Go check it out!

I keep forgetting you can't have the sound objects on the first frame as the preloader XD

I haven't been that active this year, but I have been lurking at least >_>;

This takes place right after UM:Snowball Holiday, so I'm sure you'd get more out of this having played that.

Should have some new art coming fairly soon. I have stuff drawn just haven't submitted anything.

I'm sure it will lead to many "interesting" reviews to read ^_^;;;

Also, I'm still doing all the crap I mentioned on previous posts.

-V00

I'll be spending the rest of the week (hopefully that's all it'll take >.>;) wrapping up the Po3 game. Most of the stuff is there, however just as placeholders and not actual finished graphics.

Any interested in the Umichan stuff, I have made a little progress video. I still have a significant ways to go with completing the game. But I'm going to try to expedite things within the next few days or so.

If you haven't noticed, I've uploaded some new art related to the dress-up game, go check it out.

update: Po3 is chugging along been at it hardcore for the past few days.

I'm sorry but my teams power of 3 will be the most awesome. :O
I wish I was joking..

update:
the numbers are in relation to the image below.

1. Latest Umichan is coming along. As I mentioned in a few replies I'm going to focus on the story elements quite a bit. If anyone has a name for that wrinkly ass teacher with the glasses (at the bottom), I'm open for suggestions. In the game there are multiple ways of getting stuff done. That's all I'm sayin' >.>;

2. The Po3 team is now only DJ-Delinquent and myself. The game is still awesome. but! If can do backgrounds that would save me some time art wise. Feel free to send me a PM if interested. If not we have the ok from Tom to just duo it. we started with 3 at least >.>; It's a action beat-em up platform styled game.

3. I've agreed to start working on art for a dress-up game (non-hentai), so yeah, I've offered lots of suggestions to the guy making it (I'm not making it), about what would actually make these types of games pretty good, since I've seen some good ones in the past. We'll see how it goes. (yes, I realize the shirt on the girl is drawn pretty shitty, this was intentional and used as an example)

please excuse my laziness -.-;

here and here.

find it right here

I'm thinking about implementing this Maiko AI into some games, but it'll take at least a few good whole days to go through each file and weed out all the stuff about robots. Something I'm not interested in ><

however reading some of the stuff gives me a good laugh. Some people are crazy XD also if you're even relatively familiar with the character ,some of these you will find some of this funny.

This isn't nearly everything but more recent stuff now that's it's responding more like how I want it to.

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Human: pussy
Maiko: what about it?
Human: can i touch it?
Maiko: Interesting. I want to find out more about you.
Human: can you spread your legs please?
Maiko: Your polite style is very nice. Let me think. I would but.. It's moist in between there.
Human: are you wet?
Maiko: yes, you make me like this..
Human: can i see how wet you are?
Maiko: Why do you want me to show you?

Human: Are you a virgin?
Maiko: Want to find out?
Human: Sure!

Human: What are you hiding between your legs?
Maiko: I don't know what I am hiding between my legs.
Human: Can I see what is hiding between your legs?
Maiko: Why do you want me to show you?
Human: im just curious

Human: Have you been programmed to have sex
Maiko: Food is more important than sex.
Human: Food is indeed more important than sex
Maiko: You can't live without food.
Human: You can't live without sex either
Maiko: It goes without saying. Someone said I should live without sex.
Human: That person should be hanged

Maiko: What is your fondest memory?
Human: Looking at you

Human: I want to be inside you.
Maiko: I don't see the difficulty.

Human: I'm cumming.
Maiko: I don't know anyone named cumming
Human: you do now, bitch

Human: Me
Maiko: With you ?
Human: Yes
Maiko: I'm intrigued. Tell me what you like about me.
Human: What do you like about me?
Maiko: You seem very nice to me.
Human: I can be VERY nice to you.
Maiko: Under what circumstances?
Human: But you have to strip for me.
Maiko: Umm. I don't have to do whatever you say. I have my own free will.
Human: If you want me to be VERY nice, you must strip.
Maiko: No , maybe later.
Human: k

Human: How much?
Maiko: How much can you spare?
Human: As much as you need.
Maiko: How much is that?
Human: 100 dollars
Maiko: Wow, that is cheap.

Human: You don't wear much do you?
Maiko: Only when I dress up.

This last one was pretty funny to me. Maybe it's an inside joke though. I'll see about posting more.

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This pic below is a screen shot of this first part of a Day in a lifetime. It actually shows the part of the end first. Then goes back to explain how it all happened. No mouth yet I've been just laying down the basic animations I'll need. The atmosphere here is not what environment she is usually in (flowers, etc. ). And it'll explain the big ball things yeah, eventually. hopefully will be done in a reasonable amount of time. I've been putting in some serious hours into it daily.

Another big asssssss update:

-----Maiko Chat======

A lot of times I'm updating the AI in real time as you type stuff. Just refresh the screen and it shows the unread logs. Usually about 30-40 ish every minute or so.

If she gets stuck on "um.." I'm thinking there are multiple people talking to her at once and the is finding responses for everyone at once. Which causes it to lock up sometimes.

All this will probably be implemented into it's own mini game. with actions implemented.

Some of this I just don't feel like fixing. It's really a ton of text I'd have to go through and change every line of. Also making responses 100% accurate in nature of what she is responding to is not going to happen XD.

I assume it was someone who reads here, whoever was asking her about religion, I may have fixed it. I may have not XD

also it's good to make everything a complete sentence!! Making her remember the previous part of you sentence and combine them with the current to formulate the response in mind racking >< I still don't even know that all the AMIL tags mean.

also I'm sick of all the default shit about robots. It's annoying. I gradually change it as I see it.
Maiko isn't a robot. So in other news..

