Update 10 – Skilearns and You

Did you know it’s been 238 days since the previous blog post and 728 days since the last actual update? I know fucking crazy right? What has GhostyGump been up too since then? Nothing. But in this update I want to talk to you about the wonderful world of Skilearns.

“What the fuck is a Skilearn.” you maybe answering to yourself because you haven’t played the game yet. Skilearns were originally invented by a business oriented wizard in order to provide an instant and safe option to learn skiing immediately. Since it’s not permanent and the entity of a material nature, the plan was for skiing resorts to rent them out to people too lazy to attend safety courses. Due to numerous incidents related to the wearers getting too cocky because of their Skilearn and thusly getting injured or worse, the wizard was forced to re-orient his focuses and specialized in the lucrative adventurer market. Or maybe you were talking about how they work. That’s fine too.

Skilearns are an Equip-able Magic, Tech or even Stat-boost that any character can learn instantly. In Chapter 1 some characters were limited on how many they can equip, this has now changed so that every character can equip up to three no matter the class. This change was done so characters have more fluidity in how you want to build them and making all party members viable. To demonstrate the functionality of Skilearns, lets look at Gatysh.

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Since Gatysh is a Mage, it would benefit him if we equip him with some Skilearns that help him with dealing Magic damage. First were going to give him two Magic Skilearns which will be Fire and Ice, as this will give him more versatility in combat and then we give him a MP Plus Skilearn which will boost him MP by 10% so he can use a lot more MP. There are many various ways we could have built Gatysh such as him focusing on support or even giving him some Tech abilities to help round him out, but I will leave that for you to experiment with. When the next chapter comes out.

It will be out soon.

7th Stand User 2 Q/A

Thread got archived before I can answer the question.

I no longer work with the team and haven’t spoken to them and vise-versa. Currently, I have no idea what is happening with the Dev Team. I wouldn’t be surprised if something happened internally as they seem to be all over the place, which is why they have no work and no demo, fuck even the PenPR RPG itself had multiple demos before coming out with its first chapter. I don’t know if they are at each over throats I presume the answer is yes. I would even go as far as to say it’s either only a few people working on the game or the entire team go replaced with Tumblr-tards.

I would also like to say that I am going to contact Clayman (the original dev) and ask her if she is aware 7SU2 is making money from this. While I understand things cost money, when you start asking for money there is some sort of agreement or “work” that has to be met an example would be yandere dev (also yes, I did make that comparison).

As for PenPR RPG, I would not want to take anyone money since this has and always be a hobby for me. I did want someone to do some work for me, that would be coming out of my own wallet, not anyone else’s.

I should work on the game more huh.

Speghi’s Corner: Let’s Get Competitive [April Fool’s 2020]

You already know what’s going on

Howdy boys and girls and Frank. It’s been a crazy couple months here at Team PenPR. And not only because our coffee boy has been quarantined and we are now locked in the office by the government in an effort of self-isolation.

Recently we have conluded the competitive high-level battle of the Waifu Wars. This, combined with local scenes of people fighting over a roll of TP has given our team an epiphany.

We need a competitive scene in this game. This is the main reason, we deducted, that the people we hire as playtesters are not playing the game. However, we struggled to find the main form of competition… until today.

THE NEW DECADE OF 2020 AND THE FUTURE AHEAD!!!

It feels strange to write 2020 let me tell you that, it’s also strange to be updating this blog again. Speghi has just released another great story Bishkek rats, which you should read. This also marks the end of the first part of the Trilogy, who knows what awaits you? Anyhow, I wanted to state what I and my “team” (currently 4 of us!!!) have planned for this year.

Our aim is to get some sort of playable demo out this summer. While this won’t be the full chapter, it should give you a slice of what’s to come, we hope to update it over time to turn it into the Final Drill Chapter 2 rather than releasing it as a whole package. I want to do this so I focus more on the side content of the game, which will play a big part in how you go through the story. The other reason why I want to do this is to bring content much quicker than having you wait a few months (or years…) for an actual update. I hope to bring some sort of roadmap out to you all once I know we can bring the game out on time, currently, that’s our milestone.

