Hey /mlp/, I'm making a pony game.
It's still pretty basic, but you can check it out here:
http://play.everfree-outpost.com/
Let me know what you think. (Preferably in more specific terms than "0/10 it's shit".)
The eventual goal is for this to play sort of like a cross between Minecraft and Golden Sun. It will be based partly on crafting and building things to expand the town, and partly on exploring the forest and solving Golden Sun-style puzzle-based dungeons for rare items and crafting materials.
Also, if anyone's interested in doing art, music, code, level design, etc. for this sort of game, let me know. So far I've been doing everything myself, which can be kind of slow going at times.
>>21918219
>Golden Sun-style dungeons
sweet
could it possibly even be randomly generated?
>>21918219
How do I type in the chat?
>>21918242
That's the plan. Everything will be randomly generated outside player-built towns.
>>21918279
I have been careful to avoid using any Hasbro trademarks. In particular, it turns out "Everfree Forest" is one of the few place names they don't have a trademark for.
>>21918279
simply ebin
>>21918289
Try to use the name of some place of the IDW comic for the others areas, they aren´t Hasbro trademark too.
>>21918219
8 but musicfag here. I remember you posting about this a while back. I don't have much, but if you'd like, I can link to my soundcloud with some samples of my work
>>21918330
>Gelding Grotto
>>21918219
>Wait 10 minutes
>can´t pass from this
It shit/10
>>21918375
Might work if you refresh. Otherwise, could you please open the console (F12 on firefox, Ctrl+Shift+J on chrome) and post a screenshot of that?
>>21918330
>Here there be monkeys (guard your valuables).
Sides status: obliterated.
>>21918219
oh hey, I remember you
>>21918400
Don't trust this anon, you'll only get people to like you / your game because their dick does
The pony I got looks like shite. Can I change it to the a cool one?
>>21918448
Simple solution? Make it a secret. Have there be some questionable shit hidden via some puzzle that only /mlp/ would be able to figure out.
Of course, that plan fizzles when you consider the inevitable leak and moral outrage from the normiebronies that OP is also probably hoping to attract.
But hey, at least I'm brainstorming here.
>>21918411
Already trying with refresh, still don´t work
here
>>21918219
Dude this looks fucking rad
>>21918448
I wasn't really planning on following that particular bit of advice.
>>21918466
Colors are based on your name, which is chosen at random the first time you log in.
You can get a new random name like this:
>Open the console (firefox: F12, chrome: ctrl+shift+J)
>enter: delete localStorage.login_name;
>refresh page
See pic for how it should look.
>>21918480
Are you on an old version of Chrome? Yours is missing support for javascript WeakMap, which should be in all versions 35+.
I made a house. Pretty cool so far, even if there isn't much to do.
>>21918466
>>21918558
Forgot pic
Made this.
>>21918567
Where at? I ran around near spawn and couldn't find it.
>>21918589
No idea. I ran around aimlessly to the northwest for a few minutes before I built it.
>>21918219
welp, this looks like it could be pretty cool, AND it already has multiplayer ingrained into it
but there's definitely more to do
>>21918558
>which should be in all versions 35+
My fucking Chrome say the 31.0.1650.63 is the lastest version, thank for this, gonna to update manually my shitty browser
>>21918633
and having just tried to play it, I can tell you what needs worked on
>chrome support
>actually fuck browsers, get it off browsers entirely
>enemies
>add those dungeons you mentioned
>multiple servers
>CHARACTER CREATOR
that's all I can think of for now
>>21918366
Sorry I forgot to reply to you. Soundcloud link would be cool. Music is not implemented in the engine yet, but I do plan to add it at some point.
>>21918504
DM pls
we need to kill Arit not play games
I just restarted the server, since it died for some reason.
>>21918673
>chrome support
I'm about to go try and fix this.
>actually fuck browsers, get it off browsers entirely
The big benefit of making it browser based is you don't have to download anything. Just click the link and you're on.
In theory it's possible to make a separate non-browser-based client that connects to the same servers. But I don't plan to implement that any time soon, since it would be a lot of work.
>enemies
>add those dungeons you mentioned
I plan to, but that sort of thing takes a while to code up.
>multiple servers
The idea is that if you want to get on a different server, you connect to a different URL. For example, I get on the server I run locally for testing by going to http://localhost:8888/ instead of the public server http://play.everfree-outpost.com/
>CHARACTER CREATOR
Yeah, I'll be adding that and proper user accounts some time soon-ish.
