u/MrZi5

Restores the GH3-style infinite frontend behavior for HOPOs: an eligible HOPO can be fretted early and held until it reaches its normal timing window.

This does NOT widen the timing window, convert all notes to taps, or modify GHWTDE.dll on disk.

I do not know if this will get you in trouble when playing online. I only play offline, and it works great for me.

As I posted a few days ago in this sub, I am working on a game and it's coming along beautifully. I am just curious though, as to what you guys would be looking for in a game like this to keep you interested for the long run? Here are the current features. (For prototyping they are called 'homies' for now)

The homies:

• Homies are born from an egg and are given a random color and pattern at birth.
• They have moods and expressions - You can make them cry by taking their toy from them, or tossing them, or you can pet them and make them happy. They have excitement, neutral, angry, sad, crying, frustrated, sleeping and more on the way.
• They have full autonomy - They will sleep, eat, play with toys and train their skills on their own, even when you're away, so you can stop playing and come back to check on them.
• They are going to have options to interact with the player for increased experience rates with training.
• They can level up primary stats - Stamina, Strength, Speed, Intelligence.
• As well as sub-skills - Climbing, running, puzzles, swimming, etc.
• They are able to transform to a stat focused look, if they have a strong stat. I would like to have mixes eventually too, but that will depend on the support I get for the game, and what kind of pricing I can work out with an artist.
• If they don't have a stat that is particularly strong they will keep the base head and body.
• Those stats can be used in minigames, like karate, foot races, climbing races, rubiks cube races, etc.
• You can breed homies.
• It is impossible to max out a first generation homie - they must inherit strengths from a parent.
• You will have to go through several generations over many months to get a maxed out homie.
• Everything is tracked in a journal - from birth, to accomplishments, to special events.
• There is a shop and inventory system - You can put accessories on your homies.
• They must be fed, petted and played with to be kept happy. Happiness will bring up special events that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and makes them actually love you.
• They can accumulate favorite things - spots to hang out, best friends, favorite toys, etc.
• WIP: Currently building a system to make them interactable - Pet them, pick them up, etc. with your cursor or finger

The garden:

• A top down experience, mostly a plain flat grass garden.
• The shop has decorations - trees, beds, rocks, toys, fences, shrubbery, etc. for decorating your garden to make it your own.
• Each garden, starting with the first allows up to 12 homies.
• There are 3 expansion slots, you can choose what goes there - a beach, another grass garden, more coming on that.

The minigames:

• You can use your stats in minigames/competitions.
• You compete against randomly generated homies.
• Garden tokens are earned through wins, used for spending in the shop.
• Foot race - Speed, Run from point A to point B before the opponents.
• Atlas stone - Strength, lift all of the atlas stones on to their platforms before the opponent.
• Rubiks cube - Intelligence, sit down and solve a Rubiks cube before the opponents.
• Climbing - Strength/Climbing, climb the wall and hit the button before the opponent.
• More on the way.

What this game will never have:

• Any purchasable micro-transaction currency that can progress you past others.
• Ads.

I've been working on this game for a bit. It's got cute creatures with random variations (colors and patterns, WIP), autonomy, a customizable garden with decorations, skills, skill transformations, shops, toys, races/competitions, etc. and I am considering making it so you can visit other peoples gardens through Bluetooth (So I don't have to host a server for people to be able to play with friends)

This is 100% a hobby project, and I'm not really looking to make money off it - if I did I wouldn't be upset but that's not the goal.

What I am asking today is whether or not anyone here has a vision for a Chao like creature that would like to help me a bit with the art side? I can pay a little bit eventually, but I'm not a wealthy man so I wouldn't expect much. I can pay you for your time though. This requires extremely simple art, and small amounts of it - it's a single 2D asset for each body part - Head, torso, hand and foot, the assets are animated through code so the animation is very simple to pull off but it can still look great.

I'm not a very wealthy person, I don't have a whole lot of money so this would largely be a passion project shared between us, but I will compensate what I can.

Right now the fully working systems are -

Moods/Expressions (Neutral, happy, excited, angry, frustrated, tired, sleeping, worried)

Solo toy interactions (Kick a ball, hit a wobbly toy)

Group toy interactions (Tug o' war, campfire, dancing together)

Training exercises (Climbing rack, short race track, push block)

Stats (Speed, strength, endurance, climbing - these are up for change and there will be more)

Personalities, relationships, best friends

A mood mote floating above their head (subject to change for legal reasons)

Random colors and patterns at birth (Spots, rings, belly circle)

Primary garden with 3 expansion slots, decorations on the way

Full life cycle, and so far one transformation (speed)

Stage 1: Egg, Stage 2: Baby, Stage 3: Teen (can start transforming), Stage 4: Transforms based on stats

Competitions - Race, strength and intelligence competitions

I am going to do just a bit of a code/visual polish and then I will attach some photos here.

Reply here or DM me if you're interested!

Hey guys. I have a game that I've had in my head for years now. I think it is strongly motivated by the failures of Runescape. I just wanted to describe it to you guys to see if its something you guys would try. I'm making it anyway, but I'm just curious.

Right now, I am developing an entire game engine and editor for this game from scratch. It is nearing completion and world building will soon begin to take place.

So the idea of the game is basically a 2D isometric game that runs on any platform, including browsers. It's 100% online. The game engine has built in real time lighting, dynamic weather and a day and night system and gives me all of the tools I need to easily implement new content with hardly any code.

You get an instanced home area where you can customize your own plot of land, farm, invite friends, hang out, play minigames, etc. - I am contemplating making this instanced home into almost a pause menu for when you are in safe areas so it doesn't feel like something you just start in then leave behind. It could be a hub for everything you own and can do.

Outside of your own plot of land an entire world awaits you. Inspired by Runescape, there will be a massive open world with an engaging main quest line, several side story lines, and single quests that can be fun and different.

When you aren't questing you can be working on your house... or you can level up your skills by engaging in AFK activities. Collect ore, chop wood, go back to your home and craft some new blueprints you came across in the game.

There will only be a small amount of items at the start, but as the game and its story progress I will add more and more items, gear, blueprints, etc.

Everything can be done in a party with friends.

This is a totally free to play game with a subscription option to unlock more content. But the free content will be enough to keep you busy for quite a while.

What do you guys think of this whole idea? It's happening anyway, but I'd like to see everyone's thoughts anyway.

Edit: I forgot to explain movement and combat!

Movement is WASD, or click/hold left mouse button to move.

Abilities and spells shoot in the direction of your mouse cursor, melee abilities execute on press wherever your character is. You unlock abilities/spells from exploring, completing quests and leveling. Abilities can be slotted on to your hotbar and used anytime. There are AOE attacks, like "Fireball" has a small explosion that deals splash damage to surrounding enemies. Enemies are all over the world and can come solo or in large groups, with some areas even changing enemies at night time to offer you some different experiences and loot. There are dungeons with bosses at the end which can be completed by a party.