Cyberlin - work in progress
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Cyberlin - work in progress
As I started feeling a bit guilty about not disclosing anything about my current project, here is some information. I feel it will also be easier to add entries here than having to edit my homepage whenever minor updates occur. Current status as of 27 April 2012:
Story: Moderately light retro-SciFi. Female main protagonist. Mostly linear story with a few choices. All four chapters are written, and re-editing is done at 85% (editing chapter 4 of 4). Estimated playing (reading) time around 2.5 hours.
Programming: Chapters 1-2 are in playable Ren'py format. I will generally keep programming needs down to a minimum, except for a few bits of eye candy I'd like to have.
Visuals: Title screen, screen setup, menus are finished. Character artwork (and possibly event CGs) will be given to a more skilled artist than me at a later point in time.
Background graphics: Still in progress, discarded some old ones. Currently experimenting with ray-tracing them instead of using the original SketchUp ones.
Music/sound: The setting is not appropriate for continuous background music, thus there will mostly be sound effects in the background. Two location-based music pieces are needed (I will compose those at the very end). The ending song is finished (has been for many years actually).
Release date: April 2007 was the rough target once, then life interfered. I will post updates here whenever some significant progress is made. I would like to publish this in 2013 so that I can turn to new challenges and put my lessons learned to use. :)
Story: Moderately light retro-SciFi. Female main protagonist. Mostly linear story with a few choices. All four chapters are written, and re-editing is done at 85% (editing chapter 4 of 4). Estimated playing (reading) time around 2.5 hours.
Programming: Chapters 1-2 are in playable Ren'py format. I will generally keep programming needs down to a minimum, except for a few bits of eye candy I'd like to have.
Visuals: Title screen, screen setup, menus are finished. Character artwork (and possibly event CGs) will be given to a more skilled artist than me at a later point in time.
Background graphics: Still in progress, discarded some old ones. Currently experimenting with ray-tracing them instead of using the original SketchUp ones.
Music/sound: The setting is not appropriate for continuous background music, thus there will mostly be sound effects in the background. Two location-based music pieces are needed (I will compose those at the very end). The ending song is finished (has been for many years actually).
Release date: April 2007 was the rough target once, then life interfered. I will post updates here whenever some significant progress is made. I would like to publish this in 2013 so that I can turn to new challenges and put my lessons learned to use. :)
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Well, just to keep you posted (and to prevent you from thinking the project is dead), work is still ongoing. I did have to pause from February to April due to an appalling workload in my daytime job, but apart from that the story is progressing very well. If a bit slowly. But hey, it's a hobby. Currently I'm at ~3000 screens of text, and I'd guess I'll need some 500 more to finish the story off in a good way. The plot is all there, I just need to fill out the empty bits. Thus no release date yet, but definitely not April 2007. ^_^;;;
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You know, the only story that I've ever gone beneath 100,000 words on and worked so hard on is Controlled Chaos ... so, somehow I've reversed my typical thing of "I was going to write a short story, but it turned out to be 157,000 words "
I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't play a sci-fi game by someone whose name I associate with Bion
I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't play a sci-fi game by someone whose name I associate with Bion
I'm not even the same person anymore
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Re: Cyberlin - work in progress
Just for the sake of documenting: I've started working on the sound effects some weeks back (real fun - I'm wondering if I should have been a foley artist). Last week then was background graphics week. Four location screens are finished (outlines in Inkscape, colouring in GIMP), including movable and re-colorable parts so that some graphics can be used for multiple locations. Two locations still need to be drawn. When that is done, I will continue with the script.
Re: Cyberlin - work in progress
looks partially composited.
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Re: Cyberlin - work in progress
It is. Best of both worlds.
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Re: Cyberlin - work in progress
Heh, just to keep people updated: There is a reason why my last post on this topic was on 03 August - it's because the Real-Life Dating Sim (TM) branched into the good ending, meaning that since 04 August I've been mostly busy changing diapers. That's why Cyberlin has been progressing much more slowly lately. But no worries, it will get finished, someday.
Re: Cyberlin - work in progress
Woaaah... Congrats ô_o... How close to completion does that get you? Any cool CGs along the way? :p
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