>>21918680
https://soundcloud.com/hipopotomonstros
Here you go, man
You know what would be cool?
Option to reroll name without using command and refreshing
>>21918219
>>21918567
id strongly recommend tilting the building squares on a 45º angle. its much more aesthetically pleasing.
>>21918219
I quite like it, obviously there are a LOT of features missing, and it's got quite a few bugs.
As for critique:
- Controls are very clunky, I hope movement isn't intended to be like this. Dungeons would be a pain in the ass with movement like this.
- Artstyle overall is very nice, interactable objects anvils, rocks, etc. have a nice pixelated style with a black outline, the houses and floorboards are clean-cut and mesh well in style with the non-interactable grass, the ponies are well-animated, but the trees look off. Part of it is the shadow (or dirt?) near the roots I suspect, part of it is because the trees and the bark on them is too round. Since this is going for a retro-style, try to stick to one particular style, the trees look like they're from a different game 3 years newer.
>>21918866
>The big benefit of making it browser based is you don't have to download anything. Just click the link and you're on.
Yeah, it actually makes the game a lot more accessible, chances are I wouldn't have tried it out as such an early stage of development if you had used a standalone client.
>can't even walk properly
This is a chrome problem?
>>21918982
Yes.
Chrome in itself is also a problem.
>>21919008
>can walk now
Thank OP
For some reason the game froze on me. Then when I tried to refresh it just gave me a black screen with the control menu.
Other then that, great game OP. Looking forward to seeing what other features you add
>>21918369
This excites me
>>21918279
We should really find a way to destroy legends ofautismeuqestria.
>>21918567
>>21918961
I have to agree. Also, looks like there are a few corner tile pieces missing, as I was just playing around with my house again, but there wasn't a proper wall piece for this corner.
>>21919102
No interior walls either, so you can't have multiple rooms in the same house.
>>21918973
>Controls are very clunky
Right now, when you press an arrow key, it sends a message to the server and waits for the reply before it shows you moving. So there's a delay equal to your ping. I plan fix it soon but it's a little of complicated. You have to do physics calculations on the client (so you can show the new motion immediately) and then reconcile them with whatever the server sends you back (once the reply arrives).
>the trees look off
Not surprising. Everything is lifted from the free "Liberated Pixel Cup" tileset, but I didn't like the size of the trees (too small). Having no art skills whatsoever, I just rescaled them to 4x with a pixel art scaler and called it good.
>>21918982
Chrome should be working now, I think. You might need to hard refresh the page (ctrl+F5).
>>21919102
>>21919126
Yep. New items and structures are sort of annoying to add right now, so I did the bare minimum. Also I still need to mix up some tiles for the interior corners and walls.
>>21919088
they would search another game, they would come this game>inb4 seth posts about it
inb4 everything is OK until EQD post about this and the autism crash the server
Got an issue: I think you should have a separate command for entering/exiting the chat, and submitting text to the chat. Writing in the chat and hitting enter kicks me out, and I have to hit it again to get back in. Also, if by accident, I hit enter and don't want to be in the chat, I have to hit enter again to go back to playing, which submits a blank response to the chat
Another thing: using tools yields no benefit. I can use the axe twice to chop down a tree, and get 20 wood, which destroys the tree. Or, I could spam the A button and get 100 pieces of wood and still have a tree
>>21919291
I based it on what I remember from other games, where it's Enter to start typing, Enter to send the line (and go back to playing), and Esc to cancel. I didn't think to make Enter cancel when the input is blank.
>>21919267
The server is actually doing pretty well so far. There have been about 10-15 people logged continuously since I started the thread, and the server's only at about 5% CPU.
>>21919331
So, if EQD people come here...
>>21919327
Yeah, they are kind of useless right now, except for clearing space in order to build things. At some point I will make it take different amounts of time to harvest, so you won't be able to spam like you can now. (Well, you can try it, but axe will give more wood in the same amount of time, at the cost of destroying the tree.)
>>21919368
>Eqd post the game
>some days later C&D
>Eqd don´t want competence
for legend of equestria fangame
>>21919397
I see LoE getting a C&D more probable than this
>>21919368
Server can probably handle 100+ people, maybe up to 150 or so. But the game is really not in a good enough state to be worth posting on EqD at this point.
>>21919397
I'm hoping to avoid C&D by not using any Hasbro trademarks. (Unfortunately that means no canon characters, but for this type of game that's not too big of an issue.)
>>21919422
Didn't they already get one? I thought they used to have canon characters as NPCs, but ditched them early on as a result of C&D.
