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>tl;dr: X-COM Dating Sim, what do?
Let it die, son, let it die.

so we have a tsundere but not a yandere?

>X-COM Dating Sim, what do?
Everyone gets sent to Chrysalid night mission.

Only the tank comes back.

We need an alien girl as well, for the /d/udes among us. There were Sectoid hybrids in Apocalypse as well, iirc.

shutupandtakemymoney.jpg

>>17476207
>>17476206
The tank is yandere. Violently so.

>>17476208
No. Inconsistent with the original timeline, and everything known about the aliens.

Did you discus their uniforms/outfits? I missed the end of the last thread, so I don't know if it got brought up.

We know that our Squad Leader girl will be wearing Personal Armor in combat all the way up to the end of the game, but what about everyone else? And what about what she wears back on base?

I'd suggest the default overalls being her, the tomboy's, and the pilot's casual uniform back on base. The scientist and the nerdy girl aren't combat personell, so they'd obviously get to wear other stuff.

Also the heavy girl needs to upgrade to a Power Suit at some point

>>17476179
Oh come on, it wasn't even off the first page yet dude

>>17476208
Lets try a Psionic Test Subject. Settle for the campy half-alien type deal.

>>17476219
Chryssalid, then. They reproduce sexually.

>>17476162
it needs a harem ending after you complete each other route

>>17476230
No. They reproduce by skullfucking rookies.

>>17476234
And our hero is a rookie. bestplanever.png

Sorry, no alien girls as that'd conflict with X-COM canon. Also no psionic test subjects because you join X-COM before they even know psionics exist

>>17476233
Yeah, that was brought up. Once you beat the game you get NewGame+ where your stats carry over and the harem route is unlocked (you still have to mae the right choices to get onto it though)

>>17476217
Yandere AI tank personality?

But the tanks are remote controlled back from base.

>>17476220
Nah, Heavy Weapons Trap is too badass for power suits. Personal Armor all day erry day, even on fucking Mars.

Wait

Wait

Even though this is a dating sim there need to be other male characters. Bros, if you will. The pathos when your bros get skullfucked into Chyrssalids is essential.

>>17476251
Or so the Japanese girl would like you to believe. Alternatively, tanks get wierd with alien technology being introduced.

>>17476260

Oh wait, it's VN? Then there definitely need to be other male characters. For competition.

(can you say friendly fire?)

Not interested unless they all have Guile hair.

>>17476260
>the pathos when your Chryssalid bros get shot by rooks with lasers is essential
Agreed.

>>17476260
Well, there will be the countless Guile-clone rookies who die by the dozens each mission. I should have mentioned them.

But yeah, a male best friend character might be a good idea to add in too... Possibly have him date one of the two bi girls if you're on the other bi girl's route

rolled 5, 5 = 10

sdf

>>17476272

AND THEN DIE ON CYDONIA VIA A POTSHOT FROM A SECTOID.

Or, he kills you/you kill him, because of that Alien Brain. Somehow the final girl will be part of the last chapter.

...

Sorry, the only VN I ever read was Saya no Uta.

>>17476230
If you REALLY want an alien-human hybrid choice then how about this:
Have it as a 'secret' goal. One which you have to complete some objectives in order to even get on her path, say...
On one mission you have a stance to find some alien bio-tech which the scientist girl can use to create the creature. In order for her to use her DNA you have to be on her path, or you can use your own (maybe you can use other girls but I think that might be puching it). In order to engage in a dialog with the being you have to have some psionics. She can be used for two endings:
Good ending where you save the day and you and and your alien wifu can create a dialog with the mastermind behind the attacks and bring peace to earth and a new dawn for humanity is born.
Bad ending is when she temps you enough to ally yourself with the aliens and kill off XCOM and bring humanity to slavery while you become a regent of earth (or whatever).

>>17476294
Alternatively, just have a betrayal path, unlocked by fighting psionic aliens too many times.

>>17476294
>Bad ending
I think you have your priorities mixed up, sir.

>>17476289
EVERYONE has a chance to die on Cydonia, so yeah. Not enough marksmanship? You dont get the option to push him out of the way of the shot because you don't spot the sectoid. Not enough athletics? You try but he eats plasma anyway.

The choices to avoid deaths are going to be brutally hard. Unless you cheat by reading a guide, there is no way you won't have at least one or two casualties by Cydonia

Chance of final product being awkward and embarrassing to everyone involved: 90%

Katawa Shoujo was not a good thing.

>>17476321
100%, actually, and everyone knows it's a terrible idea.
Which is exactly why we're making it.

>reading archived thread
>near end
>scientist lady is a brit who swears a lot, drinks tea like a bloke, has a massive rack, a dominant side, and an oral fixation

fucking SOLD.

Also, I like how the girl's are actually women and not teenagers, with the youngest being the engineer girl at 23

>>17476315

The deaths should also be some legitimately nasty shit. Get hit by plasma? Say goodbye to most of what got hit. Like, your torso.

