Curly's Weird Crusade has been released

     Alright, now it's on, time to shine!.. Oh wait, I forgot to say hello!

Hey, so uh, new blog post huh?
Last blog post was more accurate to shitpost than a dire need to release this thing.

Well, now it is out, a demo of Curly's Weird Crusade, I've posted it on the forums and Doukutsu Club to uh, pretty deceiving debut, only one person answered, he didn't even played the game, just said it was interesting.

Well sometime the important part isn't the debut, is what you make of it, the beginning can suck as long as it gets better. - something monty oum said about RWBY.

 

I don't really know what to say else except that the game got a pretty positive general feedback, despite not having a lot of people play it, still, it isn't the number, it's the quality, if three people out of 522 liked it, than I'll conquer the 519 next!

I was kind of stressing out about how absolutely nobody seemed to gave a shit, when I went on the CSMC to ask(thing that brings huge stress and anxiety to me, I know absolutely nobody in the CSMC, I'm scared people would just dislike me for whatever reason.) eli said that apparently it's because modfest is a thing rn and people are busy, yeah when it's that one shitpost mod everybody got the time but when a full fledge mod comes out nngh no time to waste on such undisciplined level design Kris!! 

Jokes aside, I did see a person saying it was great and he was waiting for chapter 3, it's these kind of moments that make my heart tingle, just knowing someone out there that you don't know is waiting and expecting you to finish your project and bids you good luck, it's such a sweet feeling.

Well I don't have anything else to say, apart of the fact that I released a patch today fixing the missiles of Balrog, too bad, I liked it when it was fish.

Maybe I should try to be more social and go on the CSMC more to talk? But it's a huge nest of drama and unrelated people, it's blblbl idk, it seems to have changed then from my memory, maybe since BLink is gone. Who knows and true to the fact, no one cares.

I should atleast be happy that people have absolutely no bad things in regard to the mod, which I am but it didn't hit the world by storm, maybe it shouldn't, maybe it should just slowly become a classic or a good experience, a lot of mod were built on over time dedication and creation, updates over updates, as long as it stays coherent, everything should be fine.

This mod tick me off.

     Hey, how you be doing?
    Yeaah, nobody be reading those forum posts anyway so I can do whatever I want *hum* *hum*
    AAAASSSS

So, remember when I was talking of a potential release in August.

Yeah remember that?

Curly's Weird Crusade has been, in a WEIRD state! *cue laugh tracks* hahah I will shit on your tombstone.

Okay, more seriously (holy fuck I can't stop laughing while writing this now) Curly's Weird Crusade has been cycling in a little patern for, over a year now?

What started originally as a side project became a hole filled with a one person contribution and the person making it(me) just braindead from all of this.
Curly's Weird Crusade was originally, a side project, it was a mod I would make on my spare time when I had no other things that I'd want to do, it was a mod that just had silly idea and concepts I randomly got while doing other stuff like: What if the first chapter could be skip entirely with the machine gun, what if a narrator just harassed you throughout the game etc etc...

 I've kinda had an epiphany over the state of the game in my mind, I realised that I'm not really making the mod for me and my silly ideas, but I'm doing it for someone else, someone else that mainly get the ideas now, that's why I had so little ideas for the mod, it's because I've been focusing too much on it and the mod lost it's meaning, it's original concept to my eyes.

I don't even know if people would like Curly's Weird Crusade and truth be told, I wouldn't care, this mod can flop all it want it won't matter, all I wish is to have something I would grow fond of and have no regrets over little things I did because I wanted it to be this way. No game is perfect, nor is any mod and anybody that dares to call on one hand a mod shitty should give themselves a good look, from what I've seen, people coming to harsh conclusions are also the ones that says the most bullshit in one sitting. The idea of publishing Curly's Weird Crusade didn't cross my mind before I showed it off to the person I was mentionning before, atleast on the forums and Doukutsu Club, it would have been posted here and that's it.

This post is more of a gargle of a mess, it's mostly to express to anyone and maybe someone in particular how I feel toward this, it isn't cancelled or what but I just realized I had other things I were more focused on and I need to focus on them to get better. I'm not mad in any way.

I want to focus on getting better and find the fun of making things for myself first.

Until then, peace. <3

Update about chapter 3

    Hey~.

    How do you do on this summer vacation?
    Terrible?
    Normal since: You're here.

Jokes aside, here's a little update about Curly's Weird Crusade as chapter 2 is soon to be finished and chapter 3 is still ongoing despite being a near over chapter.