>>21918219
please, for the love of the holy hell, by my ancestors and everything holy, make a singleplayer game.
if not we already know it's a dead project.
just make an easy singleplayer game and extend from here don't start to think you'll make a world-size heavy impact project like minecraft from the top of your hat.
I have enough, to see such great potential always wasted because it's never done, so many good yet simple games killed by their creators due to the lack of time and ressources.
>>21918887
Holy shit, Hippo. I think I saw a song of yours on Diversity promotions or something, am I right? I know I've seen you around before.
>>21919445
I think LoE had another name before that or maybe you are right, not sure
>>21919446
OP already put a rough outline of what it will be. Don't jump into conclusions that quick.
>>21919481
I think they used to be called Equestria Online. I don't remember if the name change was because of C&D or because of internal drama.
meanwhile, in a completely unrelated game...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdT4kjs7TYg
>>21918219
Holler if ya need some code help. I've got some free time. I know c# from working in unity projects. I suppose you're using unity?
>>21919449
I participated in the TEMPO threads way back.
>I think I saw a song of yours on Diversity promotions or something, am I right
If you did, I sure as hell wasn't aware of it.
>>21919526
Nope, client and server are both written from scratch. It's written in Rust, Javascript, and Lua. Do you know any of those? (or are you interested in learning?)
>>21919548
Alright then, I must be confusing you with someone else as far as the Diversity thing.
>>21919522
...What is this game? What have I missed?
Server was lagging as hell
Also you need to put anti griefing protection, everybody stealing shit and removing shit where others built already, kek
>>21919513
>Don't jump into conclusions that quick.
online features are the worst pain in the ass of the entire universe of video games, why do you think companies launch an mmo after 2 or 3 huge commercial success?
yes it works for now, it's nice and there's a little community
then what? fuckers who will attack the servers just because they're retarded, then the OP will spend days to figure this shit out and there won't be any evolution, people will start to ask and they'll be more and more insistent
then on one day, OP will think "in the end, it's too hard and people don't recognise that work, server /shutdown now"
whenever I see a project (pony or else) I'm always full of hope, but in the end, in crashes
I want this thing to succeed
>>21919551
Wow, that's unique. I know lua from working on rainmeter, and am learning rust, coming from c/c++ background. C# is my only game scripting experience so no js
>>21919658
If fails because the autists that are bronies are too lazy to actually finish anything. And here in /mlp/ is no different.
>>21919522
that's fucking beautiful
is that legends of equestria?
I hear Anvils are indestructable.
Let's fence the Spawnpoint
>>21919707
>Anvils are indestructable
Time to fuck the server with anvils everywhere
>>21919707
Oh boy and here comes the faggot that ruins it for all.
>>21919522
Holy shit
>>21919702
That looks like LoE if they had a more competent team
>>21919766
they're very focused on unicorns, but jesus christ I want this.
>spell creator
>all those combos
>mfw
>>21919522
It's Horse Game y'all.
Hello
south arrows
>>21919835
Delete this
>>21919806
I'm looking at all the other shit this thing's got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIDypknDk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6VdisfEY1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8yDZ_bXz5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGgV4lR48fA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDx4tYjNqfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y0eC28MuCU
>INTELLIGENT AI
>BREAKABLE ITEMS
>SPELL MAKER
all of my fucking yes
OP, your game is great for one type of game
but this fucker is beating out Legends of Equestria and it looks like it's a singleplayer game
>>21919835
OP fix this you faggot, make the anvils and chests removable
>>21919905
No, I do what I want, faggot.
>>21919887
I'm done
I'm fucking done
this started a year ago, and it's already better than LoE
>>21919887
>OP making a game
>now this
I am of excite. This is a good day to be alive
>>21918219
Thanks faggots
god damn it you guysI lol'd when I came back and saw my character boxed in. But it sounds like lots of people are stuck so I'm gonna blow away all anvils in a minute.
>>21919887
>there's a downloadable demo
>http://equidev.net/
WOOOT
there goes my evening
>>21920015Bolt buck buck
>>21920008
Why not make them removable?
>>21918219
>golden sun
Muh dick is diamonds now. God speed anon.
>>21919961
You're welcome :^)
>>21920047
More work. Also have to worry about people destroying the initial anvil so nobody can craft anything.
But yeah, I will go make them removable with pickaxe.
>>21920068
Make them removable except one close to the spawn which can't be destroyed? surely can't be that hard I hope.
