Hello, guys. If i'm breaking some law you'll just delete this post, i suppose.

I'm currently in development of the game heavenly inspired by Shenmue and Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari. It's an open world game about japanese delinquents focused on story and small things that don't do much but matters a lot in the end (like feeding a cat in Shenmue).

So i'm just looking for players who could be interested.

Here's a greenlight trailer i made a year ago and some screenshots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrny2lpeT_s

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxYOdZnVIAIa_nj.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C01bcNGW8AElp6U.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw1G0bMXgAAqyIJ.jpg

http://ringo.by-yeo.ru/img/Ringo_gifs_2.gif

If you don't mind i'll be posting some news about the game once in a while.

Sorry for an adv.

Thanks for a kind words, fellas!

> Are you developing it all by your lonesome, or with other people?

I did it alone as a Kunio fan game with Technos sprites (although i did animations myself), then decided to make it big and my own so i hired 2 artists to draw graphics and animations. Music is royalty free. I tried to work with musicians but it turned out to be the most difficult ) But maybe i simply didn't find my man.

I'm working on it for 2 years and it's a final stage now (i hope). Planning to release it late April or May this year.

> So is this going to be on Steam?

Yeah.

> Just looked up some of the earlier Technos-style gameplay too; have to say, I really liked the atmosphere in some of the videos where snow is falling and it's got soft jazz playing.

It's Chet Baker's Alone together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SENykNkARzI

It was a short noir game at first. Now i made it a little longer with proper story but still it'll be 4-5 hours long.

> I know you haven't finalized the music, but that was a nice touch anyway.

No, i actually finalized the music. I have 3 original tracks and more than 20 royalty free. Downtempo, trip-hop mostly. Here's one of the original tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFClXXN5wM

Pull ups.

> Looks rad, how long 'till launch

Late april or may this year. I hope.

Shenmue-style training.

Sport clubs training work as cutscenes though. But you can work on the heavy bag anytime at yout room.

So the characters seen in the Greenlight video were drawn by your old man? I mean, I like the Technos "Nintendo World Cup style" characters but the ones in the Greenlight video look so much better and give this game so much more personality. Congratulations, your dad is awesome! =D>

Thank you )

I was trying to find a characters artist for 2 month (paid artist of course). And it was a hell. I asked to redraw a photo in this design i came up with. Mainly they said that my game is shit and wouldn't sell and money for an art are so low and all that stuff. Saddly that is a gamedev scene in russia looks like. And when I was totally tired and my mom asked about the game and artists I aked if she could ask dad once again (i asked once because he has some basic drawing skills but he refused cause he was trying to use Photoshop and was overwhelmed by it and said that pixel art is so hard and he can't do it at all). So this time I installed him graphics gale and teached the basics. And he slowly strarted to dig in.

Then he did all npc designs and made girls uniform. And about 700 frames of Ringo animations. He is not employed last years (because of age mostly) so I'm glad that he has something to do and to be passionate about now.

redline wrote:just spotted your game. it looks really good.

Thanks.

Added some 8-ball action (actually they play russian pyramid):

Working on ping pong now

Can you speak to all the NPCs? And are a lot of them named? Looks really good so far btw.

There're 6 types of NPC:
1. Your friends
2. Your classmates
3. Guys and girls from your school
4. Boys from other schools (whom you can beat)
5. Teachers, sellers, coaches etc.
6. Grown NPCs (13 of them)

You can speak with 1,2 and 5.

3 and 6 live in the game like shenmue's NPC, so you can follow them through backs (but like in shenmue it was a waste of my time to do this cause the player actually doesn't matter).

2 and 5 are stuck on their backs.

4 are hanging out on their territories, walking through town, fighting with each other.

1,2 and 5 are named.

Tired. Started to cut things out. So there won't be a dodgeball, and boxing, and basket, and...

Next time maybe. Next game.

His dad must have had some real badass drawing/sketching skills at the least before starting. Otherwise he wouldn't have been able to create art like that.[/color]

No, guys, you're wrong. You're exaggerating it. It's not too hard to redraw a photo. It takes some patience and time, and not too much of an initial skill. He can't draw an art for the game, for example. In any style.

Refreshed the game's trailer. It's basically the same as it was for greenlight.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/846110/The_friends_of_Ringo_Ishikawa/

Made a page.