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Posted by zephyo - June 11th, 2016
HI guys!! I'm real happy; my game, Suppressed, is on Greenlight!
The Greenlight page - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=701623320&result=1
Please vote for it if you'd like to play! It's fully finished; just looking for bugs now.
Suppressed is a visual novel and 2D platform game. You play as a boy in a rural village, looking to escape from a totalitarian nation modelled after North Korea.
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them :D
the soundtrack is really cool
Incidentally, I'd written a song (it's still not finished yet, due to my ongoing Steam project which is also open for Greenlight voting). Once that's done I'm returning to it.
That song is called Wandering Sparrow, and talks about the kocchebi -- orphaned street children, or abandoned street children, who have been that way since the NK famine until this very day.
Wonder if I should link it here... see, because of the stark subject matter, it's something I hold close to my heart.
I'd love to see your Steam project, and you should definitely link your song here! I want to hear it. Do you do a lot of research on NK?
My most recent newspost has a link to my Steam project.
I'd been doing a lot of research on NK, but my research is really secondhand information. I wouldn't go there or want to go there unless it's an ambassador's trip, because Britain has an ambassador to NK. There'd be no way in hell that I'd want to support that regime.
As for Wandering Sparrow, I'll post it in the next comment. Handling this from a phone makes it hard to switch windows...
Ley Lines is really beautiful, and it has interesting gameplay!
Yes, it's really hard to get firsthand/accurate unbiased info in NK. What have you found out about NK so far?
I really love Wandering Sparrow btw. I downloaded it heh it's so beautiful :')
https://instaud.io/nk0
Right, this is how far I've gone with this song.
1. Gift politics and the secret room that brings in foreign currency
2. The state of affairs at Kwalliso 14 and 18
3. That really, what NK is practising right now is a form of national socialism, but it's never referred to by that term
4. How the US and South Korea flew balloons over the DMZ in the 70s... apparently carrying porn. The prudish NK outlaws it completely.
5. The education system there
6. The healthcare there, which is nonexistent. Foreign doctors were flown in to treat 1,000 cataract patients once. Aide Médicale Internationale struggles with its work, and any doctor who complains about having no money for medicine will be killed almost immediately.
7. The Catholic churches in Pyongyang don't do Catholic prayers. One French visit showed that the Mass only lasted 20 minutes, and there was no liturgy of the Eucharist, i.e. the distribution of Communion. Party members were masquerading as priests to give the illusion of religious freedom. I understand a smattering of Korean so I could find out that when they were doing the sign of the cross, they said Suryong -- Great Leader -- as if making the Kims their holy trinity. All the veneer of Catholicism they were trying to show couldn't hide that.
8. There is more dissent among the NK people for things that aren't entrenched in the law. If something isn't in the law and is just enforced by the police and army as a method of control, people have been seen to disobey and fight back.
Based on the video demo, I'll vote for it. Just upset that I can't get Firefox to play the NG or IO demo, or any Unity title for that matter.
Uugh, I'm really hoping this weekend to put the necessary time into bug testing. At least I figured out things that the 'professionals' couldn't... even though I'm paying them lol :(
take your time! What things?
My truck for one.. an internal gasket blew out, started pumping hot spent fuel into the cooling system, so I cant travel more than a mile or two before it overheats. The mechanics think the block's cracked, and yet it might be, but it wasn't the cooling system that failed (so far as I could tell). Anyway, unless I can give specific instructions on what I'd like done, the repair/replacement costs would be, like twice the value of the truck, which was my Pop's before he died before x-mas 2012... Also some problems getting a microphone, fixing 2 toilets, the fun never ends.
Wow, that sucks. I hope you get it all fixed soon. It's the life of an adult with responsibilities and occasional pitfalls!
The pitfalls can be mundane and local, or they can be catastrophic and global, either way it's tough for one person alone to handle them without friends and family to shoulder the burden (not necessarily the responsibility).
Definitely; if you ever want to rant about your burdens I'll be here. Pitfalls are inevitable.
Well... one of them is your game, which I would classify as a realistic horror. I can deal with blood n guts, but having to walk a little boy through a place like North Korea is pretty damn heartbreaking.
You get the text lined up in the dialog boxes yet? So far that's the only major faux pas I'm seeing so far, I hope to have a list of 'issues' PMed to you soon. Really glad the comments have been positive so far.
Yep yep :( I'm glad it elicited a strong reaction. And my text isn't lining up? Can you name specific slides; that's not very good. I await your PM!
Oh, on PC Win7 Pro 64bit... I gotta mess with settings I'm sure, but it looks like the white text is almost a full (text; paragraph) line above where it should be. First line of text is in the white text box, nasty off-set, but to be fair, when the game is full screen, there's a little bit of the upper window title bar visible, enough to see the program name and application running it. Here;s a screencap http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/86299c86318ca6be751ba06fcb0ca604
Noo omg yeah that happens when the window isn't in the right aspect ratio. When you open the .exe, is there a startup menu called "Suppressed Configuration"? You're supposed to select a resolution from there that will prevent this.
Not in the installed in-game menu... I'll reinstall, let you know.
Uh oh. FYI it looks like http://i.imgur.com/PFo6fJN.png
Nope, option isn't coming up. And there's no option for uninstall, either in the program file or in Windows program manager. And you're running Apple, yeah? So I'm talking oranges lol, it's likely a flaw within Unity itself, or the zipped packaging.
Game still works sorta, and since you wrote it and drew it, I'm gonna go the distance.. hoping I don't see anything that brings up memories of how cheap life can be, how hard to maintain...
Derp! Can you redownload it again? (I'm so sorry). I did some bug fixes, enabled the configuration menu (found out that it was hidden -facepalm-). It should work now.
Okey dokey, getting it from the itch.io site now!
Good.. it's up and running w/ the options list opening each time. Small bug: if you just run to the end on the first level, hitting X won't cancel the last text, you gotta hit pause then you can move around again.
Hm ok putting it on a list. (Can't take care of it now, in summer school)
Aww, you flunked a class(es)? No problem, I can't rush things either, takes a bit of stomach to go down the rabbit hole of human misery lol
No, haha I'm in Governor's school, a summer school for "gifted and talented" kids.
We used to call it TAG but it was only available in grammar school, not as a summer course. Eh, who ever said New Jersey fosters the best and brightest, was likely on the take. Is it just generalized college level stuff, or do they have specific courses?
Interesting to know. It's specific; for me, courses are centralized around visual arts.
Troisnyx
Voted yes, due to my ongoing prayers and interest in what's going on in North Korea. I am grateful that you at least made a game to remind people about the situation there. It may seem like little, but I hope it creates ripples among the gaming community, and the world at large.
zephyo
Definitely. North Korea is sometimes made out to be a joke, but some of the things that go on in there are really horrid. More should know about it.