Les Contes Magiques: Marie Lévesque [Fantasy|GxB][DEMO 8/17]

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Les Contes Magiques: Marie Lévesque [Fantasy|GxB][DEMO 8/17]

#1 Post by chocojax »

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You play as Marie Lévesque, a 2nd-year student at the prestigious Institut de Sorcellerie.
Since the beginning of civilization, this institute was built as one of many other guardian towers, meant to both train and employ defenders.

At first, Marie found her experience there to be rather easy-going. However, something ominous appears over the horizon. A female student goes missing, and then is found dead... and subsequently, others fall to the same horrifying fate. What exactly is going on here?

>> Click here to view the demo thread <<

I'm also bad at writing summaries, so early apologies. :-(

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2 Love Interests
6 Unique Endings
Crafting (Potion Brewin' and Cookin')
Battling
Scheduling


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Marie Lévesque
The only daughter from a family of magi. She felt confined in her small village, so she jumped at the chance to explore past her world.
Spunky and extremely curious. She's a little bit too nosy at times.
An alchemist.

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Antoine leBlanc
An orphan who was abandoned by his mother a few days after his birth. He was taken care of by the institute's late headmaster.
Very outgoing and easygoing. He's quite the slacker.
A healer.

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Corentin Chevalier
The only son and successor to his family name. As expected, he was trained to hold up the honor to his name--absolute perfection in his magic studies.
Rather anti-social and prideful. He's extremely hardworking and intelligent.
A summoner.

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Planning: 99%
1st Draft: 10%
Final Draft: N/A

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Backgrounds: 20%
Characters: 25%
CGs: 0%
Items: ?? it's a mystery

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BGMs: pretty far
Fanfaronade by Doctor Jekyll
Les Mille Contes by Ziassan

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Scheduling System: 95%
Crafting System: 99%
Inventory System: 90%
Fighting System: 25%

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Artist, Writer, Programmer: chocojax
Musicians: Doctor Jekyll, Ziassan
Editor: Lunch

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Updates can be found in the following links:
website / twitter / tumblr
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#2 Post by Laniessa »

Wow, I love the premise ;u; This totally sounds like my sort of game, good luck!!!

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#3 Post by sasquatchii »

THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!!

It seems like there are different types of magics? (correct me if I'm wrong!!) which I think could be a lot of fun.

Can't wait :D

Also the GUI looks stellar
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#4 Post by chocojax »

@Laniessa: Thanks!!! \ o /

sasquatchii: Thanks you!! I'm happy you like the GUI, since I'm pretty bad at it, hee. :p

Yeah, different types of magics! Pretty much the standard at the moment (MC is Alchemy, Antoine is White/Healing, Corentin is Summoning). I'm really hoping to add more characters into the mix once I release the final version of what's planned at the moment. o /

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#5 Post by Googaboga »

This looks/sounds fantastic ^^. And yay for a crafting system. I love that <3.

Good luck. I'm really looking forward to it C:.
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#6 Post by chocojax »

@Googaboga: Thanks! And I really love crafting systems too. \o/

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Update! So, writing is going along slowly, but the demo will most likely only have a few actual scenes in it.
Most of the coding is done (scheduling and cookin') except for the battle screens. GUI still needs to be done for a lot of the screens, but will most likely be done by deadline.
Arts is moving along slowly as well, finished the MC sidesprite and am working on Antoine's on-screen sprite.
Music is going along swimmingly! A lot of the tracks are complete, am waiting on a few tracks. :3c

Music:
This song'll play on the title screen, composed by Zia. And if you haven't looked at it already, here's a song that Doc made. :>

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WIP sprites:
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#7 Post by Green Glasses Girl »

Ahhh! Your artwork is always so pretty. Definitely ready to play this. :D
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@Green Glasses Girl: Aaa, thank you!! \o/

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Updates! Uhh, so, been working on GUI and character sprites. I'm almost done with the scheduling screen, need to work on the crafting screen. And the preference, stats and extras screen (the former two should be easy since I have a layout set up already, but for extras I may only get to musicbox because I wanna show that off).

I dunno, music is going along good! Definitely will be done by the time of the demo. I'm so happy to have these two musicians makin' music for this game. :'(

Writing is uh... UHH GOING OKAY! At least it's a date sim, so writing is slightly easier than writing a novel that isn't broken up. I'll probably have enough material for the demo.

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#9 Post by sorani »

THose studs are niceeee and the cooking GUI *u*
I love the colors!
GOOD LUCK CHOCO

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sorani: Thanks you!! I'M TRYIN' TY!!

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Updates: Music
I mean... I dunno what to say about this, but nearly all of the tracks are finished. :D

Updates: Writing
Writing is going okay! I've been doing more planning for what's past the demo, and script is coming along fine. Hoping for at least 5k for the demo script.

Updates: Art
And here comes a whole ton of updates! I worked a lot on GUI and character art this week, so here's some update images. I'll fix up some of the GUI if I have more time before the demo release, or afterwards. (I also just remembered that I have to do GUI for the extras/music box, hahahaha.)

I'll add more recipes once I'm entirely done with the main chunk for the demo. :3c

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Released a short demo for SuNoFes. Check out the thread here!

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#12 Post by YonYonYon »

I like the art style! It has something charming in it.

While I'm not into crafting and scheduling, I'm interested in the story premise. So I'll wait the release.
Good luck with your work!
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This sounds amazing, and all the art is drool-worthy :D

Will be sure to check out the demo as soon as I can!
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The demo was fantastic. Definitely looking forward to this game!

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#15 Post by chocojax »

YonYonYon wrote:I like the art style! It has something charming in it.

While I'm not into crafting and scheduling, I'm interested in the story premise. So I'll wait the release.
Good luck with your work!
Thank you! (I'll try not to make the scheduling thing too tedious.)
Harliqueen wrote:This sounds amazing, and all the art is drool-worthy :D

Will be sure to check out the demo as soon as I can!
Thanks! I hope you enjoy the demo. :>
Laiska wrote:The demo was fantastic. Definitely looking forward to this game!
Thank you!! \\ o //

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