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

No Thanks, Eros! - Update 4

CloudNovel's winter jam officially starts!

No Thanks, Eros! - Update 3

First of all I made some slight changes again on this blog. Second, here's another progress update for "No Thanks, Eros!". From here on out I will be categorizing all of my future projects this way.

No Thanks, Eros! - Update 2

Surprisingly productive this week again too!

Sorry!

Hi everyone! I'm sorry for the lack of update! 

I'm very busy at school with my my final exams for this year and all piling up. I'm still working on Conspiracy whenever I can though. In fact I'm proud to say Riko's new base sprite version is finally reaching its finishing touches with the coloring.
I've already prepared Yuu's flat colors as well while Katsuo's on standby, ready for the lineart. I admit I kind of neglected copying the proof-read script. I'm too focused on my personal problems too.

I'll make up for the game art after school ends as I await my ill fate. There's a 50.5% chance that I may stop being a VN creator or player around next year for personal reasons. I won't be posting the details about it here though since this is now solely a game development blog. In addition, I love my privacy.

Changing topic, I might partecipate at Yaoi Jam this year! There's this dark short game which has been bugging me since last year. It could even be a 16+ game for its possible contents. No nsfw scenes although there could be some allusion to it but I won't be putting those. I'm thinking of giving more importance to the psychological aspect of the game rather than the characters' physical relationship. Plus, I'm still not good with drawing nor writing those scenes despite my deep love for BL manga, literature and games.

As for that short KN I finished writing, turns out I will be using Cloud Novel for it. It will have only one soundtrack and some CGs. No sprite though. Depending on the feedback I might make a second part or episode for it which more or less explains the story. The latter will be difficult for neither I myself understand what that story is all about. I'm so ashamed of myself.

This is the longest post I've written after a long time.

Take care everyone!

≈Silver

Conspiracy: Update

Can't believe it's already May! I've been so busy with personal problems I hardly even managed to work on Conspiracy.

On the other hand, a few days ago I finished a game script for a short KN (again) which title is yet to be decided. Getting back on Conspiracy, I'm happy Yuu's new sprite version looks more decent than my earlier works! I guess I did improve on my sprite making design, but there's more space for further improvement, especially the coloring part.

I kept his original hair style

I do admit his hair came a bit off but oh well... In the meantime after applying his base colors I'll move on to Katsuo.

My goal is still to publish this game within 2016. Also, regarding the game's CG I don't think I honestly can pull off all that work. Thus, this brought me to consider looking for a CG artist, although I honestly wanted to work on them myself to make both sprite and CG coherent to the game's art style. But this and that, this and that...

I plan to start asking around once I get every characters' default sprite done. 

That's all for today's update! Have a nice day!

Conspiracy Cosplay Poll Results

Good day everyone! 

Thank you for your time in answering the poll for Riko and Jin's cross-dress cosplay! 

Here are the results!

Riko: Butler/Waiter Cosplay  ⇒ 54%

Jin: Western Cosplay  ⇒  63%

Conspiracy Poll + VN Update

Hi everyone! 

ー( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

I'm extending the poll until the 23rd April due to Jin's tied results and will either work on Katsuo or Yuu's sprite at the meantime. Just recently I also edited the game's thread on LSF and soon remove all character profiles until I replace them with the new ones.  

Aside from Conspiracy, I might start working on another short KN as a side project. It has horror elements (?) and is a way for me to practice on my writing skill as well as try out Tyrano Builder ( another visual novel engine ). 

That's all for now, have a nice day!

Conspiracy Update!

First of all, Happy Easter to Everyone!

Yesterday, I finally started to work on Riko's sprite and now I'm in the middle of preparing her hair and clothing lineart. It would be great if you answer this short poll I made so I can also settle for Jin's cosplay. Their costumes will be important specially for the CG part of the game. 

You can do the poll here or go to the Poll section on the homepage. 

Thank you very much!

Update: Conspiracy

I can't believe it's March already. This year has been pretty fast and busy, at least for me. 

So last year during summer I sketched Conspiracy's characters' new sprites on paper, scanned it and worked on it digitally. Thankfully, this method is making things easy for me right now that I'm working on their sprite. 

Just this afternoon I've finished Mizuno sprite ver.4, after which I'll start coloring her then pass on the other characters (probably by random).

Do not use, re-upload, or share without my permission.

I'm glad her hands came out decently since I really suck at drawing them. Also, I believe there has been a huge improvement between this sprite and my earlier works for Conspiracy. 2016 could finally be the year I'll release this game! After all isn't everything possible in 2016? 

Also, I sometimes post other work in progress and art previews on my personal blog. Be warned though, I repost BL stuff there as well.

Have a nice weekday!

Conspiracy: Update

Found a proofreader and I just sent the game script a few minutes ago. Now all I have to do is wait and see.
In the meantime I will start working on all characters sprite since I've left them aside in order to concentrate my attention to the script. This is the 4th time they will be redrawn though I decided to keep their recent designs and limit Riko and Jin's cosplay to only one (european cosplay).

That's all for today! 

Going Away For a Bit...

