Title: Freezing: Chapter 1
Genre: slice of life/supernatural
About: Freezing is a very short visual novel about a man who is cold at work and how the choice of beverage ultimately leads his life along strange new paths and nothing turns out at he expected.
I have ideas for at least 2 more chapters but I doubt they will be included in the NaNoRenO effort.
Characters (these details may or may not be apparent in the current chapter):
James Rutherford is a run-of-the-mill employee at a large insurance company called iSure (he thinks it’s lame too). He earns a decent salary but doesn’t always know what to spend it on. His favourite season is autumn but he doesn’t like winter and he really doesn’t like being cold. He thinks a girlfriend will help him with the latter, but as of this writing has had no success in finding one. He generally keeps to himself but is friendly on impact.
Amelia Katkar is a relatively new employee at iSure and a rising star in the insurance industry. She was headhunted from a rival company and walked into a well-paying and important position. She loves winter because the clothes are prettier and she has a high tolerance for the cold. She hasn’t been in a top-level position long enough to forget what it’s like at the bottom, so is seen as approachable, understanding and friendly by her co-workers.
Francis Miller is the branch manager where James and Amelia work. He is generally disliked by the employees and they enjoy making up nicknames for him. There is an unwritten rule that if Francis catches you using the current nickname it is your responsibility to think up a new one.
Candice Schmitt is an employee of iSure. Not much else is known about her at this point.
Features:
Estimated word count: 2000-3000
Endings: 3 – 5 (still writing)
Customised GUI, most of which I did before NaNoRenO
Is it too late to recruit an artist? I’ll put up a thread anyway. When I started the project I needed fewer sprites than I do now. The artist who made the Amelia sprite isn’t available for more though, so if I can get someone to do the sprites that would be awesome. If they redo Amelia I need a total of 4. Otherwise I will have to find free sprites to use.Ren'Py 6.12.1.1501 lint report, generated at: Fri Mar 09 21:13:47 2012
The game contains 90 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 1,438 words,
for an average of 16.0 words per screen.
The game contains 3 menus. The game contains 3 menus.
I will probably use stock resources for the backgrounds and music/sound.
Below is the title screen and the prefs screen.
UPDATE:
Credits or Look, look at these fantastic people making things for me for my project, bask in the glow of their greatness:
Backgrounds: luminarious
Music: Retribute
Sprites: Tokudaya
New resolution screenshot:
:D I can't wait until I can say the same thing, haha. Good luck on finishing the rest of the project. I like the plot a lot. Everything's seemingly ordinary on the surface until...it's not. XD
... but it'll be quite tiring to read after a while. Maybe I just have bad eyes =/
