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[News] Visual Novel + Amara's recast

Added 2022-07-22 08:32:28 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone, Corintio here!

Just passing by to say that we are close to finishing the renders for the visual novel. There is a final part of the novel that might be missing because if I can't finish the last two scenes before Saturday I'll have to leave things as they are and focus on adjusting things for the release of the RPG Tech Demo before the month's end.

Also, I wanted to clarify that these renders you've seen are from a Visual Novel we're working on. Not a Graphic Novel like I might have said once or twice, I'm not sure. This means that it's not a comic, it's a Renpy Game with a few choices for you to unravel scenes differently.

This visual novel has over a hundred renders and something around two thousand words so far, which will probably increase after all the images are done. You might remember that I said that this was supposed to be a test about how to make a visual novel, and I'm glad I worked on this story with a beginning, middle and end before starting the bigger Visual Novel because.... well... it served its purpose: I committed so many mistakes that made me overwork on things that after I saw in the engine, I realised that could have been done in a much more straightforward manner.

This means that I won't commit the same mistakes once I start working on the big story. But it also means that we'll have tentacles that look like ghosts instead of wood coated by slime, which is what I spent more hours than I care to admit trying to achieve and failed miserably:

RPG GAME

Now about the RPG game, Sergey is also almost done with the first of the three parts of the opening cutscene in Blender.

Also, Amara's face is nearly done!

But I have sad news: We lost the voice actress and we'll need to recast.

This left me in a tricky situation because it keeps the tech demo without the opening sequence until next month's update. 😔

If I don't work on the cutscenes next week, I could put this effort into improving the Visual Novel or adding more spells for Kalyskah RPG. Which would you prefer?

Thank you very much and I'm sorry for the setback!