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Aris Steele DragonAs I mentioned previously, Aris underwent a serious overhault. It may make you dislike his personality... or it may make you like him more XD I actually personally have more of a like and a dislike to him than before. Regardless, to go with this revamp comes Aris Steele Dragon's official Art! He sadly looks a lot like Max (Which is strange considering I made Aris his own base unlike Leo and Damion who used Kyler and Andy for a base... who used Cain as a base...) but I'm content the way he turned out *Sigh of relief* I may fix his eye a bit... More about his revamp aside from personality can be noted that he has lost his facial stripes and he gains a star temp facepaint/tattoo on his face. He also is implied to sing and act. He also gains his necklace with the characters ふ and と on it. This is explained in his character page. In previous plans Aris was only supposed to have ONE love event and ONE pre-teen event before his revamp. Now, he is given one pre-teen event and all five romance events plus his usual honeymoon and wedding... Even rival events etc. I figured I'll give a little bit of insight into his new character... but spoiler alert big time. I want most of his personality to be a surprise XD So without further ado... Here is Aris Steele Dragon in his finest form. (existing XD) Compare that to his original art... and you have... Uh... Something. Uhhhh... ew. BEFOREAFTERAris moves into the town as a pre-teen as a prince-like and gentle guy. He seems to be very sly and flirtatious with girls, but in reality he's quite the opposite of what he pretends to be. He's a gifted actor and eventually a well known popstar. Aris is fairly ego centric in his actions, making himself the center of attention and is shown to have difficulty getting along with the rest of the group. He and Piroline are intense rivals and therefore they fight a lot. Aris is the "nephew" of Mrs.Suzie (London was Suzie's best friend) And gets along with her decently. He finds no need for family outside of Suzie (Who he considers more as a friend than family) and he dislikes people who interfere with his life. Aris has a total of 11 face sprites, which is only exceeded currently by Max.
Notably, his hair colour is a little bit lighter (and a slightly off-grey tone) as he loses his face tattoos and his famous... Uranus tattoo is hidden by his jacket (though it exists and is referenced in the game) His eye colour changes from blue to a deep brown, and he gains three piercings. As mentioned on his character page, Aris's necklace actually says something in Japanese. If you know who he's a tribute character to, it'll make sense XD It's difficult for me to shade darker skin, so he is implied darker by the tint and next to everyone else... So yeah XD that's how he turned out so light. He was originally much darker, but the shading is really hard since I have shade sets set aside and adjusting them sucks. He took me about a half hour to draw by hand and another three-five hours to colour and shade. Yay... Aris...? I've got to say though, His emotions are pretty adorable. He's becoming one of my favorite characters LOL. Why Jet's face set isn't done :(I really wanted to finish Jet for this update... or at least have some traditional hand-drawn work for you guys. Sadly, my drawing skills decided to insult me and drew the worst piece of pencil work ever for Jet. His hair drives me absolutely crazy, and I need to do a straight on head shot to avoid him and Kyler looking similar. I never knew drawing a slice could be so difficult :( so as a result, Jet is still in progress. I was using Andy as a base (as I did for Damion) but his face shape and everything didn't compliment Jet and made him look like a skeleton. Someone kill me :/ I also started in the morning to draw a generic head to start either Tyrone or Jet... Then I wasn't paying attention, and I pulled my mint tea bag out of the cup and all over my computer, phone, sketchbook and chair TT_TT now my sketchbook page is stained yellow with a mildly decent bust shot. School System bluesSo... As it turns out, I left in a bunch of code cues that make for the face sprite of Suzie to pop up during her speech for the first MONTH of the game TT_TT This is over 200 lines of dialogue to fix. ugh. It's in progress... No promises of me getting around to fixing all of it for a while though. It may be one of the last things I do in the game... because it SUCKS TT_TT I ended up doing 10 out of 30 lessons + started unit 3... And then my computer crashed. I think I'll be doing this muuuuuuuuch later. Grade 3 scheduleOkay, So I figured I should let you guys know the official revamped schedule of Grade 3 for the school year: September: History October: Mythology (Only half) November: Fashion December: New Years Break January: New Years Break February: Art March: Music April: Misc thoughts and final month May-June- Celestial Dance Break July-August- Summer Break Lia KirimuraOne of our beloved characters has been very rarely spoken of. Her name is Lia Kirimura and she is Tyrone's mother and one of the few plot important characters. She's a smart and powerful woman, mundane but effective. She works as either a Lawyer or a Real estate worker and tires over her super hyperactive son