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[LBPV Level] Textventure Level

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Hi,

let me present you my first "serious" level.
It is called Textventure and published under my nick Agarwel.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2woltgo.png LBP.ME link (http://vita.lbp.me/v/wxnf)http://i48.tinypic.com/2woltgo.png

It is a level done in a style of "gamebooks". (you read the description of your surroundings or action. And decide what do you want to do next)

The scope of the game:
- It features full shorter story from beginning to the end. It is not a demo level "look how I made a first area, now wait 2 months and I may finish the rest"
- It is not very long game (I did not overwrited whole Bible). But also not very short (you can not finish it in 10 taps.) My estimation is approximately 10 minutes to finish the game.
- It is made from more than 300 unique text pages. (but not all of them can be seen in one playthrough)
- It features small branching (multiple solutions to some situations)
- There is also epilogue part of the game, that is changing based on your action of the game. So you can have happy ending, the character can have sad future. Or many variations in between. You would need at least 11 playthroughs to be able see all available epilogue screens.


Here are two screenshots from the game:
http://i45.tinypic.com/28i3v2t.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/2cdd7rk.jpg
(the typo on this screenshot is fixed in the finished game)


The known problems:
Well English is not my native language. And writing so much text on wirtual keayboard may be tricky. I tried to chatch as many typos as possible. But Im still afraid some may remain. Please forgive them. Or let me know about them and I can fix them. (thanks)		2012-09-15 09:15:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

So the small update:
After yesterdays full day for (making it more then whole week spent on this) it is finally finished and playable from the title screen to the very end.
It grow up to have diffferent 307 text "pages".

And all it needs now are online servers and few more betatest runs to caught the typos (the one in the screenshot is already fixed) and maybe fix some bad possitioning of the text - it is kind of time consuming to check all possible epilogues in the actual play mode :-/		2012-09-16 06:09:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Seem's awesome! Hope it'll be published by the 19th 2012-09-16 10:09:00

Author:
ythyth
Posts: 400

ythyth:
Should be. As far as I tested, it is working fine without bugs.
Im afraid I left few typos there (English is not my native language + writing 307 game pages (and even more "choice buttons") on the virtual keaboard is hell :-D) But I hope you will forgive these... or let me know so I can fix them.

Basically it is ready for publishing now.
Originally I wanted to wait till release date to have it in news section at a time, when enough of people already playe the game and can see it. But considering the game is out for few days now I guess this is not a case anymore. So when the servers go Live and Im not at work, Im hitting publish button.

But dont be hyped to much. Im no artist. The story is really basic one :-D		2012-09-16 10:41:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

ythyth:
Should be. As far as I tested, it is working fine without bugs.
Im afraid I left few typos there (English is not my native language + writing 307 game pages (and even more "choice buttons") on the virtual keaboard is hell :-D) But I hope you will forgive these... or let me know so I can fix them.

Basically it is ready for publishing now.
Originally I wanted to wait till release date to have it in news section at a time, when enough of people already playe the game and can see it. But considering the game is out for few days now I guess this is not a case anymore. So when the servers go Live and Im not at work, Im hitting publish button.

But dont be hyped to much. Im no artist. The story is really basic one :-D

Ok
Is it a funny story? A scary story...? What is it?		2012-09-16 14:36:00

Author:
ythyth
Posts: 400

Ok
Is it a funny story? A scary story...? What is it?

Stupid story? :-D The main structer is simple very well known cliche. With whatever just popped into my head at the time of writing that part :-D
I aimed for the funny story. But it can not be forced. So you will see. Maybe you will find it bad and boring.		2012-09-16 15:07:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

This is very awesome and I approve! 2012-09-17 01:10:00

Author:
StevenI
Community Manager
Posts: 420

They should really bring the servers back online. It is kind of frustrating. After tens of hours of work not being able to publish the level :-D Especially when the game is already sold in the stores and hence among wide public.

Anyway. Meanwhile I updated the first post so it is not about planned project, but finished one.

I also expanded the epilogue part of the game a little bit. Im kind of proud about it. There are a lot of possible outcomes. From happy endings to depressing futures of the characters. If my combinations skills are correct, you would need to finish the game at least 11 times to be able to see all epilogue screens. But it can not be counted as "11 endings". I is just a amount of combinations to show all he available text. But these can be combined in many ways.

Im little afraid that this work may go to waste. Honestly some epilogue screens require really strict combination of your actions. And I guess most of the people will just dont do them this way because there is no reason for it :-D So it is very possible that everybody will end up with basically same ending anyway :-D		2012-09-17 06:45:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Great level idea! I love text games and play many of them on paper and electronic versions.

So I will be glad to play your level as soon as server will back to life and you will publish the level. I will try to find different ways to finish it

From Russia with love,
Domik12		2012-09-17 08:54:00

Author:
Domik12
Posts: 838

So... it is published.2012-09-18 16:26:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Ou man... I just see the game has some strick text filter to avoid non-appropriate language.
Unfortunatelly censoring even parts of the words, that should be completelly OK :-(

In case you find some, please let me kwno, so I can change them to something else :-(		2012-09-18 16:51:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Just played this, and it's awesome. Also, I hearted it but sadly it has little plays. I saw one or two censored words, mainly the Princess' name.
Also, here's a few grammar errors that I remember, but really you can follow what you meant and it doesn't hurt the story.