How big are you guys planning for the final cast to be? I'd like to help out, if I can.

>>17476356
Sounds like the thread got a bit risque once autosage kicked in.

I do like Tanya being 32 and an Afghanistan Veteran (as the game's set in 1999)

>x-com dating sim

I admit this makes me laugh way more then it should. But the main reason I want this to exist is because I'd actually get to meet the teletank's operator, in person.

>So you operate the tank? What kind of sensors does it have?
>Oh, it has a Mitsubishi SCF-48 targeting/tracking system with-
>Oh, is that good?
>The best!

At this juncture I would violently flip over her table and produce a handgun.

>THEN WHY CAN'T YOU HIT THE BROAD SIDE OF A BARN, YOU STUPID BITCH? LITERALLY. THE BROAD. SIDE. OF. A. BARN.

>>17476368
Have a bad end where you're an inhuman, cybernetically enhanced monstrosity with the brain of an alien god, but just want a hug.

...wasn't there some writefaggotry on how xcom veterans were the most terrifying thing in the war?

>>17476378
Also, why can she perfectly hit the rectum of pvt. Timmy with an anti tank missile, but not anything else.

>>17476368
Yeah, the deaths are going to be pretty bad, but handled tastefully rather than going for maximum gore. Judith (tomboy girl's) pre-Cydonia death chance is her getting zombiefied and having a Chryssalid pop out of her on a Snakeman Terror Mission.

Not sure about final cast size. We're sticking to the 5 girls (it'll be complicated enough doing 6 routes with all the branches for potential deaths as is), but secondary characters are all up in the air at the moment.

>>17476378
"WELL IT'S NOT LIKE YOUR STUN BATON IS MAKING ANY DIFFERENCE RIGHT NOW"

Also bad ends.

BAD FUCKING ENDS.

EVERY WHERE.

This is fucking X-Com you nigger fucker, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE

>>17476356
> Also, I like how the girl's are actually women and not teenagers, with the youngest being the engineer girl at 23

Fucking this!

requesting the pic where the sectoid mind controls an x com female to show her tits

How about mind control?

>>17476418

Actually, are you guys going to play with the standard conventions a little? Like, have a young rookie soldier side character full of vim and vigor! The very model of your average shonen protagonist! Definitely going to survive until the end, right?

NOPE.

you gotta have some hawt tutorial mentor who kills a bunch of etherals by arming all her heavy explosives and running into their ufo after taking a plasma pistol shot.


also, female muton?
OW! dont throw things! I was kidding!

>>17476440
and then she was so hard she survived it

>>17476433
Oh he will, only to eat a blaster bomb to the left nut in Cydonia. First human corpse on Mars.

>>17476420
That's related to the Scientist lady's death chance. An Ethereal prisoner escapes somehow and mind controls her. If you try to use your psionics to break the Ethereal's hold on her but you aren't strong enough, you only weaken its control enough for the Scientist lady to turn her pistol on herself. Or if you're a bastard or your stress is too high, you just outright shoot her yourself. It's easier to save her in that scene if you make a choice earlier in the chapter which lets you happen to have some shock prods available at the time.

>>17476447

You mean first human corpse all over Mars.

[spoilersdon'tworkontg]there should still be a slim chance to save him, depending entirely on whether you made some obscure choice way back in the VN[/spoilersdon'tworkontg]

[spoilersdon'tworkontg]it'll drive people nuts[/spoilersdon'tworkontg]

If you're not on her path, the Japanese girl saves him with the tank. You now have no tanks in the final mission.

>>17476494
he suggests you do something fun like having a peek at the girls right after lunch. if you blow him off rudedly he goes to the training hall to sulk, where some veteran teaches him a lesson that will come back to save him one day...

>>17476507

Oh my god yes. The only way to save everyone completely is to be kind of a dick and also be Duke Nukem.

>>17476507
Sounds about right. And the incentive to not tell him to fuck off is that this is how you see the lesbian scene.

>>17476519

But Duke Nukem is terrible at saving people. He only directly saves, like, one babe in his most recent game. (Up from zero in Duke Nukem 3D.)

>>17476507
Well, asshole decisions like that (but not on that scale) will be required to save every girl on a non NewGame+ playthrough, as you wont have high enough skills otherwise.

For example, having the shock prod is the easy way to save the scientist lady, but you have to offer to help carry supplies from the skyranger instead of hanging out with Heavy, and it'll be drowned in other choices which seem more like they'd affect the event but otherwise are unrelated

Easy...to really hit home the horror and fear of an actual alien invasion. Make the death scenes of the girls...or hell even of normal citizens as disgusting;y realistic as possible, including the crying, the screams of pain and suffering and finally the agonizing silence that lets you know the woman you just loved has forever moved beyond your reach.