The other thing is too not forget the previous chapter, there are still some classic Ghosty moments in the game and since I have now grown as a writer and a spellchecker, these should be easily fixed and some parts are rewritten in order to keep in tone with the current story.

Gumpmas is still planned, I haven’t forgotten about it. I know what I want to announce for it, it’s just getting there. Some of it is complete, while others still need work. Please understand that this does take time, and some of us don’t have a lot of it right now.

Speghi has finished up the “Bishkek Trilogy”, which is a good read for those that want to delve into the characters a lot more. We do have some ideas for future stories to tell but I feel as if we want to continue the development of the game for a while, getting a game out to you is more important.

Anyhow from me and everybody currently working on the project. We hope too see you soon.

“Bishkek Rats” – A Final Drill Short Story

After a six month delay, the inevitable has had to happen: I have finished writing a third story. That story’s title? “Bishkek Rats”. How long did this version of the story take me to write from scratch? About two weeks or so. I got done with it yesterday. I originally wanted to write Bishkek Rats in July. So what took me so long?

It probably had something to do with the personal issues that kept piling up on me during that period. I’m not gonna go into much detail, but as it turns out being forced to take your attention in all kinds of spans is a huge motivation killer to do anything regarding your hobbies. Who would’ve thought? So I started a scenario for Bishkek Rats only to lose all interest in continuing it shortly after.

These weeks, however is Christmas season, and by now I have the majority of stuff sorted out, and determined to not leave another story unfinished for years, I took the free time I got, sat down and finished it. Simple as that.

Current Status of the Game And Other News

I feel this needs a blog post because posting about it on Discord means nothing. I’m going to be straight forward with this post since there is no real way to get around it. There are multiple points I want to cover which will talk about the current state of the game. So please actually read it.

1. What is going on with the game currently? Is it still being worked on?

Yes and No. While I may still work on the game, it’s not going to be in huge parts, simply because as I am aware I am the only one working on it so far. While there were people helping me, they have gone silent or are not talking about it. This is why I asked people to help out with the development of the game, as usual in the Purple Republic people are lazy and won’t help.

I am also unable to work on the game as much as I want since I now have a full-time job and little free time, I would rather spend that time on luxuries rather than developing a game by myself which would take much longer.

So it’s kinda on and off at the moment until people want to help development.

2. What happened to the Gumpmas Update?

Gumpmas was rushed since like I stated before, I had little free time to work on it and thus I rushed it in a week or so. This is actually a problem with most updates, the “E3” Trailer that I made was done in a week or so, I honestly wish I had more time to work on it. I would rather release something good than bland.

Expect it in the future, right now I don’t want to give out a date.

3. When’s the next Story coming out?

I don’t know, you’re going to have to pester Speghi about it. It’s either in development hell or he hasn’t worked on it for the same reasons as I won’t work on the game.

4. Are you going to continue development?

I honestly don’t know. There have been attempts to get this game known and all have failed, such as the gamejolt page which I didn’t actually want to do myself. I even reached out to some CPA News and we know what happened there. The fact that no one seems to play the game anyway is also a waste of my developing it, I don’t really see the point in making something no one is going to play.

“WHERE’S THE UPDATE GHOSTY”

So I have actually been working on the game believe it or not (do), and you probably want to know what I have actually done or,what my team has done rather….

Not him.

So, incase you missed it the Gamejolt page has been given a complete overhaul, filled with new trailers screenshots and a few other nice things which you can check out right here.

Here are some new screenshots of the first town you visit in the second chapter, Boatswain. It’s a fishermans dock incase you haven’t got that correct, it’s rather big so you should explore the map when you finally get it.

The Gachimuchi sidequest now has it’s story finialised, the only thing now is to work on it. The Second Chapter’s main questline is also complete.

