SPENTURE

Games, ADVENTURES and whatnot

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0.8

Another rush of information. No, you're not a Mica person, though you do like and own some Agate and Smokey Quartz. There's a couple of game-related figurines lying around, disturbed by your recent attempt to pick everything up at once. Skimbleshanks died a few months ago, but you recently adopted a new kitten whom you haven't yet picked a name for. You really should get onto that.

You started taking to mask-wearing on your streams after an incident last year. It's digitally-generated and edits-out your snaggletooth canine and turns your eyes from olive to a crimson, which you reckon is pretty cool. You're certainly are more on-edge and withdrawn about your online doings since then. You also have a few real masks, but they're part of a collection so you don't touch them that often.

You can't afford airwovens (they're overpriced crap anyhow) but you did one better by using Irn Bru and Wham wrappers, latticed together in a makeshift decoupage over your volleys.

Behold... the Irn-Shu.

Yeah, you don't really wear them that much.

INPUT STATUS: PROCESSED

REMAINING UNSET VALUES NON-ESSENTIAL: CREATION POINTS UNSPENT: 30

EXITING CREATION, RE-SYNCHRONISING FOR TIME DILATION...COMPLETE.

AWAITING GAME ACTIVATION. PROCESS ETA - 8 HOURS

PRESS [START] WHEN READY.

(HELP MENU UNLOCKED - 'META' TAB DEACTIVATED.)

BB-8008: What the goddamn just happened? VerdeVertigo: is everything okay? the stream seemed messed-up for a bit and you are shaking pretty bad BB-8008: I think so, I felt like something just shocked me in the head. I really don't need this right now. VerdeVertigo: you can end the stream early if you want, hellblade looked really cool earlier and it was great seeing you play something other than that korean game BB-8008: You mean League of Legends? Please don't remind me of that already. BB-8008: Plus it's not Korean, just really, really popular with the Scene there. VerdeVertigo: ok VerdeVertigo: btw I ordered a copy like you wanted but you have to help me VerdeVertigo: I know nothing about mmos except runescape

MODIFIERS APPLIED: SLEUTH +1

SKILLS ADDED: DISGUISE +1, GEOLOGY, COMPUTING, MAKEUP, WIELD (GLOVE/CULINARY/KNIFE)

QUIRKS ADDED: ‘PROPERLY PARANOID’, 'POWERED BY PRODUCT'

FRUSTRATION: +1

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0.7

INPUT ERROR IDENTIFIED: AUTOCORRECTING… LOCATION CONFIRMED:  55°58' N  3°10'W EST. FIDELITY: LOW

17.9

17

AGE CONFIRMED: 6533

ADDITIONAL STATISTICS GENERATED.

The program spits out a bunch of numbers. Whatever mysterious data collection ability it has, its level of accuracy continues to unnerve you, to the extent that you’re increasingly perturbed by having it all streamed to your audience – even if it’s currently of 6-7 people, all of whom you kind of know. It originally spat out some strange spelling mistakes, but yes you do indeed live in Leith, a suburb of Edinburgh on the FrathFirth of Forth. It seems to register you as ‘British’, much to your dismay and disgust. Your parents left the chad world of chavs over a decade ago and you’re rather happy here, well, most of the time. There’s even a decent LGBT scene, even if you really aren’t interested in exploring that side of things for another year or so. That’s a whole different agender (teeheehee).

Speaking of waiting, you’re graduating from S6 next week; you could’ve dropped-out sooner, but you decided to stick around for the extra two years in the hopes of getting into University. You’re not sure why it’s displaying your age like that, but it probably makes sense? It got everything else more or less right. Even if you wish it didn’t!

Gaming is very much your main jam, it’s fun to extract salt from losers though you’re a pretty competitive person and can get a pretty tilted when people mess things up. You also enjoy cooking and work part-time at a Chippy. While you certainly don’t feel fat, the local cuisine has rubbed onto you a bit lately! You want to work somewhere more refined, but it’ll be hard to wean yourself off pakora, festy cock and rumbledethumps.

You are HEAT-SENSITIVE, which you aren’t sure is because of living here so long, or an actual thing of yours – either way it’s one of the reasons you love Scotland.

MODIFIERS APPLIED: IMAGINATION +1, FITNESS  -1

SKILLS ADDED: COOKING+2, GAMING+2

QUIRK ADDED: ‘LORD OF THE FRIES’

ALIGNMENT SET TO ‘NONE’.

COMPLETION: 50% INPUTS PENDING: PREFERENCES & APPEARANCE. REMINDER: CHOICES WILL AFFECT STATISTICS PER MANUAL.

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0.6

You try a few joke combinations,based on audience suggestions, along with a few of your own.

'Actual McRealname'

INPUT VERIFICATION: REJECTED. PLEASE INPUT NAME.

