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You didn't think it was going to be an issue, sending your wife and daughter ahead of you. However, not long after you sent them off, certain jump gates ceased to respond. You may be able to get back to your family, but it requires a certain amount of influence. Influence you don't have. Influence you have to earn.


Made for the McBacon Jam #1, with the themes of deprivation and/or abundance in mind. This game involves a pick-up-and-deliver mechanic as well as a mission structure that moves the story forward. Sadly, the official event submission of this game will probably not have combat, but, combat should be available sometime after the event development period is done.

We highly recommend reviewing the packed-in readme file, as Glasses' movement script makes the controls different than your average RPG Maker game!


Other links of interest:
This game's game-thread on RPG Maker Web.

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Crazy ideas that might just work

So, having something equipped in each slot is pretty much going to be a thing. The thing I'm toying around with now is turn rate. Call me crazy, but, it just doesn't feel right to have the same turn rate for the entire game. It actually feels slow on those faster drives!

I'm not sure if equating it to the character's speed works that well, though. I mean, the ship's velocity seems pretty insane-fast at speed 11. Which... could translate to tiles traversed per second? It's pretty hard to calculate at that speed, and with no grid to go by. Though, I'm pretty sure than in the context of turn rate, the 11 would translate to 11 degrees per second. On the flip slide, the slowest drive has a speed of 5, so, 5 tiles per second velocity and 5 degrees per second turn-rate.

Thing is, I don't want to mess with the lower-end stuff at all. Just the upper end. So, the following code-snippets... 


module Angle_360

  def self.TURN_RATE

    case self.MAX_VELOCITY.to_i

    when 5, 6

      return 5

    when 7, 8

      return 6

    when 9, 10

      return 7

    when 11, 12

      return 8

    when 13, 14

      return 9

    when 15, 16

      return 10

    end

  end

end



class Game_CharacterBase

  def move_straight(d, turn_ok = true)

    case d

    when 2

      @mov_velocity -= Angle_360.SLOWDOWN_VELOCITY_PER_FRAME

      @mov_velocity = -Angle_360.MAX_VELOCITY if @mov_velocity < -Angle_360.MAX_VELOCITY

    when 4

      @mov_angle += Angle_360.TURN_RATE

      @mov_angle -= 360 if @mov_angle > 360

    when 6

      @mov_angle -= Angle_360.TURN_RATE

      @mov_angle += 360 if @mov_angle < 0

    when 8

      @mov_velocity += Angle_360.VELOCITY_PER_FRAME

      @mov_velocity = Angle_360.MAX_VELOCITY if @mov_velocity > Angle_360.MAX_VELOCITY

    end

  end  

end


...is what I'm coming up with, and the turn rate feels manageable to me! Also, I thought it would be appropriate to set the angle of the player's ship to 0 degrees after choosing to Explore? I dunno. Might be a moot point in the end. Still, I want to test this a bit more before doing another release. Plus, I'm half-expecting a review that could point me to other issues to address!
You can't go everywhere at the offset! Unlock those nav-points with missions!
No more RTP battlers! YAAAAAAY!
So, how clear is this notation as far as available quantities are concerned?

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Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
02/13/2015 09:19 PM
I say we do it. If we're going to put in a random mission system, I can't see why one of the missions can't be "deliver games" by client "RMN".
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32388
02/13/2015 11:59 PM
Well, why don't you guys have a selection of multiple missions at each location? A planet may have potentially multiple interested parties.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/14/2015 01:22 PM
These are certainly ideas that are being bounced around! How many missions we want to provide to players at any given base, as well as how many missions we want players to have active, and what-not.
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
02/15/2015 03:32 AM
Guys small glitch, whenever you buy an upgrade for your ship and equip it it resets your Hull to 1 and your energy to 0. Which means you then have to repair your ship, is that supposed to happen?

Also there is a small spelling error in the last transmission you get from your wife she says she's hearily looking forward to seeing you, not sure if it's meant to be 'really' or 'heartily'

Also in the final scene Alice Says 'fourtune' should be 'fortune'.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/15/2015 12:55 PM
I might have noticed that changing equipment reset armor/energy, but didn't think it was relevant to the jam-build. There's no combat that would require players to upgrade their equipment!

Also, thanks for the spelling corrections! This is what happens when you don't run the dialog through a spell-checker!

