Mysticism: Super Cult Tycoon 2: Deluxe Edition [MOSTLY DONE]

[Radiatoryang]

The goal: build 3 Monoliths to summon your Mothership before the FBI fully investigates your Holy Barn.

Gaaaah we're so close, we have all the game systems working and all the art done, we just need to work on tutorial / pacing / mission scripting now.

[Radiatoryang]

PS: please sir, Mr. Stephen Lavelle sir, give us the weekend sir, we promise next time we'll just spend a week on it and never bother you for extensions ever again, sir

[Eddie Cameron]

KINDA ALMOST NEARLY DONE ALPHA BUILD!!!


Play it here!: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1156317/SuperCultTycoonAlpha/SuperCultTycoonAlpha.html

We tried. Oh, how we tried. But we couldn't quite get it finished in time :-(
Have a go at this build though, we're still working hard on it, and feedback from you lovely people would be great.

Now I'm late for work... ARGH!!!

[Jasper]

I honestly don't understand how you're able to put out so many incredibly polished and professional looking games in such a short space of time. It boggles the mind!

The premise here is fantastic, it plays very well indeed - quite compelling in fact.

- The pathfinding had some issues. It was frustrating when most of the paths were blocked by po po and my own buildings (at least in the pathfinder's eyes: I could get the vans to go through via multiple clicks, but this was the only way I was able to build followers.)

- I got four monoliths but saw no countdown. Is there something I missed?

- The 'Robert', oh man, the 'Robert'.

- Sound began to glitch quite nastily and never recovered.

- Loved the depth of field. Would have like zoom.

- Text-boxes overflowed the screen when it got busy, and sometimes were longer than the box underneath each one.

- I'm not sure I get the bribing, it's my least favourite part of it.

- I'd like a nicer overview of what my vans are up to, and possibly to be able to set waypoints for them. I know, scope etc. But this game is potentially a big hit I think, so it may be worth it.

[Eddie Cameron]

Sorry about the broken build. I needed to put something up... Hopefully we can get a more polished build up on Sunday. I should have mentioned that we haven't put any endings in yet (that work outside of debug builds) so the games will just keep going.

@ Jasper: Thanks for the feedback:
- The blocked paths are FBI 'checkpoints' that hold the van for a while. Obviously we need to communicate this better. However I wouldn't be surprised if there are other problems with pathfinding, was the van held up anywhere other than around police?
- Oh man the Robert indeed (...and in the game!..)
- I'm curious about the sound problems, I haven't encountered any at all. It could be a problem with the build. I'll investigate.
- Text-boxes are a bit extreme right now, we'll cut back a bit.'
- Bribing is still a bit WIP, especially feedback wise.
- Waypoints are a fantastic idea, I'll put them in.

[Radiatoryang]

Okay, we'll soon have an updated build. Kind of.

Check the first post for news.

[Stephen L (inactive)]

played this.

liked it.

took a couple of starts to actually figure out what things did/what i had to do.

didn't win, the bad ending seemed to glitch out though? van said "go west" but kept glitching out and returning to the start position. the ending scene of escaping the compound as money rained down on the investigators was quite cool, though.

being able to restart back at the compound rather than playing through the start sequence might be handy.

seems hard. or at least, I wasn't able to stem the tide of investigators enough to ever feel like I had a chance at building a monolith.

[mitDebo]

Dunno if y'all saw it, but this got written about in Kotaku. Congrats!

I played it and it seemed really cool, but after I brought my first follower to camp, the van seemingly wouldn't respond to any of my inputs. It just sat there as the FBI continued to raise it's awareness of me. Apparently, my one camp follower made them super nervous!

When I have more time, I'd really like to be able to sit down and learn more of Maya. About how long would you say did it take you to make the art assets for this game?

[thoktaz]

I'm a professional writer, interested in getting involved with some indie game design. Do you need any content writers on your team? I'd love to participate. My first project will be a disturbingly dark Roguelike that should be tossing out a playable alpha in the next few weeks. However, I am even more comfortable with the politically incorrect tongue-in-cheek humor that you seem to be going for. I'll give you folks more info, if you're interested.

-- Nate

[Radiatoryang]

Stephen: our goal is to get everything working (and finish writing a "bad ending" heh), then I think we'll do a balancing pass... and I agree that it's too hard, we'll slow it down in the beginning.

mitDebo: you couldn't select the Van anymore? did you try using the "select van" button on the HUD?... did you even know that "select van" button was there?... argh, yeah, we have interface issues. I think I'm going to code a "highlight interface" tutorial thing.

thoktaz: I think me and Eddie might want to move on after we fix this and make it decent (especially since I wrote all this horribly hacky code to get the scripted sequences working and I don't really want to look at it again), but thanks... check out the How to get started making games topic here and start making games yourself!

[mitDebo]

I believe I had the van selected. And yes, I saw the buttons. Yet, even though I think I had the van selected, no matter where I clicked, the van wouldn't move. But I played it again just now, and had no such errors.

[Stephen L (inactive)]

One other issue i had was that the fbi bar seemed to go up at its own rate - nothing I did had any effect. I was kinda hoping to lie low, but it rather turns things into a mad dash.

[OliverEberlei]

Very fun idea and project. I enjoyed playing it, several times, till I got that damn mothership... damn you mother!!! :)

I am a Unity developer myself and love the highlight on the van when it is selected and coloring it if sth is in front of it. Do you mind sharing that bit of code or can you give me a hint what terms I might search for in the unity forums to get some ideas how this is done?

[mitDebo]

I can't speak as to what the developers used, but I know I looked around for some stuff before and came across this:

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/inde ... ed_Diffuse

The effect seems to be similar to the van outlining. The unify community has a lot of useful code that you can just use in your projects.

[OliverEberlei]

Wow, thanks alot. It works great. I should search the Unify Wiki more often.