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2D All the way! / ***** lord 1.0 - need a suitable background

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fhtughryf
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I have started my first game project with DBPRO... and it's a simple point and click style game with minimal animation.

I'm looking for help with graphics and what I really need is a birds eye view of a small section of a city that has a hospital, adult toy store, escort service building, cathouse. With dimly lit streets and a garbage can(the tyoe that garbage trucks empty). This image would be static and non animated.

If you can whip up something I will give you credits for the work in the game.

Remember the perspective of the city would be a birds eye view as if a bird was flying over the section of the city and looking down.

The areas I mentioned in the background image would be clickable so users can select services in the game. So I'm looking for a cartoonish look that is detailed.

This is a comedic game with adult ideas and doesn't contain hardcore images. It's not meant to be the premise anyways. It's meant to teach you a lesson on how expensive and dangerous it is to contract sexually transmitted diseases.

Of course I'm not using the game to preach and it's supposed to be fun and not serious. I originated the idea after playing the popular online game drugrunners.net. My game only focuses on the john and the working women.

If I get the right attention from this thread I will start posting the meaty parts on the progress. I have already put in place the money system, dingy bar, hospital cure system, disease system..etc. The game is half playable now but tomorrow I will get the basics all in place and maybe include the crude demo for people to mess around with at least so you know I have taken a serious attempt to get this finished.

Remeber this is my first game and nothing really stellar but it's a good learning process for me and I hope I can find some people who would like to pitch in some ideas and advice once I release the basic code and graphics.
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Posted: 16th Aug 2008 14:20 Edited at: 16th Aug 2008 14:21
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fhtughryf. Please, don't put **** in the title. And I think you need a better name. And also a game on Sexually transmitted dieseases sounds awful. People wouldn't want to play a game on that area. So I would rethink everything up again. If you want a game which is comedic and funny make a gta style game. 2d sprite running around in a 3d enviroment. But in birdseye view. With funny qualities.


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fhtughryf
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Well I'm big on originality and I like games that don't appeal to the mainstream. Everyone so far that I talked to about the game want to play it and even suggested things I should throw in to make it better. So yes not popular like GTA but nonetheless interesting enough to capture some minds.

And I think it's funny how you view GTA as a fun and socially acceptable game. It deals with violence, death, stealing, and even hooker bashing.

I'm not anti GTA person I happen to own and have played many GTA titles and like them very much and the game has much more adult oriented content than my game which like I said is based on one idea sexually transmitted diseases.
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fhtughryf
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Oh I purposely put the '*******' in the title as my way of keeping the moderators happy. I might change the name later as this is the first version of the game/version.

This version is ultra lite and not very dynamic for a reason. I just want to see peoples reactions and if they are somewhat responsive I will greatly enhance the game.
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was the title 'tracey lord' or something?

Either way, who cares if it has an adult theme, doesn't anyone remember the memorable Leisure Suit Larry?


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fhtughryf
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No it's not Tracy Lords. I don't want to get sued lol! I have a website with nothing on it so I might get a page setup in the near future to house the game.
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fhtughryf
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Well does anybody want to help me with the city street graphic so I can spiffy up my project a bit?

I warn you if I trythis myself it will make the game so much more annoying to play. You should see the cheesey place-holder graphics I'm using now lol...ugh!
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Okay I realize people respond less when you don't show the progress so I will spill the beans today because I'm off and have free time so lets get rollin'.

Game concept - You are a John looking to score with professional women and of course you have problems which make the challenge more difficult like sexually transmitted diseases.

So lets get down to the game features:

Score - Well everytime you pay for services you will be awarded points for your time.

Dingy meter - If you contract a disease the dingy meter increases and this can make or break you.

Escort service - These are the best ladies in the business if your dingy meter meets a level of thirty percent than they will not accept you as a client.

Cathouse - The second best service the city has to offer and if your dingy meter meets the sixty percent mark they will close up shop if you are in town.

Skidrow - You wouldn't want to aquire services from these ladies of the night unless you go in with armament. They have standards though because if your dingy meter reaches eighty percent they will make you take a hike.

The diseases:

Herpes
Syphilis
Gonnorhea
Aids

All the diseases will impact your dingy bar and make it grow and of course the aids virus is progressive and will increase your dingy bar by five percent every thirty seconds without treatment.
You can catch the same disease more than once and you can cure each occurence with a payment to the hospital. So lets say you caught herpes three times then you will have to pay the hospital three times to have it completely removed.

*Author notes that herpes in the real world cannot be cured but that's not true in the game world.


Hospital cures:

Herpaway - Will remove puss filled bumps
Syphsniff - A nasal spray that will cure the evil disease
Gonngone - Just like magic as you watch that green puss vaporize!


Now you will not be able to cure aids but you can slow down it's growth rate. Sorry! You can only treat yourself with three cocktails and they are very expensive, but effective.


More coming later....
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it would also be nice if you included some specifications for the graphic(s). you want the "small section of a city" to be how big (pixel-wise)? also looks like you'll be needing some icons and a meter?

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fhtughryf
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Hi virtual Nomad! Anyways the graphic would be 640x400 and which of course is a static city area with streets and buildings which were mentioned above.

I don't need icons just a drawing of a city that looks three dimensional and that's simply it. The problem for me is my artistic inability at the moment and my desire to make the game look as cool as possible and the main graphic is this one city scene which would act like a boardgame but has clickable hot spots users interact with.

The code is already in place and al I would need to do is adjust the clickable areas to match the graphic.
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The meter isn't an issue I created my dingy meter using the box command and it works fine. Maybe in the future the background could have a holder added for the simple box meter but right now I'm just going to keep the game minimal and later when I can afford to buy better software I can greatly improve the game.
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Now I at least attempted to add my own creativity to the game and I created a sprite sheet of a character I call Suzy. Suzy is a clickable spot and represents the skidrow girls. She is animated and cartoonish and a bit risque.

She basically swings a purse and flashes a boob at the player by lifting her shirt up and that's as provocative as the game gets.

I will upload the sprite sheet if you want to take a look and you are more than welcome to use it for your projects if there is even a remote chance you require such an animation.


Now you are probably wondering why I haven't draw the city myslef well that's because I have this inability to draw perspectively and it doesn't come out right and I want the game to look like it was made by someone competent.

Anyways like I said I will little by little release media and early release of the game in this thread so if you feel like helping me that is great! Like I said I will give you credit in the game for whatever it is you contribute.

I do not need help with code because I enjoy that part of it and so what I really need is good artwork and music.

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Okay here is the demo as it stands now and it is a work in progress and simply a rough draft for now.

All you can do at the moment is buy services from the skidrow girl at the bottom right of the screen and watch the dingy meter up above to see if it increases because it will. Also the hospital pop-up screen is missing a red X at the lower left which you will click to exit but it still works just click the lower left part and it will close.

The hospital can cure or treat all the diseases in the game which I implemented. This is in no way near completion and barely playable but it shows progress. I had a lot fo bugs early on which I fixed so now it should work fine. If you find anything let me know or if you might want to suggest something that would be good to add I would like that feedback as well.

Thank you!
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And I forgot to attach the game so here it is!

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