*Edit: Now that you mention it, this is a pretty big game-balance issue. How do we handle equipment changing, and armor/energy damage? There is the situation of being able to sell old armor, or engine, when they are not at their full capacity, at normal price. Also, we cannot simply recharge armor/energy whenever players change equipment, since that would mean that the menu access Ship Outfitter grants would circumvent the need to repair.

Though, I might suppose that one way to circumvent that is to store current armor/energy into variables, and have them set to those values after concluding the Ship Outfitter sequence?
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
02/15/2015 01:15 PM
That's true but at the time I bought the equipment I didn't know there would be no need for it, and honestly I thought the engine upgrade would tie into onscreen speed. Still in the end it made no actual difference and I went through the rest of the game at 1HP with no adverse effects,
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/15/2015 01:25 PM
Funnily enough, having the SPEED stat tie into your actual on-screen speed was an idea I had floating around. Though, I fiddled with the numbers to get the speed where it's at, so, I'm a bit more confident in experimenting with this.
Indra
YOU ARE BEING TOO AGGRO
11514
02/15/2015 10:59 PM
Well, I...tried this out. I have nothing to say since there was not much I could seem to DO in the game and the missions ran out quite quickly. I assume it's still in the very early stages and not a real “demo”.
Zooming around in the ship was fun I guess XD
I didn't feel too comfortable uploading the video here since it doesn't really go anywhere, but here's the livestream of it.
That aside, congrats on getting something out for the jam!

(Edit: reading the coments abvoe leads me to believe I somehow missed most of the content? Welp, not much I can do bout that now, my bad)
HuntingSwan
65
02/15/2015 11:53 PM
I streamed this yesterday. Love the setting and Trivel's movement script. Unfortunately I skipped the first planet so never did any missions but good job guys!

http://www.twitch.tv/huntingswan/c/6122443
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/16/2015 12:18 AM
Oooooh! Videos to watch!
JosephSeraph
delet me
7818
02/17/2015 05:25 PM
i let's played it but uploaded the wrong video.


lol
Cap_H
DIGITAL IDENTITY CRISIS
6625
02/18/2015 09:26 PM
I finally got my hands on cypher and enjoyed it. I loved being filthy rich and just driving around sectors. I would appreciate some graphical upgrades to my ship, tho. So, I can show off while selling slaves for outrageous prices.
If this turns out due to Piantom's requests, It can be my fav game of the year.
Ebeth
always up for cute art and spicy gay romance
4390
02/18/2015 10:08 PM
author=Cap_H
I finally got my hands on cypher and enjoyed it. I loved being filthy rich and just driving around sectors. I would appreciate some graphical upgrades to my ship, tho. So, I can show off while selling slaves for outrageous prices.
If this turns out due to Piantom's requests, It can be my fav game of the year.


I could probably make fancier/bigger sprites for the ship as you upgrade.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/18/2015 11:43 PM
Another not-so-random thought is to allow players to buy different ships (Ship Outfitter option?), and base the graphics on that. However, that's a whole other thing entirely, as having different ships would mean different base-stats, and the game-balance issues such would involve.

*Edit: Let's not to mention the weirdness of buying a new ship, which would essentially be changing class for the purposes of RPG Maker, and, very probably, needing to re-equip your stuff.
Cap_H
DIGITAL IDENTITY CRISIS
6625
02/19/2015 07:05 AM
Oh, there is just so many possibilities. You can leave it now or make it bigger than thou. I'm fan of every direction which keeps the game open. Even it its current state its something memorable and actual with all these big releases of space sims lately.
And I luv the background here, Its always nice to return on this site.

Of course I have my critiques too. However its always better to repeat the adornment than the mourns.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
08/02/2015 12:05 PM
So, I've just finished uploading a public demo that, unless I'm horribly mistaken, does not require the RTP to play. While part of doing this is part of an attempt to re-start my own interest in making this game happen (by virtue of having people play this, and talk about it in hushed whispers), another part is to let people actually see what the heck I've been talking about the last couple of blogs in action.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
10/18/2015 04:38 PM
After a lot of hemming and hawing (and generally being busy with other stuff), Myriad Cypher now has a game-thread on RPG Maker Web! A link has been summarily added to the description but, it can't hurt to link it here.
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
10/18/2015 08:43 PM
This game is on my list of games to review. I'll get there eventually.
NTC3
5625
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
10/26/2018 12:24 PM
I have heard a report of a missing file. "Shot1" was missing. I've run the game through Tsukihime's resource-checker, and disabled RTP reliance before making another self-extracting EXE, extracted the file to make sure the file was included, then updated the download.

I apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
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