I'm making a game about ponies getting lost in the woods.
http://play.everfree-outpost.com/
How to play:
>Use arrow keys to move, hold Shift to run
>Press Enter to type in the chat
>Press A to interact with objects such as trees, rocks, and anvils
>Press E to open inventory and assign items to the hotbar with 1-9. Press D in game to use the currently selected item.
>Use an anvil to craft items from raw materials. There is an anvil at spawn for getting started.
>Type /help to see a list of chat commands. Use /spawn if you get stuck.
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.
This week:
> New tree graphics!
> Internal changes to support structures with multiple parts
> The various House Wall items have been replaced with separate Brick Wall and Interior Wall variants
>>25669207Will you be able to go back to ponyville4 once you end the game? is there even gonna be an ending or this gonna be like a typical mmo?
>>25669207
There's no line on your pic but I can see it.
Stupid line at legs level. It showed up in last update.
Dead here
I was talking about pic related.
I have 4 different wall sets.
3 showed 27 in the hotbar while the one with 40 walls ended up showing 77.
>>25669207
Can't wait to play this when I'm not working on my project
>>25669482
Ok, I found something out, if you press Shift while crafting it makes more. We know this.
BUT this, for some reason, Made 2 sets of the same item, but with different numbers.
>>25669437
What sort of graphics card are you using? And what OS/browser?
>>25669640
>>25669665
Firefox 42.0
win10 pro 64 bit
intel HD3000 or eventually GF 540M
>>25669720
Ay
You and I have the same card.
It works for me just fine.
>>25669720
>Windows 10
>>25669737
>>25669720
I mean, the line is going to be there. You kinda have to deal with it at the moment.
>>25669207
This is a fun game. Plan on sending to any fandom news sites?
>>25669737
It has something to do with the size of the window, I think. As I recall, some anon got rid of it in the past by making their browser window exactly one pixel taller.
>>25669787
I probably will at some point, but I want to wait until there's more stuff to do and the game is more polished in general.
>>25669807
>size of the window
it werks
>>25669207
either those are bonsais or these ponies are not so little anymore
>>25669207
Here's the font prob.
>>25669879
>He doesn't like tall ponies.
>>25669207
Wow man, you did a lot of progress.
You should disable that "uncover" mechanic from trees. It's distracting as fuck.
>>25669207
OH MY GOOOO GOD. He adeed trees. FINALLY.
>>25669747
nice meme :^)
Sweet mother of christ WE GOT DOWNGRADED
>>25672599
how so?
>>25670656
actually, trees were there since the beginning
he just added the missing leaves
now we just need some flowers and the lakes back
>>25674141
and the lava
>>25674156
He should add a way to make the ponies do expressions. Like a command: /sad face or something like that.
bump
>>25674561
or any animation, besides walk/run
>>25669207
Is there like a big pastebin with a list of all the additions from the updates?
It'd be nice to know what's been added since the last time I played (which was a while ago).
>>25669207
>http://play.everfree-outpost.com/
BUMP
If you're at spawn, Follow the torches with roads under them.
>>25677526
If you're at school, follow the candies along the road.
>>25674156
and hell
I found a new bug
bump so I can play this later
damn it Nonny, stop stealing
bumpo
>>25669207
come on guys we are haveing so much fun aka me
Absolutamente voy a hacer un vídeo de esto
Anon. You will never finish your game unless you dedicate full time to it and make it count.
Start a Patreon and Indiegogo, anon. Add a big ass donation button in the game.
>>25682657
Oh no you wont
>>25682747
If he do that hasbro will come and say NO
But i like u Reality
>>25669807
Whatever you do, just please, don't sell yourself to SJWs and Reddit, Anon.
>>25682747
>>25682873
Kinda why he just lets /mlp/ plays it.
He's been doing this since week 1. Others suggested the same thing, donations.
He works hard on the game and opens it every week.
>>25669207
Looks alright actually
You might want to add an outline to the spite to make it more in line with the art on the map.
