#kill series

A short point and click visual novel created for O2A2 VN Jam, which only allows 1000 words and one of each asset.

How do you prove your worth?

You wake up amnesiac at a riverbank.

Features:

990 words

1 sprite

1 music track

1 BG that made the artist cry

Point and click section!

2 Endings

Playable in browser!

Play the full game here! 🥀

A short visual novel created in about 3 days for O2A2 VN Jam!

Features:

1k words on gdocs, but 990 in renpy 🤷‍♂️

Conversations in the dark

1 CG with an exorcist

Mostly silence

3 Endings; with 1 extra scene for unlocking all endings

Playable in browser!

The full game can be played here for free!

Weeks 42-44 didn't have work done that I could really show so I decided to wait and gather it all together to talk about.

Wrote 9.2k+ words for BWOBK

Flat colored 2/2 new sprites for SYVNH

Sketched 10 BGs for SYVNH

Detective game idea (2)...?

I decided that I'll need 10 new BGs for the remainder of SYVNH's story... (I look at my notes and curse at myself sometimes haha...) The worst part is, I think most of these will only be used for a couple scenes lol. But I decided long ago I wouldn't hold back for the art so here I am.

The first draft for The Beauty which Only Beast Knows is also now finished! The total wordcount is 17.8k+! ...Scripting that will be fun... But, what is exciting and fun is that we have a near full team for this project, which will be released in January for Once Upon a Time VN Jam and Winter Visual Novel Jam. This story will be an otome game retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Except the beast may be an eldritch creature and maybe you're not as pretty as everyone thinks you are.

We hope you'll enjoy it!

And, uh, what's that about another detective game idea? I learned The Case of the Thinky Game Jam is happening in December and the plot bunnies started turning gears.

I came up with an idea for gameplay in one hour between 12-1AM. Then, folks suggested I sleep and change my mind.

I woke up the next day, saw the extent of the scope I wanted and changed my mind. I do want to make this idea real and I want to learn to write better mysteries, but there's just no way I'd be able to make this idea happen in 16 days for the game jam 😂

A short KN created for Battle Action Fantasy VN Jam!

Welcome to the whispered world of ghosts, exorcists, and petty gods!

One night, Nigel looks up from the balcony and sees his new cram school classmate, Iago, leaping across the rooftops. By coincidence, they become quick friends. But what might Iago be hiding?

Features:

Manga-like UI

3.5k+ words

8 sprites

15 Original BGs

2 Colored CGs

+lots of additional art for various scenes

The full game can be played here for free!

Updated side image code for SYVNH

Finished lineart, flat color, and full color for SYNVH BG

Sketched monster 1 for EKL

Sketched word bubble types

Finished monster 1 sprite for EKL

Sketched O2A2 chara design

Sketched O2A2 CG design

Sketched little Ying design for KHP

Wrote 301 words for KHP script

Wow, when listed like this, it feels like I did a lot more than I thought.

The last BG that didn't make it in time for Demo 2.0. It was originally sketched by @nightasobu!

I did my best to design monsters for Exorcist Killing Lie... Not really sure how I did. Guess I'll see when I finally put the panels together for the game. Also ignore the inverted fu on Iago's earring, I just didn't flip properly for this mockup.

I'm joining O2A2 jam with @thechosengiraffewrites as an artist! This is some preliminary work I did for the jam that'll be starting in... wait, if I scheduled this post correctly, it would've started already.

Other than that...

Commissioned a musician for SFB

Sketched designs and sprite poses for EKL

Updated SYVNH outline

Finished all sprites for EKL (6)

Wrote 3.2k words for SYVNH

Tested BG styles for EKL

All the sprites for Exorcist Killing Lie is done! My brain really didn't want to write and since manga style has little coloring... I just sped through it. I timed myself for the last two sprites and I somehow finished the lineart in 2 minutes. Maybe I just got speedier over the last year...? I should time myself my often.

(The girl in the center, Duiva, is designed by sinn.)

Come closer to the actual BAF VN Jam time period, I'll talk a bit about the sources of their designs.

I'm taking the easy way out this time for BGs 😶I just found some models and applied CSP magic. Here are some rejected concepts, tho the final thing isn't much different.

I want EKL to look just like a manga since the tagline of BAF Jam is

Make a visual novel that feels straight out of Shounen Jump!

What better way than mimicking actual manga style/techniques?! Oh, and also, I've always wanted to make a VN that looks and plays as though you were reading an interactive manga/comic.

Other than that...

For A Sky of Falling Birds, this is the first time I've commissioned music for a project so I hope it goes well. I've heard one of the tracks so far and I quite like it.

Whoops, I was so late on updating last week's progress update that I decided I might as well combine the two. 😅

Week #11

Wrote ~1k words for SYVNH

Generated BGs for EKL

Sketched S1 for EKL

Unfortunately, I didn't get as much as I hope done between the two weeks. I'm running into a bit of writer's block, or, more specifically, writer's fear. I'm sure I'll work through it. Until then, I'll work on anything else I can to continue dev-ing. Benefits of being a jack of all trades, I suppose <:

The presentation for Exorcist Killing Lie is like a manga and this is an example of the first scene. It's a lot of extra art, but I hope it'll be worth it in the end... assuming I manage to code it all haha...

Week #12

Finished S1 for EKL

Split the VA/sound channels for SYVNH

Added persistent check to SYVNH

Finished drawing balcony scene for EKL

Started on BG for SYVNH

Since I've been having a tough time writing, I decided to start working on the coding! I finally fixed 2 ongoing issues for SYVNH, which is splitting the VA/sound channels. I created a brand new audio channel within renpy to achieve this. I knew it was doable prior to release of Demo 2.0, but I was pressed for time and forgot the exact code to do it so I ended up omitting the update for 2.0.

P.S: past!Me, how dare you? Some of these files had 1k+ calls for audio and I had to sift out which ones were sound effects and which were VA soundbytes! 😭

I might go through one more pass just to make sure all the sound effects are caught prior to releasing a Demo 2.1.

The second coding change is thankfully a simple one. It slipped my mind to make it easier for players to go back and achieve a perfect run... ;v;" The game will now ask if you want to clear your deaths if restarting the game after a bad end. It won't affect CG progress.

And one more WIP shot of EKL, the opening scene to the game!

Other than that...

I've also done a lot of brainstorming this week, of odds and ends to various (new) projects. You know... like that meme I retweeted...

Summarized an untitled galge/BL modern day... CEO-intrigue/drama idea I have based on the relationships of some gods and goddesses from Greek mythology. Part of me really wishes I could turn this into a full BL story.