Mout is dry- mouth is spelled Mouth with an H at the end.
The witch says something like- how can you thought it would hurt me- it should say how could you think it would..
A few times you said my feets hurt - it should say, my feet hurt. Feet is already plural, so doesn't need an s at the end.
Those are the ones I remember, but like I said, it doesn't really matter. You did a wonderful job telling the story, with few errors for English not being your first language.		2012-09-18 19:58:00

Author:
kaiju_kid
Posts: 329

Add this to your thread:http://vita.lbp.me/v/wxnf
Got it queued up for tomorrow 		2012-09-18 23:13:00

Author:
ythyth
Posts: 400

Awesome writing. This was great. No gameplay but it still rocked my socks!!! 2012-09-19 04:35:00

Author:
VelcroJonze
Posts: 1305

Im actually thinkik about submitting "Anti-grief" report on my level :-D
I relly does not unerstand their blacklist. "Virgin" or "Busty Daughter" are fine. But wods like "Imaginary friend" "Crunching sounds of trees" etc are big nono? Im mean wtf? And I noticed that it is kind of random. Some words are censored only at some places. At elsewhere are shown in full? Why?		2012-09-19 04:41:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Im actually thinkik about submitting "Anti-grief" report on my level :-D
I relly does not unerstand their blacklist. "Virgin" or "Busty Daughter" are fine. But wods like "Imaginary friend" "Crunching sounds of trees" etc are big nono? Im mean wtf? And I noticed that it is kind of random. Some words are censored only at some places. At elsewhere are shown in full? Why?

I had two words censored in my movie, but I replaced them. It's not always the word thats bad, but parts of it. For instance, the two words censored in my level were GLA S S E S and EPISODE. I understand why glasses was censored, because it has the word A S S E S in it, lol. I don't reaaly get the episode one though, I guess the PIS part as in P I S S or P I S S ING? Also, they censore bad words in other languages. Like computer gets moded because the puter part means something bad in a foriegn language supposedly..
p.s., they were censored in this post too, till I added spaces inbetween the letters, lol.		2012-09-19 06:12:00

Author:
kaiju_kid
Posts: 329

Well yeh. I will probably try to fix some of them.
But as I said - to see for example all of the epilogue screens - you need to finish the game at least 11 times (and dont make mistake in the choices) - I already did it so many times, that this is scaring me :-D

I have little roubles with "Imaginar friend" - not sure how to replace it to keep the meaning. It is such common phrase.
Plus there is one name - and with this one I have to be careful because it is on more places. And again. I dont 100% remember where. Forgotting to replace the name at some places may lead to bigger nonsense that censoerd versions :-D But I will try to fix at least this when I get home.		2012-09-19 06:30:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Wowzers, I am so going to play the heck out of this one. Really incredible idea. Queued!

Also, thread moved to the [LBPV] Level and Object Showcase. 		2012-09-21 17:56:00

Author:
Taffey
Posts: 3187

WOW looks like you have been a busy bee qued up 2012-09-21 23:37:00

Author:
WESFUN
Posts: 1336

Wow, this level is absolutely stunning. I'm blown away, and I can't find a single fault with it. It's amazingly well written and funny, the choices appear to have some impact, it has some great replayability, and the story is simple but engaging. Fantastic job! Hearted, creator hearted, and a 10/10!2012-09-22 01:34:00

Author:
MattAstr
Posts: 99

Thanks for support guys. I was so dissaponted when I found out that the game censored many words. I thought people will not like it too.
It is good to see people are enjoying the level even with some words censored.

btw - what ending (epilogues) did you reached?		2012-09-22 06:02:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Did anyone else use speech to win the game??? D:

Because uhm........... *cough*		2012-09-22 13:36:00

Author:
Jovuto
Posts: 2345

I left some brief comments on the level, but I thought I'd give more detailed feedback here.

This level is fantastic and I know a lot of work will have gone into it just to link up all the text! The story itself was simple, but the way it was interspersed with humour was quality, I found myself grinning like a weirdo at this! Visuals are simple, the idea is superb and the execution is even better - one of my favourite levels.

It's a big <3 from me and a

p.s. I also used speech to win it - and the epilogue was hilarious!!		2012-09-22 16:23:00

Author:
Coxy224
Posts: 2645

and the epilogue was hilarious!!

And which one you got? The epilogue is made from 6 parts. And each of them with 4-8 versions. :-D (but some of them depends on each other = you need at least 11 plays to see all possible epilogues) So you can basically end up suggar+rainbows happy or totally screw up. Or something in between with lots of combinations. And Im curious how people play it and they ended up.		2012-09-22 16:34:00

Author:
Agarwel
Posts: 207

Hm I cna't remember exactly, but I remember marrying the princess, having a baby (which was almost definitely not mine ) but living pretty happily ever after! Oh and the witch enjoyed her new palace in the mountains that I bought her!! I'm intrigued to see other endings, and will almost certainly play again 2012-09-22 16:39:00

Author:
Coxy224
Posts: 2645

This is definitely the best level on LBPV. It's quite funny and well written. There are a couple of grammar and spelling mistakes, but they're pretty minor. Great work. First hearted level on LBPV.2012-09-23 14:44:00

Author:
bonner123
Posts: 1487

Great level. That inspires me to create a level where you show a cut scene then have the player decide between what action to take to continue the story. If I do such a level I will mention your level as it created the idea spark.2012-09-24 18:36:00

Author:
blastroid
Posts: 262


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