Project Clockwork

The full cast of the Muses, plus some information and possible design additions. For those who can't see the words of the first picture, here's what it says:

The Muses

Keep the world in balance

When something threatens the balance, they intervene

Also serve as keepers of the world's stories, and use them to help inspire others (hence their name)

Kind of like a mix of the Muses from Hercules and the Angels of Orcus from Monstrous Sea in Eliza and her Monsters

Working on an idea that I've had for a Witchita poster.

Sadly, I won't be able to make it a poster for a long while yet, but the idea is still nice to work with.

2020 original designs for a couple of our Clockwork city residents! Eleanor (this image is old, and thus has her older name, but Felicia and Eleanor are the same person!), who is an Entertainer rank with big dreams, and young Inky, who may be too young to have a rank yet, but definitely not too young to have lots of heart!

Currently these characters are minor in our first installment of Clockwork, but keep your eyes out! They may turn out to have quite the roles later...

2020 original designs for our three Oracles: Minali, Rogue, and Treena.

The Oracles are essentially what they sound like -- oracles (We're very good at naming things here at Project Clockwork XD). They will be spread throughout the first game and will help the Timepieces and their Protectors find Witchita and the Cog.

So today we'll be posting a lot, since the Muses and Familiars all go together and are by far our largest group of characters (very promising for Mystic, we hope!).

So we'll start out with our main "antagonist" for Clockwork, Witchita! A Fallen Muse, Witchita will be the main character for our preceding comic Potions (which will detail the events leading to her fall and Clockwork), and also will be the one to steal the Cog in Clockwork! We also have her with her own Familiar, Bobby the frog. And, uhm, Bobby will be quite the supporting personality, we think. (He may not look it, but he is as chaotic as Anon...)

"There are the Protectors that go along with the Timepieces: Mari and Minchy (there's purposefully an empty third spot; its got game significance). "They're pretty much what they sound like; they protect the timepieces, sort of like body guards and such for them." ~ from an online explanation The1TrueAnon did, August 2021

Clockwork -- Timepiece character designs from 2020 Bunni and Bilbo have mostly remained the same, but Anon's outfit and drawing style has changed.

"So the main thing to remember about clockwork before we get into all of this is that Clockwork in the game is a city in what is thought to be a desolate world. They are sort of a "last survivors" sort of thing, everything for miles within it is dead. "The other thing to remember is that the city of Clockwork has survived because it runs on a special kind of magic, produced by this artifact known, rather simply, as the Cogwheel. It's ... pretty much what it sounds like. A magic cog, which provides power to the entire clocktower city with its magic. "The third thing is kind of funny. All of the main characters used in the game are based on the online personas of real people, with permission of course. Most of the characters are like this, haha. "So, in this little city, you have these sort of ... we'll call them 'governmental figureheads' for now XD They're known as Timepieces and they are directly linked to the Cog. There are three of them: Bilbo (or Bil), Bunni, and Anon (that's me XD)." ~ from an online explanation The1TrueAnon did, August 2021

For any who have joined without knowing about the project, what is Project Clockwork? Project Clockwork is a game development idea that The1TrueAnon (that's me! ^w0) came up with back around March of 2020, after making some character designs after an earlier project made by some friends. Clockwork takes its roots from old cartoons, as well as many other games I've seen and been inspired by throughout my lifetime, and a few other fan-made projects by other creators (Bendy and Boris in The Inky Mystery by ThisAnimatedPhantom and Mercowe, Ink Weilders Mystery by Aura and others, and Bendy and Boris: The Quest for the Ink Machine by TheGreatRouge, for example). This project will mainly consist of the game Clockwork, though there are also ideas for a prequel comic (Potions, focusing on Witchita's story before her fall), and possibly 2 sequel games (Fantastic, centered on Eleanor - Fanta's character - and others that might not have gotten quite as much of a spotlight as wished in the first game, and a currently unnamed third game, based on the story of the Muses during the time of Clockwork's events). Clockwork will focus on the story of a city by the same name, run by the power of a very powerful magic artifact, and figure-headed by three toons: the Timepieces Bilbo, Bunni, and Anon. It will tell of their - and their Protectors', Minchy and Marisa - tale to stop the fallen Muse Witchita from taking the precious artifact that runs their city, while learning the previously hidden truths about their world and the magic they are a part of.

Why such deep sharing of details for this project? Promotion is obviously the most known reason, but there's much more to it than that. This blog, as well as other social media and such for Clockwork, aren't just promotion for the game, actually! As a kid invested in video games and how they are built/created, I've wanted to have a game that was involved deeply in the fan-base, so that I didn't feel like I was going into my own journey of game-building on my own! While there are possibly games out there, I've still gone about this myself, so I figured I'd build this scenario for a later kid like me! Also, I love this new world I've started, but I've loved even more the involvement of my friends and even some of my family! Every character in Clockwork has someone they were built off of, someone who made a character, who I then adapted into this version (with permission, of course!)! And while I love exploring this world and building with with my friends, I want to share it with the rest of you guys too! So this project is to see what we can all do together, with something that's started, but is ready to be built! I'm hoping that this form of community project won't just result in a cool game, but an amazing world built by all of us! So, I'm hoping that this experience will be a fun, new way to build up something new that I randomly came up with based off a couple similar stories and a few doodles I drew in the spring before 2020 quarantine! XD I can't wait to see what happens along this ride!

So, without further ado,