The next chapter is going to be much bigger than I originally thought, however I do have my own personal life getting in the way of such things. Which is why I am still recruiting for help with the game, anyone with RPG maker experience (either new or old) is welcome to help with the project. Sorry there hasn’t been much, I will leave you with one last thing that you can get exited for when the chapter releases.

Club Penguin’s Private Server Problems

 

stolen from JBMod, they probably won’t care.

 

Club Penguin Private Servers have been around since Club Penguin’s first inception, they were small at first mainly used by edgy teens roleplaying as Attack On Titan characters. Now since Club Penguin has been shut down more than 2 years at this point, the ever-increasing Club Penguin Private Servers (CPPS for short) has been gaining more and more traction, this also means more and more incompetent man-children are fighting over each over. So it’s basically a lot like Armies, only this time it’s with adults holding much more of an ego and power.

A lot of these private servers seem to go the same way, this being that things are fine for a few months or so then one of the admins gets a hissy fit. This autistic sperg out could be for a number of things, “I didn’t get what I want”, “u guys r mean :(” or “your stupid, me smart” and then proceed to write about how “this isn’t the same cops I started anymore…”. Turns out things change over time, a group gets bigger with more people interested in a project and want to help, this is fine and is what usually happens with a project. Because of that, someone gets into a tantrum and starts writing on their twitter or discord about how shitty the other admins are and how they are the only good guy in this and why you should totally trust them. Then the other admins come in and a flamewar usually starts, which is pretty funny if you’re watching on the sidelines.

There are many examples of this happening, most recently and consistent of this is being Club Penguin Rewritten, where every few months or so someone gets upset and shits diapers everywhere because the “admins were bad people”. The first real-time this happened was somewhere in 2018 where someone got mad and called out the admins and how terrible they were and how he was “upset” and “angry”. Turns out he never said those things to the other staff and everything went tits up, everyone was watching this flamewar between the mods. Another time was rather recent and proves why you shouldn’t trust random people online with your personal information, this being that someone managed to steal emails and passwords and leak them around everywhere. This one simple action basically shows that if someone from their own staff team was shitty and salty enough to do something like that then this means it can happen to almost any CPPS… turns out it can because most of the moderation teams end up going through a few bad actors and one bad enough can ruin everything.

tl;dr Don’t trust CPPS’s, if you really want to try one out then use a 10 Minute mail or a throwaway email.

 

Deletion of the GhostyGump YouTube Channel

So incase you aren’t aware, the GhostyGump youtube channel has been permanently disabled (not deleted). I am not the only one affected by this however, there are many others that have also been caught in the wave. Thankfully, all the Final Drill trailers have been backed up. You can view them here.

So what happens now? Well I have sent an appeal but heard nothing back, I have also tried to contact them on Twitter but they also have no responded back. So now I guess the only thing we can do is wait, but you should all be used to that by now.

Help Me.

“Is this a cry for help?”

Yes! I need help. With my game. The second chapter is planned to be as twice as big as the last chapter so I’m gonna need help with a few things. Let’s say, if I do get people to help with one in everything, then the game will be finished sooner. If no one helps? Then I guess that’s fine.

 Gamejolt Page/Wordpress

People have said that they want more people to play the game and experience/traumatise themselves with the Lore. I do want to update the Gamejolt, I just don’t have the time nor patience. And I do want to get more news out to people but I would rather work on features rather than talk about them, so finding someone that can just update the Gamejolt and WordPress would be great.

Maps/Cutscenes

Anyone can make a map in RPG Maker, only a select few can make a good one. Since the maps planned are gonna be much bigger, people working on separate features or updating current ones will save a lot of time. If you do know how to map then that’s only the first step, the next step would be to actually make a good one. Even if you’re mediocre at making maps this will help me in some places. Also cutscenes will be here, since they do count as maps.

Art

Do I need to explain?