Catastrophy: In Development

[Arkhan Asylum]

I really enjoy that the cat looks semi-retarded, and that you gave him a helmet to confirm it.

lol.

are you still trying to dingledick around and get MML to work?

[Gredler]

I really enjoy that the cat looks semi-retarded, and that you gave him a helmet to confirm it.

lol.

are you still trying to dingledick around and get MML to work?

Yeah I've given midi to mml a shot a few times and still wind up with garbage. The retardation the cat exudes is likely the embodiment of my own mental capacity.

I have not yet made my own 6 channel midi to convert - that's my next scheduled task  / test.

So far I've made the song and sfx using mml in notepad ++, and tried to convert  royalty free jazz standard midis. The problem with the jazz standards midis is that they usually have a channel per instrument and jazz bands had like 3 of each instruments  in those bands, and then it comes out sounding like garbage. Also, I don't know enough about music to "spot check " the song in 3mle and find what's breading it.

I am still in talks with a third dude so I can focus on art and dk can focus on progtamming, cabbage has helped us a bunch and I just heard back from a sound engineer  friend of a friend who might be interested

[sirhcman]

gredler keep up the good work, your art has really grown since the beginning of this project.

I enjoy the cat sprites, they have a charm about them that I can appreciate!

[Arkhan Asylum]

If you need help with MML, let me know.  I'll try to help between Infernoing and shit.

Usually, there's some minor hiccup that cripples people and scares them off, and it's something so minor you'll be like

:fduahuiogiaudfghidfu"

[Gredler]

If you need help with MML, let me know.  I'll try to help between Infernoing and shit.

Usually, there's some minor hiccup that cripples people and scares them off, and it's something so minor you'll be like

:fduahuiogiaudfghidfu"

Thanks man, I will for sure. I am holding out hope we have a third guy make the tunes because my shit will never sound good because I don't know how to make music, so anything I make is like baby's first drum n bass. A education in how to make music, and making a clean midi is what I have to do first. It sorta worked to use the jazz standard songs I downloaded, but the song just eventually got out of sync and sounded all helmet cat'd out. ;)  I'll be sure to reach out to you when we get to a point that we don't think it's operator error hahaha.

[Arkhan Asylum]

You have to make sure the MIDI is basically very quantized to full steps (1,2,4,8,16,32 notes).  That will make your life easier.

You can get into weirder lengths, but they need to be actual musical lengths.   If you just sloppily drag lengths around that are somewhere between an 8th and 16th note , you will get weird conversions that are a pain to line up.


Music tools (and 3MLE) have quantizers to help line it all up, though.

[DildoKKKobold]

If you need help with MML, let me know.  I'll try to help between Infernoing and shit.

Usually, there's some minor hiccup that cripples people and scares them off, and it's something so minor you'll be like

:fduahuiogiaudfghidfu"

Thanks for the offer! Thus far, its simply been having a lack of anything to insert, rather than any issues with actually executing the code. Squirrel is in the game. Which reminds me, I need to send you a PM.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Just grab some stupid simple MIDI that works from some free website to at least test it out.

[DildoKKKobold]

Just grab some stupid simple MIDI that works from some free website to at least test it out.

Oh, it absolutely works. At least one of our videos has Gredler's drum loop going during the shower boss. The big hold up now is just something worth putting in.

[Gredler]

Just grab some stupid simple MIDI that works from some free website to at least test it out.

Oh, it absolutely works. At least one of our videos has Gredler's drum loop going during the shower boss. The big hold up now is just something worth putting in.

Gredlers original music = shitty but works
Gredler's attempt at royalty free music  conversion = shittier but also works.

The hopes are that we either find super clean royalty free midis, get a musician who makes original midis, cabbage takes over the sound side of catastrophy, or I learn how to make music and create the midis my self so the conversion to mml is more predictable and manageable.

The royalty free midi's I've been trying are jazz standards like sing sign sing or sweet Georgia brown, and I just have not successfully been able to make those sound good, but cabbage has been able to make some good conversions using midis from the same source. (http://midkar.com/)

[DildoKKKobold]

Here's a preliminary view of the main gameplay. Here's hoping I'm able to figure out why HuC won't let me add any more code...