MAKE IT HURT

>>17476546

Not too much gore, but there has to be an emotional punch.

You really think there's gonna be anything left after a blaster bomb?

>>17476533
At least in Duke 3D he seemed genuinely angry at what the aliens were doing to the women, rather than making 'hilarious' comments like "LOOKS LIKE.. YOU'RE FUCKED!" as the twin girls he was supposed to be saving are literally torn apart from the inside by alien larvae.

>>17476546
without going all gory, ofcourse
drama is where it is at

First mission has to be you surrounded by death. Watch people get grenaded and shot and mind controlled, rookies dying around you. Then walking back with the few that survive to the police barricade around the area (alluded to in the manual) and watching the shocked eyes of the local yokels.

>>17476568
Well, 'drama' is not going to be easy to achieve in a parody VN set in the most ridiculously bloody war known to entertainment industry. Shit, half of us will probably hunt for the death scenes first.

>>17476546
Do you really think you have the writing skill to make me give that much of a shit? Particularly knowing that any of them could die at any point anyway simply because of my decision in some arbitrary choice about whose dessert to steal I 'should' have made almost an hour ago?

Because if not, shit like this will just come across as crass and desperate at best, and laughably like terrible fanfiction at worst.

>>17476564

Oh, you won't find me defending Duke Nukem Forever. I thought the whole Hive level was way beyond bad taste into "What where they thinking?" territory. (And I'm no prude, I thought the poop flinging was hilarious.)

>>17476584

I dunno, good art could definitely help convey that kind of thing. Pic related. It's one of the few genuinely painful looking things I've ever seen, and it's not even finished. It's not about the gore, it's about being able to see the person's face.

No, I'm not posting the rest of the picture.

>>17476602
There is a line you must be aware of between "Wow, for some reason that was actually heartwrenching" and Gore-fetishists deciding "Yeah, the text is retarded, but at least I can fap to the art!"

>>17476613
This is exactly the reason I'd like to avoid gore if possible.

think: the death of bambi's mom vs the movie braindead

ok maybe that is a little extreme in both ways, but you get me meanin'?

>>17476602
>>No, I'm not posting the rest of the picture.

Your efforts are futile; I still fapped.

>>17476613
>>17476620

Yeah, I get that. Take >>17476546, for example. I'm not sure if this is a masqued plea for horrible gore scenes the dude can fap to.

You can make the reality of death hit home with the art, but the key is not to do it over the top. Thankfully over the top is usually what people get engaged in in Dwarf Fortress (such as strangling people with their own intestines) so the board's frequenters have a good idea of what's nasty and what's just comical.

>>17476631

He got you man. You just fapped to Homestuck art.

>>17476631

This board faps to Thri-Keen. I'm not sure anything I could have done would have stopped you.

>>17476634
I still think a VN set in UFOverse would be inherently comical, no matter how serious the actual tone'd be.

>>17476654

That's partly because EVERYONE IS GUILE.

People very rarely play Visual Novels to see their waifu horribly disemboweled by alien gunfire, in my experience.
Also, cliches, cliches fucking everywhere, holy shit.

>>17476674
You don't read much Nitro+, do you?

>>17476634
>>17476613
>>17476602
GUYS GUYS....When I WROTE THAT, I didnt mean "Oh fuck I love blood let me fap to it all fucking day."

I Meant Geniune gut wrenching pain as the people on your squad, the civilians you are trying to protect and your loved one is blow away, stripped of their mental functions or tore apart by a cosmic monster from beyond the stars.

The entire point being THIS is real war against a scary foe we 'at this point in the series' have never faced. Deaths should have a real impact on a persons psyche, just ask any soldier that has gone to war.

Honestly, sorry that you guys say "FAP BLOOD FAP." but try not to project too much of your desires on something I didnt word too carefully.

But yes...geniune suffering and horror in a Scifi War sim.

Also: Make it a comical romp where you spend as much time panty raiding the female rookie dorm as you do fighting aliens, or give it a serious tone, allow deaths and pain, and treat it with a little gravitas.

Pick one, because there is no way in hell you are good enough to do both.

>>17476674

Dude, NTR. It's a very important sub-genre (that is to say, fetish).

There are all kinds of dudes and ladies the world over that eat up that kind of manufactured misery.

>>17476666
Only the redshirts (guileheads?). Then again, it would work much better as a parody of both X-com and VNs in general, rather than it's own srsbsns game.

>>17476694
>NTR
>Cheating on your spouse or loved one, whether willingly or unwillingly

Yeah you don't know what Netorare actually is. You are PROBABLY thinking of Ryona, which is sadism towards a heroine that you control.

>>17476723

Oh, THAT'S NTR??

I thought it was the one where you don't get the girl. The cuckoldry fetish. Except in this case you get cuckolded by a Snakeman with a Heavy Plasma.

