It's A Living Online

by Kyuukei
It's A Living Online
A very old life simulation game with a twist.

About It's A Living Online

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Apr 22 2004, 10:00 pm
Surprise. I bet you thought I lost these host files.

This game was once a popular game back in the day. (Over 15 years ago!) For all of those who enjoyed it in it's prime...and after several long years it's back on the hub. This will keep you entertained while I work on the sequel.

~Kyuukei @7/1/2018
Jan 28 2011, 12:22 pm
I FUCKING MISS THIS GAME.... DAMN IT... WHERE ARE THE FUCKING HOST FILES... I WILL HOST THIS DAMN GAME FOR MY LIFE!!!!!
Jun 2 2011, 8:04 am
I know! The game was truly amazing. I miss it so much. If Kyuukei needs a place to put host files for download I know of a site that does it for free. This is one of the few respectable BYOND games that I wish I could return to. Just thinking about it reminds me of when BYOND was fresh and amazing (at least, to me).
Jul 3 2011, 11:40 am
That reminds me... where the hell is kyuukei?... also I wouldn't mind having the site link. And do you remember what the name of that techno song was (it was the theme for this game)
Apr 27 2014, 8:55 am
It's Sandstorm Darude.

And you can find me at dbzjourney.com.
Jun 4 2015, 4:53 pm
In response to Kyuukei
Kyuukei wrote:
It's Sandstorm Darude.

And you can find me at dbzjourney.com.

Dbzjourney died tho...

Anyway you really should come back
Aug 27 2015, 1:06 am (Edited on Aug 27 2015, 1:13 am)
bump to say im trying to remake the original version of this game as best as I can using my memory aswell as screenshots...

http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=1917056&first_unread=1

Edit: nvm just saw that its being rehosted again. lol
Jun 27 2016, 5:12 pm
now if only the host files were released to the public
Feb 10 2020, 9:28 pm
Kyuukei, you still alive?
Aug 26 2020, 1:48 pm
Yes.
Dec 27 2021, 5:13 pm
I actually found the source code to this game. Evidently I sent the source code to Recon (creator of the Pokemon X web comic) a while back because he wanted to redo a lot of the tiles which were objectively bad even for back then. (All of the sprite work was objectively bad.)

I was cleaning out my email and found it in my sent folder. I don't plan on returning or resuming work on it anytime soon because there are far better engines out there and I'm straying away from 2D and working with 3D.

Maybe a unreal engine remake is in IALO's future? Who knows. I thought it was neat to look at my old unorganized code and bad game design and see how much I grew over the years. IALO was fun but there was a lot wrong with it. Balancing was crap, cars were OP, the economy was trash, and the AI was poop. I could do better.

Anywho -

If I ever make another game I'll drop information on it in this thread.
Mar 19 2022, 11:15 pm
In response to Kyuukei
Kyuukei wrote:
I actually found the source code to this game. Evidently I sent the source code to Recon (creator of the Pokemon X web comic) a while back because he wanted to redo a lot of the tiles which were objectively bad even for back then. (All of the sprite work was objectively bad.)

I was cleaning out my email and found it in my sent folder. I don't plan on returning or resuming work on it anytime soon because there are far better engines out there and I'm straying away from 2D and working with 3D.

Maybe a unreal engine remake is in IALO's future? Who knows. I thought it was neat to look at my old unorganized code and bad game design and see how much I grew over the years. IALO was fun but there was a lot wrong with it. Balancing was crap, cars were OP, the economy was trash, and the AI was poop. I could do better.

Anywho -

If I ever make another game I'll drop information on it in this thread.

damn, havn't heard Recon Dye in many moons, wonder if he is still around...

but yea, you do have a point.. IALO was a bit of a janky mess, an incredibly fun and innovative mess, but a mess none the less.

I believe much of the jank came from the Zeta elements? such as having to do a finishing move when you knock down an enemy in order for them to die.

Hopefully I am still around to witness the eventual Unreal remake of IALO, because it truly was an innovative game with features that still aren't included in open world games to this day.

Good luck, and please keep the source safe, as this is a piece of byond history that belongs in an archive or museum of sorts.
Jul 9, 1:20 pm
In response to Ss4gogeta0
Ss4gogeta0 wrote:
Kyuukei wrote:
I actually found the source code to this game. Evidently I sent the source code to Recon (creator of the Pokemon X web comic) a while back because he wanted to redo a lot of the tiles which were objectively bad even for back then. (All of the sprite work was objectively bad.)

I was cleaning out my email and found it in my sent folder. I don't plan on returning or resuming work on it anytime soon because there are far better engines out there and I'm straying away from 2D and working with 3D.

Maybe a unreal engine remake is in IALO's future? Who knows. I thought it was neat to look at my old unorganized code and bad game design and see how much I grew over the years. IALO was fun but there was a lot wrong with it. Balancing was crap, cars were OP, the economy was trash, and the AI was poop. I could do better.

Anywho -

If I ever make another game I'll drop information on it in this thread.

damn, havn't heard Recon Dye in many moons, wonder if he is still around...

but yea, you do have a point.. IALO was a bit of a janky mess, an incredibly fun and innovative mess, but a mess none the less.

I believe much of the jank came from the Zeta elements? such as having to do a finishing move when you knock down an enemy in order for them to die.

Hopefully I am still around to witness the eventual Unreal remake of IALO, because it truly was an innovative game with features that still aren't included in open world games to this day.

Good luck, and please keep the source safe, as this is a piece of byond history that belongs in an archive or museum of sorts.

Believe it or not, IALO was not a zeta rip. The younger me had zero idea how to make a proper combat system so I used references from Zeta. It may have had zeta's combat system but it was all coded from scratch. My "child brain" at the time just assumed that was the combat standard for BYOND so I just rolled with it.

Recon and I are friends on facebook so he's still around. It's not really my place to say what he's up to but I can say that he's living the good life.

As for me I'm teaming up with a small dev team. I don't know what we're making yet but I've been pitching a sequel or remake for IALO on Unreal. They weren't showing all that much interest in it because they want to do something original. IALO was pretty niche but I think it'd do pretty well if done correctly - especially knowing what I know now.

It's too early to say what we're going to do but I'll keep this thread posted.