Spiral Vortex Play

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Game Info
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game speed: 21 frames per second

current size: 30.8 mb swf, 32.3 mb exe

this game will run slow at times if your computer is old and crappy, or over 5 years old or so.
if it’s running slow or laggy, it’s your computer.

current keyboard controls:

action button = [A]
hairpin power button = [S] (have to have hairpin equipped)
sleep button [C] = maiko dozes off (speeds up time if held down)

going to have it where you can play with a controller. i’ll post the controller configurations when i have the key mapping placed better -_-;

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Maiko Stats
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the stats can be seen from the status menu, and after fights.

Popularity: overall popularity
melee: melee damage when fighting, starts at 15, +10 on level up
khalei: power damage when fighting, starts at 20, + 15 on level up
speed: total speed various things. used to travel for less time.
relation: number of relation points you have for that character
Time: remaining time for that task

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Areas
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mouse look areas.

all the first person view areas use the mouse to look around, and have buttons onscreen to right click to navigate to the corresponding area.

side scrolling areas.

areas where you can see Maiko on the screen in profile view are scrolling areas. use the left and right arrow keys to travel left and right.

side scrolling areas, and mouse areas, make up most of the areas. Icons are set below the timer to signify what type of area you are in.

currently there are 3 area types planned. the third one will show Maiko from the front or back. or at some angle.

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Mini Games
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Guitar Mini
have the guitar in the quick item slot and press the action button.

WERT controls fingers, right click controls strumming.
Strum with the correct string pressed down then the note is within the pick region to play the note.
Guitar skill builds for correct notes played. check in the status menu to verify.

note: the points update when you put away the guitar. currently, you have to put it away and re-equip it each time to get points.

You should not hear any strumming sound when notes are not played correctly.

Camera Mini
have the camera in the quick item slot and press the action button.

hold the action button and click the mouse to take pictures. none of them are saved permanently but it is use to complete requests of pics that people want you to take pics of. also planning for use of achievements and unlock-able stuff.

Talking Mini
in certain mouse look areas student will approach Maiko and initiate conversation. three options are available currently. you can talk to them, get them to join you, or leave.

talk options open a list of subjects to select. you the mouse to select the topics you want to discuss with the person you are talking to. use the arrow keys to scroll through the options. the person will respond differently to each topic. Relation points with that person can be gained or lost from selecting topics. verify in the status menu.

join option put the player in you friend slot. this represents the person traveling with you. they will appear onscreen in certain mouse look areas and when fighting. each person traveling with you has different effects and multiple effects. current effects will be listed.

Pattie: can use friend assist in combat, she does 30 damage
Luma: +2 studying
Riley: +1 studying, no relation loss from teachers.
Amber: +2 studying

more effects are planned, people not listed have no effects currently. helpers damage is planned to increase the more they are used.

Fighting Mini
when traveling to different areas there is a 1 in 200 chance of getting into a battle during each frame if you are moving.
the game runs at 21 frames per second. so roughly when moving you’ll get into a fight every 9.5 seconds or so, give or take. a few seconds.

when fighting WASD to move
[J] = basic attack
[K] = power ability
[L] = dodge
[N] = grab
[M] = friend assist

after each battle, a screen will appear tallying up all experience gained that battle.

Classroom Mini

Normal Days
odd day schedule = Math, English
even day schedule = History, Science

example: on day 2
8 tasks: day start, be in history class before task 8 time depletes
7 tasks: history class is taking place
6 tasks: class change, be in science class before task 6 time depletes
5 tasks: science class is taking place
4 tasks: after class. normal school end. after school activities take place until end of tasks. you are free to do whatever.

inside the classroom is a mouse look area, you will want to have you textbook with you.
ARROW KEYS to look around. up, down, left, right. holing none down will cause you to look straight forward.
looking at a student too long causes them to look back at you.
wait until the class ends.

if you have your textbook use it with the the action button. this will place it on your desk. look down to see it. the teacher will call out page numbers you need to be on that page before they call the next page number to earn skill points for that subject. the page number is also displayed to the chalk board.

note: the chalkboard currently wont update until you look away from it.

Test Days
note: having the camera quick item with you will bug your ability to click the test paper.

test day are on days with a multiple of 3.
3,6,9,12, etc. they switch even and odd classes so you will have a test on a particular subject every 6 days.

look down and click the test papers to access the test menu.

cheating off cheat sheet. select the option from the test menu and look down. Maiko needs to have a cheat sheet in the quick item slot to use this.

cheat off someone else. select the option from the menu. look to the left or to the right to begin cheating for the answer.
you will get a zero and instant detention of the teacher catches you doing this.

once finish click the test papers again. you will be taken to the results screen and your average test score calculated. check the status menu after you leave this screen.

more mini games to be added.

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Quick Items
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guitar.
unlocks the guitar minigame by pressing the action button.

camera.
unlocks the camera minigame by pressing the action button.

textbook.
used to gain skill in subjects during class.

sunglasses.
used to prevent teachers from seeing you cheat.
students are not fooled by the when they look at you. Not implemented yet but it will be.

cap.
no use currently in this build.

body wash.
no use currently in this build.m

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Clubs
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Joining clubs and beating Luma in various events are an essential part of the game.

you can join clubs after you meet the requirements, ask characters when you meet them to join club.
if you meet the requirements you can join, if not you will learn what the requirements are.

~~to be finished later.~~

the point of this game is to get the highest score by answering all the questions correctly

the title screen

Sign in with your name and secret word created from UMCCM Character Generator

the menu

S.C. = student council
This is for moderators to create and delete classrooom sessions.

join
enroll in a classroom

watch
currently no function. it will be to watch games in progress.

the palm planner

join -
List-
Display all current class sessions

View-
See all the student in a certain class ID #
this requires you to manually type the class ID number in the small white box in the bottom right corner of the palm planner before clicking View.

