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I've begun the groundwork for my first full-sized project, I've only just begun, so I have nothing more than a GDD, but soon I shall have a prototype up and running in I'd say two to four weeks.

The gist of the project is that you live in an authoritarian city ruled by corporations, your basic run-of-the-mill sci-fi story, but I plan on featuring a randomized cityscape, so every fight with "the man" will be at least visually distinct each time you play.

I hope people will see this, and come with me on my journey into game development!

I'm gonna post updates to my Patreon every time I do something even remotely worth talking about regarding this project!

Patreon link, dude!

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I'm gonna start this off by saying that I'm not exactly the best at modding, but what I've wanted to do for a while is make an overhaul of a game. And what better game to do it with than the supremely flawed - but still very enjoyable - Fallout 4

I made a banner for it already, and I'm making quite good progress on making a modular game settings system.

After a long while of living under a rock (a basement) I have finally stepped back into the light (upstairs) to brave a world in which I am but an infant (socializing)

I have been given super special DRUGS to help me focus on things better. So yay! I can probably keep a thread going for longer than three posts this time

I have been learning how to use GameMaker for a little bit, almost a week, good thing I learnt a lot about Unity before I moved to GM, having a basic general knowledge of coding is really speeding up my learning rate regarding GM.

But yeah, I wanna try and actually post here when I can, even if It has nothing to do with GameMaker at large. Keep it as some sort of blog that-no-one-is-probably-going-to-care-about sort of dealio.

But in the famous words of Plato:

So there ya go, stay tuned or not. I'm probably still gonna post whether anyone listens or doesn't.

I finally hit the small-time, I've made a review blog cataloging all of my reviews I am going to make, and I'll be sure to post links to any of my new ones here

First review(No Man's Sky(Redux)) & my new review scale: http://happyslappreviews.blogspot.com/?view=magazine

Meh Facebook/Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/HappySlappReviews/  <====== FACEBOOK | TWITTER ======> https://twitter.com/HapSlapReviews

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/happyslappreviews

Thanks for taking the time to notice, if you did

I have decided that I've been away from pixel art for far too long. And I wanna try to rectify that by making one a day, no matter if it sucks or is good, I'm gonna post it.

I've been working on Dwarf Fortress Quest in the meantime, which also counts as pixel art, since I'm making my own art for it. So I will also post any art I make for it here.

Thank you Cinder/DigitalDemon, for this amazing idea I stole from you I made into my own

To be honest though, this is a really good idea that would help anyone who is art-inclined, like myself. So thanks for the original idea, guys

Let's give it a whirl, shall we?

We are going to play through Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition, with Lonesome Road being the last thing we'll do in the game. I play. YOU DECIDE.
Either way, I'm gonna play using only Project Nevada, EVE, WMX, and a few other quality of life improvements. NO QUEST MODS. Unless it's demanded.

To start off, what is our hero going to be like? what makes him/her, S.P.E.C.I.A.L?

33 Points, can't go above 10 in any stat.

Strength:      1
Perception:    1
Endurance:    1
Charisma:     1
Intelligence:  1
Agility:         1
Luck:           1

We can also pick up to 2 traits for our hero/heroine from this list:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_traits


And we get 3 Tag skills to choose:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout%3A_New_Vegas_skills#List_of_skills


Feel free to suggest any type of name, face, or other features you want me to add to the character

I just thought I'd get a bit more involved with the community by discussing some of my favorite, and not so favorite games. So there ya go, there's the reason for this thread to exist, I guess

I thought I'd start with a little game called:

NO MAN'S SKY

Personally, I actually think it's a bad game. Well, it's also good... It's gonna take some explanation on my part.
You see, I love the ideas that the game brings to the table, namely:

- 18 Fuckbungus amount of planets to explore. (P.S. Fuckbungus is a lot ((P.P.S. I know that the actual planet count is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616, but you know what? FUCK IT *Drops mic*)))
- Trading with space people.
- Fighting with space people.
- Fighting in a spaceship against other spaceships which may or may not have space people inhabiting them.
- Space. (Yep, that's a feature now)

It's just, I didn't expect it to include these "features"...

- 18 Fuckbungus planets that look *slightly* different.
- Trading with space people... OH WAIT, MY INVENTORY IS FULL!?
- Fighting with space people who have some really bad AI.
- Fighting in a spaceship with controls that are SO FUCKING SLOW... OR TOO FUCKING FAST. (Pardon my fucking french)
- Too much space. (Yep, still a feature)

You know, it might sound like I hate No Man's Sky, and you're half right. It's just SO tedious and boring, having to refill my ship every 5 seconds is NOT fun. Having an inventory size smaller than a gnat's condom is even worse, and then add in procedural generation that creates a sense of genric-ness and you have a game that is... What's the word? oh, yeah:

BORING

But man, those first couple of hours are so awesome! When the game thrusts you into the universe, and you have to just go and find those resources to repair your ship, that was actually fun! I had a great sense of wonder and awe as I went through the first planet, which had pretty green grass and weird ass creatures. Then you go to a space station, and trade, fight, and then you go down to another planet, and you trade... Mine, and fight.

Then you go to another planet and trade... Mine... And fight more.

And again...

AND AGAIN...

AND FUCKING AGAIN...

So yeah, No Man's Sky is a lot like eating pizza to me, I have one slice, then another... And suddenly, oops, I drop dead from eating 16 whole pizzas. I really wish I loved it, or even liked it. But I just can't, especially when there are games that have SO much more in them for me to play, even games like Fallout 4 would be better, because at least that has fun gameplay. And it doesn't bore me to death. I don't like scoring games so I would rather rate the game on a scale of FUCK YES to Ugh... (FUCK YES being an amazing game, and Ugh... Being a game like Ride to Hell: Retribution)

I would happily rate it a: *Looks at Steam catalog, sees this* Eh. What's the worse that could happen?

Scoring system (For those that even care):

- FUCK YES = Games like The Witcher 3 or Fallout New Vegas in my opinion.

- This is awesome! = Games like XCOM 2 or Max Payne 3, again, in my own opinion.

- This is pretty good. = Games like Fallout 3 or 4.

- *Looks at Steam catalog, sees this* Eh. What's the worse that could happen? = Games like No Man's Sky or SimCity 2013 (Yeah, I know it's for Origin and not Steam).

- Ehh... Not looking so hot. = Games like The Sims 4.

- Ugh... = Games like Ride to Hell: Retribution.

P.S:

I know this was kind of random, but I just kind of wanted to try something a little different and actually give a game a (terrible) review.