>>17476757
how is not getting the girl a fetish?
sounds more like story preference

>>17476765

I'm going to be honest with you here:

I don't actually know what the word "fetish" means. I always thought they were those tribal talismans.

Will the aliens be all mysterious, or will there be a red Muton Commander like in the intro? Also a main Sectoid leader, and some Ethereal dickbag?

I mean, being able to talk to them should be fun. Like capturing a Snakeman scientist (who smuggles Chryssalid eggs on-base) and he's being all sssssnakeman like and just being a general fuckface and suddenly, bam, zombies everywhere. It could be one of the climax missions prior to Cydonia.

>>17476782
Fetish is a sexual preference. Sometimes abnormal or not normally accepted by society.
Bondage
Furries
Scat
Tentacles

>>17476782
eh it is... but it also means "fascination" or "obsession" or a combination thereof... sort of
and has come to mean: this gives me a boner

...
so in a way I guess you're right...

You need to have this scene in there somewhere. Even if its a dream or something.

>>17476896
Just a day in the life of Heavy Wepons Trap.

>>17476356
>>17476375

You're welcome, though the Brit Scientist; a lot of input went into her, to thank you /tg/ as well.

Also, I have both deaths, the 'locking in' and the quick overviews of the romantic stuff with the Leader done (first is Heavy Plasma at a door breeching/ second is a Chryssalid in the depths of Cydonia; 'Old Yeller' moment, with the addition of setting a charge on her body so she won't rise as a monster).

However, it's at home and I am not for another 4-5 hours.

>>17476870

I like to sum it up thus:
- If its presence helps enticing arousal, it's a kink.
- If its absence actually prevents arousal, it's a fetish.

>>17476870
Actually, there's no "sometimes" about it. What "fetish" REALLY means is having a sexual fixation on something that normally doesn't inspire sexual thoughts. As an example, bukkake is not a fetish because it's expected to be sexually arousing. Getting hard and jerking off to a fire hydrant IS.

>>17476996
I dont think thats right. people can say "oh thats a fetish of mine" all in passing, y'know.
and have several of them.
maybe somone should just open the dictionary on this one

Oh Ren'Py, why must your documentation be so godawful and all the tutorials be for old versions and therefore not actually work?

Even though I'm only throwing together a quick mockup of how the training/relaxing/time units system would work, I'd still like to actually be able to figure out how to add a button to enable/disable hentai scenes to the preferences screen...

It'd be nice for some kind drawfag to draw quick pics of what the girls look like.

You know, something other than that one edited Jo pic

>>17477073
*slowly reach for pen*
NO! I cant!
I have work to do!
work I am not getting anywhere with...
NNnnAAARGH!
I'll go buy a burger!

>>17477027

Dictionary wouldn't really help, as the sense of the word as been diluted from what its academical origin meant it to describe.

>>17476996 is decent enough if sticking strictly to the old psychoanalytic concept. If not, just use it in lieu and place of kink.

>>17476315

Exactly this. The goal is to make it IMPOSSIBLE to save two of them on Normal.

The Leader is fairly easy to save eary; all of your opportunities to save her are based on total skill (add all four up; check vs. set number). All you need is a lot of general experience and skill.

The other four, however, are a bitch to save because they demand max in a skill; some early. Shooting a Chryssalid off the Tomboy is the 'moonshot'; through three windows, two houses and at night, halfway across the map.

If you fail, it's the approach where the dread builds. You heard her cry out and saw the shadows struggling, then one more on. As you apporach, at some point, her zombie emerges from the darkness.

At Cydonia, the Leader has a very demanding set number to save from a Chrysallid tackle; each of the others demands a max skill and another near max (100 and 75) to make decisions, as second in command, that keep them from being killed.

For instance, Marksmanship and Tech Knowledge to figure out which tower on Cydonia is the Hyperwave Trasmitter; by taking it down, they cannot scramble the fighters and the pilot has managable numbers to deal with while flying top-cover in the Ellerium drop-tank equiped Firestorm.

>Ellerium Drop-Tanks

Because Fighter Pilots don't drive the bus. And because Ameicans love fuel-ineffecient vehicles.

>>17477028

I'm all for an option to disable the H. I'll go through my text and look for the point I can insert [Fade to Black].

And that's lunch; check y'all later.

>>17476929
Why not reverse trap?

>>17477233
Heavy ain't a trap. She's muscular but obviously female. Dunno where this trap has come from.

>>17476415
"GOOD POINT, IT NEEDS A FIELD TEST"

Does it make me a horrible person to say that I legitimately want this route? A route where you get to torture the cute 23-year old Japanese tank tech with a stun-rod?

Because I do. I really do.

>>17477601

>>17477110
Im down for helping if you need another mind to assist writing (I write comic books for a semi living), also I have several artist friends with FAR too much time on their hands (Of which one is actually the guy I work with on the comics)

>>17478076
>>semi living

Maybe you should contribute to the vampire thread?

