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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22/5/2014 06:32:35 am
The restaurant system sounds good to me :3 I wonder what are those dialogues about...
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