Good luck m8
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>>25683461
new board banner/10
/MLP/ im charx btw
>>25683505
>=/=
MODS
>>25683505
higher quality
>>25683551
cool
>>25683551
Epic bruh
I found a hat. Does that mean I beat the game?
>>25683551
Princess OP will be so proud
Well, who did this ?
>>25684666
>>25684654
the ward says gemima
>>25685035
for you
>>25685321
Wait, are there zombies in the game now?
Or even a night "mode"?
>>25685415
night mode yes. no monsters yet
>>25685415
zombies no.
Night Mode, yes.Where the fuck have you been?Thatwas when b00s was following someone.
>>25685415
I bet you didnt even know who they are
>>25686268
Nope.
Last time I played this was like, December of 2014.
I check in periodically, but it never seemed like much changed.
I'll get on with a couple of friends after finals though.
I wonder if OP with open the game on Christmas, so we have a 3 day weekend.
>>25669485
What are you working on? Another game?
>>25686491
>December of 2014
>week one was only months ago
I have no idea how large the world really is and now I am lost, Mini map might help if building and expanding a town is the goal.
Also noticed a cut away in caves, this is good, but this happens each and every time I am under a tree, this is bad.
>>25686915
Also wanted to add, A mouse over might be helpful for new players and old as it will give information to what things are. IE crafting items, a mouse over will tell you that you need wood or stone, etc. The mouse over may also help with "abilities" as I have not a clue what mine is.
>>25686686
>week one was only months ago
What do you mean?
OP has been updating this thing since at least February.
So yeah I guess not December, but getting close to a year.
UPDATED RGB WHEN
>>25686532
Composition. It's due tomorrow.It's not going to get done in time. I can assure that.
>>25687131
Writing or music? Either one I see how that will tie your time, just don't spend all your time here or you will never get anything done.
>>25687202
Music
>just don't spend all your time here or you will never get anything done.
Too late
>>25687440
Remix an MLP song and post it here tomorrow.
>>25688677
It's got to be written for actual instruments.
>>25669207
Is https://github.com/everfree-outpost/everfree-outpost kept up to date?I might contribute.Though I might just add lewd content and keep it a fork.
>>25688695
Cover/remix...Then record it, convert it to an .oog and Ill play it in this game.
and even not a cover/remix. Ill still probably stick it in this game. Who said it couldn't be inspired by ponies?
>>25688713
I didn't know this game was open source.
Shoot if the link is up to date and if anyone can contribute, sign me up.
>>25689227
>playing closed source games where you can't add cocks everywhere
>>25689264
Who said I don't do that anyway? Open source just makes it allot easier.
Well I found another issue with the game. Became so lost that I refreshed the page but still ended up in the same spot. Cleared cookies and now I can't use the name I was previously using. That just dandy
>>25689502
Cough cough.
>>25669207
>>Type /help to see a list of chat commands. Use /spawn if you get stuck.
>>25689534
It isn't like I can't edit and add cookies but I didn't know log information saved as a cookie. Now I know. *Cue the damn star*
>>25689534
Wished I knew about spawn earlier, thanks.
>>25689502
Sorta a good point, especially if you are using one pc then decide to then use another. (like taking my laptop to the living room)
Guess who I found?HAROLD THE INVINCIBLE TREE
He never died. He survived the axe. He is Harold.
South of the Temple with a sign next to him. Follow the track.
>>25690327
Whoops meant Pyramid.
The pyramid is labeled in the teleporter
>>25686491
>I wonder if OP with open the game on Christmas, so we have a 3 day weekend.
Sure, that sounds like fun. I might not have any update that week, but I can put up a server anyway.
>>25686915
>Also noticed a cut away in caves, this is good, but this happens each and every time I am under a tree, this is bad.
Yeah, I have thought a bit on ways to improve that system in general, but it was always mostly okay in the past, so I didn't bother. Now that it's started annoying people, I'll try to fix it up a little for next weekend.