regularly. Well, I would like to take a moment to thank Victoria Masterson for her amazing performance, since Lia's dialogue is nearly recorded in full and she is given full dialogue in the game as of now. There is only one scene left which would be the intro scene, and the entirity of Lia's character will be recorded and fully voiced! Jaden Zander West (Jay)This isn't a huge update, but I started Jay's face sprite colouring. I realized that I need to extend him downwards since it'll look awks or it won't match the others. So here are his semi flats (Meaning he's almost done, except that his eyes.) Eyes are my favorite things to colour, so I'm leaving them until last XD Still need some clean up though.... SIGHHHHH Tyrone KirimuraTyrone holds a special place in my heart, as many of you may know. I am 80% sure he was the first official love interest ever created for the game. He was notorious for his blue hair and for being your next door buddy who told wild and wacky stories about garden gnomes coming to life and a tiger attacking him. This crazy artist has only proven to me that I myself am no artist... *sigh* The teen concept artwork actually is on a different laptop. I had to save this one directly from this website LOL. So sorry about that! Tyrone is the high energy son of Lia Kirimura and the Late skye Kirimura. He is artistic and excitable with a wild imagination. As a teenager, he strives to become a mangaka and to publish his own Manga book. He is a natural Otaku and adores anime and manga naturally. In general, he's a charming and sweet guy, though a bit forward in his approaches. His best friend is Cindy, as he is part of the CD poster couple of Cindy and Tyrone.
Compared to Aris, Tyrone has a bit thicker lines for hair. This represents the quality of hair, as Aris is very careful with fine details such as straightening his hair, while Tyrone and Jay are more focused on other factors. Hopefully no one is mad about that XD Notably, Tyrone has a new outfit, lighter hair and more purple eyes opposed to the original dark blue in his older designs. From his previous art, Tyrone has lost the braid in his hair for two reasons: 1. it look awful 2. initially, the braid was meant to be a small tribute to Yusuke Asahina from Brocon. Later on, Tyrone became the brocon tribute in general in the form of Tsubaki Asahina (If you know brocon, you'll notice several things about his image right off the bat XD) So it didn't make sense to hold the Yusuke tribute anymore with the Otaku when Tsubaki was a better option. Kuroneko~I'm glad you like it :) On Wednesday, I'm hoping to record some of the implemented features of the game to showcase. The dialogues? They may or may not be dialogues that you see on random occasions when you sit in the restaurant. They may or may not be with the characters in the town, and they may or may not raise the friendship of the one you may or may not trigger it with XD I tried to reveal as much as I could about Aris without fully spoiling everything XD His intro scene is meant to be a surprise, and I figured this was the best route to do it! :) But of course, the boys change personality based on the ways you interpret them speaking too :) So for example, Max in some cases hugs the player. He can seem flirtatious, but it's up to you to decide whether he is really flirty or if he is just not aware what he's saying can be a bit strong. (One of my favorite parts about Max XD) That's one of the fun parts of the game. I leave as much as up to the players interpretation as I can~ Ah yeah... Her character is a little interesting. I used to like her a lot, but writing Kyler and Aris's script, I really don't like her as much. She stirs the pot so to speak even though she's a really nice and sweet character. If I ever re-make CD, my plan would be to allow custom character design and for Alice to take the place of Piro. XD I've got to admit, most of the couples in CD are pretty decent. But I agree, I wish CNW would come out soon :( Harvest moon- why are you so addicting? The welcoming is a little bit sad for some of the boys, because they all talk about their past, but the ending is usually pretty amusing XD Julie is a great mom. That's all I can say XD There is a way to marry more than four, but it requires you either moving over saved files and backing them up, or for you to download multiple copies of the game onto different places of your computer~! I'll probably release videos showing all of the events after the game is released though :) For those who want to catch them all :P That was my thought exactly XD Let's not waste money on food and actually make eating worth while~ LOL it was a trick question. She's from the plot. You won't see her until later chapters~ Hehehe When you meet her though, you'll wish you hadn't. It was lovely hearing from you~ I'm so glad you liked the scene XD Thank you! I'm so glad you think that. I know Tytannia was a bit shaky since my voice got tired, but I'm glad to see they were all different enough~ I'll talk to you soon :) And I'll have Jet drawn for you soon too! ConclusionWell, that's about it for now. I know the first part of this was very school-centric since that's what I was working on for a lot of the time. I honestly hope you liked the face sprites and the updates! I'll have more for you very soon!
