Work Post

1:13am - My depression hasn't gotten any better and now I'm mostly sitting around waiting for a doctor's appointment to address it. But I've finally got a little urge to work again so I thought I'd capitalize on it.

Oh yeah and that job I posted about last time hasn't materialized yet. They've been teasing me hard for a month. Maybe I'll get something soon, but I don't want to jinx it after getting my hopes up before.


So, last time I worked on my transformation survival game I put strength/importance numbers on the human template. I suppose I'll try putting them on the others.

1:26am - Okay this is surprisingly stressful, and I realize I don't know quite what I'm doing at this point. Maybe I should pull back and reconoiter.

1:55am - Things got distracting but I'm back.

Anyways I don't know how to get these transformations working at this stage. Maybe instead of stressing out making big templates for whole bodies that I don't know will even work, I should try coding up a simple two or three part 'body' and transform it instead, and build things out once I have that working?

2:13am - I'm thinking about this project more in general now. Like, why am I doing it? I do like the idea, but it seems like it's more of a game I want to play than a game I want to make. I wonder if it's really a good idea to continue it when I get so much stress from it when I work on it? Maybe...

I'm not sure what else to work on though. I've lost most of my impetus for making my 3D character creator, though I don't like to admit it. It's mostly because there are tools out there that do what I want to do, but better, and there are harder to use professional tools for professionals to do a better job with it also.

Maybe this is just the depression talking, though. I'm not sure. I'll give it some space and time and think about it some more.

Work Post

5:43am - I talked with a friend and he convinced me to keep trying with my Transformation Survival game, but at this point I still don't know exactly what I need to do to proceed. So, figuring that out is my first goal.

I thought earlier about making a miniature version of the transformation to experiment with, and I think that's a good idea.

I'll do a simplified arm to start wtih. Hand, forearm, and upper arm.

You got bit on the hand!

Your hand seems to melt and change shape, reforming into a black fox hand!

Your forearm seems to melt and change shape, reforming into a red fox forearm!

Your Upper arm seems to melt and change shape, reforming into a red fox upper arm!


That seems pretty bland, but at least it's a start.


I think that every TF type should have its own 'TF style', though they may be copied. That's the "seems to melt and change shape" part of the text, that describes how the TF works. There could also be multiple TF style phrases to choose from, but I'd like them to be similar for each TF.


Let's try that transformation again with a bit more detail, and different TF style phrases.


You got bit on the hand by the Humanoid Fox!

Your hand seems to melt and change shape, and its pale flesh turns to black fur. Your hand has changed into a Humanoid Fox hand!

Your forearm melts down as it changes shape, and its pale flesh turns to red fur. Your forearm has changed into a Humanoid Fox forearm!

Your upper arm itches then melts slightly, and its pale flesh turns to red fur. Your upper arm has changed into a Humanoid Fox upper arm!


That time I mixed up the transformation phrases and added the simultaneous change of the skin type from pale flesh to red or black fur.



I was just talking with my friend some more and he suggested that instead of writing the transformation type in the transformation notification, I just write how the transformation works and where, and let the player look at their body description to see what changed. That saves me from having repeated descriptions of the part and lets me focus on the description of the transformation.

So that would look something like this:

You got bit on the hand by the Humanoid Fox!

Your hand seems to melt and change shape!

Your forearm melts down as it changes shape!

Your upper arm itches then melts slightly, changing shape!


That's a bit easier to read, but I wonder about things like the sensuality of transformation.


9:10am - I spent a few hours studying the competition for inspiration and now I'm tuckered out.