From the Celestial Dance Staff!These are autumn greetings from Canadians, and though it's not fall for everyone, I'd like to give you a lovely taste of my country's season. This includes some Celestial Dance items, outfits and things that can only be found in Autumn in the game. (Runs from September to November I believe in the game) Today (October 21st) I came home from school and even though I was exhausted, I took my dog for a walk. On my way there, I didn't expect to do what I did... I collected leaves. For those of you that have never seen autumn leaves, I'd like to share with you a little bit of what I found. Canada is actually known for it's autumns and this is just the beginning of it... So I really hope that I can find some really nice. Sadly, the scans made the colour a bit duller, but still it's very lovely to look at. I'm going to use the colours as a base for the autumn colours in clothing and leaves for the game :) I think they're so pretty and I think it will look beautiful in game~ AUTUMN SELECTIONThese will be just some Autumn exclusive items in Celestial DanceSky Brew CafeMoonCake Family RestaurantHeaven On EarthAlice FashionsSCARY NIGHT COSTUMESThere is currently a missing costume (The bride costume) for the child year... but what about the teen year? What type of costumes should we see? One of my ideas was to make a Dimentio costume, but it didn't look the way it should have lol. (Dimentio from super paper mario.) I would like to do some cosplay or video game characters as costumes, but I'm stumped. I'll try to think up something. Of course, there will be items available year round, so don't feel as though this is ALL you can buy in fall. There's a whole lot more fall exclus. as well, but I'm still working on them. Since I'm hoping I won't be doing these updates for another year, I'm going to try and push out some winter exclusives next update and some spring the next. I'm looking to complete some more stuff today guys :) Let's cross our fingers for the completion really soon. National Novel writing monthI figured I'd share this for anyone who likes to write stories. There's an international writing month going on in November! Basically, the challenge is to write a little over 1000 words per day to reach a goal of 50000 words total. It's a lot of fun and there are some great deals and prizes for you if you complete the challenge. (There's one website sponsoring the event that will give you two free copies of your book if you publish through them~) It's totally free! I've entered too <3 http://nanowrimo.org Dialogue and relationship systemIf you guys had remembered, one of the features in the game is for you to use different interactions such as 'conversation' 'story' etc. We had to make a MINOR change to this just due to the amount of dialogue we (I) would have to write. If you go down to the 'Getting Married' Tab, You will get a vague idea of the various relationship levels. Friendships go on for eight different Levels. Once you reach maximum friendship, you will have the most dialogue out of any level. Once you reach the third last level, you will begin to have the options to have conversations. Kissing will still occur as of right now. You may kiss the boys, but if you do it too early, your will lose relationship points XD When you're a kid, it's the cheek, when you're a teen- It's on the lips LOL. Other updates
RandommeradeI'm so glad that you do ^_^ I just figured it'd be lots of fun to put in a new header <3 You can see a line of pixels from the old one below it though LOL oops XD I'm so glad ;_; I love Sora myself. It was the first time I was so overly free with the hair. It turned out decent though, so I'm happy that everyone likes him <3 Thank you :D In the next update I'll actually have some more done! so hopefully it won't be just a simple "LOL here's some stuffies that you don't care about." I'll have some serious updaes and hopefully a quick video too! And I'm so glad you think so ;_; I'm trying my best to make some decent drawings for this game. I hope I can acheive that goal ^_^ it means a lot knowing that someone thinks I've improved <3 so Thank you! LOL the video. I was half-asleep and supposed to be studying :D Yeah, I ramble when I'm nervous. The first time, I got to nearly the 15 minute mark with rambling. I need to make some scripts or something to eliminate the amount that I talk :) I think I sent you an email ;_; I think. I'll go check. I've been keeping in touch with so many voice actors since It's casting season :D -_-; XD so I'm losing myself in emailing them and writers so I'm not sure who I have and haven't emailed anymore TT_TT My best suggestion to you is to play normally until the pre-teen or teen year and just befriend all of the child year people and save in all four slots. That way, you can just pick up where you left off without having to play through all of the chapters ^_^ It's up to you though. That's what I'm doing for playtesting, except I'll be massively cheating in order to be able to test XD Maxie <3 He's so cute. My goodness his honeymoon dialogue is probably my favorite. he's just always being silly, romantic or just cute. My cousin and I just sit around writing his dialogue LOL. Hmm that's a tough choice. Kyler's is a bit more explicit (his path has a mention of drugs, but he's okay other than that.) and Jet's can be a bit more humorous. I love Kyler's events (one of my friends wrote out the path's scenario and it's pretty funny/brilliant.) I personally like Kyler a lot as a character (As he's