I'll start by chapter 3 as it's the chapter with the least to talk about for now.

First of all, a whole scheme has been rethought for chapter 3, I originally intended to make it a metroidvania style area where you could go and get spare parts around the levels, that is still the intention but I decided to make it a bit more straightforward as I noticed it would keep the flow of the game on a good pace.
But the game still keep the idea of backtracking as you'll need to get back to a certain place to be able to assemble your booster.
There'll be a sub-plot to that area and I won't say anything except: It's a Rooster Teeth reference.

So since we went over chapter 3, it's time for chapter 2's update... Oh boy, it's update time!

Chapter 2 is done by StudioDixel(Suote), he has been on it for about six months now fault of him not having so much time and working on other projects, many thanks to him for his dedication and hard work.

Woo can't capture everything.

Chapter 2 is a waterway level where you have to naviguate in the water and not drown.
This level has been done for a little while now but I think now is a good time for a sneak peek.

In this chapter, you find Quote that drowned in water and you have to get to a cabin to soak him out in the big lines. The level is pretty big and surprisingly longer then chapter 1.
The level is a huge water level that you'll dash through by keeping your past momentum and use the air zones to your advantage.
After it, and after soaking Quote out. You'll be taken to the pipes which is a new style of gameplay that will be used in an extra boss. It plays like the Ironfish bossfight, you go through a level where you have to naviguate through hazards and enemy to activate switches to continue onward. It's very fun and all credit to Dixel for making it.

This chapter is pretty packed already, you can look forward to more of this for chapter 4.

 Anyhow, I think this is enough for July's update, thanks for reading and look forward for a plausible demo in August, no promises, but chapter 1 and 2 are complete to be played.

Chapter 3 progress

    Hey, how are you doing.

Chapter 3 is advancing, slowly but surely, it's a pretty big chapter compared to the first. (lol)

I've been working a lot on the maps, so much that I might got burn out so I took a pretty big break of it and came back with a bunch of ideas, always refreshing to do something else.
On another note, this is the map that follows the one of the earlier post.
No, not the CWC is cancelled april fools.

You start at the top left, make your way down, pass through the Gaudis, avoid the Buyo, kick the Fire Whirr guy and continue up there to use the moving blocks to go next.

For the next level, I actually got some buddy's help to do some part of it, he told me he had an idea when I said I wasn't sure of what I could do next, turns out. He was a god at level design.

 

 

He started from the little pool water with a slope, apparently his original idea was a little maze part and I was okay with that, it was an idea I had in my first mod.

So far so good, I hardly update on Curly's Weird Crusade these times, mostly because I hope I'll be able to release it before the end of the year. I realised that to release the mod in August would be a terrible hindsight to how much the game is missing at the moment, I also changed my plans about the numbers of chapters there will be. Originally I planned on making eleven chapters along with a bonus one making a count of twelve, but after some time, I realised how long and how much a chapter takes to be made with the amount of content and ideas there is, no way I could make eleven chapters. in a reasonable time frame. So on second thought, I decided to divide it by two and making six chapters, six chapters will be enough to tell the story and not make the mod feel lengthen down.

Until next time, see you around.

Curly's Weird Crusade... Cancelled...

    Yes.. Today is a sad day.

I have to admit it, even how much my heart is shattered by that realization, no matter how big the tears drip, it's time I get real.
Curly's Weird Crusade is quite simply impossible to be made, this game takes too many good will to be done, it's irredant and too productive, I need to progress in other more promising activities like discovering every flavor of Monster Energy or watching the rest of RWBY.

That's why I decided to give up on Curly's Weird Crusade, the project is too well thought out and is way too high standards compared to what I work with.

That is why I decided to start a whole new project to replace that old shallow cave story mod!

Cave Story 3!

You heard it folks, the long awaited sequel sequel to one of the obvious best video games of all time is here!

In collaboration with: Super Cave Story, Mega Cave Story, Cave Story.

This project will feature brand new storylines and astonishing new graphics, along with new characters and weapons that will completely be original. The storyline will be about Ballos, that comes back as the doctor but everybody think it's the doctor and they try to kill the doctor but turns out it's actually Ballos.

Quote and Curly go on a field trip to the island to collect more death flags and happen to stumble upon some strange technology from a mimiga doctor that ate a red flower and they work together to be able to take down the doctor and change the world!

Quote will be accompagned by new weapons, like the Spur V.2, the Machine bubbler and the fire missiles to take down the vile Ballos doctor from executing his evil depression!