At the moment though, I'm sending out Aris's script, Julie's script and Celeste's script. I'm hoping to have all the VAs in place soon though, because as soon as one script is done, that means an entire section of the game is complete. So nearly all of the plot save the ending is complete, all of Tristan, Tyrone, Damion... A lot of the love points are finished dialogue and only need to be put into the game now. I also have the school system under control. Right now I'm working on time management in the game and activities to do so you guys don't get ridiculously bored. Sooo... best of Luck :) Have a great (inset time of length until next update.... probably a few days)! ~Roxie
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Hey guys :) I have a lot of fun stuff packed. it was meant to be a tiny update... but it didn't end up that way XD So enjoy~ Tiny Updates
Aris's OverhaulI can't say too, too much about this overhaul. It is a little bit secret for you guys to find out, but Aris isn't exactly the prince-like flirt that he was before. He is a prince-like flirt, but... with a twist. The reason for this revamp was due to the intense similarities between Aris and Tyrone. They were literally the same person except Tyrone now speaks Japanese. To create diversity, we added a few new elements to Aris to make him fresh and different from the other boys. Sadly, because we want a bit of a surprise factor for his personality, we're leaving that an open end for you guys to witness for yourself ^_^ Decisions, Decisions.When Kyler underwent an overhaul, it was because of Piroline that it was a product of. Piroline is a very sweet and gentle young lady who loved to sing and dance. She was serious and playful all in one, and as a result led to the captivation of her childhood friend, Kyler. Through their romance path, Piroline realizes that she's in love with her friend that has been standing on her cape to become the star she deserves to be, and furthermore gives up her tour in order to stay by Kyler's side... marked with a kiss. This shallow presentation of a love-line and similarity to Cindy, Roxie and former Dakota and Kandi (before overhaul) Ended up raising the question as to whether or not to keep Piroline in the game as the 11th female. This has been a question for almost a year now, and we finally reached out verdict that Piroline will stay with slight probationary standards. Piroline's love interest will be altered slightly, and she will not be given significance in the plot. It was a difficult decision, but after unraveling her personality a little, I realized I really don't like Piro as a character for many reasons... one of which you will see quite clearly if you view her romance path. Romance path finalizationWe have a finalization of the romance path in which events appear where. This includes a new event that is somewhat a side-event. It's not usually optional, but it's not required for marriage. In this section, I'll go over the several sections for you :) There are some exceptions to this rule, mainly to the four boys that come in only at the Teen year, or Aris that comes in at the pre-teen year. RIVAL ROMANCE Their romance is actually just four events triggered. In order for them to go for one and other, the player must have admitted who they love to themselves. If they (You) don't, they'll (You'll)automatically be put on a random path... or something like that. When your path is chosen and if your boy does have a love interest, they will back off from you and the remaining couples will get together. If you don't trigger the rival events, they will be married by the adult chapter anyway. YOUR ROMANCE Your romance is a bit more complex. After your hero admits to herself who she loves, a series of events play out. Of course, this isn't the start of the events! There are several more to trigger. Child Year: Events 1-5: A series of events revolving around you and your friends. They are triggered within a specific number of friendship points for any boy. This gives you a sampler of how they react and who they are. Pre-teen Year: ??? event: This event is secret because we want a little of a surprise for when you plameant to be comical or sweet. Event #2: Usually a continuation of event 1 beginning to get into the primary issue of the scenes. This is typically the scene where you two are shown to like each other. Event #3: The introduction to the major issue usually, and the state of 'best friends who like each other but don't even know the other one likes them back' %D"line-height: 27px;">This is the first romance event, typically displaying an initial issue or theme. Usually the event is meant to be comical or sweet. Event #2: Usually a continuation of event 1 beginning to get into the primary issue of the scenes. This is typically the scene where you two are shown to like each other. Event #3: The introduction to the major issue usually, and the state of 'best friends who like each other but don't even know the other one likes them back' Usually a difficult situation that causes for the two to be cast a bit apart or for the hero to change the way she looks at them... etc. Event #4: Usually the climax of the primary issue, and the time where your boy is in love with