Indie Will Fight for Food: Super Actual Sellout: Game of the Hour

[pyroary]

(yes, that's the real name of the game)

Hi Codex, I'm the developer of Unrest, a game some of you maybe-sorta-kinda liked! I've got a new game coming out on April 22, which is a full rewrite+remake of a game I made back in 2012.

WFFF: SAS: GOTH is a comedy Role Playing Beat 'em up where you play as a Luchador, and you can solve every scenario by either:

1. Talking to people like a reasonable person
2. Beating up the quest-giver or the quest-goal (or both)
3. Just beating up or talking to random people with disregard for the quest order
4. Your call really, you are the self appointed sheriff of the entire universe

A well written description is available on my website. There's also this trailer which sums up the game:



P.S. If the Codex mods would like review copies, PM me and I'll send them over!

 

[Norfleet]

Does it have extensive mask customization?

 

[I_am_Ian]

I am not sure if this is the right game for my family and I. Although I have always wanted to punch a small business owner.

 

[pyroary]

Does it have extensive mask customization?

We don't have the technology for that! Maybe once PC 2 finally comes out in the next decade.

 

[Morkar Left]

Doesn't sound bad. RPG or freeroaming beat'em up? Or both?

 

[pyroary]

I am not sure if this is the right game for my family and I. Although I have always wanted to punch a small business owner.

If small business owners don't float your family's boat, you can always punch politicians or large business owners.

You can punch characters from all walks of life.

If you plant a punch in the ground, it will grow up and become a tree that punches everyone.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

If this game allows to change the appearance of the protagonist to resemble El Grapadura from Angry Beavers, then I'm sold.

 

[pyroary]

Doesn't sound bad. RPG or freeroaming beat'em up? Or both?

It is both - you roam around in an open world city, and you can play the game like an RPG or a beat 'em up.

All scenarios can be solved peacefully or by using violence - and there's fun dialog and changes in the ending if you do crazy stuff like fighting people for no reason, deliberately doing quest stuff out of order and so on.

There's 3 distinct endings with a lot of minor stuff that changes depending on how you complete various scenarios.

 

[pyroary]

If this game allows to change the appearance of the protagonist to resemble El Grapadura from Angry Beavers, then I'm sold.

Right now there isn't player customization so you'll always look like a homeless luchador JC Denton, but we might add this in a future patch. No promises though

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Anything that even vaguely reminds me of River City Ransom is worth trying.

 

[pyroary]

Anything that even vaguely reminds me of River City Ransom is worth trying.

Yep, that was a big inspiration when we were making the game - although it doesn't exactly follow the same template

 

[ERYFKRAD]

But why can't you kill the fire hydrant?

 

[pyroary]

But why can't you kill the fire hydrant?

The tale of the golden fire hydrant is something you'll have to play the game to find out

 

[pippin]

I demand an El Santo skin

 

[pyroary]

I demand an El Santo skin

This is why you want to be making games with a budget of more than zero!

 

[Norfleet]

Eh, surely this cannot be too hard. You have to load the textures from somewhere, why not allow it to load the texture of the user's choice, so he can supply his own custom skin? I think this should be considered an integral feature, really. Otherwise your game is kind of a flop.

 

[pyroary]

Eh, surely this cannot be too hard. You have to load the textures from somewhere, why not allow it to load the texture of the user's choice, so he can supply his own custom skin? I think this should be considered an integral feature, really. Otherwise your game is kind of a flop.

Yeah, if different customization options are only color swaps then it is easy. But if customization also means drawing different fighting moves for different body types, different animations and (maybe) different dialog then it ends up being too costly for a small team like us.

Like Unrest, this is a game about playing as a certain character in the world and thus the PC is not a blank slate, so there's that to consider too.

BUT if just swapping out colors to include designs similar-but-not-copyright-infringing to El Santo and El Grapadura makes you guys happy, I'm all for it!

 

[naossano]

We don't see much food in the trailer. It might hurt the sales.

 

[pyroary]

We don't see much food in the trailer. It might hurt the sales.

You have to fight for what little there is...

 

[ghostdog]

This looks stupid and fun. I like it.

 

[pyroary]

This looks stupid and fun. I like it.

Thanks!

 

[Deuce Traveler]

P.S. If the Codex mods would like review copies, PM me and I'll send them over!

Crooked Bee
Jaesun

 

[Norfleet]

Yeah, if different customization options are only color swaps then it is easy. But if customization also means drawing different fighting moves for different body types, different animations and (maybe) different dialog then it ends up being too costly for a small team like us.

Of course. That's why I specifically mentioned the customization of your wrestleman mask.

 

[oscar]

I'd definitely be down.

 

[GlutenBurger]

You mean "Game of the Hour Edition," don't you? Because I think I get the joke, but it doesn't quite come across without the word "edition."

This thread is also a reminder that I need to do another playthrough of Unrest at some point. I finished it three times and never encountered its combat system.