About Niburi

Updates on development and new content

Wednesday 27 December 2017

What's Next

So the first release is out and I know it is buggy, so no need for any bug reports.

I have added some new pages, which shows what is planned for the next update and how far away it is.
The Market is a buggy mess so that is getting my love today, the clothes shop has been programmed, with all the existing clothing that was in the release. You buy them there and they turn up in your wardrobe.
I have just added 5 pairs of shoes which are all in now, I am going to add some hair accessories and then move onto other things.

The initial release had around 70k words (I forgot to make a note of the exact amount) I did a lot of scene entries on the 25th and 26th and it's now creeping up to 85k.

Zevi has been doing mostly proofreading, as I tend to type faster than my brain thinks meaning my spelling is atrocious.

Not sure when the next version will be out, but things are going in quickly now.

Hope you all had a great Xmas and thank you for the support.

Monday 25 December 2017

Niburi Pre-Alpha Download

In hindsight, it was a bit stupid to do this over Christmas, but it's sort of done.....a bit.

This is more of a mechanics release, everything should work. For ease, there is a cheat menu in the chest in your room.

I wanted to test the Weapons out a bit more so give them a wide berth for now.

In the Wardrobe in the bedroom, we unlocked the pants and tops so you can see that in action.
Other clothing is drawn, just haven't had time to code it yet.

Anyway, this is probably buggy and a better release should be out in the next few weeks.

Merry Xmas everyone

Jazzer & Zevi


MAC Release
https://mega.nz/#!W5kTXDhB!lC3oBQ2IRWPaX-IrZs6egsQp9LfJKQ67zRgTzhsehD0
PC Release
https://mega.nz/#!z80wAJTA!fteZdnrlitt5z3kx9YZWXQ4cYji99aBfv2aiPrkYdBs

Sunday 24 December 2017

Merry Christmas

We've been working as much as possible today, with the exception of annoying friends and family stuff. Ergh I hate Christmas.
Been running through and some areas have been proofread by Zevvi, but the amount of text we just can't do it all so expect a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes.

A few areas that were done we haven't had time to bug test and just making sure the first part of the Sister content is incorrectly. (For instance the docks aren't accessible.)
Also won't get time to put in the sex scenes for enemies so will leave them as a placeholder, but the mechanics are all in.
Ditto the clothing will just be available from the start as we won't have time to fully implement and test the clothing shop.
It's nearly 10pm here atm so have got a couple of hours to get as much sorted and will hopefully put something out then.


So hopefully in a few hours I will update again with a download link.

Jazzer

Update
Annoyingly as we were uploading to mega it for some reason added a load of temp files to it. It's 1:30 am here so will do it tomorrow. Sorry guys

Monday 18 December 2017

Addressing comments

Get the feeling people don't want to wait for a few more days. That's good and bad from our point of view.

Don't worry it is getting there, I have now put in the first chapter of the Aunts story. Some of the Sisters stuff is done as well. The plan is to bang in as much content in the next couple of days and then start testing it.
We're planning on getting the first chapter of the sister route in by Tuesday night.
Add in some more of the main storyline and then start combing through it looking for anything game breaking.

At the rate content is going in there is often in excess of 2000 words per hour. Every hour I spend on putting it in is a LOT of content.

It will also be a lot easier to test all at once, so it's about efficiency basically.

The Christmas release is an OMG everything is broken release date. Might be earlier if there isn't too much to fix. I will promise Christmas day. I want it released before that though

Meet Marketa,


I have just finished a long old shift at work. I should be able to crack on for a good 5 - 6 hours and maybe get the sister stuff done early. We shall see. :)

Jazzer



Friday 15 December 2017

Update Time

Jazzer & Zevi here
In honesty, we planned last week to have the Demo out today. I test played a few times and although loads of events etc were in it just felt a bit empty.

So good and bad news.
Bad news Release will be put off for a bit longer while we put in some more bits and pieces. When I say bits I mean a lot of stuff.

Good News.
This isn't really a delay, just adding LOADS of content, very quickly. The main story is basically where the Rags version was. I am now blitzing through the Aunt and Isabella stuff as well. Do we say when we want a release out?
Is it that time?

Christmas Day.

That gives us 10 days to get in as much as possible. Will probably stop adding content a few days before and start testing it.
So failing a MASSIVE emergency it will be out then. Will keep you guys posted and start making a list of scenes that you can get as I am pretty sure there were some events that no one ever saw.
(Did anyone ever get the Futa Amazonian gangbang, then got rescued by one of them?)

(Testing is a nightmare due to your character stats and past events and what you decide to do at the time creating so many options).

