Dev Diary #02

Positive updates this week!

After a lot of trial and error, I found a gallery code which I can understand to a degree at last. Thanks to tofurocks, and her very handy GUI template, I managed to set up the gallery screen after so many months of headache. Obviously, there have been slight design changes which had to be done but I'm very satisfied with it.

Here's a quick work in progress preview! 

With all the UI coding out of the way, I can now fully concentrate on finishing the CG art. Ideally, the style should be as low-effort, but equally appealing, as possible in time for the game jam deadline. Already, I started sketching a couple few of them. Overall the game should contain 12 unlockable images.

( Sketch of  Her reading a book )

( Sketch of  Her smiling )

In terms of art style, I'm considering going for a watercolour vibe akin to Studio Ghibli's "Kaguya-hime no Monogatari" (2013) and a short film I stumbled upon at Gobelin's youtube channel titled "Un Diable San La Poche" (2019).

Should personal circumstances and my mood be alright over the course of the week, then hopefully, this experimental KN can be submitted even before the deadline. 🤞 That's all for this week's entry. Thank you very much for reading. 

As always stay safe and take care. 😊

No Thanks, Eros! - Update 5

Before proceeding with "NTE" update I'm happy to announce that you can now finally play << Before The Tale >> mature version on CloudNovel without having to sign up on their site.

You can check out the project lists' page then click the mature link if you're interested in playing it. Eventually I'll try finding someone who would proofread its game script. Since the thought never passed my mind before. In the meantime please try to ignore the game's grammatical errors. If you can. If not then, play at your own risk. lol

Before the Tale CG WiP

    Only backgrounds and CGs left until I can fully publish Before the Tale. I'm entirely sure the BGs won't be very "eye pleasing" since they're all a bunch of quick sketches with imperfections - this is hard on my side - but my goal is to at least see how I manage light and shadowing on objects other than accessories or humans.
     Getting back on topic, I want to spoil a bit so here's a preview of CG sketches and work in progress for my first kinetic novel with original BGs... To be released... one of these weeks? /(@ﾟﾍﾟ@)

PS. I want to finish it soon!

Draft Version

  This is Conspiracy characters' sprite draft preview. I'm not going to show you the secret character though. 'Cause if I do what kind of secret character will he be?

As you may have noticed my style changed.

  Unlike Black Lotus, which features bishounen and mature style males, I'm going with the shoujo version for Conspiracy and co. Noticeably, Jin became cuter and Yuu's hair went back to his original concept. - It really does suit him more ne? - 

  Excuse me if the right side is crowded by the way... (^^;)

Progressing Work

Presenting you a premier preview of Conspiracy's new logo along side recent changes I've done on the game.

Do not copy or redistribute without owner's consent!

I opted for a more simple and elegant style for Conspiracy's new logo. The text and name box will remain the same with some exceptions as seen below.

   As mentioned on a recent post, episode introduction will have recurring scene rather than putting  chibi versions of the characters visible on earlier works. Decided it was better to remove it since it would take a lot of precious time.  The idea was fun so I'm thinking of using it on another game if I have the chance. 

   Earlier background setting versions will be replaced with something which I already have in mind and is currently a work in progress. I'll post it as soon as I can. Still have to search for new background musics and try customizing choice menus.

   Finished Keith's lineart last night as well. All that's left to do is work on details and color it, then I can start with the protagonist's uncle. I'm scheduling the times I'm suppose to work on Black Lotus and on my game at the moment and so far everything's going well. Better keep this up!  

Finally a Post!

I haven't written much at all this month! It's been like forever. (๑-﹏-๑) This week has been like hell! Luckily I made it through the week, mentally unstable but still alive. I don't know about next week though... It's going to be a tough until next Friday. Ahh~~~ Sooooo busy!!!

I admit it's frustrating that I can't work much for the game, we've also been delaying the demo because of me! (ᗒᗩᗕ)՞

Changing topics, I finally decided to make another Visual Novel project after putting a sea of ideas aside. I'm attempting to write the script for it whenever I can at the moment and once I finish my big pile of things to do for Black Lotus, I'll start working on it. I'll fill you more information about it in the future. ☆*･゜ﾟ･*(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆ 
 Here's another sketches from my messy art files. Haha.. (´∀`) 

 

Bon soir!

Sorry if I haven't posted anything since November 8th, been kind of busy between projects and real life situations. I'm just glad the weather here is getting better now - hoping it lasts longer- than the previous days.

What to say? I finished the sprites needed for the demo. Still haven't wrote a single darn thing on my game's script. I'm getting into webcomics. I've been dozing off at school. Nothing new... - LOL xD -

Unfortunately, I realized I've been spending a lot of money though I rarely go out this month. Why so? I haven't even bought a single manga for 5 months now! I feel so poor. ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ Ahahaha...

How can one be broke in the middle of the month of November I have no idea hahah... I just feel so stupid. 

