#quantainium

Busy, busy, busy! I've been chipping away at lots of projects and some other stuff I've been meaning to get around to between my classwork.

Quantainium: Rays of Crystallum

I've decided to focus on developing one of the games my fictional Video Game Studio, Quantainium, would have published. This first one being: Rays of Crystallum. In story, it's an RPG Co-Op monster collecting & battling game, with a story focused on teaching kids about endangered animals and the environment.

As a project (so, what you & me could hypothetically play in the future) the intent here is: It's going to be like a nostalgic pokemon game, except, the story is a lot darker than you remember, and maybe that video game company you loved so much wasn't actually that great of a place in reality, which really raises the questions of what else were they up to... (cause you know, Poppy/FNaF inspiration, wink, wink).

Gameplay: Side-scroller RPG, with a turn-based combat system like GBA era Pokemon, or Nexomon, except, instead of the attacks' auto happening once you choose them, you enter a full-action combat phase where you have a limited amount of time to execute the moves you've chosen and hit your enemy.

Here's a little mock-up I made to explain it to a friend who knows coding to figure out if this idea is viable or not (which, he said it would be. Just a MASSIVE work load to do all the sprite and animation work for a whole 'Pokédex' worth of enemies ).

Thoughts? I know I have a mostly THSC or Poppy Playtime following here, but I'm genuinely interested in some feedback, if this is the sort of things folks would be interested in seeing as a finalised project.

Toppat Clan Rising

We are making fabulous progress folks! I've been chipping away at Ch.10 the last week, jumping between that one and a couple new chapters to support the aftermath. I am SO excited for this story. I just love it the more I work on it :)

Ch.9 has a new stuff at the start! Ch.10 has too many jumps in time, so one of those scenes I've moved one to the previous chapter to help cut it down as it was feeling jarring. So check that out!

Ch.10 is just shy of 3,000 words, and I'm down to one last big scene to write (the most important one, ironically). It's been a hard chapter to figure out, which is why it's taken me this long. I've been struggling to balance the side characters personalities and actions, especially Manaaki (& Macbeth's interaction). We know by Lost Children Manaaki hates Macbeth and I know the reason why, so the challenge for me has been balancing the before that why happens with the fact he thinks Macbeth's a jerk, without falling into that stereotypical "We'll he's an asshole at our first interaction, so I'm going to treat him like one back forever now!"

Here's a snippet of Ch.10 (this is still a first draft btw):

“Hey,” Manaaki called, pulling Macbeth from his thoughts. The kid had dropped back to join Macbeth at the groups rear. His smile was slightly crooked, a clear attempt at trying to be friendly despite how obvious it was to all 4 of them that Macbeth was the problem here, and if they could snap their fingers to make him disappear, they would. “How you holding up?” Macbeth didn’t answer, figuring like his mentor, Manaaki didn’t actually care for his response. However, that didn’t seem to be the case. “You keep staring at the fog like it’s going to jump out at you or something,” There was a slightly chuckle to his words, slight amusement. However, the kid followed it up with, “It is pretty bad this morning, huh? It’ll clear up soon, tho! I give it about half-an-hour, once the sun gets a bit higher on the horizon. So, you don’t need to worry about it for too much longer.” Macbeth caught a glance of Simon and Blackout staring at him with two matching looks of disgust. Why can’t he be anywhere but here. “Alright.” Manaaki said, “Keep your silence. But an away party leader’s job is to make sure everyone in their team is okay, even IF I disagree with Hōkū shoving you onto it. So, if you need anything… just call out, okay?” “…”

As you can see, still more work to be done to get it to read nice, but the meat and bones are about all there now.

Quantainium Company Handbook (Vs.1994)

I don't want to share too much about this new project of mine, so I don't show my hand, however, I'm very proud of the work that went into making this, so here's a sample of some of my favorite pages >:)

ABOUT

Sneak-peak at what I was working on couple nights ago. I was in the mood for something fun after a long day of fighting with a stupid logo for school :P

Also been in the headspace for Toppat Clan Rising the last... 2-ish weeks, so I've been thinking about how I would expand out it's consequences to make a unique timeline (, like how lost children is a butchered Triple Threat Ending and XYZ (the one with Double Shot) is a... 'what if everything that could go wrong, literally does?').

SPEAKING OF Toppat Clan Rising! IDK what happened or how but er...

Toppat Clan Rising is 6 chapters from done ^^;

Great writing week I guess? Regardless, gonna try to knock out Ch.10 over the next week so we can get some of these bad boys up for you guys to read >:) (Ch.12/23 are personal favourites~)

Lost Children of the CCC, no change on that. I read a few of the chapters I wrote during that massive chapter upload spree and, asides from some minor grammatical errors, I couldn't find any issues. Just lots of fun chapters that had me clapping my hands like, "This is great!" or "omg, you can FEEL the mood drop". I love when the writing turns out well. Always very rewarding to re-read later ^^

Quantainium, my original story inspired by Poppy playtime/FNaF. I have been quietly chipping away at refining the story and now a pitch over the last 2 months. I'm hoping to send it to my teachers to get some honest feedback on if I should look at pursuing the story as a video game or graphic novel series.

Here's a little sneak-peek at some less spoilery stuff. The concept is there, but it needs re-working to better show those 'eerie' vibes :)

My sister's feedback was, "Cool. It's an edgy pokemon." Which, I'll give her that, lol.

Also, Poppy Playtime. I am not blind to how my activity has been going crazy cause of my latest Harley drawing. So, thank you first of all, and secondly, I will most certainly do more Poppy art in the future.

I have my grievances with Chapter 5, so I think once Toppat Clan Rising is done writing (as it'll take longer to upload than finish), I will loop back to Locked In, and see how I can do some re-working there. I've also been REALLY in the mood to make a comic again, so with that being the only script I have done, that helps a bunch too!

Righty'o, back to it. I have a literature report due next week. Yes. They make you do those in a degree for concept art.