SO, WHAT THE FIG IS ALL THIS?
Hi! Hello. This blog is an archive of the work I'm doing for a fangame based on the Deltora Quest series, as well as a testament to my supermassive levels of autistic hyperfixation. I am a grown man with a full time job, and this project is purely one of passion with no profit involved, so the going will be slow. I'll be posting sketches, thoughts, and eventually animations and gameplay here. But we're nowhere near that point yet. If you're interested in the project or have suggestions for me, please reach out!
THE GAME
Deltora: Vivisection will be a free open-world* version of the original 8 books in the Deltora series, wherein the gems can be collected in any order, and many events will be altered depending on player choice and the order in which quests are finished. It will be part visual-novel, part JRPG, with tons of original art and frame-by-frame pixel animation. When will it be finished? When will the demo drop? I have no idea.
*There will be limits - I'm not a AAA studio. But there will be plenty to explore.
THE CREDO
Though there will be some minor rewrites, the goal is to be as faithful as possible to the original books. Even as a child, I found the anime lacking. I craved blood. To make up for this, I want to create something that would make my younger self go completely insane, while appealing to the now mostly adult fanbase and expanding on ideas I felt could be explored further. We're keeping the blood, we're keeping the terror, and we're also keeping it clean.
THE TEAM
Meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (With help from friends for designs and ideas. Full and specific credits will be present ingame.) (My name is Miles btw.)
THE PLAN
PRE-PRODUCTION PAHSE:
Concepting ✔️
Outline ✔️
Character Designs (In progress)
Creature Designs (In progress)
Dialogue/Event Scripts (In progress) - Forests of Silence ✔️ - Lake of Tears ✔️ - City of Rats ✔️ - Shifting Sands ✔️ - Dread Mountain ✔️ - Maze of the Beast ✔️ - Valley of the Lost ✔️ - Return to Del ✔️ - Midpoint Revision/Edits ✔️ - Ranesh Sidequests ✔️ - Shopkeeper Dialogue ✔️ - Environmental Interactions ❌ - Inventory Item Descriptions (In Progress) - NPC Dialogue (In Progress) - Final Revision/Edits ❌
Talksprites (In progress -- MAIN FOCUS) - Neutral Poses/Color Layouts (In Progress) - All Variation Sketches ❌ - All Rough Colors ❌ - Final Versions ❌
Environment Art ❌
Sprite Art (In progress)
Animations ❌
Sound/Music Sourcing (In progress)
Combat Mechanics (In progress)
UI Design (In progress)
DEVELOPMENT PHASE:
God Forgive Us All ❌ (We'll cross that bridge when we get there.)
DOWNLOAD THE IN-PROGRESS SCRIPT HERE!!!
