[WIP] Forever Yours

[Bubuche]

Hello everybody

This is my first wad and my first map (besides the "two room, one door" map I guess everybody did)
I don't have internet at home, only during the evening and, for this reason, I won't be able to modify or read this thread until tomorrow night.

This wad contains a single map. It's designed to work with the IWAD FreeDoom.
WARNING : this wad DOES contains nudity. It does not, however, contains sexual explicit content.
It is designed to work without mods. And here is the reason : there is no monsters, no weapons, no bonuses and there is a custom hud.
There is about two month of work on this wad (not in full time).


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7AN7 ... UJ5SW1OT3M
(about 4 Mb)

There is a "credits" lump in the wad. You can read it with slade3. I'll post it here if you want. The "main" credit is the Atari ST game "B.S.S. Jane Seymour" also known as "Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years From Earth"

I don't have doom on this computer, so you'll have to wait tomorrow for screenshots.
This wad is not finished, though, and I can't do what remains. I made a list and forget it at home *sigh*
Basically, I need help for:
- the skybox. I use a gl skybox, so there is little to no limitation on it. However, the image for a skybox need to be "baked" with the correct aspect ratio, which isn't the case here. I am looking for a starfield (without nebula, planet, galaxy... just like the one in the game) with a correct aspect ratio or a (free) tool to create one.
- the cryotube model. The pose is actually a "sit on the ground" with a "eyes closed" expression. I didn't made the pose (you can find it on makehuman website). I need a modified version of it, more a "foetal pose" with crossed legs, so I can hide genitalia (which aren't there anyway ...) and remove this "contains nudity" flag.
- translations. English is not my mother tongue. I can speak english for technical things but when it comes to poetry or text which suppose more ... "richness" ? I just can't do it. The letter (in the book) need translation.
- ending. This is big part. Right now, the good ending is "fade to white" and the bad ending is "fade to black". It's obviously just a placeholder. I can't use BBCode for a reason I don't know, so we'll talk about it later. Basically, I'll need pose (again) to make a background for the ending text.


(it's late already ...)
SPOILERS
You can have the good ending (fade to white) if you:
- place the cell (you'll find it behind the small ship)
- restart system
- turn offline all systems except "core" "cryogenics" and "communications"

If you only place the cell, you'll get bad ending.

You get the ending when you activate a clean tube.
More explanations & screenshots tomorrow (if someone want to take and post screens, you are welcome).


EDIT :

here are some screenshot.
https://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/09/01/50/74/screen10.jpg
https://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/09/01/50/74/screen10.png
https://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/09/01/50/74/screen11.jpg

[grouchbag]

Screenies look very nice!

[Bubuche]

You have more than screens, I gave the link to download the wad. And it's playable (with gzdoom 2.2 and gzdoom 3.1 and likely intermediate versions).
I will change some things, but still you have this.

I still don't have BBCode, so ...
(everything in this spoiler was written days ago)

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Here is the "procedure" to have bad ending.


1: break the glass
2: leave the room, go through the corridor, take the elevator.
3: go to the visitor floor.
4: Go through the corridor, and behind the small ship.
5: Take the cell. Warning: once you have the cell, you'll constantly take radiations.
6: Go back to the elevator and to the crew floor.
7: Now search a red door. There is only one (you passed in front of it when you went to the elevator the first time)
8: Open it, and go on to the door with a nuclear sign on it. Now, place the cell in the compartment on the wall.
9: The power should now be back. Go back to the cryo room and use the computer to clean tubes.
10: pick an empty tube (press "use" on a tube). You can't pick your old tube, as you broke the glass.

=> bad ending.

For the good ending, you need to do everything to step 8, i.e. bring the power back.
Then:
1: Go back to the visitor floor. The door in front of the elevator is the control room. Go in it.
2: Use the switch on the wall. It will turn off all the lights and, after a short moment, the message "System Ready" will appear on the main screen.
3: Go to the other door of the room. Open it and you'll see more switchs. Activate them.
4: Now the system has restart. Go back to the Crew floor, and find the servers room.
5: You need to keep only vital systems. Turn everything off except "Core Systems", "Cryogenics" and "Communications".
6: Now go back to the cryo room, clean tubes and pick one.

=> good ending


As you can see, there is plenty of rooms and interactions which aren't in the path for good or bad ending.
It doesn't mean there is nothing to do.
Here is what you can do (except visiting):
- You can open your locker in the locker room. It's the second on the left when you enter the room. It does contains a shirt, but you can"t pick it up.
- In the room behind the red door, you have a computer which contains a logbook. You can understand what happens here. Once you pressed the key "use", you can use up and down to scroll through the logbook.
- After you bring the power back, You have two more computer in this room. One contains a bestiary and the other has the same information as the one in the cryo room. You can't initiate cleaning from here, though.
- If you go to Linlin's room, you'll find a book on the bed. "Blue feet on a Red sea". You can open the book and you'll find a letter in it. If you keep the letter open enough time Linlin (your character) will start to cry over the letter.
- In front of the small ship is a "waiting room". There is a magazine on the table, which you can see the cover.
- In this room you also have a switch for the light, near the vending machine.
- In the server room, you can use the central computer to check the estimated time before depletion. It's 72 days before you bring the power back.