[esteban]

I think you are literally editing your post to add a video link as I type this...

[Psycho Punch]

I think you are literally editing your post to add a video link as I type this...

It means that the main gameplay is non-existant.
FMV cat game?

[DildoKKKobold]

Sorry, I'm totally brain-fried after a marathon coding session. I don't think I stood up for 4 hours straight.

[sirhcman]

Here's a preliminary view of the main gameplay. Here's hoping I'm able to figure out why HuC won't let me add any more code...

dope! keep up the great work!!

[megatron-uk]

I propose a new name: Kitty Bobble 

Looks totally nuts  - great work! 

[esteban]

I commented on TubeYou instead of this forum. Thank you. 

[Psycho Punch]

Hey I thought this was going to be a platformer game, not a single screen Mario Bros.

Excellent but I'm wondering how you're going to make the other levels to fit with the main game.

[esteban]

Hey I thought this was going to be a platformer game, not a single screen Mario Bros.

Excellent but I'm wondering how you're going to make the other levels to fit with the main game.

Everything will work!

I love the variety in gameplay.

[Gredler]

Here's a preliminary view of the main gameplay. Here's hoping I'm able to figure out why HuC won't let me add any more code...

BTW my avatar is "cutting room floor" the initial sprite I made for the mouse in this level. The design was too RatFink and not enough Hanna-Barbera, so I redrew it to fit the style of the game better

vs  (still not shaded and cleaned up)

I started animating him, but this guy was done on my phone using a capacitive touch stylus in Pixly




I love seeing this progress, and makes me feel bad to bottle neck with art - I need to get this guy some more stuff!


I hope we're able to figure out DK's current blocker, it seems like all of the code for the various levels works fine individually, but when he combines them together it hits some sort of bug causing it not to compile?

[Arkhan Asylum]

I hope we're able to figure out DK's current blocker, it seems like all of the code for the various levels works fine individually, but when he combines them together it hits some sort of bug causing it not to compile?

Any update on that?  I replied in the thread but it went dead.

[Gredler]

Any update on that?  I replied in the thread but it went dead.

I think the updates that Elmer made to HuC, paired with housekeeping and cleanup by DK, has gotten us over the hurdle and we have a build that is unblocked by issues right now Thanks for the followup dude

[Arkhan Asylum]

Do you still need some terrible jazz music for this game?  I might have a little free time to fuck around with it.

[Gredler]

If you want to take a shot at "Sweet Georgia Brown" or "Sing Sing" , yeah we got no good tunes right now.

[DildoKKKobold]

It probably isn't worth it, since we will likely be switching to Elmer's driver, since it should have sample support. Sorry!

[Gredler]

DK and I have been racking our brains since we started this project about what to call our team name. We both enjoy dumb (as Arkhan might say, retarded) puns, and silly wordplay. Not taking ourselves too seriously in this endeavor is a key factor in our development

We thought a lot about it, and have brainstormed a few ideas. The best one we have agreed on is Obey Bee, chosen for obvious reasons.

I'd love to hear feedback, and other ideas, for what our scrappy team could name itself.

We all can't have gems like Aetherybte and Sarumaru Co. So go easy on us and hit us with your best ideas and suggestions!

[sirhcman]

I think you should have your company name announced in digitized voice along with the logo, like SEGA did. And Saru should be that voice!

I vote for arkhan to voice the company name

[Gredler]

Young guys may be joking, but I would love to have a Feka esque splash audio event where someone says oh baby in a deep voice like this clip,

Hahah that's what makes me want to use this team name the most!

[TheClash603]

No need to change what you've come up with, it's perfect!  Now gimme games!

[elmer]

Young guys may be joking, but I would love to have a Feka esque splash audio event where someone says oh baby in a deep voice like this clip,

Time for school, Ferris. 

Neat team name, huge approval! 

[OldRover]

Obey Bee is perfect.

[esteban]

I am the third or fourth person to approve of OBEY BEE.

[_Paul]

SONOVABEE
HADSON
THE QUIRKY McFLURKERS
DONGSOFT
MASTURBEETION
ENGINE PANTS
OBACON
NAMCAT

You're welcome.

