nkornek Posted December 15, 2017 It's late but it's done! This is Celebrity Explainer is a game about writing biographies for very real celebrities. Just launch the game and in no time you'll be filling out a short quiz to help explain away the ambiguities of the lives of the rich and famous. Grab it right here: https://nkornek.itch.io/celebrity-explainer Once you've finished explaining, you can hit the photo button to save your results (it'll automatically create a folder called Celebrity Explainer in your computer's My Pictures directory to store them) and share your results on social media with #celebrityexplainer. Design and Programming by me, Nick Kornek Sweet sweet art by the intrepid James Palermo *ORIGINAL POST BELOW* It's Wizard Jam time! The most magical time of twice a year! This is Celebrity Explainer will be a procedurally generated celebrity biography writing game. You'll start by being shown the name and picture of a definitely not fake celebrity and then using a procedural mad-libs style questionnaire you will cobble together a very credible biography listing their life events, achievements, controversies, and more! If all goes well with what's planned at the end you'll be able to tweet out your results. Sadly I won't have time to start developing until Monday but I've got a buddy of mine who will be making amazing face art to help out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phill Posted December 16, 2017 Sounds cool! Are you going to stick to just human celebrities, or will we get some crazy combos? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 16, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 12:05 AM, phill said: Sounds cool! Are you going to stick to just human celebrities, or will we get some crazy combos? We've got some ideas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 20, 2017 Not a ton of flashy stuff to show yet since I've mostly been working on database management stuff that'll speed up development going forward, but we've started doing some basic art tests with James' sweet sweet headshapes (complete with very fancy anchor placement gizmos). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 20, 2017 Alright, now that we've got a bit more art in the progress is starting to show. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nappi Posted December 20, 2017 Haha.. this is great! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 21, 2017 Some celebrity parts will be rarer than others for... reasons. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coughlinjon Posted December 21, 2017 thank you for this image Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
infamous space turtle Posted December 22, 2017 lol, the horror. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theschap Posted December 22, 2017 Ha ha, YES! Who can make the best monster!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 24, 2017 Loads more head parts and also random name generation! Next step is going to be to start the biography system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 25, 2017 Also starting to work on some layout stuff. So that it can be an actual game at some point. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted December 29, 2017 Hey y'all The holidays kind of threw things off a bit but the game is coming along well! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squires Posted December 30, 2017 That logo is way better than it has any business being. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nappi Posted December 30, 2017 Yeah, the logo is amazing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 4, 2018 Running hella late on this but it's just about done! Just needs a bit more formatting on the bios once they've been generated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 4, 2018 Aww yeah! Just a few finishing touches but this will be ready to release tomorrow! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hedgefield Posted January 5, 2018 God this is amazing. The quality of the descriptions is so good! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 5, 2018 It's done! Updating the original post with links Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 5, 2018 Don't forget to make sure you turn up your quality settings Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fabian Posted January 6, 2018 This is hilarious, I had a good laugh reading about my celeb, Viera Busderdva (who doesn't know her?!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 6, 2018 Her father knew how to handle ducks... ...but he never could deal with a goose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zirrrus Posted January 6, 2018 I'm an absolute sucker for madlibs/randomly generated text, so this is my jam. The whole game just oozes charm. Those faces, the backgrounds, ...that song. Oh, and the logo - perfect. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nappi Posted January 7, 2018 I like the randomly generated faces, except for the one neck configuration which I hate. The text generator is hilarious as well! Is it too early to call Best Original Soundtrack of 2018? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nkornek Posted January 7, 2018 The power of the songsmith Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