>>21920068
make an uncraftable, indestructable Gold-Anvil. Or black anvil. Or chicken anvil.
Yeah, I'd use a chickun anvil.
Anvil prison: the game
Don't worry guys I put a "Jail" sign by spawn.
Now everyone will know not to go there and get boxed in by anvils. :^)
Lookin good OP
Lookin reeaal good
>>21920239
The new Trollmove seems to be cutting down all the trees?
>>21919522
>>21919887
horse game mare super qt
who wanted to eat me
>>21920368
I'll never know, been boxed in
>>21920384
>no tophat
fukking casuls
Ok guys I have a treat for yall.
>>21920408
cunt here ya m8 2yooforik
I want to trap myself
every just contains 255 stone, 255 wood, 1 Axe, and 1 Pickaxe. One chest contains Pic related
>MFW people keep destroying my house
>MFW people keep hating the color pink
>MFW I just want to build a giant house
>>21920440
Yeah, multiplayer is nice and all, but there should be an option to play solo. Also, what episode is that from? I can't remember
>>21920464
Inspiration Manifestation
>>21920464
You'll be able to run your own server for local play or for playing with friends.
>i can´t place chest or anvils anymore
Fuck you op
>>21920464
That would be Inspiration Manifestation.
>>21920583
Counter trolled
>>21920583
You can place them but not near the spawn.
>>21920464
Inspiration manifestation
how i can repawn in a different color?
>>21920643
i'm nowhere near spawm and i still can;t place them
Also OP wish i could see the names of everybody around me, if you don't mind
I can't fucking cooperate with others if I don't know who the fuck are the ones close by
>>21920368
I was cutting all the trees and harvesting stone so people could dedicate to build their houses, I am not very good at doing that myself
a map would go along way
Official game thread?
Best house ruined by Pinka Ponkos
RIP Giant house 2015-2015
"Rests with Treebrary now"
>>21920712
Shit, forgot pic
>>21920658
Reset your name. >>21918558
>>21920679
I do plan to implement that but it will take a while since I'm not sure how it will interact with the way graphics are currently implemented.
Until then you can sort of guess based on the correspondence between names and colors. The four characters after "Anon" are tribe (E/P/U for earth/pegasus/unicorn) and the red, green, and blue components of the color, on a scale of 0-4 (instead of the normal 0-255). So for example if the first digit is highest, then they're some sort of red or pink color.
>>21920732
uuuuyuuueuuuah this thing needs anti griefing
And then people complains when in minecraft everybody has to use griefing protection because people its too much of an asshole to go mine their shit or they just do it to fuck with you.
Fuck it. I'm done. That pink asshole fucked up my house. I don't feel like cleaning up that goddamn mess
>>21920804
kek, I ran by you a bit ago.
is anvil kill?
>>21920384
I see your purple socks and raise you a bow tie
I know, I'm boring.
>>21920676
this is a huge non-anvil place
>>21920958
Am I Doing something wrong?
It just says this.
>>21920957
Does your game normally have all those lines everywhere? That shouldn't be happening. Does it still do that if you ctrl+shift+0 (zero) to reset the zoom level?
>>21920989
Hit ctrl+shift+J for console and post a screenshot. Or, if it just has an error about "WeakMap", update your browser and try again.
>>21920923
all anvils gone and non-placable, appearently
>>21921063
I can place anvil not so far to the left
Fixed because it was annoying me.
>>21921040
Yes it does and no that didn't fix it.COnsidering what I'm doing, I honestly don't mind it - it's rather helpful.
>>21921063
I will try place anvils around
I get lost in the woods, somebody help me
>>21921119
Well, the only option you have left is panic until the slenderpony gets to you
It's laggy as all hell to me. If I press the up arrow there's about 3-4 seconds response time. Is it a normal problem, or what?
>>21921143
Oh, speaking of this, are there going to be day and night cycles in the game?
>>21921135
Hello Blue Pony!
My suggestions are:
>name bubble
>some feedback when you're harvesting stuff (+1 wood/stone)
>/comands (respawn, color, race?)
>you get stuck when you open the inventory/anvil too many times
It's pretty nice so far. keep up with it op.
OP, you need to add some sort of map feature, we can't find anyone.
buildin thing
>>21921261
About the same as this. Also, OP, we need a map up in here, or at least a radar to tell who is nearby and how far they are. Maybe a compass radar/map combo?
>pic related, pone without a map
I was placing anvils around the spawn zone but I can't find the limit at the south of it
First of all, in case anybody missed the announcement in the chat, I'm going to shut down the server in about 10 minutes. I'll be back next weekend around the same time after implementing some of the suggestions so far.