>>17477263
Fags obviously.

>>17478087
How did you know one of my comics is vampire based? But no in all seriousness I meant to say it supplements my income. My apologies and good call on the joke.

No

Well I've got a training system working fairly well, even including the ability to lock out Psionics training until later in the game. It'd be easy enough to bosh in the ability for scenes for when you hit milestones on a skill as well.

It's just placeholder graphics stolen from another game, some godawful dialogue for the sake of seeing it work, and the menu to choose wether to train, relax, or view stats, and to pick whichever skill to train if you pick training.

The question is, does anybody actually care enough to actually really want to see it, and if so where would I host the file?

>>17478271
Dude I would recommend Mediafire for hosting the files which I am very eager to look at.

Do you want to see a sample of my artist friends work? He said he'd love to help on the game being a Xcom fan himself, he isnt a Masamune Shirow but he is FREE and willing to work with us on this.

>>17478296
I'll give hosting this on mediafire a go then. Bear in mind it is nothing but a test of the training system though, so I hope you're not expecting much.

Also sure, go ahead. Lets see what he's got

>>17478360
Okay I had to cut the size down a little but here it is, pay heed that this is from a year ago but was the pic I could find with relevance to the topic. He has gotten MUCH better since then...but most of the work has been fantasy and pornographic in nature so I cant post it here.
And Cool I hope to see it soon.

>>17478398
He now has a tablet (huge wacom thing) and works 5 hours each day on line work and stuff...hell Im on holiday and churned out 45 pages for him to ink and colour, he did 8 a day...and we were meant to be relaxing...but thats artists for you...never happy with themselves unless they are getting MORE awesome

>>17478398
If he has stuff more recent, post it. As long as it's not pornographic of course. We want to see his skills, it doesn't have to be relevant content yet

>>17478457
>>post it. As long as it's not pornographic of course

I never thought I would live to see the day 4chan sank so low. Or rose so high, or whatever. Anyway, I don't approve.

>>17478271
>>17478398

I am monitoring this stealthily.

These developements please me greatly.
And for the art, free is the best price. All I ask is, can he color his art?

>>17478454
>>17478398

This project deserves much better art than this. Consider my talents at your disposal.

>>17478457
Okay this is his most recent non inked piece of work, un coloured...but I am not in Oz right now so I can't scan his latest stuff he did whilst with me in europe

>>17478487
Yeah, mod's not around. Porn is fine.

>>17478502
That's not stellar. It's good enough if we've got nothing better, but that art (and that lettering) are bad enough that they'd keep me from partaking of media I might otherwise like.

>>17478499
...thanks for insulting the talent of my friend...you could have suggested your help in a much nicer fashion you know.

OK, here we go, 19MB:

http://www.mediafire.com/?82ck3bi962clpyw

Contains contains 34 screens of dialogue, a total of 280 words, ripped graphics from Ar tonelico Qoga, default interface graphics, and godawful dialogue.

>>17478529
So far I don't see no talent.

>>17478536
Im loving it, It is more then ALOT of people have even talked about.
>>17478490
And Yes he can and is willing, as people have stated...he isn't the greatest artist in the world...but he LOVES X com and is willing to work for free.

Also my original offer to assist in whatever story aspect be it dialogue, story, Npcs etc I offer my assistance.

>>17478529
Ignore the troll

>>17478529

Okay I apologize for being a dick. Let me be blunt. A dating game's initial appeal relies on the quality of its art. The human figure is very difficult to render attractively, little lone accurately. I don't think your artist is capable of delivering the kind of art independent projects need to gain necessary recognition. I'm sorry to insult you, but if this were my project, I wouldn't want to be associated with the art you've posted so far.

>>17478580
I guess it could work.

But if Cross-hatcher gan give it a hand I'll be positively happy.

I'm not trolling.

>>17478583
Don't deem someone a troll just because you don't like what they said.

>>17478594
Why don't you post some of your own stuff too? Art is always good to have. At the end of the day, we can't expect any one person to make the full breadth of art that we need, so we'll use what we can get.

I think my work speaks for itself. This is just a rough sketch, mind you.

Is this a troll thread? Jesus crapping Christ. Get the fuck out.

I dunno, I like it.

>>17478583
Thank you...Im sorry that I fed the trolls, it is just as a friend of his and a work partner I've worked with him since he was 15...so I hope its understandable that I want to defend him even here where I thought the majority were better mannered then at /b/.

Still thank you again Anon, Ill ignore the trolls for now and focus on whats important.

>>17478630
don't you have stuff from your previous drawthreads? They looked very decent, if I recall.

granted, I know nothing of this X comm, so I may be of no use to you people anyway. However, I can work well with reference material and good descriptions.

>>17478642
people at /b/ have shit tastes even compared to us. Same thing when you go to /co/, where they have higher standards, and are even less polite.

