Nutty Fruitcake Productions @nutty-fruitcake-blog - Tumblr Blog

03.05.2012 Infos

Hi,

I'm very sorry for last weeks missing post. I took some off-time because my tooth where hurting like hell (of course i fixed that too).

There will be changes to how i write this blog & if possible i will be replaced, but this seems to take a bit longer as i suspected. This does not mean that you won't hear from me in future though.

Chrono Madness is a huge project and we have a lot of planning and work that needs to be done before we can release it to alpha status.

Our plan is to get all elements together to be able to start filling the worlds content. There is no release date at the moment but we are aiming for a private lan-party next year for our first multiplayer sandbox with a working "everything".

For now we have a working worldmap we can access. If you need an idea how the worldmap kind of works, take a look at Fonline (or Fallout) & Arkanum (Both games are old be sure to check how to install them on newer OS before buying them). The Worldmap wont be the same, but it will have a similar movement style & work with encounters that you randomly meet while traveling.

If you enter locations or environments, you will be able to play in a sidescrolling view where you can see your character. Here you will fight, talk to npc's, solve quests and much much more.

Monsters, animals and all non npc's will be unlockable for ingame points or as quest rewards, always unlocking them to your whole party (max 6 people) as long as you walk along with them.

We do not seek to make a game that keeps a player in it forever, rather we try to make a game that rewards the time you spend in it. Of course this will be a quite huge game and there will be new stuff to explore each month. So the fun won't stop.

I won't reveal much more for now, but i can say we are working hard to get this game running. As soon as we have a sandbox we will be showing the first screenshots & videos. Some sound was updated allready but there is more to come.

Thanks for reading.

PS: from now i will only update this blog when we really intend to do so.

16.04.2012 Status

hi,

The0815pimp - Website is still under construction. We this week we will try to connect our worldmap with our server software.

Mr.Epic - Workes on his space-shooter. Haven't heard from him this week though.

Jalupa - Finishes the worldmap art. The0815pimp and I had a meeting yesterday with Jalupa. Jalupa had a little lesson on how to use Blender.

I,Oldgipsywoman - I was working with the0815pimp this week. we had a 6 day long meeting. We took a look at tooltips, worldmap design, Politics (very little) & the collectible card mini-game.

PS: We have someone new in the team, but we will introduce next week or even later. He will be working with Jalupa on concept art & music. Also he will be making our Webvideos & Trailers later.

Thanks for reading.

09.04.2012 Status

Hi,

The0815Pimp - Webpage is still under construction. New Worldmap features implemented.

Mr.Epic - The space shooter is making progress, portals and endless evironments work now. He continues his work on the inventory system at the moment.

Jalupa - Concept arts

I,OldGipsyWoman - Mr.Epic and I have discussed some functions & features of his space shooter this week. Created Content for Chrono Madness.

Thanks for reading

PS: The meeting last week was canceled, next week i will be able to tell more.

03.04.2012 Status

Hi,

Sorry for the late post this week, i was busy yesterday and too tired on sunday to write it then.

The0815Pimp - The library of the filesystem we use gets a new standart soon. Some compability problems with the the Boost library were resolved.

Mr.Epic - Wrote a basic environments class for his space shooter. Something similar to this class will be used in Chrono Madness too. CSV imports are possible for the Space Shooter. He did some testings with database content to see if he can read from it. Next week he will be working on Portals.

Jalupa - Music and Worldmap Concepts

I, OldGipsyWoman - Mechanics for Death and Afterlife. Mechanics for Politcssystem. Mechanics for Element & Ressistance System (Still working on). Helped out Mr.Epic with input for his space shooter.

PS: This week we have a planed meeting with a potential new member. More about that next week.

Thanks for reading.

26.03.2012 Status & Info

Hi,

The0815Pimp and I worked a lot on the politics system this week. We have some ideas but its not a fully finished concept. We made a big list of stuff we want to have covered. The0815pimp also wrote a CSV-importer. Lot of imput was gathered. We want better a webpresence in future, and an entery in IndieDB. But first we will be working on some Visual stuff. As reader of this blog you will be the first to see the visuals though.

