/fg/ - Fangames

Reap and sow, by owl
http://yumenikkifg.wikia.com/wiki/Reap_and_Sow

I noticed something about the song lainbow2 (that plays, although slowed down, during the flight event).

The beeping noise that starts at 00:08 and remains till the end of the song appears to be Morse code, which spells "A5ASH" ( .- ….. .- … …. ).

Do you think it's supposed to mean anything?

>>12980
Probably not. Coincidentally though 'AA-5 Ash' was the NATO reporting name for a type of Russian air to air missile known as the R4. Used by the Tupolev Tu-28 (NATO: Fiddler) interceptor aircraft in the 1960s.

I highly doubt that it means anything though. It's probably just a catchy chiptune ditty beat lol came up with that sounded like a heart monitor. Still a neat observation.

I guess it could give credence to the theory that Sabi is a slav/Russophile and/or lived during wartime or the cold war.

Alternatively, the missile is a penis. Everything is a penis.

I was inspired to write a film script adaption for .flow (for fun), and I find myself in a rut trying to make sense of every single detail in this huge game. I must have missed a good third of the content in my first playthrough alone. Keep in mind I am by no means some kind of expert, in fact I've only discovered Yume Nikki and the assorted fangames late last year, but I'm wondering if this interpretation of the larger story holds any water.

Sabitsuki is an orphan who's mother and father are out of the picture for some possible reason, perhaps her mother died in childbirth and her father left her for adoption shortly thereafter. Whatever context, she has lived on her own almost her entire life. She has no friends or family to rely on and is largely ostracized at school, but she eventually develops a desperate, one-sided relationship with a boy in her class; Smile.

Constantly fighting to stay afloat on her own, Sabitsuki turns to prostitution to make ends meet, and it is possible it is from a client she contracts the rust disease.

Some time passes and the rust disease has reached pandemic levels across Japan (or wherever you want to assume this game takes place), death tolls in younger children is incredibly high and word gets out that Sabitsuki has been working the streets. Smile, willing to do anything to protect his sister, threatens to kill Sabi if he comes close to either of them.

Now even more secluded, Sabitsuki drops out of school and shuts herself in her room where she uses the internet to vicariously live through fragmented representations of her memories as her symptoms begin to develop. Her mental state quickly deteriorates into insanity, ultimately leading to Rust.

I see Rust as, metaphorically, Sabitsuki's repressed fears of her inner darkness and violent tenancies. She'd love nothing more than to watch her classmates all die to the disease and to cave in Smile's head with a pipe. Secluded in her room, Sabitsuki spirals into depression and isn't able to control her obsession.

Truth be told, that was my initial interpretation the first time I played the game, so it's mostly what I have to work on. There's so much stuff that's left out so take it with a grain of salt, but if I got anything wrong then feel free to correct me.

That's funny, according to your logic Rust is essentially a psycholgical disorder or an allegory for how disgusted and upset Sabi is with her life, but you still say that she "contracted the rust disease".

Goddamnit, why do people have to be so literal-minded all the time?

This is amazing OP. Already lost myself for some minutes there, it is something unique, and it curiously gives off a Yume Nikki similar feeling. Thank you for sharing it.

It's just a more jarring, less polished version of this.
https://fauux.neocities.org
The page number is a lot smaller too and it doesn't give any impression that there might be something more to it.

>>12793
This is interesting.
Surely the creator of Terminal 00 must of heard of this project before then? It does seem to follow a similar formula. It's obviously unpolished, but there is some direction to it.
If the direction of this project is really trying to imitate another, then i'll be really disappointed. Although, looking at them side by side there are simply too many similarities for it to be called original.
Bummer.

you guys aren't very good at investigation
he has a link to Kikiyama's site on his own site, on the "Connect" page, and has cited Yume Nikki before as an inspiration for his own work
i've talked with the guy before, he loves Yume Nikki
the site is undergoing some radical changes at the moment, keep checking back for new stuff

faux does it way better. I was confused for a bit because I thought the same dude did both and was wondering why the angusnicneven one was lower in quality. He links faux as an interest in his interest page, but the whole alien/fantasy schtick for the website makes it kind of unclear. Interesting though, I'll give the guy credit for his effort.

I was pretty sleepy so i just realized my examples were bad.

