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Testing how it'll go to have a little cinematic before each map.

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Update 0.5.0

Create your elf!

It is finally done! The character creator!

The UI will change in the future, but for now this is it.

First there is the big red menu in the right side, there are like all the major customization options in the head, hair and clothes menus.

In the head menu there are options to change all (or almost all) facial characteristics of the character. It is possible to change eyes, nose, mouth and the shape of the head. Here I basically took the list of sliders from the Sims 3 and added almost all of them, except for some that didn´t change much. I'll add the rest in later updates, as this is like first version of this.

Then there are the options for hair and clothes. For now there are three hairstyles and two outfits, as it's easy to add more in the future, so I just added what I needed for testing.

Also, for everything, be it eyes, skin, hair or each part of the outfits there are color wheels, so the options in this matter are limitless. And when i add skin details and maybe gradients for the hair (again, future update) it will be even better.

Now, on the other side of the screen there are other options for the character.

On the bottom there is the option to choose both a father and mother name. This option for now doesn´t change a lot in the game, just an UI for testing, but in the future with the development of more dialogue and quests it will be used. For both names there is a randomizer in case no one comes to mind.

Then in the top there is the option of choosing where to go. Depending on this choice is to which host the character will be part of. For now there is only the option to go to Formenos. This is for no reason to make this easier to me, so I don't have to take into consideration variables from Finwë's entire family tree, no no... Umm, the character just graduated from Rumil School and only has money to move to one place. Yes, no other reason...

So let´s make an example (and yes, now there is a zoom in/out, and rotation of the character)

Here we have Calime Silindiel and...

YESSSS IT WORKS! Calime loads in all the maps!

And but wait, I need to go touch some grass, I need to close the game...

THERE IS A SAVE OPTION

and when I return...

now instead of start, I can continue my adventure... or...

Version 0.5.0

Other versions

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The color wheels for the outfits are ready!!

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Update 0.5.0, or make your elf update (or typing update, or the game finally has a save button update), is almost ready, so instead finishing up the outfits I played around with the particle systems to make some snow and other effects :D

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The only update that matters: Now it is possible to pet the best boy

Other updates (not as good as this one)

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got to work on making the save system functional. It didn't need a lot more than what I had already done, but damn, this repetitive thing almost cost me my sanity

still, I'm quite happy with how organized I left this

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ah yes, face shapes

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So I added some stuff to the character creator after having to do all the retargeting of the animations for the new model and adding all the changes of appearance to the save file, so that it is not confined to this stage.

I've added three hairstyles so far as I needed them to test stuff, but with all of this it is possible to make varied characters, and all of that not counting that I've forgotten to add the modifiers for the jaw and face shape!

So here are some examples:

Other updates

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Giving my boy something to do that is not [Random Roam] -> [Delay random Int] -> [Random Roam]

And yep, he just pops up instruments from nowhere

Other updates

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Evolution of the typing minigame!

and the evolution of the code :D

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My third and final shot for the sock opera reanimated project!!

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I think the word for "gossip" in Quenya is actually Nyatil with an N, rather than Myatil with an M

Sorry if that messes up your cool logo 🙇

oh mY GOD shit, this is the reason I shouldn't have chosen the name at 2 am after hours of looking at a screen.

I'm more worried it messes up the whole having a game that can receive a cease and desist any day named TradeMark™

OK, options:

-Change the name but keep the whole TM thing including the logo (so changing it for something like Tyalië Maranwë, Tyalië Menta, Tyalië Minnónar...)

-Change it to Tyalië Nyatil keeping the whole "play gossip"

-Just make other name, even without the TM thingy.

-Keep it Tyalië Myatil cause maybe the protagonist of the game is just a shitty writer and cannot spell, and that´s why they and their writings aren´t remembered (aka, will add npcs that will point out things like this, because it's so fucking funny that I'm making a game based on writing and I spelled the name wrong, like I literally woke up to this and it made my day (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟmaybe the real objective of the game will be to get this little guy some glasses)

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Still a wip, but i managed to pull the minigame from it's 2d prison to 3d! I'll try to make all the UI of this part in like notes that you can look around for. Then you can select what juicy secrets you want to share or how you want to talk about someone, all of that making the minigame easier of harder

maybe the room around can be filled with stuff you find on your travels on Middle-Earth??

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i got IT!!!!

thought I had to make like this whole quick time event cause in some way typing games are qte buuutttt that would take like a lot of time, and then modifying each for differents texts would have been hell.

BUt then I did this, and it kinda works so I guess..

i mean, it doesnt check word by word, but it counts mistakes and knows whne the text its right, so good enough for me

Now time to add a countdown and make it all pretty

can't believe I (mostly) finished the character creator in a day and now I'm struggling with making a typing minigame (╥﹏╥)

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Finally working on update 0.5.0...

Or the put your OC in the story update!

Maybe I haven't been able to work on the game for some months cause of college, but it left me with this model I made for my courses, and I thought "hey, I could use this" the amount of models from my thesis that I'm using in other projects is something

And now that I'm no longer using vroid models I can finally legally make a character creator! And look...

A COLOR WHEEL!

the sims 4 could never

SO it is possible to play as Shrek :D

or make your elfsona super pretty and ethereal, whatever you like

ALso, if anyone has ideas for random quenya names it would be great, I just have 20 names that are the same in both the father name and mother name randomizer.

I know that if anyone ever plays this (if I ever finish it) they will most likely have a name already thought up (with like the meaning, and their entire genealogy) but I want the randomizer to not name your elf Juan Juan.

Other updates

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can't believe I (mostly) finished the character creator in a day and now I'm struggling with making a typing minigame (╥﹏╥)

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My second shot for the sock opera reanimated project!