>>25686991
>A mouse over might be helpful for new players and old as it will give information to what things are.
Yeah, the big downside of the new inventory system right now is that you can't see the names of any of the items. I am planning to add some mouseover info like that relatively soon. (I'm working on adding locked doors that only open if you have a specific key, and one of the requirements there is a way to distinguish "Key to Anon's House" from any other keys you might have in your inventory.)
>>25688713
>>25689227
>I might contribute.
That would be great!
What sorts of things would you be interested in working on? Here's an overview of the different components, to give you an idea of what sort of things you might need to know/learn:
- The server is written in Rust, and uses Lua for scripting (to define item/ability effects and such).
- The client is written in Javascript, using WebGL for all the graphics (so changes to rendering may require some knowledge of GLSL shaders).
- Data definitions (for items, structures, etc) are set up using Python.
If you just want to add some new items, you can probably get by with a bit of Python and/or Lua. There's also a "modding build" set up for this purpose, so you don't have to mess around with setting up the whole build environment.
These new trees are great man
You truly feel like in a newly planted forest with them
Glorious Gold Unicorn Master Race™
>>25689227
@ >>25690574
Yeah I noticed the three languages on the github
I done Java, Javascript and Python before. Still trying to get around Lua. And good to know what the set up is for the shaders. Do you use surfaces as well as shaders?
And when it comes to games, I'm a polymath, count on me for anything related. I am not able to dedicate full time to this project, as I have a few of my own, yes games, but I will aid you any way I can for the time being.
>>25690702
>>25690574
Also I'm the same one that found all the little bugs, I been bug hunting and taking notes for ya. Hope you don't mind. But now I know it OS I know I can help, I just don't know how to test it from there.
Also noted in some instances of the dungeons there are times that a door will be inaccessible to the cave>outside or inside the dungeon itself a door will have access around it.
As seen in the pic. This is somewhat rare occurrence but still should be noted .
Another suggestion to OP >>25669207
Player placed items I noticed such as a road can be taken away as easy as placed using A and D. This is problem matic for accidentals such as when typing a message and not pressing enter prior.
It should be made that certain items such as a torch can be picked up by "hoof" While other items like road requires a pickaxe and a fence an axe. This would prevent accidental removal unless the tool is in "hoof"
>>25690327
that is bug from the last update, OP told me that the tree cant change to a stump because is too close to the cave/ramp
there are a lot of them in this map, if the leaves are touching a mountain it will never die
>>25689197
I don't think it'll be in a style fitting for the game. It's going to be four drunk musicians
with this new inventory/cabinets UI niggers are gonna nig harder
>>25690574
The key idea sounds pretty cool, but I thought walls could be removed with axes, so doesn't that defeat the purpose?
>>25690620
They are a bit small though, kinda hard to hide behind them
>>25690574
>What sorts of things would you be interested in working on?
Two things like the auth system and more colors. Right now, you can't 'login' as the same character without manually copying localstorage variables. A password system that uses the secret to store the password (encrypted) should require only clientside changes.
I'll need to research a little on how colors are done. It looks like it's saved serverside (logging into two sessions saved appearance and location).Also maybe adding genitals.
>>25693404maybe adding genitals
good luck with that, it's a no-no in OP's book
>>25690702
>Do you use surfaces as well as shaders?
Not sure what you mean by "surfaces". The structures do have actual 3D geometry, though it's pretty simple. If you look at data/lib/models.py you can see some of the code for producing those.
>some instances of the dungeons there are times that a door will be inaccessible to the cave>outside
OK, I haven't seen this happen before. Are you sure it's fully inaccessible, and not just connected to the other end of the dungeon through some long and twisted path?
>or inside the dungeon itself a door will have access around it.
Yeah, I need to look into that. There's logic to force the existence of walls where necessary to prevent that from happening, but it seems not to work.
Have you seen this happen with gem doors, or only with key doors?