super sweet), but I haven't finished Jet's path or honeymoon so I'm not sure how he'll turn out in the end :) I suppose you'll decide when you meet them? ^_^ I have to re-draw Ky-Ky :( We'll see how that works out :D I'm glad you like that story ^_^ People are very sensitive to those topics, so I was a bit worried. I'm a bit worried about Aris though XD I think everyone's going to try to kill me. *cough* I'm glad you enjoyed that update :D Sorry for the long reply LOL. and I'm sorry this one wasn't too fabulous XD Until next time! Kuroneko~I love visual novels too :) Aww I'm glad you think so ^_^; I hope it'd be alright. When we decide on the final love interest, we'll know what we're going to do for the story. Yeah, Shiro is kind of scary XD but I do like Sora personally. As I said above, I was being kind of trying to do his hair a bit wilder than I usually do XD It didn't turn out too bad. I do love him as a character though. I'll list three more when they are out :) We're going to do a poll at the end of Celestial dance to see which ones people like best and we'll chose the top three or four to be part of the visual novel <3 I'm glad you like it ^_^ At least three people come to your birthday at all times: Max, Cindy and Roxie~ So you'll always get a gift! But I agree! Lots of gifts=lots of fun :P Ahh it's really easy to get him to date you :) Plus, you'd want to see all of his events <3 So if you do see all of Jet's teen events, you'd be dating! Then marrying him is no big deal~! If you want to see both, you can just save, propose and then reload and play until he proposes XD I say that his is more romantic, because it typically has something to do with him and you... or it's interactive~ My favorite is Tyrones LOL His is fun~! Ahh yes.. The flashbacks differ from person to person :) Some of them are flashbacks from the boy, and sometimes just ABOUT them. So They're usually pretty adorable <3 Max's is my favorite XD but that's just me. Honeymoon dialogue is my favorite thing to write :3 It's so much fun to be random. Flabbergasted is a great word XD I would too ^_^ I would love to have both kids, but I'd be resetting until I had the boy and the girl XD you have a 1/4 chance of getting the combo you want~ Which is good. I can kind of see Damion or Tyrone or someone with one of the hyper-active kids just dangling from their hair XD poor guys. I think I've actually cried while trying to write it a few times XD X'D :\ :| :'( I haven't been able to make enough of an impact yet, so I'm going to do my best to make it a nice finale~ We get attached to the pixels because they are so nice to us ;_; I don't even know XD I have some detailed after stories for each character I'd probably write about. I know I'm going to miss the look and character of Alice when I start Artists Canvas, so that's probably why I want to make a CD sequel so bad. LOL Damion's not for everyone XD he's a Tsun-Tsun. I can't say that I dislike him anymore. He's kind of funny and sweet sometimes all he needs is a friend. He can be a bit of a jerk though LOL. something about smashing rocks I find fun virtually XD I would get so mad in Animal Parade when I wouldn't get a diamond. CD is a little bit more fun because you don't have stamina... you just need money to make money~ Animal parade was a main influence on the CD mine for sure XD That's okay, I don't remember what Jet likes :P I'm going to have to look at my notes. A lot of people like the sweet and bubbly personality, so it's not a bad thing XD Only some of the girls and the less popular boys dislike it. (Anastasia, Tristan... Them LOL) I'm so glad you like them ;-; That means a lot coming from you <3 I hope I can do the other characters justice XD I'll be finishing Jet's sprite and emotions soon <3 I'll post them for next update I hope :P It's not my favorite name, but I think that's because I'm so used to it hahaha I do like the nickname 'Roxie' though. LOL I don't know why :) LOL It just gives people a reason to eat food I guess XD It wasn't anything special :) I'll give you a quick tip for days where you have multiple options :) For example, Scary night changes every year. Save before you go back home for the evening, and go either to the pumpkin patch or watch the movie. Reload and do whichever you didn't do. Then reload again and go trick or treating~ After TOTing, you get all your candy and you've seen all the dialogue~ It's one of the easier things to do XD I'm really just teaching people how to cheat on my game *cough* XD Thank you so much! sorry for the long message/ the lame update. The end for now XD
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Visual Novel CandidatesAs you guys may know, between Artists Canvas and Celestial Dance will be a smaller end game done by our production studio that will be a visual novel. the visual novel will be one of a few concepts and Artists Canvas will be worked on afterwards. This visual novel will be governed by the likes of you guys and will NOT contain the following: 1. Pre-existing CD characters 2. Characters based off of other characters. Right now, there are three candidates, but more are on their way. When all of the candidates are completed, voting will take place and we will decide based on there. Currently out of the three candidates, we really REALLY adore two of them (Zeph and Sora). So I'll give you the links for you to check out ahead of time! And yes, I did do all the art TT_TT SO I apologize for the horribleness. The Yandere, Shiro The Sweet but confused guy with a dark