To whoever just said this game had potential, i'd hate to be a douche but you're really wasting your breath with that statement. This was the upgrade, this was the expansion, this was the improvement, and it's shit.

Every time Crowchild makes an Update its not so much an update as a new half made game. I just don't understand why he never expands on the stuff he's already done. I'm sure he'd get much more done that way too. I Do look forward to this getting updated ... just cant see that happening heh

Crowchild is like Windows,every new version is a downgrade, untill once in a while something actually good comes out...though Crowchild has yet to reach that point.

Bleh. Too much extra crap and not enough new sex.

>>12006

Uh, well. That analogy would work when Vista came out. Now it isn't anymore thanks to Windows 7.

I think it's free for most folks but I recall some people sending Crow money for DVDs or character cameos that never materialized.

I think that if Crow just released a finished game rather than rushing to show folks he's alive things would just work out better. I mean it's been almost a decade now since we first saw High Tail Hall right? It's sort of a Duke Nukem Forever situation (even though that's scheduled for May release). It's been so long that really he just needs to deliver a finished game that works and folks will be more or less satisfied.

I'd hardly consider one update in a little over a year to a flash-based game to be "rushing to show folks he's alive".

High definition update to the lobby area with the ability to scroll left and right. Expect much longer load times but at now we know why the backgrounds were so pixelated, it was because they were downgraded for file size.

Who ever heard of broken doors?

>>12105

Sounds like you never played a silent hill game.

>>12107

That and Resident Evil.


But I think Silent Hill has more broken doors than RE.


BROKEN DOORS EVERYWHERE


Fuck. It's basically their version of trolling. ):<

>>12109

silent hill sucks

>>12120

no u, etc etc.

>>12109

No, its just the game developers not wanted to design every single room in a building, so they put a broken door there to take up space and give the illusion that the map is actually bigger than it is. Besides, I always liked broken doors in silent hill, it meant that there was one less chance of a monster coming out of nowhere and pile driving my character into the ground.

>>11832
...there are four horsemen. Even though Pestilence was forced into early retirement due to the invention of penicillin, he was replaced with Pollution. This leaves us with Death, War, Famine, and Pollution. Four.
Doesn't anyone keep up with their Good Omens anymore?

Wow this is literally the shittiest thing ever. I could hardly even keep interested in it. I never once even considered pulling my dick out.

WHAT A WASTE

>>12270
What kind of a demon keeps holy water on hand?

>>12294

The kind that wants to build an immunity?

He's need to put a torrent of this.

btw, was there any versions before this?

>>12125

Ho ho ho, clearly you've never come across a door through which enemies can come but you can't go.

And they would continue to spawn after you had passed that point, so every few minutes you'd get shot/stabbed/ripped-apart in the back.

Fucking spawn doors.

>>12309

I don't remember anything like that in the silent hill games I've played.

I did find crap like that in games like doom 3, where the entire fucking game was nothing but hidde,n sliding doors that are impossible to see and enemies teleporting out of nowhere (which is not only bullshit, but it ruined whatever horror aspect their was in the game, because you knew that all enemy encounters were scripted and it was therefore impossible to prevent any encounter, because they'll just teleport out of fucking nowhere, and every encounter was basically somebody jumping out and saying boo to try and scare you. The encounters were also predictable and pretty damn monotonous, since every 10 steps some enemy was teleporting or coming out of a wall.)
Also had that problem with dead space, where instead of sliding doors and teleportation they had vents in the walls. However dead space at least didn't have every single fucking enemy do that, so it was a much better game.

>>12294
The kind who happens to have the best plants grown on the planet.

Me Gusta................

oh man i better switch to firefox to play this game

chrome sure is giving me a headache

i like the new blowjobs, but has anyone goten the stip tease with Lucky to work?

>>12740
yep, she can only take off her shirt though.. was clicking ones mainly to her left and near her head.

Anybody know how the extra scene with Rio is unlocked?

For that matter, where's Rio at right now?

Rio being reworked by crow anyone find out the code to the mape.

No characters yet

I found this in the High Tail Classic flash

>>12913

Anybody know what the deal is behind the secret map and the code?

Anybody know what the deal is behind the secret map and the code?

>>12915

Konami code

Where should I click to enter the password?

>>12940
Click all the rings on the compass rose (starting from the outside of it working your way in), then when the two red circles appear you use the compass rose like a d-pad on a NES controller and input the code.

Anyone have the code for the @walk security room.

Some cool stuff in the update, but over all this project is really off-track.

I love the idea, loved the old version, and actually enjoy the character design for the most part (chests are a bit big now, but whatever). And if people don't, eh. There's no accounting for taste.