Mr.Epic works on his little space-shooter. he now makes use of the new CSV-importer for his levels. he will get his own blog for the game later. Artworks will probably be from Jalupa.

Jalupa - Made 3 new songs. Is working on a Manticore prototype to use ingame. Next week he will be making preparations and concept arts for more prototype enemys.

I, OldGipsyWoman - Am working on creatures of Chrono Madness, their types, and all the stuff they need, skills, characteristics and so on. I also prepared the document for the politicsystem and added some lines to it.

This blog needs a make-over...

Thanks for reading.

20.03.2012 Info & Status

Hi,

I have very little time this week, so I'm keeping it short. We are working on several things.

Mr.Epic works on a little space-shooter. We want to test how fast he is, if working on his own projects. We will be helping out for his shooter too of course.

The0815Pimp & I are working on several things. Politics system, database attributes, webpresence and more more more. If there will be changes, we will announce them on this blog first. This blog will not be replaced anyways.

Jalupa is still working on the design of worldmap and witch house scenario. We also organized a crash course in Blender on sunday for him.

Thanks for reading.

11.03.2012 Status

Hi,

The0815Pimp and I discussed some database attributes for the worldmap. We managed to finish our database insert tool. The worldmap code was cleaned. New BGL features were added. Networking issues were discussed. Next week The0815Pimp wont be able to work on Chrono Madness. He will be busy with support issues on an older project of him. On thursday we'll have a meeting at Mr.Epics place, so we will still be able to work with The0815Pimp this week. He will then join Jalupa and me next week to work with us.

Mr.Epic was busy with his holidays this week. We will be working at his place next thursday. Lot of stuff has to be done befor he can work as usuall again.

Jalupa is working on the artwork for the worldmap. He wrote two songs for Chrono Madness. Jalupa and I had two meetings this week. One was about musik issue, the other time we worked on Skills. He also got himself a new MIDI-keyboard. He also tests some software.

I,OldGipsyWoman - As mentioned in the upper posts, i was quite busy working with Jalupa and The0815Pimp. The0815Pimp, Jalupa and I worked together on support skills for healers. I will be working on skills until thursday.

Thanks for reading!!!

05.03.2012 Status & Info

Hi,

The0815Pimp's internet connection was restored yesterday morning. he was unable to work without internet connection. He also got sick yesterday. He briefly stated something about diagrams he worked on, but I'm not sure what they are about exactly. (I might update this blog if its relevant).

Mr.Epic was not able to acces the svn repository, this week so he was unable to work and could not finish the setup of his new workspace properly, but this will be done tomorrow.

Jalupa is working on the art assets for a witch house, he finished a black cat, a witch, and works currently on atmospheric non animated objects. when all will be finished and working we will upload a little video but this most probably takes a month or more. he will be working on the more detailed versions of the worldmaps.

I, OldGipsyWoman had a 2 day long meeting with Jalupa this week to discuss some issues on the art and worldmap for the future (ingame). I also worked on the politics system, the era & year cycle system and the genealogy system.

We decided that it will be possible to play the game with a permadeath option that allows to start a characters on the highest level, but if a character dies the saves will be deleted and the player will have to start over. There will be more options like this one. We intend to include many possibilities that alter game mechanics and gameplay, because everyone has different preference and playstyles.

Joypads will be supported in Chrono Madness during fights and exploration (sidescroll-view).

Thats it for this week, thank you for reading.

27.02.2012 Status

Hi,

This week The0815Pimp had no internet access, so we haven't heard a lot from him and he was very detained from work. he said at the phone that he was working on something with blender.

Mr. Epic had no SVN Repository so he was also not able to work as usual.

Jalupa had almost no time this week. We talked about some atmospherical matters shortly. We will have more time to work together this week though.

I,OldGipsywoman wrote some story line related stuff and worked on skills and their mechanics.

We hope we will be able to work as usual this week.

Thank you for reading.

A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills -- if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat -- add your voice now!

20.02.2012 Status

Hi,

The0815Pimp & I had a meeting this weekend. got back late etc.

The0815Pimp is still working on database tool and input masks.

