*nods* I'm trying to do just that C:
Right now, while I want to draw for the story badly, I'm just having fun thinking what will happen to the characters tomorrow and that's my motivator... like waiting for the next episode of a series you like... It kind of works like that for me atm xD
Also, I know that if I start drawing, I'll stop writing and I'll shift all the focus I have now and shif it to "get things drawn" and "ghet things drawn so they match the script" and "Oh, god, I have to draw so much stuff! And there's even more stuff to write!" And that's not something I wnat right now xD
Also, it's a good break from drawing for others every day for work C:
@Samu: Well, I still have no art or music to try it, so I can only imagine those things while I check what I wrote on Ren'Py D: (I think I have a good imagination though). I run it with the script file open, so I can quickly fix my typos and my 'ugh, this sounds stupid/boring/long/pointless'.
I hope that, by the time I actually have some art and music, it'll be like you said C:
@Snowflower: Lol, thanks x3 I'm happy you like the art so far!
And I'm not that talented! Actually I think I'm way less talented and slower at improving than a ton of people I'm acquaintances with, not mentioning the people I admire "Orz.
And if you want to get better, just go draw instead of be posting stuff here! xD (see? don't follow my example!)
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EDIT November 6th, 2011:
How come people keep reading this thread from time to time? xD; Every time i come to check on stuff, I see users looking at this, lol.
I don't want to bring this thread back to life just yet, so I'll just edit this last post in a very ninja way, to tell you that I'm trying to pick up this thing again and I just finished Day 5 (: Maybe I should get done until Day 7 and post a working Demo test thingie with sketch placeholder art or something?
I sent my writer friend my script and haven't heard back from her yet, so I'm all anxious thinking everything I wrote is crap and that my friend probably just doesn't want tell me how bad the whole things is xD;
Anyway~ I'll try to work on Day 6 now before falling asleep. I had so much fun putting menus and variations each day that now I'm having a bit of a hard time tracking everything down, haha xD; And it's just 5 days long! I don'0t want to think about how it will be when I'm on like... day 20 "Orz
I'm trying to keep a private wiki to track things in a better way, though. I hope that helps ^^;
I need to give Franco and Barbara more screen time starting from day 8. Hmm.
---------------------The game contains 2,661 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 20,046 words,
for an average of 7.5 words per screen.
The game contains 10 menus.
EDIT November 12th, 2011:
Another ninja update, in case you're keeping track xD;
Still not done with week #1, the weekend is proving to be awfully boring and it's blocking the hell out of me D:
My writer co-author loved what I sent her! I was so scared and paranoid ;_; I need to get rid of a couple of things and fix my awful typos, though ^^; But other than that, she says I'm doing quite well so far (:
Other than that, I've been toying with Ren'Py because I can, and it's been quite fun (: I've been learning styles, screen language and ATL :3 It reminds me of CSS and jquery x'D;
The 'cool' things I added to my little working demo are grayed-out previously picked choices on menus (because I wanted to give my co-author friend an easy way to find variations on the scenes), the date and time of day on the right corner of the screen, a little message on a frame that I made with a screen, that shows texts I pass it on the show screen statement (I feel so cool managing to do that xD; ) and that I'm hoping to use somewhere later during the game, and right now I'm toying with a screen that shows you your weekly schedule x3
I also plan to add a Day Planner extra page of sorts that stores and shows to the dates you arrange with other characters, tests you have, study sessions, birthdays, etc, just because I think it's nice, haha xD;
And another extra page for character's info: contact, age, birthday and extra notes/info Penny may pick up during the game (:
A cool idea (probably not very original, though) occured to me the other day as a possible feature too: having a summarized version of scenes with Penny telling you what happened, for subsequent playthroughs instead of getting to play the whole scene for the second or nth time.
I mean, people skip previously seen scenes anyway after their first playthrough, looking for things that have changed, so why not implement that into the game as well?
I imagine that may involve quite some work, though, so I'll leave that alone for now ^^;
And that's pretty much it (:
No Lints this time, since I have barely touched the story >:
I'll officially update this thread once I complete Week #1 >_<!!!
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Nov 13th
Here, have some rough bust shots (:
Nov 14th
I made a pseudo-dev blog so I stop ninja-updating here ^^;
http://caramelmokaccino.tumblr.com/
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Nov 18th
The script is about 20k-ish words.
So... if anybody happens to be interested, PM me? (:
Pretty much done writing, and I found a proofreader <3
Expect the test-build soon~ ^^
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Proofreading finished! Thanks to the lovely Alphonse. <3
Now... I'm waiting for feedback (after the proofread, I know, I fail at this. "Orz) from the co-author and then I'll show it to a couple more people and THEN I'll release the build. So... it may take a couple of weeks more than I expected/wanted.
If you're waiting for this for any reason, please be patient and sorry for taking so long! >_<
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Dec 19th:
The people I'm showing this to have been way too busy and haven't got back to me with C&C ._.
And during Jan/Feb/March I'll be so busy with work I don't think I'll have time for this at all; Actually, I think I won't have time for anything other than work and assignments and I'm not even sure I'll have enough time for all of that X___x
So... yeah.
I've been a bit stuck writing week #2, so I haven't got very far with it. I have only sketched Penny's and Nico's sprite so far and I haven't touched anything else.
*sigh*
Hopefully, I'll be able to pick this up again in March next year =/