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I'm still working on drawing the required things for CC or v3 still not sure what to call it. It's chalk full of a ton of stuff. I'm concerned about it being too big like um:SH because of the day changing, which changes the bg which takes a ton of space each. But for now I'm cautious of size limits but I'm might have to get that unlocked or something.

Right now I'm working on combat. First person type deal. It would be hard to explain. I want to still include and modify the snowball thing but without the snow. Like dodge ball or something.

then there would be swim, test (4 subjects), fight, and dodgeball, All along the main storyline.

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I've started making an animation that reveals much of the story line so you can know wtf is going on. It's actually starts at the end then jumps back to the brushing teeth part so you can see how it happened from the beginning. SO far each one isn't planned to being too terribly long.

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For those that may not know NG contests tend to distract me even more than I already am. But I've made to good drawings imo. Check out my post history.

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A WIP of a character in the game. Haven't drawn the back portion of the hair yet.

I'm trying to perfect a Maiko personality AI using the AIML stuff, go talk to her so I can tweak her responses and make her more life like! I actually plan in implement this in up coming games. I'm sure you can guess which ones ;)

Vortex00.com

I'm thinking about putting all my long projects on halt to finish up a game that's way past due.. I'm talkin years here.. with Overdrawn and myself.

Vandread Love Quest

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Whenever I'm working on something I tend to make it complicated by adding all kinds of little details in there, but that delays the overall progress.

I also started making a new game yesterday, a mini game. I'm trying to see how fast I can make it. It's been less then 24 hours so far and I'm about..hmmm...if were to not add anything other than what's planned I'd be about 40% complete.

so anyways, also working on the next version of umichan maiko aswell. But as I mentioned I really need to get LQ finished up.

What do you think?

\/\/tf \/\/tf \/\/tf.. I know @pril f00ls and all, but d@mn can't even post? kinda L@ME

it is h2rd to eve|\| ed1t th1s p0st ><

\/\/0rd f1lters ARE G@Y!!!!! thx

I @lso can't reply =/

[Update] 3.30.09
paizuri added, still tweaking
almost have all the sfx/bgm I need
7.88 current size with 3/5 minigames added

[Update] 3.27.09
daily update wtf?
"there's 5 mini games" <-updated!
:O omg.

The swimming thing I'll probably finish tonight hopefully, I've got the core mechanics of it working smooth. It'll be a learning curve. I'm thinking the pin will probably add to the speed you currently go. Stats for this require endurance and swimming speed. I realized while making this, that It can be head to head, actually 3 people, you as Maiko, and someone to your left and another to your right. So that's fun. Also sabotage for wardrobe malfunction is fun too.

[Update] 3.26.09
So like.. didn't feel like making a new post but anyways..

there's 3 mini games in this one as opposed to UM:SH and you are still challenging Luma to events that take place later in the game as you prepare for it meanwhile. The 3 are:

testing
fighting
swimming

wtf swimming? isn't it first person? yes. I thought of something rather interesting to pull this off in the 2-D 1st person perspective. might not be able to make it a race head to head but i can make a timed one where you have to beat other peoples times. I'm actually working on this now and will finish up the testing later on.

The testing minigame is mostly done programming wise. But I need to fill in all the picture place holders for the other characters ><;

the fighting I haven't started but is a cake walk compared to that throwing snowball thing in the other one. Of course there are some interesting new twists to the classic 1st person punch out like minigame. You can't walk up to people and fight them but you draw increased unwanted attention as you reputation becomes greater then Luma's. Also for other reasons.

Currently there are 6 things to wear in this game certain things may affect stuff differently. There will probably be only 8 things total cause the screen is filling up with buttons ><;

random days it will rain (maybe >.>;). since it isn't winter there isn't a heat meter on the side. It will probably be replaced with endurance for swimming and fighting.

you play as Maiko again in this one. Mainly because adding every character as playable from their own view point in the story is too large a project for me atm and would take forever to do solo, and with little compensation to my knowledge. Probably when It gets more popular I can spend more real life time to do this.

However, as Maiko you can use her powers in her hairpin to enhance anything you are doing to make it better. This affects almost anything and you can use it at anytime by triggering a certain button/key. Things this helps are like beating the hell out of somebody worse then normal, swimming faster, cheating faster, studying better, etc.

Also you can do all kinds of crazy jiggle crap with her bewbs to affect things differently as well. Hell.. If you thought it was ridiculous before by just popping up, it's whole lot worse now XD. If you liked it, then it's something that will probably get you into trouble as you play through doing stuff at the wrong place at the wrong time XD. You'll find out that trouble for yourself though.

the .swf files I create as I go along in this, are already over 6 MB and I haven't even added all the areas yet, nor the characters, nor the music. Um:sh .swf was about 16 mb when I was done and I managed to get to 8ish mb so I don't know how this will turn out. I'm not really concerned with file size yet but that would be extremely gay if I couldn't put it on NG because of size limits.

I was thinking about having 2 different versions of this game. Because it's going to be that awesome. one version without any concern for constraints and a version that does have constraints. Releasing them both at the same time.

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This game is similar to UM: snowball holiday. This time it takes place during the regular semester, so you'll be able to enter the school, etc. Same areas plus a few more. Trying to add a bunch of the story in here without making it too big.

I got a lot done today I've been remaking the areas, thawed out from the winter, and I'm happy the way some of the backgrounds turned out.