Yesterday while I was rummaging trough my old stuff I found a huge pile of notebooks, all full of my past drawings and old characters. Sure brought back some old memories. Thinking about it now, I guess I did improve quite a lot. Not to mention my males. xD 

My perseverance in ulterior improvement is still en cours though!
By reading this post I bet you're thinking :" What the hell she keeps complaining for? Get a topic." Sorry, sorry. It's one of those days I have nothing decent to write and end up writing crappy nonsense things.
On the bright side, this is the first long senseless post I've written after a long time! (~‾⌣‾)~

                  

Nope these aren't my old works! You'll never ever see them! Hahahaha  (。-`ω´-)

I should really reprise buying blank paged notebooks... Kind of hard to find one though :<

Saturday At Last!

Finally a bit of breathing! October is once again keeping me busy consecutively with few chance of taking a breather. Man, I keep wondering how I manage to survive my everyday. Thank you, Saturday! If I could I'd marry you and won't ever let you go! ♥～(‘▽^人)
About the Halloween promo art, I need to admit I hate working on full body shots. -yep, I'm that lazy- But what I can't believe the most is how I am really looking forward on making my first yaoi illust! -Is it right to call it that way???-  This must be the fruit of all those free times spent in reading yaoi. Can't help it though, they're so good looking and I'm aiming to have decent bishounens as well! (///Σ///)
Practice makes perfect! So does having references! Overall I think my fangirling got the best of me. Ops...?

Indecent pose...I made an indecent pose haha...（。-＿-。）

Main Characters Finish!

Yesterday I completed the default sprites for Black Lotus' 7 main characters! -Yep,7. Got wrong with some numbers...- I already started making my personal rankings, but the finished sprites is currently making me have second thoughts.
Now, I'll be moving on working the minor characters draft sketches. After that, I'll take some break since from next week it will be a bit hectic on my side. For Halloween please look forward for a promotional art featuring Black Lotus' protagonist -*cough*I'm thinking of making him wear a sexy witch costume*cough*- 
I wonder who you'll be pursuing first among the boys available?

I even tried making some younger versions of them out of whim on my notebook.

Konnichiwa!

How's everyone doing now? Last time you've heard from me I was in an accomodation with free wi-fi ^^
After some days of blue splendid sea and cream colored sands I finally went to my hometown, I would've updated if I could at the airport but since we were in a hurry I didn't manage to write something decent.
Now here I am back to the social media life after weeks of peace and quite, currently staying at a relative's place until my departure which turned out earlier than planned. So by second week of this month I might go back home. （*´▽｀*）
During my entire stay I spent most of my time replaying Dramatical Murder and finishing both Dramatical Murder Re:Connect and Togai no Chi - finally!-

I kept wondering how the anime series is going and which route they used for it. -Please let it be Ren's route :;(∩´﹏`∩);: - I'll probably watch it once the series finish! I'm going to have an anime marathon for this! If you're a huge fan of Dmmd, please I beg you no spoilers! ε=ε=┏( >_<)┛

In the end I kind of left aside my own game -hahaha...- but fear not! I was en route B playing hooky. (〃▽〃) I did made progress, honest!!!

Unfortunately the whole thing slipped from my hands and right now I have no idea what the heck happened with the characters and the script itself...

I also tried doing some art work but most of them turned out to be nothing but sketches which I'll perhaps work on in the far future. A lot of new ideas did came too and I had to organize the whole thing. 

Since I finished "almost" all BL translated game present at the moment I'll just have to look forward for the WiPs present in LSF -all of them are really awesome!!!- and now I'm playing Kara no Shoujo.

Anyway, here's Conspiracy's script progress...

Statistics:

The game contains 1,773 dialogue blocks, containing 12,449 words and 65,597

characters, for an average of 7.0 words and 37 characters per block.

The game contains 32 menus, 136 images, and 13 screens.

...and sketches I made. ヾ(@°▽°@)ノ

 

Oddly enough just the other night I dreamt of a word "Eine Kleine" and found this on youtube! That's all for now! Bye! Bye! (￣▽￣)ノ

Welcome June! + ᑕᗝﬡℱᙓᔕᔕᓰᗢﬡᔕ (?)

Today is finally June 1st and that means summer is already travelling to spend time with us!!! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

I can't believe how much time passed since I started this first serious otome project, though at the beginning it was suppose to be a game where I could experiment with UI editing and code learning.
Initially there were supposed to be only 4 characters; Riko (whom the heroine thought was female only to discover in his route that he was actually a male), Katsuo (the 1st prince emitting "your definitely fall in love for me" aura), Yuu (the friendly megane (☉_☉) ) and the heroine, but as the story continued expanding so did the characters.

