(And thus expends my entirety of knowledge surrounding foreign greetings with languages familiar to me.)
Wherever, whenever, bottom line: 'sup?
My name is Alex (Aero) and I have discovered Ren'py after playing the amazing VN Katawa Shoujo!
So here I am, an aspiring programmer, a thoroughly experienced writer, a casual artist, and an all around.. erm.. guy person.
Ladies man too! (But only on weekends.)
This isn't my first blog post on the WWW, but it is the first here, so I hope my introduction has been satisfactory towards everyone gracious enough to cast me more than a subtle glance.
I've been working with Ren'py for the past...two or so weeks total now. I began the project Gaijin Kei on February 29, 2012, hence I won't hear from an anniversary until another four more years. Diligent in my motives, I toil day and night to not receive confusion after staring at lines and lines of coding completely alien to me.
I have been successful thus far, troubleshooting here and there after a subtle change or line placement within the script.
Enough about me. I will ramble if you let me.
Also, I am tackling this during High School, so... bear with me. I'm doing my best!
Gaijin Kei
Project Start Date - 2/29/12
Team Members - 2
Gaijin Kei is meant to be literally translated into 'Foreign Blessing,' hopefully.
It was inspired by my... necessity to want others to be able to hear the music I am writing to, during the corresponding scene or region. (I've written several books.)
The art and programming are just goodies in the package, but deserve and receive no less attention than the story.
This is also an 'Experimental' project, to see how well it's received, to see how far I can take it.
The next project is deemed to be much bigger and even have Voice Acting, maybe!
The team for this project consists of myself and my best friend, Megan. Having taught me how to draw manga-styled cartoons since the fourth grade, we've come a long way indeed.
Throughout the game, we have generated virtual avatars of ourselves.
I am represented by Esmo, or the Ever So Mystical Onigiri.
Meg, by Esme, the ESM-Enchilada.
(It's totally 10:05 with no homework done and school tomorrow... but I will persevere!)
The game can be played from two perspectives, depending on the gender chosen by the player.
The player assumes the role of Alex (Hey, that's my name!) as a male, and Megan as a female.
The names, obviously, have been chosen for convenience. (Con-ven-i-en-ce, I had to retype it like.. six times.)
Alex's mother is in the U.S. Army and is being rotated overseas to Japan.
Megan's father is a computer technician who works for a company that contracts out to the U.S. military and is sent to Japan to work on a project.
Alex and Megan have gone to school together until a year prior the game's introduction.
Megan since has moved to Alabama.
However, the new turn of events have seeming reunited them.
Meg arrives a week before Alex.
Both are set to live on a Joint Military base for both the U.S. Army as well as the Japanese Self Defense Forces. (All this is speculative, since a Southern Georgian boy like me has never traveled outside the boundaries of the United States...)
Attending school there (an American styled one), the two must cope with the resulting changes in cultural society as well as interactions with new and unusual people.
There are six main characters, including the players respectively.
Alex Boston,
Arashi Kurosawa,
Daryl Jones,
Ellie Jones,
Megan Flannigan,
and Kaori Rinbayashi.
Laziness = Ctrl + C......... Ctrl + V
Character Notes: (And introducing the conversations between me and Megan)
"Moe can be Kaori Rinbayashi, around... 165 cm, huge chest, glasses, navy hair, amber eyes
The idiot is now...... Arashi Kurosawa
He is about 180 cm, brown hair, gold eyes
Yup! The tsundere can be Ellie Jones
She will be 5 feet even, blonde, green eyes
The boy is...hmmm....
I wanna name him Daryl
AFTER DARYL DIXON
He is about six foot three, blonde, bluish eyes
Tan...
He likes cats. A LOT.
Megan Flannigan
I want red haaaaair
And my green eyes, glasses OCCAISIONALLY, but only when I'm studying or gaming
I like yaoi, creep on people like Haruhi S., and dress like VK - Visual kei
oshare kei
Look up An Cafe Miku or Bou
I dunnoooo...... Ahoge boy (Alex)
Teacher name: Sumn Asagi, Lan"
So yeah, that's the jist of it....
Or IS IT?! >.>
Play it and find out! When I finish anyway. I've got all summer to finish it...
I was supposed to go to Split Option Basic Training, buuut... the spots all got filled.. Sadness.
Megan's supposed to do character art while I'm doing... pretty much everything else.
WE NEED A MUSIC PERSON....
Oh meh goodness, I wish we had a music person. *Cough*
Anyways, here are some screenshots!
The arts all mine, please leave nice criticism below.
Or be mean. And then. Well.. a giant leek in the sky shall crush you as you're eaten by Greg Kinnear... *Shudders* ...alive.
'You should mention what you hope to get out of the thread.'
Response, correspondence, peer-review, motivation, assistance, mental-help, building connections, in case I hit a roadblock with Ren'py, etc.
P.S. It sounds like a bland story line.. but that's the point. Can't have too many spoilers now, can we?
P.P.S. It will get silly in some parts, but that's mostly due to my tangent-bound tendencies.
P.P.S.S. My friend ChaosLord121 is the Lead Motivator! Horray! As well as #1 Alpha Tester!
