A Simple Love Story [WIP Thread] [Completed!]

[chocojax]

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A Simple Love Story (devblog)

Summary
As the title says, it's a simple love story. This will be from Michael's perspective, a junior in high school, who's been placed into a class group project. He meets two girls: Aceline, cheerful and kind-hearted, and Emily, childish and rowdy. And as you may already predict, by the end, he'll at least end up with someone.

Characters

Michael: He's pretty average all around. Nobody remembers him. Likes girl scout cookies.


Aceline: The one to keep Emily in check most of the time. Slightly more mature than Emily. Enjoys eating grapes.


Emily: Enjoys teasing people, strangers and friends alike. She has humongous boobs. Loves oranges and lychees.


Yuki: A hard worker. He enjoys eating any type of cooked salmon. (Sadly, he only appears for five minutes or so, but I drew him a sprite anyway.)

Progress Screenshots









Old WIP images: http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0014.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0012.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0009.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0008.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0006.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/002.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/screenshot0001.png, http://spacenote.net/blog-img/2013082902.png, http://asls.spacenote.net/screenshot/001.png, http://spacenote.net/blog-img/2013082903.png

Progress
Rough approximations. Keeping up the colors was too much work. :(
Sprites: 100% (:OOOOOOO)
Backgrounds: 100% (9/14/13. Minimized to 5/5 to save time+1 weird one. Woop.)
CGs: 100% (9/15)
Writing (rough draft): 100% (approx. 6300 words on 8/14/13)
Writing (editing): 100% (8/30/13)
Scripting: 100% (9/15/13)
Coding: 95% (9/14/13)

Lint (9/14)

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The game contains 493 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 6,735 words,
for an average of 13.7 words per screen.
The game contains 3 menus.

[fleet]

I wish you success. Since by your own words there will be some mistakes, I'd suggest having you get some friends to Beta test before releasing it.

[Applegate]

Loves oranges and lychees.

Best girl. We'll continue ECS once you finish this. \o/

[chocojax]

@fleet: Thanks! Don't worry, I already have a few that look over my drafts from time to time, I'm sure (I hope) that they'll beta test for me.

@applegate: Thanks, man. I'll try to finish it fast so that you can start revvin' up your writing again.

[Ran08]

The art reminds me of another VN... hmm... I've forgotten what it is, lol, but nevertheless, I like it!
And yeah, from the looks of it, I do think it'll be pretty short. :3 All the more reason for me to hope that I can play this soon! Hahaha. Good luck with this. ^^

[jhernandezgames]

"Has humongous boobs. Loves oranges and lychees."
That's all one has to actually know about a character XD

[azureXtwilight]

Nice art, I'll be keeping my eyes on this XD

[chocojax]

Thanks for the nice comments/support, everyone. (I also don't know what my art resembles, so I can't help you out there, Ran. haha)

Tiny updates in the main post, with an additional character. He seriously only appears in one scene for a very small moment, but I'm happy enough to give him a sprite.

All I have left to write (for the rough draft) is Aceline's ending, and after that, I'll start on either the coding or trying my hand at backgrounds (again). Wish me luck. (*´；ェ；｀*)

[Didules]

Good luck!
As everybody said, the art is gorgeous the characters seems interesting qnd the story simple and efficient. I definitely want to play your game
BTW I really like the character's bio. Simple and funny
Again, good luck!

[chocojax]

@Didules: Thanks for the kind words! (Sorry for not responding for so long, I didn't want to update my thread unless I had something to show too, haha.)

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I've finally finished editing (by myself) last night! Woo. This should be some sort of milestone for me, haha. All I need to do now for the writing portion is to send it to my friends so that I know I'm not derpin' around, etc.

I also spent ~3-4 hours drawing a background last night! There are no chairs because I didn't realise until later they don't exist in this universe.


And here's a fake screenshot. It was just makeshift GUI for a fake screenshot, but I think it would look neat like that. :0


While I wait upon writing, I'll start on coding and GUI and stuff. :'D

[Sakai]

Really liking the art and GUI, good luck

[chocojax]

@Sakai: Thanks! :>

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Got my buddy Kinjo to proofread my second draft (which was pretty helpful) and now I'm off to putting the script into the code, along with the finished sprites (woo).

I also finished coding the in-game GUI, but I still need to do the extra menus/main menu.

So, my to-do list (in order of importance) is:
1) Code
2) Put script in
3) Find some BGM
4) Fix Emily's strange, flabby chest (:O???)
5) Secondary poses for Aceline and Emily (optional)

And once that's done, I'll send it to my beta-testers. Wooo. :O

Here's a screenshot I took last night:
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And here's the WIP title screen:
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[Hazel-Bun]

Everything looks so pretty 80 Can't wait to play this and happy that progress is being made! And quickly.

[chocojax]

Everything looks so pretty 80 Can't wait to play this and happy that progress is being made! And quickly.

Haha, thanks! I'm hoping to finish it before the end of this month. Progress is going smoothly, so. :P

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Here's a screenshot of the SAVE/LOAD screen! (The thumbnails are slightly off, but w/e ok)



Also, here's a lint of the game:

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The game contains 451 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 6,411 words,
for an average of 14.2 words per screen.
The game contains 3 menus.

I'm also drawing mediocre backgrounds at the moment to speed up the process, haha. If I feel like I have more time, I'll fix 'em up.

[chocojax]

Woop. I finished coding the prefs screen and fixed up the thumbnails/slots for the save/load screen. (Pref and Title won't become un-idle though, kinda weird. I'll have to ask someone about that later.)


(A lot of fun drawing this background, as you can tell.)






All that's left is: code CG gallery, finish drawing title screen+remap it, BGs (5 left, about 3 require perspective structures aaa), last two CGs, fixing up a part of the script and finding music. Woohoo.

**Edit: I also forgot, just made a twitter for devsite. :O