'big boy' REJECTED 'Huh. Any other ideas?'

Ponkrat N. Cheesehammer

REJECTED

Beef Stronkanoff

REJECTED 'What'

ExpanDong

REJECTED 'In'

Mistanphonol of Frath

REJECTED 'The'

HELPIMTRAPPEDINACHARACTERSHEETFACTORY

REJECTED 'GODDAMN'

No matter what you try, it throws a fit. This is beyond weird. How does it know they’re fake?

Why would it care?

>Bella

>Thistle

>Barrison

INPUT VERIFICATION: ACCEPTED. WELCOME, 'Bella Thistle Barrison'. AUTOMATED SYSTEMS CALIBRATED. UPLOADING VALUES TO DATABASE.

You're starting to regret waking up today.

EXTRACTING VALUES. AGE INACCURACY DETECTED. EXPECTED RANGE 14-18.

GIS MATRIX OFFLINE. MANUAL LOCATION ID REQUIRED.

SPECIALITY IDENTIFIED: GAMING.

SECONDARY SPECIALITY IDENTIFIED. INPUT CONFIRMATION REQUESTED

WEAKNESS: UPLOAD FAILURE. RECHECK CONNECTION AND RESUBMIT.

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0.55

N

You consider making something up but you figure there’s one option that’ll be the most fun. While you were assigned female at birth, you’ve never really taken to the whole concept of gender roles. Who needs them. In fact, who even needs shitty genders in the first place?

Your character’s gender is No.

INPUT VERIFICATION: APPROVED

Your phone lights up; two of your fans have sent you messages. Oh! You almost forgot to activate your stream! With the mysterious ‘OS’ refusing to work in a Virtual Machine, you had to pull out your old capture card and configure thing the old-fashioned way. Hopefully it works.

“Welcome to the stream today and sorry for the delay. This game seems odd, whatever it is. I’ve just started entered the character gen screen and it’s asking for a lot of information. So, what are going to name ourselves?”

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0.5

>S

You move back towards your bed. Agh, why is it taking so long? Shitty games are generally tiny, but this thing seems to have an ungodly amount of compression. Whatever it is, it's a lot bigger than you expected. Signing, you sorta lie down and stare at the ceiling for a bit.

>Sleep

VERB IDENTIFIED: SLEEP

Yeah, you suppose you would, if you could. But you're been having a really bad time trying to sleep. It's half the reason you've been messing around with this bootleg game. Well, you assume it's a bootleg.

>Plugh

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO INVOKE THE POWERS OF PLUGH. (-1)

(Monday, January 15th, 2018, 04:36 am)Reyweld Wrote:  >Go [n]orth, [t]ake everything on the desk!

You cannot reach your DESK while resting on your bed! You stand up and move back over and attempt to carry everything at once. With a DEX of [ERROR: UNDEFINED] you fail miserably. Your things are now spread all over the place but luckily, nothing seems particularly damaged, except your ego.

The computer makes a strange 'ding' sound. Looks like it's finally ready.

>Commence Character Creation.

INPUT GENDER: M/F/N/O

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0.4

>STATUS!

Woah, That's a lot of question marks.

Esc

HELP CLOSED: MENU LOCKED

Returning to normal service, you hear a small 'ding' in your head. Whatever it was that just happened, it seems to have increased your score. Yay?

You proceed to go back to what you were doing.

>look

VERB IDENTIFIED: [L]OOK

You observe your BEDROOM. The window to the [E]ast lets in a light breeze; it's rather late in the evening and your parents are probably asleep. Or would be. They're away for the weekend, a fact you're taking advantage of tomorrow.

To the [W]est is a large wardrobe crammed full of CLOTHING, as well as your SCHOOLBAG, BOOKS and most of your CDs and DVDs.

Your BED is to the [S]outh; it's rather comfortable and warm and the sheets are a rather bright shade of green. There's a half-empty bottle of Iced Tea, with a few of its friends' carcasses littering the floor underneath. You should probably clean those up in case they start an uprising (or before mum complains again).

To the [N]orth lies your DESK and the rest of your personal belongings. Strewn across your desk are a variety of items; you may need to SEARCH through the mess to find most of your stuff. Your HEADPHONES seem obnoxiously large, though you wouldn't ever think of using anything smaller. Gotta have that open can soundstage! Other than your MONITORS, PC and FILE CABINET, it has your PHONE, KEYS, WALLET, PENCIL CASE as well as the box and manual you found earlier. An array of COMPUTER PARTS sits in a box on the rather slippery wooden floor. It got a good waxing just over a week ago, which is both a bit of a hazard and and a nuisance when the sun bounces off it into your eyes.

One of the monitors is blinking. The installation process is at 90%.

>take me

VERB IDENTIFIED:  [T]AKE

Unable to see it, you search your desk successfully.