past, Sora The sadistic yet somehow good, Zephyr. Birthday~I'm currently working on the birthday system for CD. It's super cute and super simple. Basically, you enter your house on your birthday and there's a party waiting for you! you go talk to all of your friends and collect your presents. Who shows up depends on your friendship with them. If you didn't bother to make any friends, never fear... Max and Cindy will always be at your party (They're always your friend.) Your gift is random. You get a gift box, and much like animal crossing, you have to open it to get your prize. It's all in great fun! Marriage, Pregnancy and childrenYAY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE. All joking aside, the first few steps of the pregnancy system are complete, and SOME weddings and proposals are ready. Starting Out: You've had your boyfriend for a little while and now you're looking to get married... right? Now... you only have a set amount of time to pop the question (Or get a boyfriend for that matter) before you can no longer propose yourself. (These dates are to be finalized. If you want to get married, get a boyfriend in your teen year. (or at least give him a promise ring.) If something goes awry,(Such as... you missed the teen year promise ring deadline) then BEFRIEND SOMEONE WITHOUT A LOVE INTEREST if your intial boy did have one. Because after the teen year, people get together based on who does not have a promise ring. So for example: I gave Andy the promise ring, it means everyone will get together with thier love interest BUT Andy. When you have completed the teen year, you are now eligable to get married. Popping the question: You will have up until HALF WAY THROUGH the young adult year to propose. If you don't, then either your honey will propose, or you just don't have a hubby. (Due to game dynamics and logic though, chances are you will be forced to get married whether you like it or not lol. I may be able to let you NOT marry, but we'll see. If you are torn whether or not to propose, I'll let you into a little secret: The guys proposing is a lot cuter (1) and usually are either funny, romantic or entertaining (2) PLUS- You get married the same date whether or not you propose. You just have something to look forward to for a long.... LOOOOOOOOONG time XD Getting Married After your proposal event (Which ever it may happen to be) you get a lovely wedding with your lovely groom. It has your wedding vows and a 'flash back' of a specific event (Usually pre-game) After marriage You will go home with your new husband and talk to your mom. Everything about him will become clear and your mom will prepare for you two to stay at your house. She will then announce that you two are going on a honeymoon! Honeymoon First, you will be on a plane to your honeymoon. If you're expecting a beautiful series of drawings and your honeymoon ending, you're in for a bit of a surprise. Your honeymoon is not so sweet. in fact, as many of us have stated.... Your honeymoon can be sad, happy, hilarious or dramatic. You get to see a different side of the boy you married, finally seeing how he really feels. It should all end happily though~ I promise. The honeymoon is a legit plotline. There is a story to it that you will have to play out. Having fun yet? :P Asking for a child After your honeymoon there will be a set date allotted for your child asking event. Your husband will ask you if you will have a kid with him (Romantically of course. Not crude or offensive.) and you can say yes or no. If you say yes, you will trigger the next event. If you say NO, you STILL have a 1 in 25 chance of triggering the next event. Why? because I'm evil.Maybe she finally said yes? IN ORDER TO ALTER THIS, YOU CANNOT SAVE OVER YOUR MAIN FILE. This 1/25 chance is chosen DURING this event. If you really do not want a child for the life of you, you cannot save until the next event passes, or else you may end up with a child anyway. Pregnancy This event will be triggered a little while after the initial event. You won't be feeling too well, so your husband calls your mom over. Your mom has an idea of what's going on and asks you to do her a favor. Your husband is so obviously confused at the completely wide open situation. Upon coming back, your character will said "I'm pregnant." (Which may or may not be the first words she says besides "Marry Me" outloud.) This flabbergasts your husband and leaves them stunned yet excited. Asking for a Second Child Due to the timing of transition events, you do not see the birth of either of your children... In fact, you don't see the pregnancy of your second child. DURING YOUR PREGNANCY with your first child, your husband will ask you for the possibility of two children. You can say yes or no, but once again saying no may lead to you having a second child anyway. This is meant to add to the realism in the game. It isn't to say it was an 'accident', it was more or less "I changed my mind" It's entirely up to you, and plus, you can save your game in a different file so you can just go back and try again. I'll give you the exact number of days between each event and you guys can then just play until then, check that you're not pregnant and then continue playing. Your Children After your transition from young adult to adult, your children will have been born and quite feisty. Unless you have a cheat that says otherwise, the gender of your child(ren) are randomized from the transition event. Save before the Y.Adult chapter is over, and then keep resetting until you