Mr.Epic got his workplace upgraded. He will soon profit of 2 monitors.

Jalupa is very busy with exams. I'll meet him this evening and update the blog later on.

I, OldGipsyWoman - Working on some content for the database and still working on missing attributes of the database. I have a plan for the worldmap GUI but i'm not fully sure if it does what we want it to do.

Thanks for reading!

13.02.2012 Status & Info

Hi,

Mr.Epic - Is still working on tiles and sidescroll-view. Reviewed some content.

The0815Pimp - Is working on a database management tool which will be usable for us soon, it will enable us to fill the database. Worldmap features are being worked on. Traveling on the map is now possible with differnet speed. We had a server blackout after our meeting last week. It was fixed and the network was setup again completly, there should be no more such blackouts from now on.

Jalupa - Works on the worldmap artwork, once its nice and finished we may reveal it. He worked with me on some game issues and we talked about some atmosphere and sound related stuff.

I,OldGipsyWoman - I was working on in-game ressources. There will be mines and farms and such locations where players will be able to gather ressources and there will be raffineries where players will be able use ressources to create endproducts. These will be used to rise armies, build weapons, armor, vehicles and more.

untill next week & thanks for reading.

06.02.2012 Status

Hi all,

I'm little late with this weeks status, the reason for this is we had a meeting this weekend and i came back late on sunday. Our main interessts were the worldmap and the database. Jalupa also had a little crash course in Blender. Our server crashed due an electric failure this weekend, we had too many pc's and laptops on the same electric socket running at once, but nothing was lost so there is nothing to worry about.

The0815Pimp - Finished migrating the Worldmap, we also had several discussions on ingame politics and encounters.

Mr. Epic - This will be edited when i have news on what he did. (VoIP fell out yesterday and i can't reach him right now)

Jalupa - Got his Blender crash course. Jalupa, The0815Pimp & I also discussed some designs for citys and races (we have some very nice ideas there)

I, OldGipsyWoman - Finished the skills for shaman and mage classes with Jalupa this week. we also started with the skills for bard classes, but they are not finished yet.

PS: I will edit Mr.Epics Status as soon as i know more of it.

Thanks for reading!!!

30.01.2012 Status

Hi all,

The0815Pimp - Database will be up soon, but for now some attributes may still miss and we will be working this over a bit more. He also started migrating the old worldmap code into the new Chrono Madness BGL(Basic Game Libary).

Mr.Epic - Overworked the tiles in the sidescroll view and will be working on the same thing next week too. He also arrenged SVN repository.

Jalupa - His music production environment was installed. He is getting used to it. Haven't heard of him today, but i assume that he is in a creative phase.

I, OldGipsyWoman - I took a look through our documents and sorted some out. I will be working on the skills of warrior classes with Jalupa next week.

Thanks for reading!

26.01.2012 Midweek Status

Hi all

Mr.Epic has worked on the level format, what means he has done great steps towards his goal for next week. The camera rotates as he wishes, he applied.

The0815Pimp & I will be setting up the database later this week. We are still working on some attributes for some tables, but a big part is already done.

Jalupa is very busy but tries to do some concept art. Except that he helped me finish the skills for the rouge classes.

Thanks for reading

22.01.2012 Status

Hi,

Mr. Epic - Overworked the Collision-, Actor- and Object-classes, this should enable him to code more AI related stuff. He will also be working on the level format next week.

The0815Pimp - Was not around for the discussion today but mailed me: The GUI will now be handled by the VBO object. He also setup the repository for the game in our SVN. Until now we only had a repository for the basic game library. I will write a post as update if he comes up with more.

Jalupa - Is reading tutorials for Blender and Inkscape which is keeping him busy at the moment. He has also worked on some story and atmosphere related stuff with me today.

I, OldGipsyWoman - Prepared the Toodoo document for Jalupa. I worked on the skills for rouge classes (in game). Last week i finished the systematics of the combo-system and I'm working on the resistance-system now.

Thanks for reading & till next week

We are not from the US but we clearly see the threat of the SOPA and PIPA Bills. Please inform yourself: http://americancensorship.org/

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

Nutty Fruitcake Productions