Halforums Academy 2 Story Commentary Thread

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Man... Doc Cupcake's face...

Next Season on Halforums Academy: Halforums Summer Vacation! Volley Ball as a Game of Death?!
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

I know Gas is going to appreciate the free time he now has, but I'm going to miss HFA!

I'm surprised there wasn't a single pregnancy. The murders were par for the course. Instead of burning down the school and salting the earth, they should have instituted a "Defense Against the Dark Teachers" class. It also stinks we couldn't get any standings at the end.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Celt Z said:
I know Gas is going to appreciate the free time he now has, but I'm going to miss HFA!

I'm surprised there wasn't a single pregnancy. The murders were par for the course. Instead of burning down the school and salting the earth, they should have instituted a "Defense Against the Dark Teachers" class. It also stinks we couldn't get any standings at the end.
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I, too, was surprised about the lack of pregnancies. Turns out the pullout method is 100% effective in this game, which is kind of a rip if you ask me. As only 1 class period went by on day 29, the final standings wouldn't be TOO different from what they were at the end of day 28. I'll see about getting a count of stats from there.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

The AA2 wikis out there say that if the player character is murdered, it's an instant GAME OVER. Did you know this before trying to chase the teacher all over the place? (Or was the Hand of Fate well aware of this, and ran with it when the opportunity presented itself?)
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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DarkAudit said:
The AA2 wikis out there say that if the player character is murdered, it's an instant GAME OVER. Did you know this before trying to chase the teacher all over the place? (Or was the Hand of Fate well aware of this, and ran with it when the opportunity presented itself?)
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I was aware of the consequences of the control character being murdered, but I honestly thought I had a (small) chance of "talking down" the teacher since she seemed to be focusing on Dream Goddess. It IS actually possible to raise someone back up out of TOGETHER FOREVER to normal status.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Film Fanatic -
1 relationship
1 sexual partner
Academics: A
Phys Ed: F
Items:
Ms Crone's Self-authored Book of Insults
Wasabi's Mix Tape
Film Fanatic's Underwear
Couplings:
Film x Wasabi - 93 times, no condoms.
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93 times and no condoms? Impressive.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Not-so-fun fact:

I did the playthrough for day 29 while Pez was still MIA.
I had serious misgivings about moving forward until we found out he was ok.
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filmfanatic said:
93 times and no condoms? Impressive.
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Let's just say if anybody ever comes near you two with a blacklight, they'll be able to spot you from the ISS.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Other post-wrap thoughts

If I had to do it over again, I'd change a couple things (besides the production value of the first several episodes!). I'd crank the "pregnancy danger" slider to max (I had left it at normal) now that I know how unusual pregnancies actually are. I'd also work up a points system for rolling characters to make things more balanced. Say, 10 points to split between INT/STR/VIR, with point modifiers for helpful/harmful quirk traits.

I think the reason Dirona and Cheesy were riskier than Wasabi and Film was because Chirona more often tried to find private spots for their dalliances, meaning they got interrupted less.

Kinda disappointed at how meaningless/random the personal item exchanges ended up being.

Half considering compiling a soundtrack for download, if there's an interest.

Heh, is anybody besides me going to actually go through with getting a shirt made?

I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it humorous how the characters who most heavily maxed themselves in character creation ended up. Meanwhile, Ash proved that slow and steady does indeed win the race when it comes to popularity.

Possible OVA: Halforums Academy Battle Royale? Flag ALL characters as evil, last standing wins?

Also I have now directed SO much porn of you guys (I had to make sure bad sex didn't ruin relationships, after all) that I'm absolutely tired of it. Tired, tired, tired of it. Your naked bodies are the oldest of news.

I had some really good music picked out that I never got to use because there just wasn't enough time or the right situation never arose.

Illusion hasn't started working on AA3 yet. I haven't even heard if they are planning to do so at all.

I wish there was a way to export models from AA2 for use in MMD.