you. Usually an event of confrontation or ends end ruins for the two of you. The fifth scene is either the falling action of the climax depending on the story. Event #5: TYPICALLY at the end of this scene, he will ask you to be his boyfriend. This is the stage of true love and you have no choice but to agree. most of the time, it ties up the ends of the conflict introduced in earlier events. ??? Event: This is a confession event and is super duper sweet and innocent despite what it seems hahaha. It was actually taken from earlier concepts of the game and a couple really great visual novels I've played :) <3 So it's just an event where he opens up to you and tells you what has happened to make him sad. The rest of the event is him and you talking and a little bit of sweetness and cuteness before the event is over.this isn't a 'love' confession, but it's a 'like' confession. He will tell you that he likes you, and it takes place only between events 4 and 5. S 2line-height: 27px;">Wedding: The wedding is just his expression of romance to you through his vows, a flashback and then your done. I put a lot of thought into the dialogue for the wedding, but how special is it? No freaking idea. You go directly into the next event. The Welcoming: This scene is honestly just your mom welcoming your husband to your family and embarrassing you LOLOL. This heads directly into the next scene. The plane ride:3D"line-height: 27px;"> Wedding: The wedding is just his expression of romance to you through his vows, a flashback and then your done. I put a lot of thought into the dialogue for the wedding, but how special is it? No freaking idea. You go directly into the next event. The Welcoming: This scene is honestly just your mom welcoming your husband to your family and embarrassing you LOLOL. This heads directly into the next scene. The plane ride: A reaaaaaaaallly short scene of you and your husband on your way to your honeymoon destination. Not all of these have been written, but usually involves either crying, happiness, fear or tickle fights >.> Honeymoon: This isn't so much a 'scene' as it is an actually full length playable adventure. I can't say much, but it's probably my favorite part of the game, save some of the love events :P Kids? Not as crude as it sounds. Your husband will ask you if you would like to start thinking about starting a family. You can either accept or reject his idea. Either way, you won't hurt his feelings. If you accept the idea, you'll have an interesting event in which your mother will scream in happiness and go a little overboard hahaha. Pregnancy Basically, this scene hasn't been written yet. But you basically find out that you're pregnant with your first child. This only occurs after the previous scene and most of the time will not occur if you reject your husband's proposal to have kids. Kids #2: While you're pregnant with your first... or not, your husband will ask you if you'd ever consider having another/a child with him in the future. You can accept or reject his proposal again. If you accept, you will be given another baby later on in the game. The adult year doesn't have many set events atm. I'll work on those and get back to you XD So that's about it XD Leo DracoSo yesterday, I finished up drawing and colouring Leo Draco as a teen. :) I hope it's satisfactory! Leo is the intelligent fighter son of Julius Draco of Araysia. Leo has not known his mother due to her family forcing her away from Julius and Leo when Leo was just born. He is a generally nice guy, full of false confidence. He loves animals and isn't afraid to be himself even if that means to have tea parties with his action figures. Leo in his childhood wears a strip of red cloth as a headband, but as he gets older, he begins to wear it around his arm instead. In general, Leo is a nice guy with a fairly happy demeanor, but when it comes to his pride, Leo will defend himself whether he is right or wrong.
Celestial Dance: Audio DramaUpon working with my voice actors, I realized that my variation for Cindy, Tytannia and Roxie (The character) may not be enough. Therefore, I wanted to record a little clip of myself arguing between the three characters... then I realized that Roxie doesn't argue with other girls. So I ended up writing a full script and in the end made a full mini- and horrible audio drama. Well... here are the guidelines: 1. You must listen to it with Stereo headphones- otherwise you lose the effect of being in the scene and may miss some dialogue clarity. 2. This is a scene edit on the original I wrote and released back when I first began voicing the two. 3. This will be re-released full edited with the game. 4. All three characters were voiced by me XD 5. When they refer to "you", they are referring to litterally YOU. You are the fourth person in the room witnessing the event. 6. There were several errors due to my improvisation. So please disregard this. Enjoy :) Summary: Cindy and Tytannia are hanging out at Cindy's house with you, when Tytannia asks for something sweet to wash down the XL pizza they munched on earlier. They pre-prepared a bunch of batter, standard for most cakes and began to look for the recipe for Cindy to finish. This is where our story begins. Approx. 5 mins long.
