=_= today was hellish, i wonder what deity i managed to piss off... I only got 3 hours of sleep... 3 damn hours, i had been trying to fall asleep from 2am, then i ragequit at 5/6 am, stayed up till 8, ragequit again at 9 and then fell asleep at 10. i woke up at 13/1pm and then went for an huor drive to go to a birthday party. I got back home at 21:20/9:20pm and... damn... tired....
But that doesn't mean nothing good happened for Yrja's Torment today ^_^ like i tend to do, when i doubt something i simply go ask. What's painful with Yrja's Torment is that i dare not ask anyone for feedback until i have a demo available that reaches up to at least a certain point in the story (Which will also be when i'll start looking for an artist) But i did ask some questions on the Ren'Py forums and some other places about ren'py and company management (always be one step ahead) i got some valuable information about both!
Apart from geetting some questions answered... Too tired to write any dialogues, i improved the code, mostly aesthetic stuff (different style for narration text, improved textboxes, etc). That's about all i did today, but even if i only had like an hour to work before i was at risk of getting knocked out, i still improved my game! Progress is progress! today was valuable.
Also, while at the birthday party i thuoght of a pretty interesting way i could mix together science and magic. For example i could have special designs on shields to protect against magic rather than relying on enchantments to protect against magic (for example, a shield with rubber handles that has a small spear on its bottom so it can easily be thrust into the ground would make a perfect anti-shock shield, it would stop all lightning magic for example (completely) unless the caster found a way to bypass it somehow. I'd have to do a bit of balancing with it too, then i could make an anti water shield shaped as a "V" and an anti-air (lol) shield which would have a design similar to anti-wind fences. (The wind can pass through, but it will lose all it's strength while passing through)
I could also make armors in a similar way, and weapons with "parrying magic" in mind. Sound overpowered? no, lets say the player has an anti lightning sword that can block up to level 3 lightning spells and reduce damage on up to level 6 lightning spells (less and less for each level) then he has an anti-wind shield, and anti-water armor. He would still be extremely weak versus fire damage.
The chances of parrying a lightning spell or blocking a wind spell will rely on the players skill in those acts, and the armor would be automatically anti-magic, but some bigger spells (like nukes) might actually do damage to all the parts of the players body one at a time (rather than just dealing X amount of damage). This would mean that even if the wearer of the armor has an anti-liquid armor that weakens or erases water magic, what if he has boots that provide no protection against water? depending on the spell it would either hit a random part of the body (torso most likely though as the biggest target) or it would do (uneven) damage to all parts of the body, meaning that the anti-water armor does not protect your arms or legs from damage.
Sounds a bit more complicated to make than it really is. I can envision the code for it in my head.
Additionally i could also try to make weapons that mix together science and magic. So for example you could make a stun rod by combining a battery and electricity magic. Then recharge it with electric magic. You could make a flamethrower by building a liquid tank (science) with some form of ignition (science or magic) then use water magic to load the tank with oil.
I've seen a lot of movies and games that try to make a war between science and magic, but what if i just combine them? (It's not like it hasn't been done before, Fullmetal Alchemist is an excellent example.) Science has never had a problem with making use of things it can't explain.
Note to self: An important book to read is Emilie Autumn's autobiography, "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls". In fact i get the feeling i should be reading it before i finish Yrja's Torment, i'm guessing i'll be going to find extremely valuable content inside that book. I finally have an excuse to read that book!
Update: well i'll be fucking damned, i really must have pissed someone off, because i'm agonizingly sleep deprived (i've slept VERY little for the last 3 days, estimate like 8 hours total) my head hurts, i can't think straight, my eyes hurt... I'm beginning to understand why everyone who has tried to stay awake for as long as humanly possible commited suicide, they must've pulled some stunt that prevented them from being able to go to sleep, and being unable to sleep when your body is begging for it is MADDENING! it hurts... everywhere... and i did get suicidal thoughts too. Needless to say i'm too tired to work, but i've been trying to fall asleep for 4 hours! and i am extremely sleep deprived. What the fuck did i do to deserve this madness?! this makes no sense! I can just imagine this being used as a torture method (keeping people from sleeping), now this experience is an idea for something to write about :D
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