If I didn't have to work and had unlimited spare time, I'd probably try my hand at coding a HFA MUD, to host here in the games section.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

I might be interested in a shirt. Li'l Z is about to start preschool,so I need something to wear in front of the other parents. :D

Was a final design decided on?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Celt Z said:
I might be interested in a shirt. Li'l Z is about to start preschool,so I need something to wear in front of the other parents. :D

Was a final design decided on?
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The school crest and the title logo are pretty much set as they were posted earlier. You can arrange both or either on a shirt as you see fit at any one of a number of custom shirt-making sites. I had thought of coming up with just one "official" shirt design but it seems to me people might like it better if they could customize it more to their liking.[DOUBLEPOST=1438792852,1438792663][/DOUBLEPOST]If you want, I can repost the crest and title logo when I get home, for convenience's sake.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Another post-wrap thought:

I really, really wish there had been better asset support for male teachers. If there had been a "male teacher" outfit, I wouldn't have needed to genderbend myself into Petra, and I'd also toyed with the idea of Icarus being a teacher as well.
 
Dei

Dei

I feel like in the first AA, the teacher had to catch a student alone to murder them? That probably would have made things more interesting, and less futile feeling. Though Petra waited to catch the first one alone, the other two just didn't care.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dei said:
I feel like in the first AA, the teacher had to catch a student alone to murder them? That probably would have made things more interesting, and less futile feeling. Though Petra waited to catch the first one alone, the other two just didn't care.
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There was no teacher in the first AA. The murderer was a student. The exact circumstances of the murder are unknown.

Also, the first two murders in AA2 were not actually shown (the game doesn't give you the instant replay of the murder), I had to go back to the old save and "recreate" them later to get the footage.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it humorous how the characters who most heavily maxed themselves in character creation ended up. Meanwhile, Ash proved that slow and steady does indeed win the race when it comes to popularity.
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I was actually a bit inspired by how things played out last time. Ash was a wall flower in AA1 and really only got to be important in the immediate aftermath of the murder that season... her eccentricity actually managed to keep her from falling into the depression spiral like everyone else, so she was around to play medic and try to prevent suicides. As such, I used that sort of idea as my strategy this semester (basically, I wanted recreate her character actions from AA1). The only reason this strategy worked is...

- I was the only one who picked Delicate.
- Popularity isn't just a measure of "How much I want to fuck them" but also a measure of "This person helps handle my moods".
- Second Highest morality meant that Ash wouldn't have sex outside of a relationship, which meant she had more time to go around and manage moods.
- We had TWO MURDERS and some characters were more hostile this semester. This gave Ash more moods to manage, bumping up her popularity.
- Showing up at group events seemed to boost everyone's popularity (with the host getting a bigger bump) and well... Ash wasn't going to turn down lunch. Kind of surprised how often she went to the workout sessions though.

Things I would have done differently...

- One of the physically oriented clubs. Culture Club boosted Ash's knowledge buy EVERYONE had high intelligence and that sent a cascading effect of Knowledge boosting through the entire school maxing almost everyone Knowledge. A physically oriented club would probably have helped her do better on her tests.

Things I probably should have expected...

- Everyone coming up to her, telling her to loose weight. Japanese high school kids are fucking awful.

Regardless, this ended up being funny as hell. You did an amazing job of everything @GasBandit.
 
Eriol

Eriol

Good job. Very entertaining.

And I agree, a stat max, with points also impacting the perks you can/can't use, etc, would be very interesting. So don't have Evil give you more, but don't allow certain ones if you aren't smart, aren't athletic, etc.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Eriol said:
Good job. Very entertaining.

And I agree, a stat max, with points also impacting the perks you can/can't use, etc, would be very interesting. So don't have Evil give you more, but don't allow certain ones if you aren't smart, aren't athletic, etc.
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I was also thinking ones like "bad with boys/girls" would get you an extra point or two to spend, whereas beneficial ones might cost a point or two.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Ok, as promised to @Celt Z , attached are the crest and title logo. I don't recommend using the crest to take up the whole front of a shirt, given that it is only 600x734 so pixelation will be very noticeable if you make it 8 inches tall or more.[DOUBLEPOST=1438820705,1438820479][/DOUBLEPOST]I'll probably end up going with imprint.com to make my shirt, though if anybody has a good experience with another site, I'd like to hear about it.[DOUBLEPOST=1438820986][/DOUBLEPOST]And I'll probably end up doing something like this

 

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GasBandit

GasBandit

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drifter said:
If someone wants a bigger crest, I can probably recreate it as a vector image. Just let me know.
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I wouldn't mind it, myself... my first choice would be a giant crest on the front with a medium title logo at its peak. I'm just no good at making vectors from renders.
 
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