'WINDOWS ME' has been added to your inventory. You feel a sudden urge to get rid of it in an appropriate fashion. Your mind wanders off as it starts imagining all kinds of violent and destructive means of disposal.

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0.3

kilozombie Wrote:  >META

Hmm... now a little more bass there. Then, I just need to get Sheets to pay his deb-

wait

they're watching me, aren't they? ARGH NOT YET DAMMIT IT WAS THE LAST ONE IN THE LIST FOR A REASON YOU'RE NOT MEANT TO SEE ANY OF THIS

shoo off and I'll give you help deets myself until I'm ready. Deal?

Thank god they didn't see the stuff in the background. Your secret is safe, Dirk!Hoof.

Vic:  >Controls

It's pretty much the same as for any other adventure, but this is a Text Adventure, so don't expect too much in the way of maps and graphics, ok? Whenever you want to do something simply type in the action and it'll get parsed. However, there's a bit of a catch.

Every character you command has an Madness Meter and Frustration Flask. If the Meter's high, there's a higher chance of commands being ignored and if the Flask is full, GOOD LUCK BUDDY! They'll be completely uncontrollable until they've cooled down. Get a feel for each person's personality and tastes. Pander to them often enough and you should be just fine.

FlanDab:  >Commands

To submit a command, you need to follow a basic structure most people are familiar with by now. To be parsed by this primitive engine, you need to start with a Verb. The Interpreter will then kick in and attempt to carry out the command. It's not a perfect system but it's the best I could cobble together.

typeandkey:  >Check scores. Delete any high scores that beat yours.

Technically, this is the first player, so the leaderboard is empty right now. The points are somewhat like those from that game show where the points don't matter, was part of the game before I started work but I might find a use for them later.

Your score is 0. As a bonus for being parient and totally ignoring my screw up, I'm feeling generous. You get 10 for free! Happy <Next_Holiday> !

Reyweld:  a >hint(s) might do us good

This option will be accessible from the Help menu in the future, but right now? Here's a little hint: whenever the Help Menu is accessed, the game is paused.

Here's another; you haven't started character creation yet. There's two ways to start that process. Shouldn't be a problem but once that's done, things will kick off properly. When that happens, I'll be disabling the meta button, unless/until it's needed.

REMAINING OPTIONS: STATUS

PRESS [ESC] TO LEAVE HELP CONSOLE

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0.2

bigro:  put in doom

((VERB IDENTIFIED: PUT))

Sure! You've been trying to bodge this buggy mess into booting for hours. You could use a smidge of soothing shooter action before you sort some more stuff out.

You squiz across your collection when something catches your eye. What could this be? It sure looks like one of your copies of Doo-oooh no.

Oh no.

Oh, no, no, no no no no no NO NO NO!

God, it's been a long time since you've seen that many floppies in one place. You just found your STASH OF DOOM FLOPPY DISKS! ((>TAKE: Y/N?)) You should probably put them back in their box and put them away before visions of multi-hour installation sequences interspersed with ejecting and re-ejecting diskettes consume your thought for the rest of the day.

You like retro gaming, but there are some elements of it that deserve being dead and buried. FOREVER.

Myeth:  >insert the cd you found in the cereal box

((VERB IDENTIFIED: INSERT))

Shifting the silly slices of magnetic tape aside, you grasp the package firmly. Here it is. A small CD case (well, it could be a DVD, hard to tell) slides out of the CEREAL CARTON of Capt'n Crunch it was oddly mailed to you in. Thankfully, the whole thing was shoved full of styrofoam bits and while its FESTIVE WRAPPING was scuffed, the internals look in working order.

This is the Game's 'OS' DISK, according to the manual you read two pages of, then tossed aside. It's probably stuck under all those floppies now. Kind of strange that it needs its own operating system to run, but then, you know this is no ordinary game. You've seen some pretty strange reports online about this little beastie. The translation allegedly exists on levels of shittiness rarely witnessed in the era of passable auto-translators.

Even the code itself was partially-incomplete (forcing you to bail up a close friend for solutions). You expect to be utterly disgusted by ineptitude, but you're determined to have the first real Let's Play up before anyone can beat you to the punch. You could go right ahead and stick it in to see what happens, or maybe take a closer look at the COVER. The MANUAL might be handy but it's probably not that important, who reads those anyway?

((COMMAND UNLOCKED: TYPE 'HELP' FOR ASSISTANCE. RECOMMENDED FOR PLAYERS NEW TO TEXT ADVENTURES.))