Enroll-
Signup for classes where testing has not started
this requires you to manually type the class ID number in the small white box in the bottom right corner of the palm planner before clicking View.

UnEnroll-
remove yourself from classes where testing has not started
this requires you to manually type the class ID number in the small white box in the bottom right corner of the palm planner before clicking View.

starting a game

When you enroll into a classroom keep viewing the classroom to wait until you get 3 students in it.
It should update automatically though.

When you have 3, press the wide red bar at the bottom on the palm planner.
Here you will see all the students. When they are all in, student 1 can start the countdown sequence to start the game. The button at the bottom is to pause the countdown.

the classroom

to answer a question select a box on the left side with the mouse
then look down at your paper, click the paper to have you character begin solving the problem
this is usually the slowest way to solve problems.

After the game the button in the upper right return you to the title screen.

abilities

Kahlei Abilities
Green – Solve problems faster normally.
Purple – Sleep
Blue – Flash
Red – Ability cooldown reduction

cheat sheet
the cheat sheet is used to almost instantly solve a problem
to use it make sure your ability is active. the click the cheat sheet and the question you want
after this click the test paper to begin solving the problem, you will finish it much faster then normal
you don’t want the teacher to catch you doing this, make sure he is looking down

changing answers
during the game you can change other players answers
make sure your ability is active
to do this click your own question box you want changed for the target player.
after this, look to a side click the test paper on the desk of the player you want to target
on their game that question will be changed to a “X”, we sure the teacher does not see you doing this.

Sleep ability
during the game you can force the teacher to look down and doze off
make sure your ability is active, and you have at least one hairpin with purple khalei
to do this ability click the teachers face. he will fall asleep shortly after.
if not some one probably flashed him to make him stay attentive right after you did your ability!

Flash ability
during the game you can force the teacher to look up and be attentive
make sure your ability is active, and you have at least one hairpin with blue khalei
to do this ability click the teachers face. he will look up and be attentive for a while.
if not some one probably used sleep on him to make him doze off right after you did your ability!

additional information

if student 1 (the session host), disconnects from the game that classroom will be ruined and needs to be remade my a S.C. member. Please post if this happens.

I tend to update the look of my characters frequently. This is usually inspired from art I see that is way better than my own XD

It inspired me to step it up a bit in terms of graphics. Graphic wise I’m currently working on updating templates I use to create simple things. An example of this would be the story elements in Umichan Slap. For that I just threw together bunch of Body parts and faces. It takes a while to make the templates but it allows for smooth streamlined content. Below is an example for how character are currently being updated. Both Maiko and Riley have come a long way from their look in games like Umichan Snowball Holiday lol.

This post is the first part of something I have been meaning to to for a while now.

As I mentioned in my “Site Updates 11/15/2011″ front page post I’m almost done with many updates. These updates will allow for others as well as myself streamline content to this site in the near future.

If you have some sort of ability to generate content based on the sections on this site you will have opportunities to create revenue from it on this website as it grows. This includes games, images, video, animation, audio, tutorials, apps. from mild skill to exceptional skill levels.

There is no site that I am aware of that enables you to upload this wide variety of content, and include both adult content and non-adult content, and allow you to make money from it. This is why I’ve been spending time and effort to create such a place. Based on how long it has taken, and how many hoops you have to jump through I’m starting to see why it doesn’t exist anywhere. Or at least why I can’t find it easily.

Currently in place, is three ways for people who decide to peruse this. Keep in mind more than one way can be applied to a single work. One way, is this website directly sponsors said work. The second way is a percentage based revenue based on profits the website makes. This percentage is based on voting of your work by the community and guests who visit this website. The final current method is a community based project where users can come together to make something. In this method, funds are allocated upfront and delivered upon completion of your section of the project.

Also a feature here is to optionally have your works default copyright under our official copyrights. There are terms to this naturally where we can’t run off and claim your work for ourselves. But this provides you with legal protection that will hold up in court under US law. And allow you to recover from damage, losses, etc.

many site features I have created require you to make a forum account. I currently have it set to manual approval for sign-ups as I have seen many spam bot accounts.

If you are interested in this, or know somebody who is, contact me at:

SVortex00@hotmail.com (two zeros)

Optionally, add the name you applied to the forum with so I can approve it.

be on the look out for part 2.

-V00

almost with a generic 4 player AI script that can be applied to all the characters in DoE.
from there they will have unique stuff added the that base script.

the stuff i need to do for work has had me bogged down lately, to the point where by the time I get back home I don’t feel like doing anything. It should clear up at the end of this week though.

I started back working on games and stuff I had been working on. I had paused to work one this website a bit.
Not everything is obvious just yet but i’m still testing what I gave done on a off and on basis.

Some links are still broken.

The last thing in this go around I wanted to do for the site, I’ll worry about it later, maybe next week or so. There is also some paperwork for the site I am coming to an end to.

I started working on some short term stuff too. a few edit/additions to H games I have seen floating around.

Still working out a few last site changes today and tomorrow. hopefully that’s how long it will take, and not any more. I have a few issues that seem to not be working correctly.

if you find some ares of the site with errors or broken links. I’m working it out.
Ive been doing live updates for the fast few days now. most not effecting the current pages. But now it starting to effect them. The end result will be worth it though.

Outstanding work:

scripts for this site.
Soundtrack for a H-game
UMCCM character generator
2 pictures
UMCC
DoE Animations/Cut scenes and 4pvs w/ Ai
1 video

that’s off the top of my head.

making pages where users logged into the forums can upload all sorts of various media types.

also made the main domain into the main page of the site.

I will be re-linking stuff over the next little bit. so stuff linking back to the home page will be broken for a bit.