 
April fools.

In the work...

    Hey.

So quick update about Curly's Weird Crusade, after quite a bit of time. I finished a level that will serves as a transition to a slight overworld.
Chapter 3 is going to be like a metroidvania, in said chapter, you're supposed to go find missing parts to fix a booster 2.0 to be able to go back to Waterway and up to a path you couldn't access before.

The area is gonna be pretty big, you'll be able to gain some optional items. (Turbocharge, other guns, etc...)

W.I.P Videos, that I posted on Tumblr showcasing how the beginning was thought out. 

"To get started, you have to manage to activate block over you so it places on the left so you'll be able to jump on it later, if you fail at that, you're gonna have to go the block under to get to jump on it, if you haven't managed to get over the platform (if you didn't jump or if there's no moving block to stand on), you can go over to the vertical block to go upways and try again. So that's the beginning, with a pit of spike that has a little opening for a safe landing, after that you have a heart because this is right after a boss fight so a bit of health is welcomed and you have your first enemy that is a breeze with the snake."

Public Demo Release

    You heard it, Curly's Weird Crusade will get a public demo.

    It has the chapter 1 and 2's partially finished, chapter 3 will be locked out for now,
    not that there's nothing but the chapter is mostly unfinished even if most maps are playable with a
    goal, etc...

If you want to give out your thoughts, either do it in the comments or you may go in the channel:
#curly-s-weird-crusade-thoughts, to do so on my discord server. 

Public Demo Build 05/03/21

Thanks for playing!

New Level done: The Doors

    Hello guys, doing fancy today how about you?
    Mind I say you look extra good anyway, no matter how bad you do.

Anyhow, new update, a new level by one of my pals, Espeon78, go check the few things he made in Cave Story like uh, that one Blargo sequel I guess.

The doors.

    Yeah get it because um, there's doors?

The whole level principle is that those doors teleports you to another door of the level for all of them and you have to activate the two switches that are located around the level, apart of some polishing, this level looks pretty cool, it's a little maze that isn't jarring to go through.

There's some few level design twitches to do like making so those moving blocks don't overlap each other.

Other then that, the level is fine and dandy.

 

Well that's what I have in store for today, I decided to take a little break when I have to wait for someone's contribution on the project and when I come back, I'm just so full of ideas.

I will consider posting some public demos in the future once Chapter 2 is entirely finished and polished, I could put Chapter 3 in it too even if I'm pretty sure I won't, Chapter 3 still has a lot more to do and I doubt that when Chapter 2 will be finished, Chapter 3 will be fine and dandy to play.

 

Then again, two chapters are maybe too short?

They don't really leave you on a cliffhanger that make you want to play more of it.

Eh, whatever I just have ideas on how to market this.

I will make a post about the beginning of the game itself soon and also because I really want to show off Studio Dixel's work on Chapter 2, it's just... So good!!

Well thanks for checking in, that's all I have for today once again and I hope you'll enjoy the mod, I will take in consideration the critics that are adressed in the public demo once released, for now most play testers are positive about the mod apart of spelling errors. ^^'

Until then, see you later. Bye 👋

Introduction

 The awakening to a stranger's adventure...

This is a development blog for my Cave Story side project mod, Curly's Weird Crusade.
I'll post some of my progress or random thoughts here instead of Twitter about the project along with some patch files and videos.

Yeah you heard it right, side project, I work on this thing when I have no idea of what to do or don't feel up to anything creatively and I guess that feeling comes really often because I did a quarter of the game. This project started in August of last year (2020) and has been going on until now, some people did their share in level design and some beta testers passed over it in this due of time.

What is Curly's Weird Crusade?

Curly's Weird Crusade (or as the numbreous intentional mistake throughout the adventure calls it, Curly Weird Crusade) is a Cave Story mod starring Curly as the (unintentional) protagonist as she is narrated by a voice that is from an unexperienced writer that wants to improve on his work.
The mod is mostly issued on humor, a fun little story which resembles the disconnected nature of some fanfictions, emulating the feeling of stopping/starting and slowing down/speeding up and down in certain parts during reading an actual fanfiction.

The mod issued of a general breakdown of criticism I heard from testers and I took most pros and decided to toy around with them.

This is a non-profit project that uses copyrighted material.

I hope you'll enjoy the mods and check in further for future updates, tell about it to your dog, your mom and most especially, your sex doll!

Until next time, bye. 👋