Bugs will be a nightmare.

Hopefully, this will be a nice Christmas present for those of you who want to sit and play a porn game on Christmas day......I probably will.

Jazzer & Zevi

P.S Here is Fat Betty


Friday 8 December 2017

Title for an update

Hello everyone.

Decided to tweak the combat and everything related to it. Spent quite a while on it including 4 hours banging my head against a coding wall as it would constantly crash at startup.

Eventually figured out that Renpy had taken a recovered chunk of code and duplicated it and was using that as well as the one I had been editing. Not happy.

Anyway so combat, as it's only one player against one enemy it might get a bit repetitive and have no tactical value. Have spent a lot of time trying to add some interesting elements.

The coding is very complex, here is the basics of it though.

Each round of combat you have the chance to pick an attack skill (You learn more later as you level up).
This has increased power or more inaccurate.
Enemies pick one randomly out of their skill pool.

Equipped armour and the type of weapon being used also changes the odds of a successful hit.


Damage.
This is the attack power skill, the strength of the weapon and the strength of the character.
Armour then takes some of the damage.
As you level up you have to train that particular skill by training. You probably can't afford to do all skills on each level so you will have to prioritise.


Does this make any sense??

To put it simply if you train in Strength, buy full plate armour and have a two-handed axe. You won't be hitting a nimble enemy.

If you chose a small dagger and use accurate little attacks you will always hit, but if the enemy is using plate armour. You won't hurt them.


I am hoping this will add an element of strategy to things. You are also free from running from combat without a problem. Will set up most areas with similarly specced enemies so you will get to know what equipment too equip.

Sunday 3 December 2017

Hello Again

Good Evening/Morning/Afternoon or whenever you read this.

Managed to have a solid day at it today.
There are now 10 prostitute jobs you can do, depending on the criteria.
The sex shop is in, just not the toys. Might get time tonight to do that or will do Andria's milk dungeon. Or sleep not sure yet.

Oh, I also did the library and Patricia the snooty Librarian. Eventually, she will be added as a potential romance option (Only for female characters)., once the school is added in. Oh yeah, there is a whole school that is almost written, with loads of content.


Content is starting to be added in very quickly.
Just shy of 50k words in total. It is a bit more depressing when the already written scenes mean I am not even a 1/6 of the way through.

The weird thing is I can't remember how much was in the original Rags version. Was Andrias dungeon a thing? I can't remember.

Here is a shot from the Library



Anyway, we are getting there. The release is approaching soonish. I will announce when we start the tidying up to make sure it plays right and no crashes.
Jazzer

Friday 1 December 2017

Brain is Melting!

All the mechanics for the prostitute jobs are in. Simpler than I thought. YAY! Unfortunately all the notepad files for the jobs themselves had been edited for use in flash, so having to go through and delete a lot of coding from them. It's sooooo tedious.

Just continuing to enter in the jobs, might not to all of them. Maybe 10 for now I'm on the fifth one now.

It's slowly starting to come together as a playable game....with some backgrounds that look like they're from south park :)



Thats Raven btw the owner of the Brothel. I am going to tentatively say there is about 40 - 50 hours of work to do before a release, as I can't really foresee any major hurdles. (Please remember We both work full time).
That should include the following areas:
Residential area - done
Lower Town - done
Slums Tavern - done
Herms Den - done
Brothel (Prostitute Jobs) - 50% done
City Gates - done
Forest 0%
Market 0%
Opening 80% (Needs tweaking)
Clothing shop and wardrobe with character viewer.
Upper town 0%
Business District 0%
Transformation to Futa and female - done
Castle 0%

It's basically just putting in scenes for these.

We have a lot of character artwork done, for speediness sake, I might put these in after release. The same as the storylines.
The reason the areas are being done instead of the storylines is that it just makes sense as you have to go to these areas to do the story stuff.

Jazzer

Sunday 26 November 2017

This week on "oh my god are you done yet" :)

Just finished getting a very basic quest system done. Because it's Renpy and you will almost definitely skip through important information.

Going to release it with A LOT of placeholder images. As in blobs of characters just so it can be looked at by you guys. A lot of character drawings have been done, just not coloured and highlighted will get a fair few of those in though.

Game Mechanics completed:

Transformation, you can turn from a male to a female with a Futa inbetween, all scenes for that are done and working.
All your attributes change as well and that's all sorted.
How to trigger explore events are done.
Maps are all done so you can travel to different areas.
Time of day system is done. You automatically go back to your room for sleep, it doesn't impact events.
The players Description is done, as well as varying and random text based on your appearance. A twelve inch dong might be Massive, Enormous Gargantuan. This text also changes in sex scenes.
Game Help system- In the help section of the main menu it tells you about the mechanics of the game. rather than telling you how Renpy works.
Characters will appear in different locations depending on the time of day.