>>17478653

yes i do. i don't want to cloud the thread with unrelated images but i'll put a few more out.

>>17478656
I admit...your artwork has very realistic merits..which might be what we are going for in this game.

Again Im not the boss. So its up to the directors what they decide.

>>17478675
normal drawfag quality
you're still a dick though

>>17478656
Well, the original's available on steam for like less than $5 or something ridiculously cheap. There's also UFOPedia which has some pics and plenty of info: http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=EU_Table
And also here's a surprisingly decent Let's Play of it that has plenty of screencaps:
http://lparchive.org/X-COM-UFO-Defense/

>>17478631
While i think ithis thread might be better suited for /v/ with the waifus and the x-com videogames and the visual novel angle...You know what, fuck. it. You wanna writefag about your favorite game? Fine. but this really has no place here on teegee.

Now, if you were doing this as a quest thread...

>>17478675
Don't waste your time on a shitty waifuquest thread. Your art's much better than wasted on the likes of them.

>>17478642
Damn, just have sex with the guy already.

>>17478630
Well you seem to understand what a body is shaped like, so you're so far the best we've got.

>>17478682
Hey, we can use both. Your friend probably shouldn't be drawing main character sprites, but backgrounds are always good; the more we have of them the better.

sage for vidya

Hmm, the smoother lines of HH's friend's style would make converting pics into character portraits easier, and the more anime art style would help appeal to the VN playing crowd.

C-H's is higher quality and would be well suited for CG scenes, but it'd be hard to make it into character portraits, and the lack of xcom knowledge is a bit concerning

>>17478705

really? i enjoy rendering the female form in provocative situations, so I suppose I was naturally attracted so such a thing. it does seem less appealing to me now.

>>17478691
It's X-COM though, which has been /tg/ since day one

>>17478691
We're getting shit done, which is /tg/. /v/ wouldn't be able to manage it.

>>17478735
Listen your work is good even I can see that and fuck if I don't love your first picture alot, but don't waver in your commitment because one person says so.

Or is it that you really don't want to commit to it? And were only coming to make a motion that you were better then someone else?

Summary: Commit or don't, the more the better

>>17478705
>wasted
>proposed for a game, as opposed to done in a draw thread for a single person
Now, I'm not saying drawthread art is wasted, but I reckon you ought to think out what you say before you say it.

>>17478743
No.

X-Com is a video game. It has no tabletop component. You are wrong. I know that /v/ is a cesspool, but you cannot argue that this belongs here instead of there.

Good luck, though, I mean, they got their cripple porn finished.

>>17478787
It has always been on /tg/. It is a game which we have traditionally played. It is a traditional game.

/tg/ doesn't stand for "Tabletop Games".

STOP FEEDING THE GODDAMN TROLLS

>>17478787

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/X-Com

X-Com is /tg/ related.
It's on a wiki. It must be true.

>>17478787
>X-Com is not /tg/ related

>>17478802
Really. Then provide me with the licensed tabletop equivalent to X-Com. Don't post again until you have it.

>Rules for /tg/
> Board games, paper games, war games, card games, etc. go here!

You are breaking the rules.

>>17476162
>dat pic
Dammit Jo

ITT newfags forget the mods OKing X-COM, Dorf Fortress, and Roguelikes

>>17478885
>war games
>it's a game about the war between Earth and aliens
>also the mod has explicitly made a sticky saying some video games are /tg/ related
You're not much good at this, are you?

Polite sage since my post is of no value.

Back on topic here, did anyone who tried that test version find any problems with the training mechanic?

Also do you want me to add in text being displayed character-by-character instead of the entire next page displaying instantly? This can of course be turned off in the options.

I love seeing rulesfags complain about what doesn't belong on /tg/. Their rage sustains me.

>>17478885
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18206/x-com-tactical

I mean, come on, are you even trying? Google, 1st page of results for X-COM Tabletop, 7th hit from the top, total time 7 seconds.

>>17478885
Man, that is a really fucking huge stick you have up your ass.

And there, now there's a tabletop version. Now shut the fuck up.

>>17478938
>>17478956

Doesn't seem to be in the rules now, does it?
Could it be that this unofficial rule was removed due to constant abuse by threads JUST LIKE THIS ONE?

Ignore the douchebag, talk about the VN.

Possible side characters:
X-COM Base Commander
Fellow recruit Bro
Quartermaster
People who you go to to train your skills
Doctor/Medic

>>17478986
You're not discussing that game, though. You're discussing a waifugame.

I will let you have it if you use the tactical game rules in playing your waifugame. Because then it will actually be /tg/ related.

Izuminous and I (along with the Anon of /tg/) are currently the driving forces. He's in charge of programming and if he can't make it happen, it don't happen. Right now, I'm working on characterization and story elements. I haven't started writing actual dialouge, just plot points and notations for later.

