#chibiedo

Ke-Ren Wing Practice

Practiced some wings today since I need to draw them for my title screen background and I hadn’t finished designing them in his character sketch.

I looked at a lot of blue jay references. It’s hard but I think I’m making nice progress.

Character Personality Types

I decided to use the myers-briggs like personality test from https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types as an additional tool to shape my characters. Probably won’t religiously follow it and it’s possible that I’ll change them, but it helps a lot with inspiration and it’s a lot of fun for me. I’m an INTJ-T by the way if anyone is interested.

Myriil

This is one of the three characters you can choose to play. They won’t be a silent protagonist eventually, they have different personalities, backstories and initial skills and weapons. You can freely skill them though, it’s mainly just a starting advantage.

This character is Myriil and they are a fox. They are non-binary and are really shy and awkward around people. Myriil’s initial weapon is a bow and their skill advantage is speed which lets you finish actions quicker. (Every action l,ike watering crops for example, uses up time (and stamina), not YOUR time, ingame time. This helps me balance the length of a game day.

Master Post:

Serenida

Actually I don’t know that much about her yet, other than that she is a mermaid and has a lively personality. Also she loves to talk. I personally love mermaids so I had to include one.

She is a magic user and therefore has a staff as a weapon.

Fenriina

This is one of the characters you can befriend / marry.

She is a wolf and famous for her archery. Her personality is kind of arrogant but there are story related reasons to that.

Since her character design jumped around a bit I wanted to show you the progress to her final design (the one on top with the most clothing is the final one). Initially she was based on an old OC of mine which I don’t fully remember what she looked like but that’s the pencil sketch with the long wavy hair. The pencil sketch on the right looks like Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist so I ditched that too. I thought about how she lives in the woods and also likes to climb on trees so she needed a hairstyle that didn’t easily tangle with branches. Of course long hair is still more impractical than short, but braided is better than hair down or a ponytail. The coloured sketch was drawn when I only knew she lived in the woods. Then I decided to give her a bow as a weapon and build a story around that. So I wanted her to look a bit more like an archer. Still she needed clothing which is comfortable and non obstructing so the final design happened.

Non playable characters have fixed skills. You can level the character by partnering up with them but you can’t influence how their skill points are distributed. I’ll write more on the skill system I imagine in an individual post. It also might not be the final version of the skills so they can still change.

By the way designing clothes is really one of my weaknesses so these all took many many hours, but I’m happy with all of my characters. Love them.

Farm Screen HUD Layout

This took forever (many hours) but I’m really happy how this turned out. Ignore the background it’s just a placeholder. Also I did this mainly in SAI and didn’t feel like working on fonts for now so there are no fonts yet. I also learned a lot while working on this because I have never done anything like this before. I worked super hard on this trying to make it look pretty.

Basically it will work in a way that you can choose items or tools and put them into your 5 slot inventory to access them quickly. You can decide if you want to put a mix of items and tools, or just tools,or just items into these 5 slots. And then you use the item by tapping somewhere.

Some parts of this layout are still sketches, some are already finalised. Hope you like it!

Mílaya

This is another one of the three playable characters you will be able to choose from in my game.

She is overall pretty friendly, but has a little secret that I won’t spoil.

Her initial skill advantage is Strength. This allows her to have more stamina for ingame actions and also increases her Damage output in battle. Her weapon is a sword.

Hope you like her!

I’m trying to stream on twitch in 5-10 min. I hope it works nicely.

https://www.twitch.tv/chibiedo

I’ll probably be able to stream for 1 to 2 h before I have to go to sleep.