Game mechanics that need a tweak or polishing, but basically done:
Clothing. We are redrawing the base model and clothing so it looks a bit better. The mechanics to buy clothes, they unlock in your wardrobe. They are then displayed on your character in your wardrobe in real time. This also changes some of your stats and your description.

Combat. the basics of Combat, leveling up etc is all done, enemies are all programmed and the random encounters also places you back where you fought them. This will just need balancing, and going through it a few times until we're happy.

Still to do
Weapons and Armour - This is a quick one just need to use almost identical coding to the clothing system, it is already integrated with combat.
Usable Items - This is not a heavy item use game so will make a fairly quick system
Prostitute jobs system - Might be complicated, might be easy.
Um, that's pretty much it for the mechanics, It's just a case of getting in the content and making sure it all works. I really want to give an estimate for initial release......Until all the mechanic's stuff is done I can't as you never know what colan could literally kill progress for a day :)

Going to try getting the Brothel in and working tonight. This will include a very quick sketch of the room and a dark room with a bed.

Oh if you have any questions let me know
Jazzer

Tuesday 21 November 2017

What are we up to this week

Me (Jazzer) is currently doing some quick placeholder backgrounds. While also finishing off all of the Aunt Marketa poses. (That's very clothing options etc, with different expressions).
After that I 'm going to finish off the clothing store and add in a fair few options for character clothing.

Zevviathan is drawing some scenes. She is drawing the various Isabella scenes, only one more to line art and then she will go onto some random bits of art that needs doing.


On a weird side note the "new game" is called Niburi Rebirth. Will start a new blog up at some point.
Until then i'll add random bits of info and the first couple of releases will be on here.

For the initial release, not sure how much we are going to put in. As I said before most of the core mechanics are now working, you have no idea how tough it was to learn programming from scratch.

For people who played the original in RAGS it is not like a VN and it isn't as clunky as the RAGS interface.
Combat is as interesting as I think it can and needs to be. As you level up you can increase your stats by visiting the gym, Dojo and learning new skills to use in combat. Losing results in an optional sex scene as does winning. New Weapons and Armour can be purchased in the Market to increase your stats.
We are aiming for combat to be fairly quick and not a long grind.

On a side note thankyou for the positive messages we really appreciated it.

Jazzer

Sunday 12 November 2017

What do you title this as?

Been putting a lot of work into this over the last few months and will add a few pics.
Quick breakdown
Got bogged down with the coding in flash. (Fen will understand this problem).
After months of trouble with it, we abandoned it for a while until we could think of something else.
Then tried RPG maker, A few hours of gameplay was coded, but upon testing it...it just played like an RPG maker Game (so not well). Plus halfway through development RPG maker MV was released.

Then looked at RENPY, after a lot of learning got the base coding implemented/ it plays well and we've been building up the art for quite a while.
We are now getting close enough and have quite a lot of assets and coding is done for the base game.
Think of it as a hybrid between a visual novel and a RPG. The city and world has complete freedom and you move around by clicking on the environment, then opening a city or world map.

This is the unpolished player room.


There is a dressup element with a character viewer. You can change hairstyles etc and it all shows up.

Combat is working and uses a weird system where your maximum stats increase. So on level 2 your maximum Strength will go from 5 to 10. You have to go to the gym to actually increase it though.

Loads of new stuff has been written. Probably up to the 300,000 word count now.

The artwork is ok for now, this is the sister.



A lot of characters have been done and in the process of adding expressions to them. As well as naked, wearing just underwear etc.

Heres the world map. Well the area around the city map.


Was tempted to look at doing some animated sex scenes. But that may take a lot longer to get something out so might look at that later down the line.

I know it's really frustrating that we didn't post in a stupidly long time, but after a while you get annoyed at yourself and quite frankly a bit embarrassed that we weren't able to do it.

We are over that now and I have some time off over the next few weeks. I will probably but out a Demo version, just so whoever still goes on here knows that work is actually happening. Due to testing and bugs and stuff won't overfill with content. Probably just the intro, a few areas and a bit of combat and a few sex scenes.

From now on I will post updates in here at least once a week.

So I am expecting rants annoyed people, disappointed people. If I get any yay its not dead, then i'm happy. If anyone is still occasionally actually reading this. Hello!


Jazzer