>>17478960

Izuminous, nice test product. I saw nothing wrong with the mechanics. I wish the stats could display a little more neatly. Also, I prepfer the text apprear by the page, rather then letter by letter; people usually just skip along.

>Supervisor asks what's so interesting.
>'Uh... X-Com...'
>'The new one is cool, right?'
>'Actually... X-Com VN...'
>'... you serious?'
>'Yup... dead serious. We uh, cool here?'
>'My name on an NPC and I saw jack shit'
>'DEAL'

So um, yeah, someone is named Anthony 'Tony' Garcia now. Probably a techie; maybe the trainer.

>>17479040
>X-COM Base Commander
Someone brought that one up in the previous thread. They joked he should look like that personification of /tg/ that gets brought up every now and then.

It'd be a cool reference and all, but a scrawny guy with long hair and a goatee is not what the leader of a top-secret multinational military organisation would look like

>>17479086
Let him be Base Commander, get free pass to work on this during work hours.

>>17479100
I know EXACTLY who the commander of X-COM should be: Marc Lecointe

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Marc_Lecointe

>>17479100

I liked the idea of a 'manly' personification of /tg/ with a more professionally dressed /x/ as his secretary.

Manly /tg/ has a full on beard and stash, wears glasses... broods alot. Has a shelf of 40K minis in his office he painted himself.

/x/ is... interesting. Black hair, black dress, rainbow stockings, black heels.

>>17476220
Soldiers & Pilot wear X-COM jumpsuits as casual uniform.

Scientist lady wears a labcoat, a turtleneck jumper, a short skirt, heels and stockings.

Nerdy girl should probably have two outfits, a jumpsuit for when she's building/maintaining things, and just a tanktop and shorts as her casual clothes and when she's piloting the tank.

>>17479164

Pilot wears a pilot's jacket covered with patches from her time in the navy over it, though. And, again, always with the shades.

>>17479222
The commander of Xcom should be bearded...and drink alot...I mean alot and not the shitty stuff Im talking about alcohol that was made before anyone in the VN was even BORN...even himself.

He should also...NEVER EVER be drunk...unless it is in a scene where he bro tells you the story of how he is tired of man's endless fighting and how every one should really just get together drink and share stories about how awesome everyone is

This is probably jumping on a tangential bandwagon, given recent events. And I don't want to do a derail, but -

Why not a board-tan squad based game of X-Com?

Has potential?

>>17479253
I think the role of 'bearded alcoholic who tells awesome war stories' should be reserved for the Quartermaster.

I agree the X-COM commander should have glasses though. He needs to be able to pull off a good Gendo

>>17479260

/tg/ spearheading a board-tan roleplaying game with input from all other boards on their characters?

Shi/tg/ets done time.

>>17479298
can the quarter master and the commander be drinking buddies? even if they are of opposing sexes?

Vn of the ball? But that is a discussion for another thread.

>>17479330

Might be interesting but use caution - sense a great potential for mass retardation.

Also it's not exactly in line with what the OP is pushing so we might want to file this idea away for another thread, another time.

Thanks for indulging me tho' - I did wanna toss this idea out there at least.

I feel base commander should be the douchebag player who views every soldier as expendable, and just wants more funding at the end of the month.

>>17478787
sup bich?
Here are two tabletop versions of X-Com.
no suck me and watch those teeth or they will get pulled.

http://ljshobbyspot.blogspot.com/2011/02/15mm-x-com-farm-game-board-sectoids.html

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18206/x-com-tactical
and
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/431326/anyone-intrested-in-new-xcom-game
and
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/410515/xcom-ufo-defense-a-squad-level-pd-variant
and
http://meeples.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/first-elite-now-x-com/
(Target Earth)
AND last but not least....
http://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/project-xenocide-a-xcom-style-wargame-campaign/

>>17479355
Sure, but I think they should both be male. Quartermaster being a bulky and muscular yet always cheerful guy, but gets serious when there's work to be done.

I see the Commander as being more of a suit. Obviously not scrawny as he'd be from the military as well, but not very muscular. The kind of guy who you'd expect to see casually adjusting his tie before speaking. Means well and everyone knows it, but everyone still moans about him behind his back simply because he's the boss, and who doesn't moan about their boss from time to time? Might be an awful idea, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Even if this might be sparked by the success of Katawa Shoujo, it seems like a hilarious, yet oddly compelling idea. If you can pull this off, I will seriously salute you and play the heck out of it.

Moreover, if you have Jo drawing for you... holy shit, the amount of victory is unparalled.

Seconding some ideas presented here:
1) Better not to be both comedic and tragic. I feel that a tragic demeanor would be better for the game - in X-Com your soldiers die. A lot. A VN wherein this aspect is not present would be straight-out heresy towards the original. This doesn't mean that humor is completely forbidden of course.
2) The character concepts seem nice. You could have one of the characters (possibly the american interceptor pilot) be a Yugoslavian conflict veteran. Like the afganistan conflict, it would be a topical event that would tie the game to 1999.