[Arkhan Asylum]

the OBEY thing is overrated/lame now.

Boo Bee is clearly better

make it a set of tits with a happy face

duhr.

[Gredler]

the OBEY thing is overrated/lame now.

Boo Bee is clearly better

make it a set of tits with a happy face

duhr.

Agreed, OBEY? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

Ohhhh, eee... Whats up with that?





Other ideas are appreciated.


DK and I have so little in common, hard to find something to name us. I've had teams in the past that found their name easy, but this one has been hard to find.


I guess we can just say "a game by dark kobold and gredler" but I'd rather have a team name and credit ourselves with our real names - I am new to this homebrew thing.

[elmer]

"A Derk Cobbler Game"?   

[Gredler]

"A Derk Cobbler Game"?   

Hahahah not bad, thanks for the suggestion!!

We've tossed around a couple mash-up names; Boldler was my favorite

I was thinking of unrelated names that represent our situation, but nothing seems appropriate.

The OBEY verbage has gotten some understandable backlash - and I felt weird about using both it and the hudson bee as they're copywritten (and it's lazy of me to do so)..

Likely it will be a PCEFXOPHILE of some sort name

[DildoKKKobold]

Seems like Obey Bee is pretty well approved by the majority. Any feedback on the logo itself?

[elmer]

We've tossed around a couple mash-up names; Boldler was my favorite

Hahaha ... it's all about coming up with something that straddles the line between your Porn Names and "Alan Smithee". 

So many of my favorite TV shows when I was growing up ended with "A Quinn Martin Production". 

[Gredler]

Seems like Obey Bee is pretty well approved by the majority. Any feedback on the logo itself?

Logo itself has had mixed feedback - it's flagrant copy-write infringement though
+=

I did make this logo in like 5 minutes, just as a proof of concept, but if we were to use it I would have to make something more original.

The OBEY to me is something I saw in high school as grafiti all the time, and only learned of its relevance to PCE since joining here relatively recently, and only found out it was a copywritten brand (now) when googling the obey posters.

When I think of Obey, this is what I think of.


But I think the context here is much different than elsewhere.

I do think this is the best option we have, so far.

Hahaha ... it's all about coming up with something that straddles the line between your Porn Names and "Alan Smithee". 

So many of my favorite TV shows when I was growing up ended with "A Quinn Martin Production". 

Hahah with that in mind,

Pants Off Productions
Pants Down Development
Grebald Games


 
Keep them coming!

I also think I should say - the progress on the game is coming along we've actually worked on it a bit recently, yay!

[esteban]

Bee Ball.

[CrackTiger]

I'm not a fan of the "Obey!" meme for PCE, outside of Tats' original image, and it was already a meme of its own for years before the PC Engine existed.

But I love the Hudson bee and that logo mockup is cool. Something like "Bee Ware" or "Bee Soft" would be nice.

[Gredler]

Boo Bees is growing on me. Literally and figuratively and literally

[sirhcman]

Deekler Soft

[Gredler]

I'm not a fan of the "Obey!" meme for PCE, outside of Tats' original image, and it was already a meme of its own for years before the PC Engine existed.

Yeah, I am in agreement that it's a bit of a reach towards current trends, and is not the vibe we probably want to push forward.

Dickler Soft

Closer, firmer, I feel like we're making progress here.

[DildoKKKobold]

I don't want it related to sex at all, so I'm nixing dickler, boo bee, etc. Even Oh Baby! was pushing it, but the logo kept it PG.

[Dicer]

I don't want it related to sex at all, so I'm nixing dickler, boo bee, etc. Even Oh Baby! was pushing it, but the logo kept it PG.

Welp, there goes my suggestion for "bees fucking your knees productions"

[Gredler]

Her Bees

[sirhcman]

I don't want it related to sex at all, so I'm nixing dickler, boo bee, etc. Even Oh Baby! was pushing it, but the logo kept it PG.

I didnt say Dickler. I said Deekler Soft

[ParanoiaDragon]

The Beez Kneez.  Knees support the rest of the body, you support the Turbo!