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0.1

       DOWNLOAD COMMENCING LOADING INTRO.PNG...    FILES MISSING 14: CONTINUE Y/N?                       RESUMING. 75% CHECKSUM: OK                                                                                           RENDER COMPLETE UPDATES INSTALLED. PLEASE >INSERT DISC AND PRESS /ENTER/

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SP_NT_R_

>Submit commands here: http://eagle-time.com/showthread.php?tid=2803

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As you can see, Princess Maker 2 had the potential to be a very... *hem* interesting game. That said, this element of Raising Sims is probably not going to have a lot of time invested in it... at least, not prior to crowd-funding (if that becomes a thing).

I guess it depends how many crowdfunders want to send a cute disabled loli into a brothel (you cruel, godless heathens).

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Holy Verbositude, Batman!

Yes, I am. Yes, this is.

This really isn't very typical of most blogs on Tumblr. It needs more reaction gifs, rage and anon hate.

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Project Idea 1: Life within Limits

Once upon a time, there was a game called Princess Maker 2 that was translated into English, bringing many people their first real glimpse into the world of 'child-raising' simulation games, that has been most commonly seen only in the realm of Asian gaming. Of course, that's not to say that Western games have both preceded and followed it; one of my favourite things game-wise is Alter Ego, a text-based game which dates back to the 1980s. Another is the 'The Sims' series, which I was introduced to by a school friend back when it was first released. Both are proof of the potential for this kind of game, which continues to be under-explored and bereft of engaging titles that explore the opportunities it has for games that are both fun and fulfilling.

Anyway, enough of the Gaming History lesson.

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'Life Within Limits' (working title) is an idea of mine. You are a child (or the guardian of a child) entering into a new stage of their life in an unknown, mysterious world. You are a gleaming white canvas, upon which your life will soon paint, creating a unique and brilliant artwork. However; you are not perfect. Like all human beings, you have been born into circumstances that are unavoidable. You no longer have parents you can rely upon, nor a home of your own, but there are some that care for you and protect you in their stead. But, this is not unique; there are others that have been raised as orphans, like yourself. Your canvas was torn before the artist of Life even brought their brushes to its surface.

While you may suffer a disability, this is not something you will allow to rule your life, even though it has dictated to you what life means. You must persevere amongst a world that is as cruel and harsh as it is warm and sympathetic. While your life may be limited, your life still has the potential to tell a tale just as colourful and bright as anyone else. Perhaps, even brighter...

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TL;DR?

This is 'Princess Maker' meets 'Katawa Shoujo'. You control the life of a protagonist who must pass through everyday life as they grow into adulthood, in the face of internal and external challenges. If realised, it will be an Adventure game/Social Simulation game that may or may not exist. It all depends on who shares an interest in this concept, and is willing to help me make it a reality.

  While there is no set platform, I hope to create it using the Ren'Py engine - assuming a team is established that can make this idea work. As a non-programmer, Python is one of the few languages I have a hope of understanding on my own, though there is no way I could possibly complete this solo. If we succeed, it may be crowd-funded and it may be open-source. At this stage, everything is hypothetical (dev-wise). If you read this, please comment/reblog if you like it; of course, if you want to help out in any way, send me a message here, or email me at [email protected]

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My Story (Part 1)

This is possibly one of the most awful, twisted blog posts ever to be produced on this sometimes-beautiful, once-green planet upon which we spend our lifetimes. My introduction into the world of Japanese Gaming came early, yet I have never properly understood it. I never had a gaming console during my childhood; instead, I would slink off to a friend's house to experience such wondrous things as Super Mario, Yoshi's World, Pokemon Red/Blue and company. I even destroyed one of my fathers' hard drives during my first foray into the Dark Side of Gaming, after leaving  a floppy disk with a Gameboy Rom (or three) inside the machine when I shutdown the computer - and forgot to take it out before rebooting. Copy protection was hardcore in those days.

Anyway; due in part to my obstinate nature, and overbearing parental guidance, I never really understood or experienced things like Final Fantasy or Zelda. Instead, I grew up primarily on old OS/2 games (Stardock FTW), Quake, Age of Empires, and the occasional educational game. Games still remained implanted in my head, like a rich treasure chest in one of those old RPGs, full of loot that was inaccessible to me; a separation that has probably fuelled my continued passion for gaming. Regardless of the cause, I am beginning to turn my passion and interest into something practical; even though I cannot code, or draw to save my life; I yearn to help create something that hasn't been done before and to create a new gaming experience, for both my enjoyment, and the enjoyment of others.

Hence this blog. Like the monster Typhon, this tumblr lurks under the surface of the world; full of forbidden thoughts and ideas awaiting release upon the world.

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One day this will be a wondrous introductory post.

In the meantime, it is a useless, uninformative placeholder designed only to greet those who are linked to this abode form one place or another.

Behold the Great Empty that is this devblog Tumblr. Witness my unwillingness to modify the HTML code, or change the theme from the default. Cower at the mess that is the ideas emanating from my head. This is Typhon; cower ye mortals and despair.