Riko had  name changes beginning from Himeko, to Ren, to finally her actual name. Katsuo, I managed to keep his initial character concept and changed his personality from the everyone-loves-me to a shut-in hard working student and as for Yuu, his the very first OC I had who actually changed hairstyles 3x! Though at the end he didn't become the friendly-"megane"-basketball player... ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(；　・＿・)┘

Mizuno, Jin and the secret character joined later on. And that's how an experimental project turned into a "serious project"!
I started working on it seriously from the end of August, after scrapping 5 stories; 3 which were otome ideas and 2 short VN stories. Currently they are archived.

Enough about this!

Here's what I've worked on today and a sprite sketch preview! 

That's it for today and sorry for making you read such a post... (￣▽￣)ノ

Updates After Demo Release

Thank you, Thank you very much ~ ~ ~(≧∇≦)/ 

Thank you for playing the demo. Although there weren't many reviews or comments as I hoped for, I'm still grateful that you considered playing it. If you still haven't obtained those 2 CGs, fear not! The short walk-through for it, is less than 12 days! Please be patient :;(∩´﹏`∩);:

Now, since summer here in Italy is just around the corner, I can finally concentrate all my time for the full version. Here's some preview of possible CGs...

and chibi versions for Riko and Jin's royalty cosplay (* >ω<)

I'm actually looking forward more for this part than others... Tehehe~~

Update!

Hi! I hope you're everyone had a nice Easter day, which was more or less 11 days ago... Whoops!
Sorry, for not updating but I really needed some break and some fresh thoughts in order to continue working on Conspiracy... Seems like it's on page 2 now on LSF, well it's my fault though, anyway I'm still working on sprites but I'm quite positive so I say the demo release might happen between or after the end of this month! After that, I will have to face its full version... Well, script work is going okay but I know I'm only around 40% work for it.
Good thing we're almost near summer vacation - at least for me here in Italy - and I can finally dedicate, let's say, most of my time on this game. Must keep it together! Thank you for reading this post. I really appreciate it.
As thanks, I wanted to make an Easter drawing of Prince No.1 - based on the poll results I'm glad I gave him that title - but before I could realize it I didn't liked any of the draft sketches I made... Oh,well. This is a special for K's fans enjoy! ;)

How Shirokawa spends his holiday mornings...

Alright!

Finished the fourth image ending for Conspiracy's demo! Things are going well these days so I might start bombing LSF and this blog with updates of even the least importance... We're almost near Easter and my Spring Break is in less than 2 days after that I'll finally have my long-awaited break!

Here's a preview of the 5th possible ending images, which looks much more like a manga panel than the previous four. Of course it's only a sketch and I might probably change it later on... *^*

Ciao!

I'm posting again after taking a 2 days break ❤ Which consisted of playing some demos and attending a birthday party. There are times you just need to relax. Anyway... here's a quick sketch I made of Riko in "her" three cosplays for the cultural festival in Conspiracy's full game. Isn't "he" adorable?

Crossdressing Characters

The other day  I was discussing Riko's cosplay with a friend. About how it was a shame she's a real female and about how I might be making crossdressing characters due to "Liar Lily" or "Uso Lily" influence. I mean can you imagine dating a boy, although super handsome, has the tendency to crossdress simply because he loves girls? I'm reading the manga more for the story though. Can't help but laugh everytime I read it! :D

This is not yuri! Hence Liar Lily...

 But more than "Liar Lily" influence, I just wanted to make a bishoujo who can at the same time can pass as a bishounen. More importantly I didn't want to have the confident-gal-pal cliché...Urgh..Why are we talking about Liar Lily again? O.o
Anyway, I tried making a crossdressing Jin during our conversations and the result? An unbelievably beautiful crossdresser. Here's a primary sketch for Jin's sprite. Pair it with Riko in Prince cosplay and we have a Mizuno's target cosplaying duo! Poor Jin...

Okay,okay. I'll get back on working his sprite pose now...

PS. I recommend reading "Liar Lily" for those who still haven't read it! ;)

Fangirling

During my fangirling days I abruptly made a really tempting design featuring Conspiracy's Trinity of Princes,it was after making a lot of sketches of Riko in cosplay, more precisely after he was in samurai cosplay...must be due to Hakouki influence... 

Still in process of coloring it,though it'll take sometime since I'm still working on the sprites. I remembered why Jin's sprite was taking so long, he's standing pose didn't seem natural enough...i'm a perfectionist freak just so you know. 

"Please, do come in."

Shame didn't posted this for Valentine's day :( There's always next time! \(>u<)/

Oh! And while we're at it... Here's a primary sketch of Sayuri Mizuno's sprite without glasses and hair tied.

Male Sketches

       Turnaround study for the male characters, to help with how their hair looks like. Also I'm liking Yuu's new hairstyle (the other one was harder to manage) and tried to maintain the fact that his hair has wavy characteristics.

    Also here's a quick glance on Riko's new sprite (keeping the same cool pose) that still need to undergo some changes.