{wip} SM: Phantasm of the Indoor Sea (BL)

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{wip} SM: Phantasm of the Indoor Sea (BL)

#1 Post by Demien »

my friend lanna put me up to this.
please forgive me if i do anything wrong.

I'm a very eager writer, but the thing is, I love to draw too.
I started a book ages a ago and editing is taking a little longer than expected.
I was inspired and forcedto release a little of my story.
This is a prelude to the first novel.


I'll keep everything short and sweet.
title ● Sphere Mage and the Phantasm of the Indoor Sea
type ● visual novel
length ● aiming for about 5 hours.
genre ● fant/sci-fi, school life, drama, slice of life, horror
demo ● re-updating~
site ● click
sorry in advanced for spelling/grammar. my tester only got half way last night ^^;
short and sweet summary ● main character is searching for a missing fragment of his creator's work.
and then everything just gets worse and worse and worse...
main characters ● halotallytone
minor characters ● demiengrimoirekumai

features ●
○ amazing story (lol)
○ easy game play
○ completely original
○ advanced story
○ likable characters (hopefully)
○ game is free
○ event cgs
○ adult version (?)
○ epic battles ahead!

non-features ●
○ there is no music and i don't plan on putting any in
○ tissue box; you'll have to buy your own unfortunately :3
○ girls lol
○ well drawn backgrounds

please note ●
○ all main characters depicted are over the age of 18
○ sobsob
○ there will be blood and abuse
○ i'm a horrible programmer, so please excuse bugs or terrible layout
○ if you don't like male relationships, this is not for you

screenshots ●
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#2 Post by A Terrible Rabbit »

Oh boy, I'm making a BL, too. Glad to see more in the genre, can't wait! >w<

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#3 Post by AllegroDiRossi »

This looks interesting.
Seconded on more BL.
One of my projects is also BL, so you're not alone, haha.

I like some of the concept arts you have here, and that last panel looks really interesting.
Hoping for a demo sooooooon!~
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#4 Post by pkt »

It looks nice! Not sure what a BL is though.
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#5 Post by Lanna »

dsfsdf You actually posted it! YAY! <3

You know I'm really looking forward to this (and I hope to see a lot of demos /shot). Also, lol at Tally in the second screenshot.

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#6 Post by gekiganwing »

pkt wrote:It looks nice! Not sure what a BL is though.
BL = Boys Love. Male x male stories, usually intended for a heterosexual female audience. Similar terms include yaoi and shounen ai. This is extremely important to know before attending any anime convention!

You can read more about this genre here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi

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#7 Post by Demien »

T-thank you everyone.
I'm so nervous.
I haven't seen any BL novels around the site/forums, so I thought it was looked down upon.
And I'm not sure if my characters are likable based on appearance...

I'll try to post a demo soon! I keep going back and changing stuff.

Here is I guess some 'promo' art of MC
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I'm probably going to redo all the art in more this style.
It's a lot sexier ♥
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#8 Post by AllegroDiRossi »

I think it would look really awesome if all your in-game sprites had this textured appearance like above.
It gives it an interesting and (I use this term abstractly, since it's just how it feels to me) vintage feel.
It reminds me of how the characters in Gankutsuou were clothed,
with the texture going through the whole of the outfit and not following the actual flow of the garment.
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#9 Post by Demien »

That doesn't feel like a bad idea at all.
I'll definitely release a sample.
See if others agree C:
Thank you very much for the suggestion.
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#10 Post by Mirielle »

Ooh, this is pretty pretty pretty (omg the textured pic).

I will be stalking this project now - my list is going to become really long really soon... Can't wait to see a demo if you decide to release one, but I'll wait patiently for the final version if you don't!
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#11 Post by Demien »

updated some character art-redo... XD;;;
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#12 Post by JinzouTamashii »

Whoa, stop... hammer time! 8)

Looking pretty awesome there so far.
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#13 Post by Demien »

more updated character art~
still heavily wip though ><;

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#14 Post by AllegroDiRossi »

Demien wrote:○ there is no music and i don't plan on putting any in
I missed this the first time I replied, distracted by pretty art and BL, but why aren't you going to put music in?
Just curious, mind you.
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#15 Post by Demien »

*flattered*

i have too many reasons x.x

1. I can't compose music.
One thing about projects I do is that I don't want to credit anyone other than myself (for the main work).
So unless I compose the music (which I can't), there is none.

2. Free music takes too much time to look through.
Maybe in the full version I might go hunting, but it's not priority.
I don't want to take time away from the art/story time.

3. I don't listen to music in VNs.
I turn it off and listen to my own music, because overall, I don't like it.
Even works from Key that have pretty music, I still turn it off because it's annoying to me after a while.

4. I don't want people criticizing or commenting on the music.
I want comments/critiques on everything I do, not my poor choice in music _ _;

5. I want it to be more like a book;;
This short snippet from a book I'm writing. So I want you to read it as if it were a book, like I intended
(but with pretty pictures accompanying it :lol: )

I know music is everything. All I can recommend is listen to Soma fm.
I'd have just some ambient music.

Though I might put some music in the full version (whenever that happens to be) if there is enough demand for it.
But I highly doubt that~
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