Zero G Academy Update Post 27/AUG/2018

Sorry for the wait for posting again, but we are having some difficulties in the scripting department, waiting for art to be ready to post, and realigning some priorities. 

Good news is we have all the character sprites of existing content finished and colored except for a few more of MC’s. 

Good news is we are bringing back gym content as fast as possible as well as expanding and reworking it. 

Bad news is we are changing the schedule and the alignment of our future updates. And are posting the new update for the game by the first week of October. 

Pin-ups

However we have some nice art for all of you to enjoy that Rat made while on break between requests and needs for content. 

Here’s the Music Teacher reworked into the Math Teacher, Lith whose story is where MC will meet while tutoring other students and find out so many fun things. Principal Libya whom MC will work for directly in future updates and who we have met. And Ms. Aktrenat who has more content in coming. 

And here’s Fora, the Hall Monitor who will make some more appearances before getting into a story of her own at some future date along with the rest of security. 

There’s going to be a few more pin-ups and we’ll being them more often, and most likely will offer votes for Patrons for them and they most likely will be multi staged. 

Schedule Revisions 

First Week of October, 

0.6 Art 2 & Some Gym Implementation & Some Mechanics 

Second Week of November, 

0.7 Art 3 & More Gym Implementation 

Third Week of December, 

0.8 Gym Completion 

The Beautiful Game 

Let’s talk briefly about some lore, especially about the sport MC will find himself drafted into when he goes to Gym. 

Brutal Ball is the most popular sport in the Federation, it’s origins lie the ball games of the Varanids, a race of warm blooded reptiles whose ball games of semi-ritualized combat remained a cultural phenomenon after their uplifting. The predecessor game involved: distinctive turns where one team was attacking and the other defending, the game stopping upon the loss of the ball or the ball carrier being tackled to the ground, a long rectangular field, large team size, numerous specialized players, a lengthy section of phases, and numerous rules about contact.Brutal Ball was really invented when a group of Kimon, warrior women known for their fury and their horns, who were mercenary guards took up the predecessor game. They were most unimpressed with how long it took, how complicated its rules were, and its lack of constant action.

So they made the following rules:

1. There are only three positions in the game.
   1. Attackers who are to remain only on the enemy team’s side of the field.
   2. Defenders who are to remain only on your team’s side of the field. 
   3. Runners who can move to both sides of the field and in the narrow dividing strip. 
2. Team size varies but you must have an equal number of each position.
   1. The amount of players one can have on the field is in order of magnitudes of 3. 
   2. 3 players, one for each position, is the minimum amount of players allowed on the field. 
   3. Commonly the game is played with 6 players, two for each position, in most leagues. 
   4. Reserve players must be one order less than the current players on the field if allowed. 
3. The field’s length is cut and divided into the following:
   1. Two end zones where a player with the ball once passed through will score. 
   2. Two defender zones where opposing defenders and attackers are bound. 
   3. The thin narrow strip dividing the defender zones known as the runner’s space. 
4. The game is now 30 minutes of non-stop action unless the game is paused for injuries, substitutions, out of bounds of the ball, or penalty removals. 
   1. With penalty removals removing one point from the offending team’s score, additionally. 
   2. And substitutions being a rule that is not uniform between most leagues. 
   3. Penalty removals and replacement of players, removed by penalty is not a uniform rule as well.
   4. Injuries are not always replaced but the team causing them is penalized by removing a point. 
   5. Fight between players are allowed but both the winner and the loser are removed from the game. 
   6. If the ball goes out of bounds it is then tossed into the center of the field for a free for all. 
   7. Intentionally putting the ball out of bounds costs the offending team a point additionally. 
5. The goal of the game is cross the enemy end zone with the ball, which gives 1 point for each crossing.
6. The winner is the one with the most points, if the teams are tied, they play until someone scores and breaks the tie. 
7. You may pass, run, toss, kick, throw, punt, or any form of movement to another player or simply to another spot on the field to transfer the ball but must respect the movement restrictions of your position.
   1. You are allowed to use the ball as a weapon to hit the enemy team to move it.
8. You may only wrestle, tackle, trip the enemy ball carrier.
9. You can only block or wrestle with enemy players on the side of the field where the ball is.
10. Ball carriers are allowed to use the ball to strike at those trying to get them. 
11. The field is a 40 meter wide and 70 meter long rectangle, that is traditionally a dirt or grass field. 
    1. There are two 10 meter long areas at both ends for the end zones.
    2. Then two 20 meter long areas from the endzones.
    3. Then the final 10 meter long narrow dividing strip. 
12. Common modifications to these rules are
    1. Size of the field, with too many players or cramped conditions.
    2. Number of balls on the field with too many players. 

With these rule changes, the sport became a massive phenomenon across the Federation, especially in the Federal Academies where it is the most popular sport. Kimon naturally have dominated the sport historically and it’s one of their more positive enduring legacies. MC will end up here due to not understanding what the sport is, his attitudes of his own superiority, and a fight between the team and the Coach. 

The Team 

Instead of the usual seven poses, they have five different poses that convey, a resting state where they await to do something, an approving state where they show that they like something, a euphoric state where they show they really like something (most of the time MC), furious where they might tear someone in half, and mocking where they belittle someone (most of the time MC). They have both nude and sport uniform poses. The poses you will be seeing today are their mocking ones. 

Buga | Defender 

She’s a punk who acts more important and competent then she is.

Rishini | Defender

She’s the softest and slowest of the bunch but she’s still a thug even if she’s childish. 

Ikral | Attacker 

She’s probably the most intelligent and level headed, but is usually the ice cold bitch.

Ragna | Attacler 

She’s the pretty girl who's the meanest and most spoiled of the bunch. 

Golganessa | Runner 

She’s the model player who's always on point to the point of being a machine.

MC | Runner

Sent here to replace a the old runner Farax who got flunked out due to academics. 

He’s not very competent at all, but he’s determined and with a little help might survive. 

And that’s all folks. Sorry for no nude previews but this was a massive update post, but we’ll put them out and around next Friday for your enjoyment.