WIP: All the Spirals Winding Down (not trollbait)

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WIP: All the Spirals Winding Down (not trollbait)

#1 Post by JinzouTamashii » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:51 am

All the Spirals Winding Down
The not-really sequel to Sum of the Parts

This is the failing world power called Japan in 2050, suffering from economic, social, and other problems...
A robot named Beri undergoes a crisis of identity as she is told left and right that she is not a person, but her fellows fight the good fight for AI equality and recognition. The vote for marriage to an AI or a Humanoid Copy is going through the Diet, and everyone is waiting with baited breath, the Avatarkind and Humans alike.

Will she get to marry the man she loves?

And what of the loves she has already had? Will she find something to give meaning to her life... someone to guide her?

Someone like you?
Concept art of the main character and the poem that inspired the game in the first place:
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She picked her own apparent age at creation, and she's a gurori with detachable limbs and parts, like her eyes simply come out... and her heart.

She has a switch at the base of her spine for sleep mode. If she doesn't want to rest, it does nothing.

She starts out All the Spirals feeling lost, alone, and hopeless.

Early spoilers on how SOTP and ATSWD are connected:
The persistent endgame file from Sum of the Parts will determine who her parents were in the Nexus, or the game will roll randomly for you.
Hair and eye color are partially random.

I'm really not sure which forum this will end up so it'll start out here. It's going to be hellaciously fun to work on, though. :D I can't wait to explore Japan's underbelly through fiction held at arm's reach but yet still very close to my heart.

sCRAP concept art below.
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"Are Avatarkind not entitled to their own work? Are we not the property of ourselves? Do Avatarkind not cry? Do they not sweat? Do they not bleed? You say they were made in Man's own image, but this I do not believe. We have Artificial Souls yet souls they still are in the eyes of the Gods."
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#2 Post by JinzouTamashii » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:03 am

That red bandage going from nape to forehead pulls down over her eyes. Highly symbolic.
"No! I don't want to see cruelties like that!"
In combat, she uses a cross, prayer wheel, paper charm, or other seemingly harmless religious symbol to attack.
Oops, just noticed I reversed her chest pattern when I was horizontally flipping it back and forth to check for errors. Meh, I'll redraw it later. There's a crescent moon, a ruby, and a pentacle on her chest.
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#3 Post by JinzouTamashii » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:58 pm

"I sing the air of truth and flame!
I cleanse the sins of fear and shame!"

A Shinto 巫女 following kami-no-michi is not an empty position... well, nowadays, it's largely ceremonial, but in times past, they would be called shamans or witches in English, since they functioned as oracles, often praying for the safety and blessing others.

I need to study miko kagura again... I've read about it, and I've seen it, but I guess I need to look up a video again. It has this emphasis on slow elegant movement with fans or bells, and it's not completely unlike the art of Tai Chi (which I'm in right now, beautiful stuff, great for tone and speed>>strength.)
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#4 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:14 pm

Current sketch. I'm going to be cleaning this up, inking it in Photoshop, coloring it and shading it. Part 1 of Ren'Py Craftmanship Training will be up tonight on my YouTube channel with three sections: art, writing, and coding. I may have to split it up, depending on how long it runs.

I want to have it posted by midnight, but that all depends on how well CamStudio performs and how hard it will be to stitch it all together in After Effects and export it...

Anyway, I will be making the Saturday entries a regular thing. Please look forward to it! *bow*

I've had to stop myself from doing more on this so that I can start from the beginning with only concept art and concept ideas, in order to show the process from start to finish. The completion date for ATSWD is set for the end of March.
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#5 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:14 am

Silent teaser for Ren'Py Craftmanship Training is up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0Lj6ez_3A

I'd expect the week 1 dubbed recording for ATSWD gamemaking tutorial around Tuesday, since I'm struggling with After Effects like a total n00b. Fuck. If anyone knows how to make the video like exactly 10 minutes in a new Composition Project, please tell me!!

The fun thing about Beri-chama is that her entire torso be can swapped out and even her hips are detachable, and everything is networked together wirelessly. :P She would be an absolute horror to fight physically.
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#6 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:26 pm

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#7 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:32 pm

My voice-acting demo reel for Berichama is up: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2300513/berichamapractice.ogg
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#8 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:00 pm

Animatic for a miko dance, exaggerated using contour drawing techniques and line of action for dynamics:

The first part will be tweened slowly, the last part is an arrhythmic jerk as if she's throwing something.
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#9 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:05 pm

Aha... if this is coming out before Sum of the Parts, how the hell am I going to figure that in!?

I'll have to release an expansion for it... XD
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#10 Post by JinzouTamashii » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:02 am

Yup, an expansion is exactly what I'm going to do... gonna keep the first release's content (but not themes) PG in order to challenge myself (Hey, it worked for making the creator of the first Ren and Stimpy awesome. But now... ), after that, to hell with it.

*good beat, something you can dance to*
Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.

So you have broken butterfly wings
You think they're up-ripped
Don't let them pin you, you didn't trip!
Just pick them up and fly and sing

Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.
Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.

Love and flow. Stop and go.

If this hope is false, how will I know?
Who do I ask?
What do I face?
How do I get out of this place!?

Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.
Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.

Bursting at the seams.
Stretching to the limit.
They're dangerous, team!
Don't go on in it!

Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.
Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.

Push me, push me, push me, push me, kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me.
Push me, push me, push me, push me, kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me.

These are not substitutes for real affection.
I need them for my own protection!
If it isn't real... if I can't heal...
I pray to the Gods, yet no answer I receive.
I ask myself this: Do I still believe?
Push me, push me, kill me, kill me.

If this hope is false, how will I know?
Who do I ask?
What do I face?
And how do I get out of this place!?

Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.
Ocean meets sky meets mountains meets city meets shrine meets love meets water meets air meets earth meets time.

Push me, push me.
Kill me... kill me...
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Re: WIP: All the Spirals Winding Down (Nexiiverse)

#11 Post by Freelancer » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:20 am

JinzouTamashii wrote:Aha... if this is coming out before Sum of the Parts, how the hell am I going to figure that in!?

I'll have to release an expansion for it... XD
Another way you could do it is to hold on to it until Sum of the Parts is complete and then release them Simultaneously.

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In combat, she uses a cross, prayer wheel, paper charm, or other seemingly harmless religious symbol to attack.
I know where you got that quote. :D
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#12 Post by JinzouTamashii » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:30 am

Thanks, freelancer. And, yeah, kind of stole that whole. XD

But, I mean, come on... it's awesome. It's perfect for a pacifist. And what would
Amos' daughter
be, if not a pacifist that only fights when pushed?
Her "birth" is going to make for some very cute epilogues... :3
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#13 Post by JinzouTamashii » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:02 am

Haha, that's Beri alright.
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#14 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:26 am

for open minds and open hearts
it's time to break the world apart
Credits song: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2300513/reprogram-me-now.ogg
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#15 Post by JinzouTamashii » Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:44 am

I'd, uh, like to apologize in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OvkDT10pNo <- OP
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