrieru, what's the deal here? Every fan of yours is waiting patiently for Noaika. You released a kick ass demo for it, then you decide you want to change it. That's fine and sounds amazing, yet you don't even mention it anymore. We have yet to see anything from the game besides a still image of how the new character sprite looks (It looks awesome btw). Then you talk about a little mini game you were working on to fill the gap. Once again, nothing. Now you decide to go back to your previous games and "fix\update" things? I don't understand why you simply cant inform your fans and supporters of progress of upcoming projects. Even if it's just a simple little update post. That's a whole lot better than sweeping it under the rug.
ReplyDelete*ka-shing!*
DeleteCON-gratulations! You are the lucky One Millionth Poster of the "Where the Fuck is Noaika" comment. As our lucky winner, you can now pick up Noaika when it is finished, as everyone else. Isn't that exciting?
Not necessarily Noaika alone, but everything. He really should show some sort of love to his fans. I know the guy has some health issues and tends to lose motivation. But we are his supporters, keep us up to date with whats going on.
DeleteIn my opinion it is more important to show love to your games than to your fans = I
DeleteNoika is dead. It's taken more time than the other two games combined, and it's been nearly two years since the last content post showed a mini-boss for it. He's been hush-hush about it because he doesn't really have anything to show. Dude lost motivation for the project which is why he keeps hopping onto these '''''side projects'''''. And even then, he can't finish the side projects. There's been what, 2-3 'mini-games' that he announced that never saw the light of day over the last 3 years? And then there was the 'weekly animations' that turned into monthly animations before being stopped altogether along with the whole patreon bit(A site which is the kiss of death on ANY H-project. See: Breeding Season Malise and the Machine, Fatal Fragments, and Fiera Quest. Really, the list goes on.).
DeleteI mostly just poke in out of curiosity every once in awhile; But the time between posts has gotten longer and longer, with less and less in the way of animations, art, or well, anything. It's a shame, really. He's incredibly talented, but it's become pretty clear that he doesn't really enjoy the work anymore if he has to drag feet so much on it. Patreon was the straw that broke the camel's back, IMO. That shit is cursed.
Patreon can either make you or break you. Take a look at Future Fragments, that project is doing extremely well and they treat their supporters very well and fair. They have gained such a good reputation,they are now working with some A class voice actors for the game (I'm talking Naruto level voice actors). Whenever they hit a bump in the road they always make up for it by at least posting an animation or something. HentaiWriter is doing such a great job of keeping things smooth.
DeleteNice shilling right there KinetikSilence. I don't know about the quality of future fragments besides it's less fapable than Eroico's games but it could be still fantastic or bad i don't know. Some people like H.W. like to shill their games in every possible way. It already crossed the line. An example would be the comments under Breeding Season blog last post. The shilling is unreal.
DeleteFuture Fragments is pretty much the only H-Game with a foreseeable future right now.
ReplyDeleteno, they keep dragging it out to milk the money. 6=7k a month for what? pretty much nothing. The amount of progress that they've made is basically zero over the last year.
DeleteGuess you ate your words, they put out four demos in four months now back to back.
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ReplyDeleteEroico would be even better if the monster girls could gang rape you. For an example, see One Syota or it's sequel Kariyume
ReplyDeleteAny chance of adding enemy voices/moans in Eroico?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the game thoroughly but was sad to see lady voices not make a return after Kurovadis.
Well, it's a possibility at least. There's no downside so long as there's an option to disable it.
DeleteWill these new freatures be on the demo?
ReplyDelete@Kyrieru well i don't know,make there actually be a kurovadis revision i guess (there's only an eroico revision so far,literally.)
ReplyDeleteDid you ever manage to find the time to add a gallery to Kurovadis?
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