If you didn't understand the story, here it is:
A ship with 16 persons abord had a bug. It failed to resolve it by itself and asked for a manual reboot. But everybody was in cryogenic state.
With the patience a computer can have, it waited ... about 15000 years. After that, power started to be very low and sub-routine deactivated systems, one after an other.
Then, started to shut tubes. Your was shutdown and you woke up, drowning.
Because the ship traveled for 15000 year, you can't go back with only the cell of the small ship. The best you can do is emit a distress signal and wait, so the combination for the good ending.
I wanted a story without the cliché of an "I.A. went mad and wants to kill humans, mwhahaha". I find it silly, like, a lot. I fear much more this, the "patience", the stupidity of a computer, a poorly written critical program.

Below is a list of what I need to finish this map. If you feel like you want to help, you
are welcome.

1) A starfield. Just like the one there is already in the map, but with a correct perpspective and star distributions.
One shouldn't be able to tell if he is looking upward, downward etc in space. I do use a GL skybox, so it's feasible.
2) Edit the cryo pose. Cross the ankles, make the arms lower so the hands are holding the ankles. Change the angle of the feet to make it more pointy.
The idea here is to have a foetal-like pose, which hide sexual parts of the body. I only need the pose working in makehuman.
3) Translate texts. Well, it's something I could do but ... as english is not my native tongue, I will not be able to put enough poetries in the letter.
4) Good and bad ending. For that, I really don't know how to do this. And, actually, I'll need more pose (something like the Pieta, so I can assemble the scene with two character in the cryo room and screenshot, to have a background for the text)

Of course, if you find a bug, please tell me.
There is also ONE closed door (you can't open it, there is nothing behind it) in the level. I know what i'll do with it, but it won't be a room. I'll likely reproduce the "bug" you have in bss jane seymour (the black room bug). Or maybe I'll do a room.

[wildweasel]

You were stuck in the Idlers permission group still; sorry about that. I've removed the bb code block from your account now.

[Bubuche]

Ok, here are more screenshots. Actually, it's pretty much the whole wad (I maybe forgot one or two place, however).

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Originally I was a "one shot". However, I decided to make an other "episode". This one is only in it's very early stage (I roughly know what will happen in it, I made some place). Here are two screenshot. What they show is absolutly not finished, of course.

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It will take place in the same universe, but it will be on a planet.
And for what I asked in the first post : I still ask for help on these points.

You can see this message as an "up", but i tried to make this "up" as pleasant as possible.

EDIT: the character you play in the wad i posted is named "Linlin". It's a nickname. There is another character mentioned in several places, Evelynn.
Both these character was designed previously for a game I wasn't able to make.
Here is Linlin

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And Evelynn

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And if you want to know a bit about the background story

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Linlin is uglier, but it's on purpose. She had a face cancer when she was young, like three-quarter of a tire. She was cure thanks to a treatment developed by Evelynn. Since that, she had aesthetic surgery (so she looks almost normal) but kept a mostly paralysed face. She somehow felt in love for Evelynn (with the eyes of a child : in love like you can love a superhero) and devoted her life to her.
The story of Evelynn is more complexe. Born Ada Mong, she was a very very intelligent girl, ("the most intelligent person of her generation") and got prizes very yound. At 19 she met Andreï Wolinkski, 20 years older than her and, himself the most intelligent person of his generation (but still less than her). At 23 she married him and became "Ada Wolinkski". At 25, she discover what will later know as "cold energy". It's a powerfull source of energy which doesn't create heat (the reason of the name) but emit deadly radiation. She didn't know it at this time and got a lunge cancer impossible to cure. She decided then with her husband that it would be very sad for the world to lose someone as intelligent as her and they started to work on a robot. The robot needed to not only looks like her, but also think like her and copy her intelligence. They made it. At 15 days of her 30 birthday, and three weeks after the activation of the robot, she died.
She kept working on several things, including medicine (the robot somehow kept a little trauma about this cancer) where she developed the cure which was going to save Linlin later.
30 years later, when her husband died, she changed her name to become "Evelynn Wolinkski". She gave two reasons for this. First, you can imagine your daily life if you had the face of Einstein, its name and that everybody knew that he is still alive. Yes, you wouldn't be able to have a "normal" life.
Second, she said that after so many years, she didn't feel a link with that girl who died back then. She wasn't Ada anymore. That Ada has been dead, long dead. She was "Wolinkski", but not Ada any more.

And there is also a movement mentioned in this was "new life". To explain this we need to go back to the "birth" of Ada-robot. They (Ada and Andrei) decided to release the technology in "open-source". Many societies decided to create robots and sell them to people as a replacement for dead persons. However, they decided to make these robot fragile, in order to sell maintenance , reparation etc. This resulted in people having to face the "natural" trauma of loosing someone important, then loosing a lot of money to buy a robot (and sometime borrow money), then having to face the choice of pay more (borrow more) or lose again the same person.
This, plus the natural opposition to these "human-robot" created a pressure on governments which decided to forbid the creation of new robots using this technology.
Every robot except Evelynn being designed to be fragile, she soon became the last robot running.
More than a century later (and many event later) a movement called "New Life" appears. This movement says that we should not only create robot with this technology but also, when we have a genius, create many robot of the same person, and while this person is still alive.
The creation of robots with this technology has become a taboo and this movement is illegal, like worst than daesh nowadays. Members of this movement are regarded as not-human, not even animals.

And there is also something about "Blue Feet on a Red Sea", but i don't have time this evening to explain it