DuatDweller on 28/1/2024 at 21:44
New model?
Meh I wish I could make my mod have half the ambience that had Return To The Haunted Cathedral or the crypts of Arx Fatalis. THE scary stuff. Playing those levels at 3 AM, oh man.
:eek:
Tomi on 29/1/2024 at 01:06
Thanks! I played this with my 4-yo daughter this evening. It's a cute little game for sure! :D We did figure out that there are always (?) three toys that make the kid happy and they're random. Does the kid
always hate the bird thing that is hanging from the ceiling? Are the background and the hat only there for the extra points/challenge? Is it even possible to actually make the kid
laugh?! Are we supposed to just wave the toys in front of the baby, or also click with the mouse or what? Some more feedback from the actions would be nice. Then again, babies are mysterious creatures...
So many questions! I think we saw a little smile from the baby once, and our top score was 65.something.
Also, sometimes when we snapped a photo, we couldn't pick up any of the toys anymore, until we took some more photos. It doesn't happen every time, just... sometimes. And now that I'm deliberately trying to make it happen, everything works perfectly. :weird:
But yeah, fun little game, I had a fun fifteen minutes or so with my daughter - thanks for that! :)
vurt on 29/1/2024 at 04:57
@DuatDweller no, just textures.
I really dislike how Bethesda did some of the textuers in this game, the colors are so vague for example. It makes the models look like they're made out of old paper.
Sulphur on 29/1/2024 at 05:40
Well, you definitely got the bit where children are difficult, mercurial, and generally draining down pat. I got the kid to smile for a split second, but the photo I clicked was it just being roly-poly, which I'll count as a win. Love the background options!
Edit: @Tomi - yes, it's possible to make the kid laugh. For a second, though if you can keep it going I don't know. There was no option to do a funny dance with fart sounds.
henke on 29/1/2024 at 16:48
Thanks for playing and giving feedback, Duat, Tomi and Sulph!
Reposting my GGJ game since we're on a new page: (
https://henke.itch.io/laugh-a-minute)
Inline Image:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95g2p47ae5ep9955getx1/babygame2_3.gif?rlkey=e1tcca7tuub8745pcvgmqakvy&raw=1Yeah how to get the baby to smile is supposed to be opaque of course, but if anyone wants a peek at the underlying systems:
First off, the notes on the camera explain the parents wishes for what background and hat the baby should have. These each make up 10% of your final score. The other 80% is made up by the baby's Overall Mood, which is governed by 3 invisible meters connected to 3 random toys. Once you've identified which toys the baby likes you should frantically click on the mobiles or wave the toys around in front of the baby to fill up those invisible meters. Each meter keeps draining constantly, so once the baby stops responding to one, go to the next. Loop through them all quickly to get the baby's mood as high as possible, then snap a photo.
Nameless Voice on 30/1/2024 at 11:10
I think I figured out most of that, even if I didn't know about the invisible meters.
What worked for me was to pick up each toy, see if it shows the positive reaction sparkles, then wave it in the baby's face until the sparkles stop, then switch to a different toy.
And sometimes the baby also likes the mobile on the right, but never on the left.
At the end, just keep switching toys quickly.
The highest score I managed to get was 90%.
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Speaking of the Global Game Jam, I also worked on a game for it!
This is a short narrative game called Laugh Café, where people come into the café looking to be cheered up, and you have to tell them jokes to make them laugh!
Inline Image:
https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjQ5NjYxMS8xNDgzNTQwOC5qcGc=/original/4FeVUX.jpgDownload here: (
https://under-dogs27.itch.io/laugh-cafe)
Sorry, Unreal doesn't support a web player, so it's download-only.
Sulphur on 30/1/2024 at 12:30
I like how when you choose a response that's just a little too obnoxious, you can still tell the patron's going whatever the polite equivalent of 'wanker' is in their head even though they have no faces. Also, I gotta say props for having the emo goth revert to his sad hunch as he walks out after he laughs. And your VA man was having fun doing those voices, huh.
Two technical things: Norton (yes yes, I know) flagged it as a possible network threat, and it made my GPU fans spin up to max. Vsync, framecap by default?
Bonus: I found the outgoing patron bumping into the incoming one oddly endearing as they shuffle-slide against each other to get to where they're going, but you could probably avoid that by setting the spawn timing out a bit if that wasn't intentional.
Nameless Voice on 30/1/2024 at 13:06
Glad you liked it!
A lot of those things were unintentional (hunched walk on the way out, bumping into each other), but they were kind of funny so I don't mind.
The fan spin-up is a bit annoying, oversight of building it on a laptop set to quiet mode so I didn't notice.
vurt on 11/2/2024 at 20:22
retexturing most of the armors, weapons, shields in Morrowind. I love modding this game, such a hassle free experience in comparison to almost anything else.
I also did a new face for the orc. uh, it's hard to know where to stop lol... I wake up at 8-9 then i mod to late in the night. eventually i'll get burned out, it happens again and again heh
Inline Image:
https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/100/41808-1707682302.pngInline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/SV41Hd8.pngover 120 items are retextured now.