Here's the official story of our cute mascot's origins
- The original banner on the Lemma Soft website from 2003
Gyral: Main hero/player character. Has red hair, wears red for some reason and uses a sword. Might have had a blue headband. Not very magical, but all-around good guy.
Ram: Strong dude who bashes monsters with a club and has wild gray spikey Sonic the Hedgehog hair
Not as smart as Gyral, but he's reliable. Very into girls.Kora: The magic seductress of the group who attacks with a whip. Revealing outfit and black/dark purple hair. Street-smart and outgoing. She and Ram are dating.
And last but most...
Lemma: Sweet and gentle young woman who is a spearfighting prodigy and has immense magical powers. She was raised by a pack of monsters in the wild and is a relative newcomer to human society. Lemma has a bright lightning-shaped scar on her forehead (and this was before I heard of Harry Potter but might have been before the series anyway) of which the origins are unknown. Gyral falls in love with her at first sight
Lemma's design changed to lose the scar, and I don't think her current mascot incarnation was raised by monsters... but her dress and hair remained the same
Around this time, I was getting involved with this neat thing called the "internet" (ooooooh!) and had this theory that people treated you better there (on Gamefaqs anyway) if they thought you were a girl. I needed a screen name there, and I chose Blue Lemma since it's on the feminine side and I like blue. I don't remember if Lemma the character came first, or if Blue Lemma the name came first. Hmmmm.
As a fan of J-games and all that fun stuff, I became interested in these "visual novel" and "date sim" thingies eventually, and was contacted by a man in California about working on one. I was to do the programming, and he was to do the script and art. The script got about halfway done before things ran out of steam, but I was able to complete my VN engine (not Ren'Py) which I decided to try making my own game with. Hence Tales of Lemma
(I think I must have been playing Tales of Phantasia at the time >_< Bad me! Be more original!) I wanted to put it on a website, so I needed a name.... ooh, how about Lemma Soft! I'd read about Alice Soft and their games (er, don't google them, kids), and I thought, "that'd be cool if there were games like those but without all the over-the-top sex stuff everywhere!" My goal was what I call "H-lite" The teenage version! I liked Alice Soft's idea of a cute mascot girl, so I chose Lemma to rep the site.So "Lemma Soft" is basically modeled after Alice Soft (sort of.) Again, bad me, need more originality! That's the history, though.
The current cutie you see greeting you in the forum picture was drawn by magi-san, and I love it
Way better than mine!How did you all come up with your site/group names?
