#audio development

Hi anon! Meishali here.

We’ll use free resources and buy royalty free pieces from a japanese composer I really like (I’ve already purchased the rights to several songs, and keep on doing so as patreon support money drops!). Keeping it quiet for now so people aren’t going to take a look, but I’d like to think he’s pretty popular to those who dig.

I doubt we will have a person on the music team; but perhaps for future projects…I’ve asked several acquaintances of mine looking to participate in such a project, but most appeared busy, or roughly uninterested. Perhaps one main theme would be good.

I’ve thought about learning how to compose, as I was inspired by several indie devs to make my own music. I think this is not something out of my reach, so I’m seriously considering it. I’ve had FL studio opened and studied some in the past months, but between learning code and having to write and draw, I feel like it’d make Anathema’s development very slow to push myself in learning something new ontop of everything else. But I’m seriously considering it. It’s still early, and it could still change.

Protected: Hope

Short Animation Script Development

This is the most revised Hope Short Animation Script Development.

https://tienny.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Amniotic-Sac-Burst.mp3

Design “Amniotic Sac Burst” sound. Released: 2018.

Character Development

Design characters for the protagonist and the supporting character

The Art of Hope : Baby Character Development

The character development…

Hello again anon! Still Meishali talking.

This is something we’ve seriously considered and are still considering, but this is not something we could afford. For now. Several tryouts have been made with voice actors, namely ProZD for Andrea, for a “FE” style audio chat. 

Overall, what’s very important for us is also to get voice actors of the ethnicity of the characters. Even if all come from “fantasy countries”, all characters of main cast are effectively PoC. (Andrea is, for instance, from Banxu, a Korea/China/Mongolia mix with viking elements. His father is from Benissia, an italy/greece/france mix, hence his name.) This isn’t difficult to come by, but as with any recruitment for such work, it requires research, tryouts, auditions, etc.

Beyond that, the game will likely be massive, anon. A loooot of words. Mini-novel like. If we do go for full voice acting, we’d need to be sure it’s a ride the actors are willing to take. We’re looking into 20+ actors if we want something convincing (i.e. not have someone make more than two voices), if it were to happen. That’s not a small number.

If the VN is successful and donations/goodies make us able to amp it up, we might seriously look into it to publish a final edition/updated version with new content. We’ll of course make voice acting toggle-able, as not everyone enjoys it!