Update 1/1/17
- Happy new year!
- New year new things to talk about!
- First of all, I would like to announce that I’ve tentatively changed this project’s title to
Sunrise Revolution.
- -> It was to differentiate it from the original source material in general but also because of the following point.
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This project has gone under a complete re-write!
- -> After stepping away from the project to work on KMX, I’ve realized that there were
some things a lot of things that I wasn’t happy or satisfied with.
- ->I didn’t world-build enough, even though I established Otto as a magic user, he didn’t really do magic. The ending felt kind of rushed and anti-climatic. There were some things in the dialogue that made me go Yikes. Also plot holes. Lots of plot holes.
- -> So! I re-wrote it! I kept some bits from the first draft, but for the most part, it’s almost a complete re-write.
- -> Actually, while I was re-writing the script, it got to the point where it didn’t really feel like an adaption of Swan Lake anymore? It felt more like I just took some elements from it like the names and clumps of the plot. Because of that, I felt like keeping the project under the title Swan Lake wasn’t appropriate anymore so I looked for a new name.
- -> First Draft Stats:
- - -> 42005 words
- - - -> {ACT 01: 6647 | ACT 02: 12513 | ACT 03: 16582 | ACT 04: 5445 | EPILOGUE: 818}
- -> Rewrite:
- - -> 66121 words
- - - -> {PROLOGUE + ACT 01: 13446 | ACT 02 + INTERLUDE 1: 15750 | ACT 03 + INTERLUDE 2: 24392 | ACT 04 + EPILOGUE: 12536}
- - I will be looking for beta-readers in the future, since there are some things that I’m worried about not getting right. But first, I want to re-read the script myself to go back and edit in/out info to keep the story consistent.
- The art should change as well to fit a style similar to the image for this update.
- -> It would have been really inefficient if I kept with the painterly art style I was going with. Plus there’s a few Easter eggs I want to include that needs to have the art style like this.
- The game may be a mix of RPG and VN?
- - This is super tentative, though and is not final.
- Even with this update, I’m still prioritizing KMX since I’ve made pretty good progress on it already. (Also because I really want to complete a project this year.)
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Thanks for the support from 2016! I hope we see more of each other in 2017!