get your ideal genders *Cough* you didn't hear this from me. There are FOUR possible children: The Older Brother (Phoenix) The Older Sister (Laverna) The Younger Sister (Gemini) The Younger Brother (Sparrow) All the children can be renamed, it was easier for me to name them rather than calling them O.bro Y.Sis etc XD The FinaleAs I've mentioned many times, the game ends after the Adult Chapter of game play. The adult chapter is somewhat of a 'falling action' as you may say, as loose ends are tied up and you have your kids. Chances are, this will be the chapter many players would stop playing at. The final Chapter of the game falls around the main character, her husband and kids as well as everyone else with their family and kids. The finale starts almost as a transition event does. It starts out with your family saying one final goodbye as a family (Your kids bidding you farewell as you're going out with your husband.) Your husband and you end up going back to Amber Moon Elementary where you meet your friends. Something seems to be melancholic... could this be goodbye? From here, you'll see where each person goes in their lives. You will be getting some achievements and the game ends on a high note :) DamionWhy Damion, Why? I've actually fallen for my own character that I used to hate... though that seems to be a re-occurring theme LOL. Damion's romance path falls around him not being able to open up to the Hero. He has a generally sweet path, ranging from video games to a serious audition. Damion has been classified as the "Tsundere" type in my mind lol. He's really become a nice guy compared to what he was before, and he's quite funny as well LOL. As I disliked Jet, Andy and Kyler before, Damion is one of those characters which I have learned to love <3 I think the thing about Damion is that in reality, he's really a sweet guy. He's just afraid to show it. He's cold and tries to push everyone away. My vision for the honeymoon is mainly to show that sweetness behind him, and to show how much he has the ability to love despite what he originally seems. He cannot be 'changed', but he always just put up a wall It's the best feeling in the world... Mining systemThis was a huge accomplishment a long time ago, since it was the first major system to be completed... or so I thought. I called the mining system "complete" but I overlooked a very severe problem: Once you break the stones, they will stay broken forever. LOL. Creepy. Nice way to make a little tiny bit of money and that's it, right?! Joking aside, I have officially finished the mine so it is WORKING and the stones re-appear once you enter the room again. Mining is a bit annoying to be honest. You get a bunch of ore... you refine it and see if you got something of value. Getting money can do one thing for you: Buying gifts. Buying gifts can go towards giving to people or earning achievements (Though the fandom wear and merch). Giving gifts can be helpful for gaining friendship points. Friendship points help with gaining the 'crush' status which eventually leads to gaining a good amount of love points. YAY COMPLEX STUFF. Refining system completeOnce again, a part of the game that never actually worked properly. If you recall the video "Celestial Dance Activities", The activities included 'Refining'... Which is where you take your ores from the mine and make them into gems or glass. The issue with this system was that it wouldn't refine ALL of your ores and I couldn't figure out why. It turns out that I nested some things I shouldn't have and I just did a quick edit. The whole thing is working now, meaning that all your ores are refined~ Currently, it cost 8000G to refine (Which is like an equivalent to $80 US XD) But I'll lower it down when I get an idea on how easy/difficult it is to make money. Because mining can get you rich fast, this may be the final price as well to create a sink for your gold. In the end, it's much worth the 8000G as long as you have LOTS of ores to refine. PersonalityThere are currently three personalities in the game: Shy and Scared Rude and Sassy Sweet and Bubbly These three personalities are heavily influenced on what you do in your child year. Awesome, right? We are currently in development of a FOURTH personality type. These personality types help with popularity ratings and help with friendliness. They don't do much other than this. Out of the main girls and boys, a few of them like each personality. This will give you an added boost (or decline) based on the given personality. Children faces everywhere!...The title Didn't turn out as planned... did it? Then of course, we have miss Destiny... if you don't recall, she looked like this: She now looks like this: And colouring went from this....To this!WEBSITE ALTERATIONSI'm currently in the process of altering the website to make it up to date. I've currently added blank pages for all the characters and edited some of the originals. Not ALL of them are complete, but most of the girls' are and I'm just working on the guys right now. ALSO, if you haven't noticed/refreshed your page in a while, the header has changed to celebrate 'scary night'. Okay, so we're trying to come up with a story for SN, because we know there are a few groups who do not like halloween for religious purposes. I'll try my best not to do anything over the top... just the header for now. It'll go back after Halloween passes. We will also be removing ALL of the previous generated sprites (the ones I didn't draw) from the character pages and slowly fill them