#riosian progress

Finally

Okay so look. 

I’ve... never really seen the results of my own digital work like this. Yes, there’s always room for improvement. Yes, I might even go back later to change the icons, but for now...

I’m pretty proud of myself.

I’m going to prove that I wasn’t slacking!

Ready?

Let’s talk a little bit about Rodrick Maxwell.

Mainly because it’s his fault that I paused writing the main story. Reports can’t write themselves, y’know?

Just letting y’all know I’m still working on this game. 

Drawing makes me nervous so I’m setting up the story events instead. As I go through the draft and get the dialogue into VX Ace’s eventing system, I’m also sprucing up the Word document so it looks more... script-y.

Chapter 1: At the Edge of the Tide [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE] >> [In-Progress]: Draft 2, Format Edit and Content Revision

Chapter 2: A Heart, Shrouded [In-Progress] >> [x] Tidely Fields [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE] >> [x] Southern Crossroad [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE] >> [x] Border Marshes [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE] >> [x] Vale Outskirts [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE] >> [ ] Dungeon: The Doll House [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] The Valeheart [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Vale Outskirts Redux [Rough Draft Complete]

Chapter 3: Dried Tears [In-Progress/Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Southern Crossroad Redux [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Gilded Wasteland (East) [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Oaxiana [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Gilded Wasteland (West) [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Thieves’ Guild [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Vault Wellsprings [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Guild Catacombs [Rough Draft Complete] >> [ ] Oaxiana Redux [Rough Draft Complete]

Chapter 4: The Missing Hand of God [Rough Draft Complete]

Chapter 5: From the City, to the Void [In-Progress]

Chapter 6: The Riosian Key

Progress on Riosian Key’s going super well!

Title image is in the works right now. Flats are mostly done.

Main priority however is the story draft. Unfortunately I won’t be able to give synopses on each arc from here on… We’re getting to the more climactic arc of the overall story. 

Basically, I’m almost done with writing the first draft of the story.

Chapter 1: At the Edge of the Tide [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE]  >> [In-Progress]: Draft 2, Format Edit and Content Revision

Chapter 2: A Heart, Shrouded [In-Progress]  >> [x] Tidely Fields [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE]  >> [x] Southern Crossroad [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE]  >> [x] Border Marshes [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE]  >> [x] Vale Outskirts [DRAFT 1 COMPLETE]  >> [ ] Dungeon: The Doll House [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] The Valeheart [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Vale Outskirts Redux [Rough Draft Complete]

Chapter 3: Dried Tears [In-Progress/Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Southern Crossroad Redux [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Gilded Wasteland (East) [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Oaxiana [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Gilded Wasteland (West) [Rough Draft Complete]  >> [ ] Thieves’ Guild [Rough Draft Complete]       >> While Jerdani and Laures make their way across the desert, Ayu wakes up in an underground cave system. Filled with treasures and gruff rogues, this system is the Oaxiana Thieves’ Guild, sanctioned by the Miyako Council of Mages, and operated by Wayward sisters Thania and Uruk. The shifter, named Kaden, is more than he appears, and his request to Ayu has left her reluctant. As Ayu, investigate the guild.   >> [ ] Vault Wellsprings [Rough Draft Complete]        >> Ayu agrees to help Kaden. They head below the guild’s catacombs to the Vault, where the Wellsprings connected to the Bearer’s Tears have been sealed by the Wayward guildmasters. With Ayu’s help, Kaden releases the seals, and earns back his foster mother’s blade. He joins Ayu as a reliable fighter.    >> [ ] Guild Catacombs [Rough Draft Complete]         >> Jerdani and Laures have finally made it to the Guild. They were ambushed by the guild members, but when Thania’s and Uruk’s attentions go to the Wellsprings, Jerdani and Laures make their break. The party reunites just as the Wayward sisters begin their final assault. The battle for Oaxiana’s water ends with the fall of the sisters, and Jerdani gathers the Desert Fragment.    >> [ ] Oaxiana Redux [Rough Draft Complete]         >> Part of Ayu’s deal to help Kaden was a document he came across during an errand in the Sky Province. Its contents have Ayu panicked and desperate. “I have to go.” Jerdani promises to reunite with Ayu later. After all, another letter from Rodrick has arrived: “Exterminate the dragon at the summit of Heaven’s Tiers.”

Chapter 4: The Missing Hand of God

Chapter 5: Void in the City

Chapter 6: The Riosian Key