The Thing With Mistletoes (GxB, Romance, Mystery)

[Ran08]

EDIT: Thread moved to Works in Progress!

Lumina Duval and her 10-year-old brother Vince are left alone for Christmas week when their parents go on a business related out of town trip. Lumi, who thinks Christmas is the best time of the year, is ecstatic at this. However, several disappearances that have been happening lately dampen the Christmas spirits of their town. Lumina doesn't care though, until Vince disappears and she's forced to solve the mystery and find her missing brother.

Characters:

Lumina Duval
- 18, loves Christmas, mistletoes, and snowglobes.


Vincent Duval
- 10, videogames and cookies rule his world.


Clarissa Davis
- 19, enjoys shopping and going out.


Landice Rosenfeld
- 18, easily surprised, loves flowers and sweets among anything else.


Daniel and Gabriel Laurent
- 18-year-old twins, mischievous and careless.


Jake Buckley
- 19, neighborhood heartthrob, actually not the badboy he seems.

Progress:
The game contains 6,959 dialogue blocks, containing 47,470 words and 251,724
characters, for an average of 6.8 words and 36 characters per block.
The game contains 17 menus, 106 images, and 13 screens.

EDIT 05/20: After all the numerous delays due to real life and school stuff, (I just graduated from highschool, yay!) I'm finally back to writing! Well, still trying to fight writer's block but...
EDIT 06/22 Moved this to WiP.

Story and Programming: Ran
Sprite and CG Art: Hapuki
Idea-bouncers: Ivy, Broodelin
Logo Artist: Hijiri

I didn't put much info about the characters because, well, I'll let you discover them for yourself. ) It was actually supposed to be a Christmas fluff, but... oh man, I can't help but add some mystery elements to it. It's still pretty fluffy though, and I bet it's gonna be just like Summer Paradise. (My goal length is something of the sort too, around 20k-30k words.) Scratch that, it's actually around 47k+ now, and Landice's route is still incomplete.


I know I'm no good with mystery, but this is like... a challenge to me. Any help is appreciated, so please feel free. Haha. The game's not that big, but, well, we're doing our best to make this visual novel worth playing.

Now for some discussion~
1. Will you still play it, even though it's out of season...?
2. Which character will you go for first?
3. Any questions, comments, suggestions...? ^_^

Thanks for reading! <3

P.S. We've moved!

[Kyra10]

Haha~ I'm going to patiently wait for this until it's done~ ^_^/
You have my support! Good luck! ^_^b

[Ran08]

@Kyra10: Ha, thank you very much for the support! I hope you'll only have to wait for 3 days. Looool. =)

[Hapuki]

Excited for this >;D

[silverpikachu99]

Jake and Landice (｡♥‿♥｡) Can't wait for this

[Ran08]

Thank you for the interest!
Haha, I know! Hapuki's art is gorgeous. <3

[Hibikai]

This seems interesting! Good luck!（⌒▽⌒）

[Mimi_Melody]

'Awww, this looks cute~
Thanks for working so hard to make this game <3
I'll be looking forward to it

[Ran08]

@Hibikai
Awww, thank you for the interest.

@Mimi_Melody
Haha, thanks so much for saying so. I think it looks literally cute too, thanks to Hapuki. Hahaha. <3

Anyway, we've got colored roughs now. Haha. The writing is also coming along pretty nicely. And by the way, shoutout to Hijiri for the awesome logo! Haha. Still, I have to apologize for the extended deadline. Sorry guys. But I promise, me and Hapuki are doing our best to make this a visual novel worthy of your time~

[tea52]

Yay, such cute art! I really like it when a game has some mystery in it so make sure to give clues along the way, like tiny subtle ones that even the main character doesn't notice until only after she needed them. That gives a bit of suspense and surprise as we watch the main character piece everything character!
Haha, I hope that wasn't too wordy, good luck!

[Ran08]

Yay, such cute art! I really like it when a game has some mystery in it so make sure to give clues along the way, like tiny subtle ones that even the main character doesn't notice until only after she needed them. That gives a bit of suspense and surprise as we watch the main character piece everything character!
Haha, I hope that wasn't too wordy, good luck!

Thank you! Haha, actually, that's how the game goes. Buuuut, you kinda have to see other routes in order to piece everything together! ^_^ And it's not too wordy, haha, I liked it. Thank you so much for the interest~

I hope you'll still play it even though it's so out of season now. Hahaha. =) Really sorry for the delay.

[Ran08]

Long time no post~

Just updated the progress report and added some CG sketches. I've been really busy lately, so sorry for the lack of updates. Ah, also, only Landice's route is incomplete.

Excited to see the completion of this project of ours though. Hahaha.

Edit: Moved to WiP. Haha.