What i meant by my post was something like this:
YN: Uboa sighting
Yume 2kki: Bed animation
.flow. That broom flying event

I meant the moments that trapped you in, not the "why you like it" approach.

Unrelated topic: Where did you find the picture?

>>12308
For me it was a lot of the music. The two songs that play in the sky garden and underground on mars really sucked me in and kept me just watching the screen for a long time.

>>12857
I had found it on Pixiv.

Fleshchild was always shitty so I don't care, but I'm glad TLG won't keep getting worse and worse. Her new style of game making isn't appealing at all.

>>12802
I don't see how TLG could get any 'worse' when it has outright Homestuck references from the start.

>>12804
I've never read homestuck so I wouldn't know. As a game, it wasn't bad, as a YN fangame, it was fine. The remake? It was hideous.

She recently did an interview(?) about the cancellation of her fangames.

http://bleetdev.tumblr.com/post/170168234775/your-questions-about-fleshchild-and-tlg-answered

I feel it's kinda cheap to not even tell fans how you were going to finish them and then saying that you aren't allowing anyone to finish them for you. I get that she's perfectly allowed to but it comes off as kinda scummy.

Then again, could TLG and Fleshchild ever be saved? Obviously Bleet's writing went nowhere and was never going to in the first place. TLG had some potential, despite the "quirky" HS references, but when she said that there was gonna be a dumb school VN shit thing and added a shitty Smile rip off I figured it wasn't gonna last.
Fleshchild was bad from the start. It was barely even a fangame.

It makes sense that she'd abandoned them, though I'm surprised they lasted so long.

>>12835
I think Fleshchild had potential, I liked how it combined the dreamlike exploration with a bizarre narrative. However the designs for the two main characters were kind of shitty Smile ripoffs.

It really does feel scummy that she's not at least releasing some concept art. It's fine if she's abandoning the game but it sucks that the fans can't even get some closure.

>>12796
I can't read moon but he didn't dislike the idea, judging from what you said.
I like where this is going. YN, Mad Father, OneShot, Misao, IB possibly, the rebirth of dark RPGMaker games is commencing.
My 15 year old me would have been overjoyed.

>>12796
Translated since this guy clearly isn't going to do it:

>Nice to meet you, my name is kouri.

>Thank you very much for enjoying Ib this time.
>I am very happy to have such comments from overseas.

>For now, I do not plan to register Ib with steam, but I think that I would like to sell local remodeled ones which I made remake.
>It may expand to steam at that time.
>If you see it someday, please do play it.

>Thank you so much.

>>12796
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>>12798
>>12799
I think second anon is an assholes, but I also think that pestering him about it would do no good. If he ever does release a remake or update, then might be a good time to ask about it. Or, start a petition so that you could group all the interest in one place rather then bombarding him with emails.

Why the fuck you faggots want to force every single shitty game made in RPGmaker to be on steam? Do you realize you can download them alright without it being there? Do you realize they are good enough as is without needing to be there? It doesn't add anything at all. If the dev wanted to milk their product they'd be doing it already.

Moved to >>>/og/5007.

>>12624
It's just a prank bro

>>12642
>Dead Meme
I'm very disappointed in you.

So, Mishka actually left the shithole after all, this fag was right >>12624
I haven't seen Owl around here either, I wonder if any other users left.

>>12740
Nah, owl has been inactive for a long while (I haven't seen any update in his site) but he still comes from time to time, although I can't say how often.

>>12741
Still alive and kicking.

I've honestly never heard of this place until now, but based on the fact that the wiki says the fairy effect used to be here before the areas removal, I'd guess it was removed quite a bit ago. It would be nice if the fan wiki was more detailed and kept record of major changes in development

>>12066
>It would be nice if the fan wiki was more detailed and kept record of major changes in development
There's a fair chance the Japanese wiki may have more information about that.

It's in v0.066

If you need the version archive, here it is:
http://archive.uboachan.net/media/res/17.xhtml (Japanese)

If you don't feel like playing through it, here's another autist doing it instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrtvacEWTdE

I do certain graphics and music

>>12696
No, but I have an email: tylermario740@yahoo.com.
When you have the chance, email me and we could work out the details.

>>12688
you need to be 18 years or older to use this site, artoax

>> So will this have "effects" or something similar?

Well, yeah. it is.