Hunger SystemSo.... I whipped up a super quick hunger system. It's fairly simple and gives you something to look out for. So this is how it goes~ Your hunger is displayed on the top right of your screen at all times unless a cutscene is activated. It is indicated by a generic image of Alice (Blonde hair and blue eyes) and her emotions. There are several images that can be seen. Child Faces: The child and pre-teen year share a common image of Alice with big bright eyes and to begin a big smile. By the third stage of hunger, she begins to look sad. Teen Faces: The Teen faces are shared between the Teen, Adult and Young Adult chapters. It has a total of nine different faces (three different stages with three different personalities) but you can only see three of these per game since multiple personalities is not allowed LOL. The Bubbly personality has the same eyes as the child, The shy has slightly smaller eyes that are tilted a bit, and the snooty is very tsurime. So as for the different levels, this is how it works: 1. Every hour, your hunger will grow. 2. You can reach a maximum of 8 hunger in which you will be starving. 3. You can reduce your hunger by buying food from the stores or eating items you already own. 4. Going to a restaurant automatically sets your hunger to 0. 5. You are responsible for all of your meals except for breakfast from child-young adult. Your mother feeds you before you are playable in the mornings. The adult year, you are stuck to find your own breakfast. There are some items in the game that you cannot give to other people. These are edible. Some giftable items are available for consumption too. Snacks like Candy will decrease hunger by 1, but drinks do not. If you eat enough of certain things, you will eventually have favorite foods and drinks that will be expressed at the end of the game, as well as unlocking certain achievements. The hunger indicator is seen below. This is how it looks with little hunger and in the child/pre-teen chapter. RestaurantsSo a quick update on this. There are several Restaurants/Food places in Araysia. Eat ins/take out - Skybrew Cafe - Mooncake Chinese restaurant - Byakko forest Japanese food Food, Ingredients, Snacks - Heaven on earth candy store - General grocery - Trade union bakery - Ice cream parlor (unconfirmed) - Trade union fast food (unconfirmed) - your own kitchen If you eat a snack, your hunger will go down by 1. If you sit in for the actual meals, your hunger will go down to zero. This includes meals you make at home. Quick little pictureI just wanted to share this picture of all of the current face sets :) It's on my counter top so it's a little dark XD But still. Does anyone who knows who the girl is? ;) From top to bottom, left to right.... Leo, Damion, Kyler, ???, Andy, Max Reply to KuronekoAHH I've missed you so much! I'll reply to your email in just a bit :) AHAHA it's true about the lunch center. So far only cutscenes happen in there XD I need to work on it a little more. But, I'm hoping to finish the child year first :) Almost there~! Fun fact about the event- It was created AFTER the game was named XD I didn't know how "Celestial Dance" Fit in to my whole message, so I created the festival XD "Shift the tide" is a metaphor...? or a saying that implies a slow but sure change. SO I decided to use that for the bullying aspect XD I'll try not to make it too hard XD It's probably going to be from the pre-teen year too :) so having a crush shouldn't be too hard XD I'm SO happy that you like them ^_^ I've had to redraw Jet a few times XD he's not awesome enough. But you'll be the first to see him when he's done! I promise! But I'm really happy you liked it! I'll email you soon ^_^ Nice hearing from you~ Response to RandommeradeAh I've been lazy in emailing you too TT_TT I just got your email today! OH MY GOD your voice is beautiful <3 (your soda reaction was the same as mine to your voice except I was drinking coffee XD and hyper on it.) LOL I'm glad you like the banner :) I think it was a winter one before? :O Oh it's getting there alright! Just drawing and writing to do now XD I'm almost there AGH It's exciting :) Soon alpha testing will ensue I hope~ I just need to decide what goes on the cruise XD I'm SOOO Glad you liked it~ HAHAHA I'm a little angry at Mr. Kyler since he stole Jet's hairstyle XD well Jet is a little more tidy in his hair. Aw well :P We'll see how that turns out~ Well I hope to have at least two done for next update, and I'm planning to do smaller updates with only one or two things instead of huge ones like this XD Well anyway, nice to hear from you! I'll send an email really quickly in a little bit ^_^ THANKS EVERYONE <3 Until next time~ |
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