>>25691534
Thanks for the reminder. I'll have to look at that and see what happens.
>>25693404
>auth system
Great! I've been thinking about adding a more permanent account system of some kind, so that certain accounts can be given permanent superuser status that persists across restarts. I think this would make life easier for the MLPG server, where right now after a server upgrade anyone who needs superuser has to be logged on at the same time as the admin so he can grant them access.
When I have more time I'll post some more details on the code and on setting up the build environment.
>more colors
>looks like it's saved serverside
The colors are indeed saved serverside. They're attached to the Entity (character) object as part of the "appearance" field. There's a file under "doc" describing the format of that field.
Right now "appearance" is 32 bits and every bit is in use, so it will likely need to be extended one way or another.
One feature of the current system is that there aren't any really garish/ugly color schemes. It would be nice to design the new color system to preserve that, if possible. LoE might have a system for this but I haven't looked to find out.
>>25694047
>Thanks for the reminder.
it isnt a complaint, actually I like the inmortal trees. We can gather more wood without moving
ALSO:
Did you find a better server provider?
Is it gonna last the whole week?
>>25694047
>that appearance int
What made you go with that?
I'll hold off on color for now - I was planning to allow any color combination (we can make fun of people who choose bad ones).
If you could post details on setting up the build environment, that'd be great.
>>25694002
>implying OP has a say on self-hosted forks/variants
>>25695520
>If you could post details on setting up the build environment, that'd be great.
Step 1 is to set up a Linux VM, if you don't have Linux installed already. I use Debian but Ubuntu should also work and definitely has more tutorials and such available for it.
After that, you need to install a bunch of Rust-related stuff to build the server. I will round up all the binaries you need so you have something easy to install. If you'd rather build from source, use git to clone the Rust repo, check out the specific revision listed in the Everfree Outpost README.md, and run `./configure && make`.
You also need some software from the normal repos. Get `build-essential`, `ninja`, and the packages listed in the README (from `python3` on down). (Ninja should be in the readme too but I apparently forgot to add it.)
I'll upload those binaries in a bit, once I figure out what exactly I need to include.
>>25694762
>Did you find a better server provider?
>Is it gonna last the whole week?
I'll probably shut it down some time tomorrow.
>>25685321
>>25686268
How come Nips has time for this shit but never finishes a fucking CYOA?
>>25696400
those were made in like, the first thread of this
>>25696463
Actually, this >>25685321
was either 3 to 4 weeks after first thread. I am sure he played with us.
Hell, we even had Tiarawhy for awhile playing. He/She? was on at the same time he/she was doing a thread about cloptopia. When it was first released I think.
this is a pretty fun little game
how can I contribute
>>25695520
if you are doing a self-hosted version count me in
>>25695520
>>25696362
Here's the rest on that build environment.
Rust binaries and libraries (for 64-bit Linux): http://play.everfree-outpost.com/outpost-build-tools-2015-12-07.tar.xz
Current Everfree Outpost build: http://play.everfree-outpost.com/outpost-linux-2015-12-05c.tar.xz
Unpack both of those somewhere, and clone the everfree-outpost repo from github. Then in the everfree-outpost directory, run the configure script:
./configure --debug --use-prebuilt=www --prebuilt-dir=../outpost-linux-2015-12-05c --rust-extra-libdir=../outpost-build-tools-2015-12-07/extra-libs --force
And build by running `ninja`.
This should be enough to build the server. Once it's built, open two different terminals in the everfree-outpost/dist/ directory. Run `python3 -m http.server 8889` in one (to get an HTTP server to serve up the client to a web browser) and run `bin/run_server.sh` in the other (to run the Everfree Outpost game server). Then point a web browser to http://localhost:8889/www/client.html and you should get the usual game.
To make yourself a superuser on your server, join the game and then run `echo 'w:get_client(0):extra().superuser = true' | socat - unix:dist/repl`. (Install `socat` from your package manager first.) Afterward, you can use /help in-game to see the new superuser commands.