with my drawn art. YAY! About Roxanne- The characterI know there has been a bit of a question about why there is a 'character named after me' in Celestial Dance. I want to let you know that this isn't really the case. The orange haired Roxanne is based off of someone I used for an on-going story. She's the person I wanted to be when I was 10 years old and became so flawed by the time I turned 16 that she began to be a reflection of the good and bad parts in myself. As funny as it is, I didn't name her after me entirely... but rather Roxanne from the Disney series. Max, Goofy's son, was my 'first crush' when I was little. Her memory was implanted in my brain and that's why. I actually really don't like the name LOL. I've been kind of avoiding using her name if you haven't noticed, because I know it's really weird XD I just wanted you guys to know the character isn't made in vain XD One of the last new features???Because CD is reaching it's tipping point, I'm just finishing up the small new details before I do any in-depth writing for dialogue etc. Once dialogue is finished, I need to work the mechanics of the day-change and then the full day-to-day life is basically complete. It's only the events, school... transitions etc. This is one of the last new things you will hear and that is food preference. I'll be asking you each time you eat something if you liked it and slowly you'll build up food preferences. At the end of the game, it will state which your favorite type of food is. It's just a simple little thing that helps with the finale making it more important and special to you~ It also shows how much you ate LOL. Scary Night VideoI made a video a couple weeks ago based on Scary Night. It has me babbling, so mute if it you'd like :) It shows the full system of Trick or treating and the pumpkin patch. Sadly, the 'watch movie' option didn't work like I wanted it to, so you don't get a preview of that :( To Kuroneko~I'm so glad ;_; I'm planning to re-draw Max though :S I want to see if I can make him a little better looking :) Ahh well when you play the game you'll understand. The honeymoon is quite the adventure and probably my favorite part of the game XD Jet's will be fun~ I'll do my best for him too! Kyler's is pretty funny too, Max has some great moments and Andy got me hitting my head on the counter wondering why I became so depressing XD But some of his dialogue is really funny too <3 Neither do I to be honest XD It depends on how motivated I am and how quickly I can write/event things :) When the game is finished I'm going to be testing like crazy to the point that I never want to play again X'D then I have a load of testers to test the game too~ So my friends will tell me where I messed up. I hope I can get a lot finished by then ;_; At least the primary part of the game. At least enough where I can say that I know WHEN I can get the game out :) I really do hope to be finished by sometime early 2014, but we'll see if my time estimations are right! LOL It's okay. YAY FOR GIFT GIVING! That's all that matters I suppose. My favorite thing though, is Item #108 XD The It's a video game titled: Galaxy Stride: Alter the waves. ... Sound familiar XD It's basically Celestial dance within Celestial Dance, and if you give it to someone, they just stare at you and criticize the game. HAHAHA I just couldn't resist. Jet's a great character. I think I may have found a great voice actor for him too~ I'm really excited, because Jet's a pretty fun character to write for. Damion is kind of a jerk to him in their jealousy event LOL The fun thing about Tyrone is that he's become a tribute character. He now randomly speaks phrases of Japanese. It's really cute~ He is Japanese by blood and it's assumed that he does know the language. It isn't me just randomly putting in Japanese because I can HAHA I already did that with Kyler and Max ._. *cough* Items, what items XD Just kidding :P You'll see a lot of references throughout the game~ If you ever have any requests, let me know :) Lots of items, lots of dialogue~ lots of fun! It's just a matter of HOW you get the items I'm worried about XD But you can get a lot of money... it's just spending it that's problematic. It seems that I do too XD They luckily all begin to worry about clothing, but not in a superficial way. I'm SO glad you liked the update! I'm sorry this one is so lame XD I'm still working on Voice acting, scripts and all that good stuff :) I'll reply to your email in a bit! I want to just draw you something really quick ^_^ Then I'll send it with the next one~ RandommeradeWOOO ANOTHER NEW ONE ^_^ I haven't emailed you in a while either ;_; I'm sorry. Midterms... university *sobs* Ahh thank you TT_TT I'm so glad you think so! I hope this one shows some improvement as well :P My voice?! XD Thank you so much. I'm glad you liked the video and my voice XD Hopefully it will sound okay in game too when I'm playing the three characters HAHAHA. Max is my cutie <3 He has added benefits and stuffs~ like a couple extra events. He's really funny <3 and really sweet. A lot of Max's dialogue is really nice and I put so much more effort into it LOL Kyler is surely one of my favorites. I'm not sure how people will react to his and Jet's story. They have some things in it that's some people may not like LOL They're both smokers but it's about quitting basically. They're still great characters <3 Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed this one too! :D End of update~ |
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