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YAOI JAM 2016 ENTRY
RenPy | Development Est. May 23, 2016 | BxB | SFW | 1200 x 680 px
Romance / Slice-of-Life / Realistic Fantasy
Updates when possible.
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Warnings.
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Progress & Development
8/8/17
Words
~48800
** MESSAGE ME IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETA READER/PLAYER.**
Art
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Setting.
The story takes place in the Seafrey Region of the Occiden Monarchy. The school opened up a few years ago and as part of a continental treaty, each monarchy agreed to send in a representative to assess the effectiveness of a public education system to determine if they should establish one in their own domain or not. The Kingdom of Anders offered a scholarship to a promising student around the time the treaty was being finalized. Antonio Rendon, a commoner in the Bridgeport Region earned his scholarship and is currently training to become a guard. His work ethic has brought him to being the top of his class as well as one of Anders' pride. Prince Nelson, Anders' Crown Prince, would argue otherwise even though he ranks third. Princess Selene volunteered to represent the Solis Monarchy and currently ranks second in her class. Later on, Prince Marius, Future Successor of the Solisian Monarchy enrolled as well in order to increase his chances of his curse being cured and to alleviate his loneliness.
The Monarchy of Hyalus opted to work on its own education system, trusting on the success rate of Occiden's previous projects. Prince Siegfried of the Occiden Monarchy had planned to attend the school himself, but due to Eosos's Fall, he has chosen to continue with home tutoring since the flexibility of it allows him to tend to the concerns of his people.
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Music.
(click the image for a larger view!)
Music will be by Chris Thurman | Help fund the payment for it by commissioning me or promoting the post
Screenshots.
**Preview images subject to change until release.**
Title Screen
Sprites will be added later on.
Characters.
Production.
- Art and story will all be made by me.
- Music will be by Chris Thurman and funded through commission work.
- Completed game will be available on itch.io.
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Risks & Challenges.
- Programming still gives me a headache, but I'm still up for a challenge.
- I get really busy with school, so progress will be slow until mid-May.
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Goals.
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- -> I couldn't finish in time for the jam. Hope to release in Summer 2017.
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- -> First draft is completed with 25096 words!
- I would really love to have an OST for this.
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- -> I found a musician!
- -> I'm about half-way through meeting my music budget, so I would appreciate it if you would commission me or help in circulating that post!
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Notes.
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- -> Well. Ever since I decided to add more info, I increased the word count by about 10k. Honestly should have seen this coming. I am fighting myself as I type.
- This will be pay-as-you-want. AKA, technically free, but I would really appreciate if you donate some money since I need to for reasons as explained by my commission post.
- I really thought about making this a choice-based game with multiple ends, buuuut I have time constraints and I'm a one-woman team.
- I'm basing the guard program on high school JROTC, so if any of y'all have any info on that, I would love to know it.
- This takes place in the same universe as Sunrise Revolution! There will be cameos in each game because I love interconnectivity.
- -> Chronologically, Kiss Me Not takes place about four years before the start of Sunrise Revolution, so I'm focusing on finishing this project first.
- I'll be looking for beta readers once I finish editing! Please message me if you're interested.
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Questions.
1. The jam lasts for a month, but if this was expanded beyond that, would you like to have choices and have multiple endings?
2. What do you look forward to the most?
3. Any additional feedback?
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Closing Note.
This has been fun to work on so far, and considering that school is pretty much wrapping up for the summer now, I hope to be even faster when working on this! I'll have an art stream set for this VN some time during the week!
Thank you for your support and for looking at this thread!
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Progress Log.
(Follow me at my development blog/twitter for frequent updates!)
05/23/16: Project launched.
06/01/16: Start of YaoiJam!
06/04/16: 4819 words so far. Finished Marius & Antonio's sprites (2/5). Almost done with one CG? Will be editing the main post once all sprites are done.
06/13/16: First draft completed with 25096 words. Word count subject to change after editing. Finished Queen Euria, Nelson, and Selene's sprites (5/10). Started to work on the GUI. Updated main post.
06/19/16: Sprites have been completed! Currently halfway through editing the script. May make a call for a beta reader by next week. Updated main post.
06/20/16: Committed to having an OST. Updated main post.
06/27/16: Most of the BG sketches done. Halfway through CG sketches. Switched to RenPy. 60% through first sweep of coding. Will have an OST. Open for commission to fund said OST.
07/05/16: Trailer/Intro Cutscene up. Finished two BGs. Finished first sweep of coding. Open for beta reading.
07/10/16: Two BGs are completed. Second sweep of coding has started.
07/18/16: Finished the CG sketches. Accepted that I'm not gonna finish by the jam's deadline BUT I'M GONNA KEEP PUSHING ANYWAY.
07/24/16: Finished 2 CGs. Finished 3 BGs (Only 3 more!!). New cover art. Started inputting new art assets, sfx, and ambiance. Fixed Marius's sprite.
08/08/16: End of YaoiJam. Sketched 2 BGs. Started paining 1 BG. 29.5% in development.
02/17/17: Adding world building junk. Made a map of the continent. Updated character profiles. Working on illustration featuring most of the characters.
07/01/17: Almost done revising the script again. Completed one CG and one BG. Started editing the expressions for the sprites.
08/08/17: Updated main post for minor revisions in the word count, some of the background info, and the summary.