  Going on another summer trip this weekend, and since it won't take long I won't be bringing the entire game but only the script itself. Luckily I'm on the special arc now! Only problem is I need to find a way to insert it in some parts of the episodes. For the first time I realized working on Mizuno's story will be quite the challenge, hahaha...

   I started "proof-reading" the script but once I get it all done I want to consult it to a third-party just to be sure. So many things to do... 

   I decided to put the background music search for later and finish Conspiracy's default sprite soon. Around July and August I won't be doing art requests on my devArt account so I can experiment on my own characters with coloring and background. Haven't done that in a while and I feel bad neglecting my own characters. 

   Regarding my work as assistant artist, I'm still processing my new schedule but overall I'm having fun. 

   Here's a work in progress sprite for Black Lotus.

Script is Going Well

  I already reached the 7th episode on side B so base on my pace I might actually finish the script by the second week of July! Cheers! ╰( ･ ᗜ ･ )╯
  From time to time I distract myself by switching between art, UI and script works. I'm practically making progress little by little haha...
  I can't believe the script is about to come to an end after half a year of hiatus! Thank you for everyone's support and patience!
  Latest news is... I joined a team as assistant artist for an otome project. What can I say? I love the visual novel world so much it's becoming a dependence of some sort. - kidding on the dependence part :P - I just want to gain more experience by working in group again ( although currently we are a 3 people team (〃▽〃) ).
   Almost forgot! "Blog transfer" will have to wait for now although I wanted to do it soon due to personal reasons. I have its new design already planned but guess I'll work on it if I find enough time.

Moving On Sprite

  Yesterday I finished Keith's new sprite so now I'll be moving on the 3 adult characters for Black Lotus after that I will have officially finished all default versions for the game.
  Although the writer is on hiatus I will keep working on the sprites alongside my own game. Thanks to a webtoon I've been reading I found a way to procrastinate productively and it works! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

   Here's Conspiracy's current script status:

   Statistics:

       The game contains 2,059 dialogue blocks, containing 14,500 words and 76,412 characters, for an average of 7.0 words and 37 characters per block.

    Missing the penultimate episode on side B which will make me work on the special arcs then on the endings. Once that's out of the way, all that's left to do is for someone to proofread the script then it's all set! 

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... (^^;)

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....11

   Happy Labor's Day! This holiday will be the last break for me before summer vacation comes and I can work on my games again. Last time you heard of me was 2 months ago and since then I haven't posted anything at all. -I apologize!-  ๑•́ㅿ•̀๑) ᔆᵒʳʳᵞ
    It's quite difficult to work on artworks with my busy life, not to mention mood drops which happens often much to my dismay. So I'm looking forward for summer to continue all my delayed works!
    So today I learned Grooveshark shut down. To think I've been using it for at least 3 years... I listen their  music stream whenever I had to draw or study for hours so I'm sad about it's closure, overall it has been a great experience -I mean I rediscover bands which has more or less forgotten- .
    Now I'm looking for other online music streaming, this time "legal" - but Grooveshark will still be no.1 for me - and for now I'm satisfied with what I've found.
     For the BL project I'm working I'm starting to do Keith sprite and beginning some draft works for Sakura. - I have 4 characters left to go!-

   Regarding this blog, I mentioned a while back about the possibility of moving site. I still can't choose between Wordpress or Tumblr but the fact about moving is true. Until then I will continue posting here. Have a nice day! 

All's Well

   Starting from this morning the clock went forward for an hour which means I'll have to rethink my sleeping habits once again. Sprites and art requests are going smoothly -hoping it will last for a whole month- and things are more or less progressing. Bien no?
   In the past few days I tried working on a one shot manga again, it's been almost a year since I stopped making them and seeing how much my art improved is quite satisfying.
  Thinking about it now I'm at the age in which one would normally be sure of what she wants in her life. Shame I'm not that type. （；￣ェ￣） My goal is still to finish Conspiracy though and continue making visual novels! Although by now you might have guessed I'm pretty slow at it...
   That's enough ranting for now. Here's a preview of Arda's new sprite version.

About Sprites...

Since I'm clearly waaay behind schedule I'm planning to start working on each character's default sprites first followed by their expression sets to be send to my favorite script writer. For now all I can say is that I'm piled up with loads of work but with a positive outlook for this I'm sure I'll manage!
I'll update Lemmasoft once I get another sprite ready for release.
In conclusion I realized I might not be fit for a group project at all. So I'll probably stick with the one man work thing. Haha... - I hope not...- 
Here goes another short post. Thanks for dropping by :)

Comme ça va?

Firstly, sorry for not having posted for such a looong time! Been caught up in really busy things to do and my mood swings keeps getting in the way.
（＞д＜）Argh!!
I'm happy to say the new sprites for Black Lotus satisfied my artistic hunger for improvement! Their hair coloring came out fine and I had to forget about using textures for their clothing... Sure, anatomical mistakes are as clear as the day but I know I'll improve in my own way with some help.
In the meantime let me enjoy my oh-so work of art - Ahahahaha.... ヾ(@゜∇゜@)ノ-

C'est tout! I hope I can post more this month.