Merry Christmas!

Wishing 

All of You 

A Merry Christmas!!!

こんにちわ~!

At last found time to write a blog update! I have been super busy in real life that I can hardly find time to draw another artwork for Deviantart.

Today I would like to officially announce Strange ❤ Chemistry's temporary inactivity.

For those who've been visiting my blog for a long time, I know you might have notice my moments of pure euphoria in which I write for almost everyday to moments in which I barely post at all. When I don't write something it's because I can't come up with a topic or because I'm too caught up by my busy frenetic lifestyle.
I'm on a very delicate moment right both now in terms of school and personal matters. Differently from the last 3 years in which all I did was draw idly on my desk - most of my notebooks are full of doodles and sketches instead of "actual" notes-  I'm going to have to take school a bit more seriously. I plan to stop writing scripts - though I might write a thing or two during free time- or work on my own VNs at the moment with the exception of the group project in which I'm collaborating but even for that school takes top priority.

Another reason as of why S❤C will be inactive is because I'm thinking of making this blog an official development blog which main purpose is to inform my game progresses, completion etc. with perhaps, connection to the fictional country I mentioned on a previous post fully separating personal matters. This plan however is going to take a while.

To you who are reading this and to those few who cares, I'm deeply thankful for every visit you do from the bottom of my heart.  

See you hopefully soon!

Happy Halloween! + Contemplating....15

I started celebrating Halloween yesterday by watching Guillermo del Toro's new movie titled "Crimson Peak". I was dying to watch it considering it's set in the 19th century and has your typical Gothic-styled mansion which are elements I love most! Be warned this post contains spoiler for those interested in watching it.

Also Before the Tale light version is out! Check it out on the Games' section.

Halloween 2015

C'est fantastique! This year DeviantArt is holding another Halloween Event. This time however it's about visiting a Haunted House. Unlike the previous event which was in 2013 ( if I'm not wrong ) it's a single person challenge rather than group one.
This year's puzzle seems more difficult, but then again, even the "Who Killed Cinderella?" mystery was not as easy as it looked like. I'm much more interested in participating rather than actually winning anyway.  That's all for now I guess.

What?!

Weeks ago while I was visiting this online shop I started admiring ( my first order arrived 4 days later! ), I see a pre-order of Chizuru Yukimura's Hakuoki Sweet School Life cosplay. Which I thought was more or less affordable and with free shipping to booth (due to their price shipping policy)! I've saved enough money to actually buy it, but in the meantime I was still waiting for my card's activation.
This morning, having received at last the go to use my card, as soon as I get home I visit the site ready to order. Signed in, I go to my wishlists and what to do I see?

❝This good can't be shipped in your country.❞

Fatal blow to my heart! Now I'm grieving and my trust level dropped a whole lot.
Seriously, what's the point of worldwide shipping? Now I'll have to look for cosplay sites again...

Moving on, I also went to the library today and guess what?

I'm so happy I could die ❤

Yes! They're finally selling in Italy books which inspired most animations of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli!  Truth be told I was doubting whether this day would ever come. I bow down to the publishers who manage to gain rights and translate them. Now if only some other novels would be possible... let's say something like Ai no Kusabe?

Anyway now I have to look for another cosplay site and hope for the best! If any of you know some trusted sites to buy cosplay please comment!

Haloa There!

   Weird expression check!

    Right now I'm taking a break from Before the Tale. I can't believe half of July's week went by already and only one and a half left for me to work on the rest of the game. Ha! Unsurprisingly I stopped Conspiracy's script only because Mizuno's route complicated all episodes' structure (more or less) but overall I'm quite near the end of the light.
     Summer days are reaching over 30°c and I can barely sleep because of the warm nights. My daydream tells me Winter's cousin is paying the world a rather close up visit.
     I'd like to write more but my impending melancholy is getting the best of me yet again. This is one of those perfect moments to write melos and sad stories...
   

Contemplating....13

My gosh! I can't remember when I started writing this whole "contemplating series" haha... 

I feel like ranting today so here's goes nothing...

     So far I've lost count of exactly how many original characters I've came up with around the whole span of my existence. Nevertheless there came a period of time in which what I thought was a stand alone story, focusing on a brief encounter between two characters, ended up having a wide range of characters. From a single story it became a story of collective people varying in age and timeline always taking place in the same story setting. But where exactly do all of these characters live? 

     Initially I thought of setting it in Japan, classical, but since my knowledge was limited specifying certain cities and scenery would have been a drag time-wise. Some years later at school we had to write a composition titled "The Place I Want To Live In", during that period of time I was in dilemma between living in the city or countryside. I tried compromising the problem by putting factors I like about the two things as well as the ones I dislike.

     Using these factors I came up with the idea of creating a fictional island *** along the Pacific Ocean with the same latitude of Japan. Starting from the original characters' story setting, I named cities, little islands, lakes etc. as well as each characters school. In whichBus Stop and Conspiracy's story setting, in addition with my future projects (except fantasy genre), take place on ***. 

     That's why I called this blog "Strange Chemistry", because it has something to do with it as well. "Strange Chemistry" in that island is the name of a well known blog owned by a mysterious admin who gives advice of any type - this blog is not alike in any way -. In short, the blog's name summarizes all of the collective stories or games around the characters involve within ***.

***Due to personal reasons I don't want to spill the name of the island at the moment but it if anyone wants to guess, the name has to do with something which can be seen at night since ancient time.

    

Conspiracy: Back on Track?