Also, as a person who's been involved in realtime graphics programming for some 15 years now, I would have been happy to offer my help as a coder. However, you seem to already have someone up to the task, and VNs do not take that much effort in the code department. Better to concentrate on my own projects.

I wish you the best of luck!

>>17479430
impressive.

Damn I wish I wasn't also working on velocity right now. I'd be able...wait HEY guys can we make a Chatroom to go to to discuss this more personally? I got mibbit open

>>17479476
>VeloCITY
Wait, that's still being worked on? Awesome!

And I'd be up for an IRC channel.

Helping Hand, why not ask your friend to draw some concepts of the girls anyway? Even if they don't get used in-game the pics could still be useful to other artists in how the outfits and hairstyles and such should look

>>17479437
Barbie could have been one of the pilots involved in the Highway of Death and feels incredibly guilty about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death

>>17479423

He takes risks, but calculated ones. He's like a good, veteran X-Com player.

>>17479437

>(possibly the american interceptor pilot) be a Yugoslavian conflict veteran. Like the afganistan conflict, it would be a topical event that would tie the game to 1999.

I like that. I'll put that in for now.

And, I really wanted Jo to do the art, but I think he's got a lot of shit of his own to do. I know his art is not 'classic VN' material, but I like it. I just don't know if he can do the 'tragic' stuff.

Either way, whatever artists we can get. It's the one big thing we're missing (aside sound).

Also, no comedic death; only tragic and completely fucking random. Comedy is reserved for back at base.

>>17479499
Yes Velocity is still being worked on, we have in fact approached finishing it at about 70-80 done with Perks and a few minor tweaks to go. Im one of the Background and gang writers as well as the guy making alot of the perks as of today.

#Velocity if you want to pop in and say hi or give a few ideas, we are always welcoming new talent and people.

>>17479564
>>17479499
#Xcom_Vn
Channel is up and running

Will this start off from the same time period of the original game? 1998?

Actually been planning an XCOM campaign for some time for i've got quite abit of material.

Admittedly, mine plays up politics much more so at last count I had about 3-4 major factions and multiple smaller ones.

>>17479643
on rizon, or mibbit I dont know if irc can see it though

>>17479601
Last I heard of it was months ago, so it's nice to hear it's actually nearly done. I still remember writing the original fluff paragraph for the Black Roses. Not sure if they're even in any more, a lot of the gangs were being merged together last I heard.

>>17479643
Which server is it on? Rizon?

>>17479536
I like both things you have said here, friend. She might be a bit young though, the highway of death was in 1991, and she's 27 in 1999, so that'd maker her about 18/19 when that happened.

>>17479643
Sorry for (not) being ircliterate, but uh, on quakenet or what?

>>17479689
Rizon and Mibbit ...i dont know if IRC can see them but using mibbit I can see every channel basically.

Again sorry for the lack of knowledge I only just learnt how to create the channel

>>17479679
I just skyped my friend, he said he'd be willing to draw the girls EASY as well as the NPC's as long as he has profiles and descriptions avaliable to him.

>>17479714

What's the port?

>>17479735
Iam a retard when it comes to these things...whats a port? And how can I find what it is when you tell me

>>17479735
irc.rizon.net:6660-6670

>>17478691
>>17479070
why am i bothering to reply to this?

We've had dwarf fortress threads on /tg/, we'e had space station 13 threads on /tg/, and there's even some guys making a chapter master simulator computer game, chil out man

>>17476162

>Finally submitted my final paper today.

>*YAWN*, I'll check out tg and see what going on there.

>MR(reaction)W I saw this thread at no2.

>IRC channel
>no more posts in the thread
inb4 this dies

>>17479952
What kind of weird educational system is taking finals in January?

Im tempted to make an amy lessen joke here.

Maybe the Ethereals are Space Canadians.

Archive?
Archive.

The aliens should be able to innovate, too.

Chryssalids with anti-gravity belts.

Mutons riding Snakemen.

>>17480878
We are hard at work guys...ironed out the intro already

Would someone archive this? I'd do it but I'm afraid I am terribad with tags and stuff

Bump
I want to hear more of this

XCOM talk accepted as well? stories, such? I once had a troop, milan neddich. It was a terror mission. Him and filho rossi were the ultimate squad badasses, filho took down every alien he came in view with, and they all missed him, no trouble, so heres what happned with milan. He gets into a field, and there must be EIGHT FUCKING CYBERDISKS around, at the end anyway. He starts blasting off, and kills FIVE CYBERDISKS WITH ZERO HELP WHATSOEVER, THEN, he gets shot down, unconcious by one. Filho rushes over to save his ass, killing 3 snakemen along the way. Before he can get there, milan gets back up, and kills another 3 cyberdisks, before seltar and smith take out the last few troops and the missions won.

This idea is too damn awesome