Re: (Yet another) Dating type game "Getting to Know Brenda"

[Rikwar]

user16 wrote : I miss something when she is feeding the cat.
But what? Entered most of the rooms but I have no idea...
Some help possible?

@user16
Have you found the hotspot for the radio 'somewhere you cook' and clicked next, if its in the following part find a pamphlet 'small book' of a place she likes also a picture of sport 'two wheeler' she likes, hint check the living room also the laptop on desk for these...

[Cochise]

Great work, man. Nice and different.

[user16]

Yes Rikwar, I found the radio and came further, thnx.
It a really good game

[cheese101]

great game,nice work:D
cant wait to ride her...with her i mean :P

[Rikwar]

user16 wrote : Yes Rikwar, I found the radio and came further, thnx.
It a really good game

Good 'user16' glad I could help
Know what you mean 'cheese' riding is always fun

[Salamandastron]

Repost from the other thread: The animation is pretty good, makes it stand out from all the other dating games out there. And I like the puzzle involved in this first date, it felt like something a real person would do. Only thing left to do is make it a little less linear - this game has loads of potential. Keep up the good work, Cugel.

[Dolphin-BR]

Congratulations Cugel!
Nice game with great animations! I love the way her ass moves when she walks! I can't wait to play their second date!

[Cugel]

Author's Update - Well, date # 2 is through the design and graphic development stage and is progressing, albeit slowly. I have fixed the "drawer" bug and made the hotspots a bit larger.

Thank you all for the feedback and encouragement.

[whoabacha]

Thanks for the update, great that your listening to players and improving.

[Rikwar]

Cugel wrote : Author's Update - Well, date # 2 is through the design and graphic development stage and is progressing, albeit slowly. I have fixed the "drawer" bug and made the hotspots a bit larger.

Thank you all for the feedback and encouragement.

Thanks Cugel for letting us know that date #2 is in development and even thought its taking some time I'm sure the wait will be worth it, keep up your excellent work

[Brian100]

Hi Cugel, just played your game and wanted to say thanks for a great first effort at a dating game. Look forward to #2

[woody]

yeah your game is really good keep it up ,cant wait for the next part thanks

[Scans]

Nice to see a new twist on what is becoming a classic genre. Excellent work and look forward to the next part!

[Cugel]

Greetings. Version 2 is complete, tested (as well as it can be by the person who coded it). Enjoy.

The Flash version (.html, .swf):
http://rapidshare.com/files/391056652/F ... 2Flash.rar
The Windows Project version (.exe)
http://rapidshare.com/files/391043302/F ... inProj.rar

The contents of the ReadMe.txt File
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Getting to Know (and love) Brenda

Notes
This game was conceived and developed as a way for the author to learn some stuff about Flash, Poser, animation and the blending of interactions with music and sound effects.

As for future plans, the author is just not sure. At a certain point he reached some kind of size/quality threshold in Flash for a compressed self-contained application. This was probably due to the sheer number of 800 X 600, 72 and 150 DPI bitmaps and FLV animations. In order to maintain the graphic quality, the file has been built without compression, so its pretty big (60+ MB).

He has 2 more "dates" with Brenda in mind and may obsess to the point of using the framework of this game to house another big bunch of rendered graphics. (The author is also having a lot of trouble writing in the third person ;-) He has even more respect now than he did before for the super high quality games of this sort that are out there and plans to keep his day job.

Author's Self-Imposed Game Criteria

Must...
...be a stand-alone Flash application
...require no access to any local or web server files
...have a flow that is more like a comic book
...be an erotic male fantasy with a subtle moral compass (without being prudish)
...respect women

Stuff that was added, fixed or enhanced (In case anyone besides the author really cares to know ;-)

General
1. Used time delays and "fade to and from black" transitions to improve the timing of some elements (hopefully making it a little more "cinematic")
2. Added various ambient, effect and musical sounds

House Map
1. Rollover text now appears near mouse pointer and manages to stay on the screen
2. Hotspots made bigger upon request (At least he didn't turn off the hand cursor!)
3. Added "ding" sound when item found
4. In Date 2 a player can proceed on the date without having found all needed items (annoying but kind of standard for these kinds of games)

Known Problems (Translation: Things the author gave up trying to fix or add)
1. Passing mouse pointer over dialog text boxes sometimes causes them to temporarily expand downwards
2. If the the advance button is clicked too fast after an animation when a sound loop is playing, the sound may not fade properly
3. In full screen mode some of the dialog does not display
4. The graphics to not always depict the time of day when they are seen

Many thanks to the people on the Shark's Lagoon forum for their feedback, and to the generous and tireless developers who share their knowledge on the Internet, and to the 1100 cc Yamaha motorcycle that carried the author on one or two adventures of his own.

Feel free to post comments or report bugs to this forum or cugel53@gmail.com

Have fun.

[Marco6661]

Thank you Mr Cugel for your work, I download it now!