>>21921159
There will be eventually. In particular, running around in the forest at night will be likely to get you killed (lose items and respawn in town) unless you are well prepared.
>>21921145
It's normal for there to be a delay, but it shouldn't be 3-4 seconds unless you have a really laggy internet connection, like satellite or something.
>>21921261
Thanks for collecting these in one place. For next week, I'll try to do most of those, plus adding some basic character customization.
Great start, the tiles and MLPOnline sprites actually look nice together, and everything works fluidly.
Suggestion list:
-minimap / world map
-name bubbles
-name editing
-warp to spawn command
-moar terrain features
-keep being awesome
>>21921527
I can try and make some pixel stuff if youd like
I'd need to learn how to do it, but I could try.
My connection is usually pretty fast. I live in Australia, so that might effect it.
>>21921582
fuck meant to reply>>21921527
>>21921535
>-minimap / world map
Not going to happen for next week, but I could add a command to teleport to a player, or something like that.
>-warp to spawn command
Yep. Plus /sethome + /home to teleport to a custom location.
>-moar terrain features
Probably won't have time to do anything major here by next weekend. The terrain generation code is a bit of a clusterfuck right now. Plus the really interesting stuff requires ramp/stair support in the physics engine (for elevation changes) and/or support for rendering interior areas with the roof cut away (for caves).
Also, I'd like to get client-side motion prediction working, so that people on laggy connections have a better time moving around.
>>21921582
Could be. The server is in Amazon's us-east region, which I believe is Virginia. It still shouldn't be 3-4 seconds though.
since he's gone, let's make use of the thread to talk about this:
>>21919887
because I just ran through the demo, and I had a shitton of fun blasting the fuck out of ponies that tried to light me on fire
>there's going to be teleporting soon
>the game will have a singleplayer with plotline
>salivatingintensifies.png
>>21921527
Awesome, can't wait. Also, musicfag here again. Are you accepting my application?
>tfw blue pone steal all my anvils
>>21921665
tbh even that game is developing pretty slow
>>21921706
Not OP, but I reckon it would be a great idea to get someone working on music, even if it's not supported yet.
well it was stealling anvils while it lasted
I DQed blue. forgive me.I yelled when it kicked me
>>21918219
We will never forget the plight of Gray and Blue, and their endless journey south
>>21921739
fun*
>>21921741
>>21921751
I was enjoying this. If there were creatures or monster battles in this, I would have loved to see them RP that shit out.
>>21921751
>50 Shitty Shades of Blue and Gary
>>21921739
was you that blue pone?
>>21921729
>>21921758
>>21921739
Nono you got it right the first time.
Would love to help, too bad I'm shit at all those things.
>>21921741
We both knew it would happen, deep down. But I believe in you Blue. Keep going South. I have faith that you'll find the place of anvils some day. Don't give up. Keep going for me
>>21921774
yes
>>21921779
sadpiano.png
>>21921768
Gray*
>>21921784
Iloveyou
When the server's back, I'll start construction of a main road and town at spawn.
(Assuming there will be a teleport-to-spawn command by then.)
>>21921751
>>21921507
How did you zoomed it out? Mine looks gigantic >>21921261
One more thing OP. I noticed that the VIRT column in my htop (java virtual memory usage under linux) went from 1.6GB to 64GB while I was playing the game. My CPU was quite active (25~50% each core) and the temperature from acpi went from 54C to 68C. This might be some problem with my java, but it might be an overflow bug.
>>21921841
Building that house for my blue waifu... just one of many fond memories we shared along the way
>>21921852
Not him, but I held ctr on my keyboard and used the mouse scroll
>>21921852
Mine was pretty much always zoomed out. It certainly gave a perspective on things. I also set it to full screen.
>>21921841
>>21921868
>>21921875
Going to try it next time. Thanks friends
>>21921884
that... is eerily relevant
>>21921862
I wanted to change my color at the start. now I'll always be a blue earth pony in search of a land filled with anvils.
>>21921868
you will never see "her" again
>>21921884
Typical Ogres and Oubliettes party.
That faggot in the back is probably their best healer too or something.
>>21921896
I like to think that this is them in the future still heading south with two more allies
>>21921903
>>21921903
darn, i mean >>21921862
whats wrong with me today
I have to go now. But if south has an end, I promise I will find you there Blue. Good bye
This is the best game ever!
>>21921948
I know! What I dont know is why is this happening?