That's kind of a given.
<Section from list in notebook containing planning for this game

>> Please do not make a habit of coming to us whenever there is a problem, do your own research and work.

Sorry. I'm a nincompoot.

>> make two items for each one: they must both be associated to two switches, one of them should have the field box checked, the other shouldn't.

Actually, You might need to elaborate on that, Green.

>>12509

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech) comes to mind.

Really. Several of his ambient tracks are rather Yume Nikki-like. I came really close to using his music in my own games.

>>12460
The best advice I can give you is gutting other fangames that are in English and looking through the events to better understand how they pull off certain scenarios like waking up or killing NPCs and other graphical effects.

>>12507
I'd be happy to make music for your game! Why didn't you say so? I'm working on a Yume Nikki inspired game myself, and I'm making all kinds of music for it! I'd be happy to help! How does that sound?

I like how your style changed, but please don't abandon old projects, pic somewhat related.

I've re-orchestrated the track that plays in the Red Temple area to be more in line with my current professional work:

https://soundcloud.com/mishkahd/nightmare-castle-red-temple-orchestrated

>>8824
Looks pretty legit. I'll give this shit a shot.

Man, Noyemi fucking off is still funny when I remember how it happened.

You guys may be interested in knowing that lol is working in a short game titled Milya.
http://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/games/gm1684

>ミーリャちゃんへ
To Milya:

>ミーリャちゃん おたんじょうび おめでとう
Happy birthday, Milya-chan.
>わたしたちは あなたのために このお話を 作りました
We have created this story for you.

>ミーリャちゃんは ただ歩きながら
>お話を聞いてくれるだけで いいのです！
All you (Milya-chan) need to do is to walk around and listen to the story!

I just found out when I was sending him the mail that gidan's translation is technically done (all I need is some people testing the dialogues and telling me whether they sound weird or not, I'm not a native).

>>11965
>Sabi uses PC to go into deeper .flow layers
>you use PC to start the game
>instead of "play" it reads ".flow"
no anon, you were the Sabi all along

>>12058
holy SHIT, you're right.

Thank you so much, lolrust-san… I'm finally the white-haired mentally scarred shut-in anime girl I've always wanted to be…

>>12058
Dreams DO come true…

bro literally all i got was girl escapes reality because terminal disease and shitty cards dealt and then legs get cut off cause lole ur not infecting the rest of these wonderful people and moral of the story and dedication to yume nikki is somewhere along the lines of "everybody has a reason to dream" the whole pc thing throws me off it seems that is the only thing thats open for speculation everything else seems obvious

>>12537
Programmer didn't want to work on it anymore.

>>12538
That's a shame. I guess it was fun while it lasted.

Not really related to the topic, but
>2kki will die soon, lol moved on to other stuff
There were a lot of times when 2kki's updates slowed down to a crawl, yet it's still kicking even after 10 years, and if I recall correctly, lol's most recent update to .flow came after he released those other games of his. So it's probably still too early to bury those two.

>>12261
>pic
ssssSSSTTOPPPP

but you raise the great question as to why no one has bothered with mugen characters. kinda think someone would have thought of/done/started that by now

>>12569
according to a DL site lol has linked on their page the most recent (up)dates have been
.flow: 2014-22-11
gidan: 2016-09-23
kidan: 2016-09-20
milya: 2017-05-18

smidge of a difference there. only what, two years. damn.

>>12641
I guess my memory tricked me after all. Oh well.

>>12476
I like the colour scheme. If you think s?he is too bland you could do a shirt pattern or an unzipped hoodie or something, but personally I think it looks fine.

>>12476
>Also has there been a fangame where gloves were used as a the murder thing?
iirc, Mikan Muzou sorta did.

>>12479
oh yea Mikan Muzou had the brass knuckles. uhh i might just make the mechanics of the gloves different from the brass knuckles or come up with something new entirely.

i'll wait and see i suppose haha

>>12476
It's not bland at all, it has shading and colors that are okay, which is more than we can expect from most, but it's a mado recolor. A lot of people don't like those and even make a moral issue out of them.

>>12476
>i could post spritesheets but im paranoid af for some reason?
As long as it's not stolen stuff it should be fine and we have seen a lot of things.

I want a pai-paizuri from Sabitsuki!

the bgms that correspond to the locations in these screenshots feel pretty dang chilling to me