If you later want to build the client code, you'll need to also install the emscripten-fastcomp and rust-emscripten-passes versions listed in the README, and change the ./configure command by removing --use-prebuilt, --prebuilt-dir, and --force, and adding --emscripten-fastcomp-prefix, --emscripten-passes-prefix, --rust-home, and --bitflags-home. See `./configure --help` for more info.
I know this is a pain but I'll be happy to help if you run into any trouble. Let me know in the thread or by email ([email protected]).
bump
This is more of a technical question, but why did you split up the game into so many different languages?
Why not just one or two?
>>25697764
Thanks, OP. I'll set it up and ask if anything comes up.
bamp
we need to accessorize the ponies
>>25697764
MLPG.co server updated! Been a month or 2.
http://outpost.mlpg.co/
http://mlpg.co/games/
>>25690574
I have kinda been wanting to contribute for awhile, but I have been kinda been busy, and my code may be of dubious quality, and I currently only really know C++. I have looked over the code abit though, it looks pretty nice. I guess I'll let you know if I feel I maybe able to do something though.
>>25702433
C++ is object oriented code correct? Just curious.
>>25701686
Indeed
Fucking sprites are so damn difficult when you fuck with the perspectiveThe idea in this picture is to make a stealth suit, but i'll add the metal jaw for personal use (mods). I'll make swords on the future, that's just an example
D-does this game need music? I could do a song or two.
>>25702433
Once you program in a low level (relatively) language like C++ and a higher level one (Ruby, Python, JS, etc), then you can write code in any language. I've never touched Rust before, and I personally think this game is a good incentive/tutorial to learn it.
>>25703463
C++ has object oriented features like classes and inheritance, so yes. However you don't strictly need to use such things if you don't want to, you can just have standalone functions as well.
>>25703482
That's looking pretty cool, good job!
>>25703524
there is music in the debug menu
hit F2 to try it
>>25703524
Sure. Can't have too much music
>>25704175
>A Beautiful Day Part 2
>dat blaring synth
Jesus nigger put a low pass filter on that or something. All the other tracks are pretty gud tho.
>>25704321
Will do then.
I'm too dumb to play this how do into the game
>>25702410
>server updated!
NNoooooo....
>>25705210
Looks comfy ^:)
>>25705212
Sorry if you lost builds but that is expected when a game updates as frequent as this one. If I was able to carry stuff over to new versions I would but it just seems to cause issues.
>>25705247
Very comfy
saving thread bump
>>25706748
oi
Ded
Shilling!
>>25702410
>>25701686
Thanks everyone for playing this week!
The everfree-outpost.com server will be back next weekend at the same time. I will try to get the roof cutaway system to stop going crazy around trees, and continue work on the current main project of adding lockable doors for houses.
Until then, you can play on the outpost.mlpg.co server: >>25702410
boop
Thanks OP. I had a lot of fun, keep up the good work. - Moose
P.S: I'm not Canadian
>>25708706
Thx op I had a lot fun having virtual sex with cute mares and stallions
This is to you xion ;)
>>25708706
lookin good
Bumpbut just this once
>>25709575
ooh bb cant wait for the servers to come back up again
;)
>>25669207
I can't wait for Hasjew to send this a C&D and never get to what the finished product would have been like.
>>25714002
L-Lewd
This made me think, how about a pone version of innawoods.
>>25702410
Why is nobody playing on those servers
So who actually knows how to create mods for this?
Also are there any AS 1,2,3 Flash devs in here who know how to use a flash decompiler?
Game won't load. Halp?
>>25714086
Even though it will be funny. Chances are it wont happen since there no butt tattoos to complain about. I think Mircrosoft will loose their shit before hasbro due to a minecraft rippoff. Or should we be worried about Terriaria ?
LIVE
>>25715120
What does flash have to do with anything? Wrong thread, faggot.
Wow, nice job Anon. I always love to see this kind of stuff
