Can You Play As A Girl?

[The Shadow Rose]

Just wondering cause most games growing up you played as a guy and had no choice in the matter. I personally have gotten tired of playing a guy in everything and always choose a girl if i have a choice since it makes it more interesting.

Just wondering if you could is all.

[Lin]

You can't, sorry. The dev answered that question a few times, including back way when here.

I personally find it is somewhat counteracted by the fact that this is not a generic roguelike but a specific story about Philip Kindred. It also helps that the game doesn't lack interesting female characters in the story paths. Plus, it's the sort of annoyance that I tend to find easier to forgive in one man projects than in triple A games. But all that may just be me rationalizing cause I just really like the game. ;)

[Cookie]

In order to implement female character option, the dev must redo and create a lot of stuff. E.g. kitchen as the player's spawn point etc.

[The Shadow Rose]

Originally posted by Cookie:

In order to implement female character option, the dev must redo and create a lot of stuff. E.g. kitchen as the player's spawn point etc.

Why kitchen and not the same cryo chamber?

Couldnt you just swap gender names in the story like instead of him say her etc and so on.

Theres no real need to switch anything around just change a few words as far as i can tell.

[Lin]

Are you actually expecting to have a discussion with a troll, @The Shadow Rose?

And no, you cant just swap names and pronouns as easily as you suggest, at least not in this specific game. Here's one more post[bluebottlegames.com] by the dev on why it isn't easy, with more detailed explanations.

[Cookie]

Originally posted by Lin:

Are you actually expecting to have a discussion with a troll, @The Shadow Rose?

And no, you cant just swap names and pronouns as easily as you suggest, at least not in this specific game. Here's one more post[bluebottlegames.com] by the dev on why it isn't easy, with more detailed explanations.

Oh, cmon. What, you're a feminist or smth?

[The Shadow Rose]

Originally posted by Lin:

Are you actually expecting to have a discussion with a troll, @The Shadow Rose?

And no, you cant just swap names and pronouns as easily as you suggest, at least not in this specific game. Here's one more post[bluebottlegames.com] by the dev on why it isn't easy, with more detailed explanations.

Ah okay thanks.

And it didnt occure to me he was trolling lol.

[Mado]

Generally it wouldnt change anything in game. The only change would be in dialogs and your apperance changed to have a little more cleavege ;). The gameplay impact is null in this case so why waste improtant time on non-important things :D

[Kaaven]

A little extra customization can never hurt ;) Especially if the dev can add a meaningful impact to it. But even a cosmetic choice can make each game more unique and different, which is nice.

But, as was mentioned, the game engine simply wasn't made in such a way to make implementing such changes possible without basically a massive re-write. In general, the game content quickly outgrew it anyway, with many more things than character customization. As a person who did a lot of modding for this game I can safely say, that the engine is barely holding in stitches, as it is, on many more fronts.

Luckily, the dev is already said he is thinking of a sequel, an engine for which should be more modern and friendly for additional modding and customization. And not in Flash, thanks heavens...

[pgames-food]

Yup its a bit more than perhaps making Philip into a Philippa :)

[Daniel@BlueBottleGames]

I originally wanted the player to be able to look like whatever they wanted. That's the reason the avatar is a gray-green, faceless humanoid. I was trying to avoid skin color, gender, etc.

But I kinda screwed-up that option with a few of the choices I made, and before I knew it, there was too much work to restore it. E.g. would have to redraw equipment sprites and paper doll for different body types, lots of text would need manual rewriting, etc.

Part of the growing list of mistakes I made in this first game:
- Crappy save file system
- No support for other languages/glyphs
- No way to do SteamWorks stuff (achievements, cloud)
- Poor Linux support
- Shoddy integration of permadeath with story
- Lack of keyboard customization
- Clunky compile/build process
- Unintuitive GUI
- Limited character customization (race, build, age, gender)
- Weird UI resolutions
- Unintuitive mod creation and installation
...

Though to be fair, Flash is to blame for more than a few of those :)

[Kioshi Rin]

You can play as my profile Badge, that's a reward in itself. =)

[Jester]

Originally posted by Cookie:

In order to implement female character option, the dev must redo and create a lot of stuff. E.g. kitchen as the player's spawn point etc.

Lol

[Arachnade]

Originally posted by The Shadow Rose:

Originally posted by Lin:

Are you actually expecting to have a discussion with a troll, @The Shadow Rose?

And no, you cant just swap names and pronouns as easily as you suggest, at least not in this specific game. Here's one more post[bluebottlegames.com] by the dev on why it isn't easy, with more detailed explanations.

Ah okay thanks.

And it didnt occure to me he was trolling lol.

how the ♥♥♥♥?

Originally posted by Cookie:

In order to implement female character option, the dev must redo and create a lot of stuff. E.g. kitchen as the player's spawn point etc.

Lol