   Good evening! Last Saturday, while my tablet was being capricious I thought I'd check out the files where all my "suppose to be" visual novel projects where located and tidy up a bit. Reviewing all my suspended works, I read Conspiracy's script which remained in Episode 4 on side B of the game and for a moment, just one moment, I was prompted to continue the next scene writing until almost 2 a.m. However I realized the whole scene didn't matched up with the original concept so eventually I stopped myself and decided to take two steps back and retrace what I actually had in mind.
   Looking through piles of notes I thought having 2 different versions of Riko and Jin in cosplay would only make sprite work extend further, so now I am left to decide between the Western and Eastern clothing ( for this I will use the poll ). While for the characters' expression I might truly make a limited set for all characters - which will be aaaawfully hard on my side since I exaggerate - for episode passages I will have to stick with a simple recurring image with text.
   UI will undergo changes here and there as well as character profiles and "perhaps" game logo on LSF forum. This time I am 100% determined to ask additional help in coding. - *waves a white flag* -
    All this side by side with my work as a sprite artist for the work in progress BL game. If all ends well and successfully, the next otome game you'll see from me ( hoping it comes true ) will be made by a real team of different people. Or I might simply hand over a complete script to one of my most trusted and admirable teams among LSF. Still, no one knows what the futures holds for us. Goodnight as always!

Contemplating....12

  I'm officially on summer vacation!!! 

 Which means day and night I'll be working on visual novel developments both for Black Lotus and Conspiracy added with my hopes on working on a short Kinetic Novel concentrating on the background aspects. So much work and I only have an entire summer.
  Differently from last year though, I have to be cautious about my sleeping habit and not to overdue, like staying awake until 5 in the morning. I won't be able to work much during Saturday as well since I found myself a part-time job.
  Anyway last year has really been a challenge considering personal and school matters. Luckily it ended well and for now I can breathe calmly and enjoy my summer holiday. By the next following years, I'm reluctant to admit that I might be entirely on hiatus. I'll have to study and work double due to personal reasons so finding time both for my art and game work is going to be quasi interamente impossible for me. Can't slack around anymore hahaha... ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡
  So before going on years of hiatus and posting once a lifetime, I would really want to finish all my game plans. Can't say the same for my unstoppable light bulbs though...
  I have to at least finish a script which I'll be glad to hand over on hard working groups on Lemma Soft and hope they'll make an awesome game out of it.
 Me and my delusions. On second thought it's not such a bad idea. We'll see, we'll see...  Buona Notte!

Summer Starts!

Happy to announce that my summer vacation will be officially starting next week! Can't believe I'm about to finish the sprites for Black Lotus - cross fingers -, study web design and start practicing prospective. I have so many things to do!

 I'm attempting to self learn Japanese  as well. Glad I finally got the "senpai" or "sempai" problem fixed. "M" is actually written "N" in front of  "A", "B", "P" and "M". I still have a looong way to go! Not to mention with kanji... -I'm studying all these in Italian mixed with English?!- (●__●)

PS. Somehow I'm getting annoyed with the same music all over again... 

New Graphic Tablet ❣

Last week I got my hands on Intous Manga, a different Wacom brand. I was starting to doubt wither it was worth it or not. It was! The tablet is smaller than my first one, which saves space since I usually work with pen and papers scattered on my table. Although small it works magnificently! The pen is even lighter.

My imaginary manga cover lol

I had to admit I had initial problems when I was about to download the program but I'm glad Wacom's technical service helped me and in less than a week to boot! - Not like in Italy :P - 

With Clip Art Studio I'm hoping to make some comic panels once again other than artworks and...why not? A real one shot manga. Haha... We'll see for now.  

The substitute nibbles were actually on the back of the tablet

Here's a preview of the work in progress for a request on DA.

Random Thinking

   Come state? How are you? I'm surprisingly calm despite knowing how long I haven't been working on either Black Lotus or my own VNs. I find it really disturbing since I have so much ideas I need to get out of my head. Everyday I inevitably come up with something new and I don't have enough time. At least that's what I think... Luckily summer is due soon and I can't wait to work day and night on my projects again.

   The short KN I have in mind well focus more on backgrounds which means other than sprite work I'll start practicing backgrounds as well. It takes a lot of work and my knowledge regarding shadowing is that of a complete beginner. 

    Around summer I'll attempt to build Strange Chemistry's main blog with posts solely about game updates. This blog will become my personal thoughts' dump - or something like that haha...- but I won't mind if you drop by some time. ( ´•౪•`)

   Collabs for games are going to be rare since as you clearly notice I'm extremely problematic changing styles whenever I think it's all wrong. I hope to still be able to work with Pocoscon once again though, she's such a great writer and a great friend. 

   PS. I miss Grooveshark (╥_╥)

2015 First Post!

So here we are "New Year, New Life"! - Aww :3 -
I use to charm myself with New Year resolutions but seeing how most of them didn't come true I've minimize my list.

On the last days of December I finally watched the anime adaption of one of my favorite BL games: "Dramatical Murder". In the end I kind of felt a bit disappointed by the quality and after seeing Episode 3 I was in constant worry thinking what if the quality of the next episodes would have been the same.
 Considering Episode 3 contained one of my favorite scene in the game ( Aoba meets Noiz, Noiz meets Koujaku and Clear = Ruckus = Tae-san stops boys fighting! = All four of them get punished xD ) I couldn't help but feel displease. My guess is that they couldn't fix some design errors in time for the deadline and focused more on some other scenes which they considered important. Or