Design on the other hand...yeah. So here's what's deeply broken here, IMHO:


1. The big, fundamental one. Crow is trying to use flash, a vector graphics system,
to deliver a series of pre-rendered movies with some interactivity. This is a horrible, horrible idea, and until it's fixed the site will keep suffering. I get the sense that he was trying to do things the right way, designing "scenes" with flash elements, but then discovered they wouldn't run smoothly because he was layering on too much fancy stuff. So to "solve" the problem, he just pre-rendered every loop and stuck movies in instead of actually rendering the flash elements in real-time.

No.

If things aren't running at a good FPS, it means you need to optimize, fine-tune the programming, get better at making your system. Not pre-render everything. That just makes everything worse. Look, Flash has limits, just like any creative medium. Creators need to learn to work within those limits, not refuse to admit they exist. Sometimes having an arbitrary technical barrier, a page limit, a time limit, a file size makes for better art anyway. It forces people to come up with things they wouldn't otherwise.

2. Navigation is a nightmare. I count at least THREE DISTINCT navigation systems, all coming and going as they please. Something like this shouldn't even need a navigation system, at least not such an obvious one. We're basically talking MYST Island with sex games instead of puzzles. Just have users click in a direction to go that direction. Give them a little mouse-over action to let them know they can, maybe a bit of a glow on paths, doors, buttons etc. All these arrows are a clusterfuck.

3. HTH is not about HTH. HTH is about sex scenes. So stop obsessing so much about the site, on the site, and get to the good stuff. Here's how it loads right now:

Splash page with small logo (splash page, really? Is this the 90's?)
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Warning/Age check
This might be legally required, I'm skeptical. But even if it is, it should a. Not be FLASH and b. BE PART OF THE FIRST SPLASH PAGE.

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"Use firefox" nag screen.

No. Look, I'm a firefoxfag too, but there are limits. You wanna have a little button on the side of your blog, fine. You wanna refuse to support shitty browsers, fine. But don't put a massive, slow-fade, FLASH in the intro to scream at every visitor "USE THIS BROWSER." Flash is pretty much cross-platform anyway, so if your flash website can't run in most modern browsers, you're doing something very, very wrong.

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"Title" screen with quick fade.

Just in case we forgot in the ten seconds since the first one.

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Finally, the "Central Launch" page for the site.

Still not actually in the game, but this is kind of a hub that goes to the donations,
website, etc. Looks nice, but THIS SHOULD NOT EXIST. It should be ordinary html, and it should be part of the HTH html site, not part of the flash game proper. By clicking "Play"...



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We finally land on the Map page, which I suppose could be considered the game itself.


That's five, count em, FIVE speed bumps between showing up at HTH and actually getting to the game. And even at the map screen, we still have to select an area and roam around before we find anything remotely interesting.

Here's an alternative that would work much, much better:


Splash screen and age warning, html

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Flash file that quickly fades in from black to a blowjob in progress. Once it's ended (or skipped), we find ourselves in a private room. We can either go back to the girl for more sex, check out the map on the wall for fast-travel, or step outside and explore the immediate area.

Blowjob every startup too annoying? Set a cookie and have the flash dump the user straight to the room after their first visit.

Also, holy crap, has anyone else tried cracking one of these open? I'm looking at the (functionally) tiny entrance to the lobby file, and he has 20+ layers when he could probably get by with six. Jesus.

So I've been digging through the files for a while now, and looking at the old site that I still have archived, and I gotta say: I kinda feel for him. He had a really ambitious plan, and it looked pretty slick. But Flash just isn't made for pre-rendered movies. You'd almost need a different environment to do what he was trying to.

And my last posts were pretty harsh, so credit where it's due: he's cut out massive amounts of bulk by ditching the movies in the recent version. I think the main hall and files come to about 20 megs after the cull, which is less than ONE HALF OF A SEX SCENE in the old version. Video is a killer. The version I'm messing with is down to about 10 megs; better, but not as much as I hoped.

>>12308
How do you get the deer in the closet to appear?

The problem is, too much work building the world and not enough time building scenes. It reminds me of the last major overhaul. There was all this space but nothing in it, now it's even bigger. I know it's an early release, but get one area made, fill it with .errr... things to do....and then do the next. Also, the 'strip tease' seems buggy. I clicked them all and got nothing...multiple times. I look forward to more updates and more...well...sex

Gotta say I agree on how he's spending too much time building the world. When the "updated" version was released I counted fewer sex scenes. Smells like more of a downgrade than anything else to me.

um...when the fuck is it going to be runnin agin??...said two days to move...took 4 said working..nothing...4 20 taking morning off?? BACK TO WORK DRONE!!

new game update

well ya an update 3 no interactive males...and the rest are still m.i.a it took allmost a mounth for just that??wow ...ok till something better comes up why not reactivate the girls??