[Mystery/Friendship VN] Withering Blossoms

[Lumen_Astrum]

Lol, the reason why Cetus' hair looks quite well is because I traced her bangs off her original sprite XD *shameless confession* I was quite happy with what I did with Daena as well, except all those flippy hair and layers makes me un-confident of the sort. XD

Actually, to be honest, I kept the side hairties before. I had several versions of her sprite:

This was one version right before I did that drastic-hairstyle-change thingie. I had an older version where both side ties were kept, but right now photobucket hates me so.

The thing was I DID try to keep the side ties, but it ended up looking horribly stupid and the shape of her face looks so weird, so I was forced to incorporate a "similar-looking" hairstyle without the sideties (hence why she wears clips).

Explanation over, thank you for your suggestion, Reikun!

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Okay, I followed Reikun's suggestion and changed the hairstyle. Here's the result:



It looks... "nomadic" for a reason. Comments?

[Reikun]

It's starting to look more like her S&H sprite!! xD One thing you should keep in mind when doing her hair ties is the type of material the hair tie is. Is it a small band with a lot of resistance to stretching? That would make the hair more "squished" at the point of the hair tie. Or is her hair tie a non-stretching material like string/yarn? If her hair tie is elastic, the tie on her left side should compress the hair more that it looks like right now.



The blue arrows are supposed to show how hair behaves when it's tied with an elastic band xD;;
And I just thought of something else!! If you wanted to, you could keep her hair clips on the left side of her hair, but leave the tie on the right side. Try it out and see how it looks/if it suits her personality?? It would be a partial hairstyle change that's not too drastic maybe :3

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Sirius' updated (and more or less final) hairstyle. Also edited her casual a little, added the butterfly brooch. Erased whatever text was on the baller band.


Maria's casual.


Daena's casual.


Updated Pascual's outfit, removed the v-line and added a necklace.

Each tag team, if you noticed, have different friendship symbols. Daena and Maria have the charm necklace while Cetus and Pascual have the ear piercing. I'll be making a butterfly brooch for Yuna. XD

Btw, Goddess Viridi will be coloring the sprites.
Making now Gaia, Rayne, and Milicent

[Katty16]

I like your visual novels, they are so exciting
I'm looking forwar too this one

[Lumen_Astrum]

Thank you so much! :3

And after a long while (lol), here's a "preview" of the colored "finished" Yuna sprite. Colored by Goddess Viridi, edited by me. :3

Her second pose isn't made yet; I erased the clock pendant...

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le wild post appears

I started looking back at the past prequels of WB and I kinda noticed the one thing that made them unique were the grayscale colors and the eye thingie. I think it might have made some trademark on the entire series, so I was wondering if you guys wanted the grayscale colors in WB ^^ Since the sprites I have right now are in full color, it will be easy to change whatever colors I have. Yes, the colors I use can be way too bright, and plus I get confused on the hair colors I wanted to give each ^^;

Comments, suggestions?

[CheeryMoya]

I thought that the loss of the grayscale meant a shift in mood from depressing-ish to somewhat hopeful? It depends on the overall mood of the game.

[Lumen_Astrum]

I was actually thinking to make it something like 50% or 75% grayscale. It's a bit hopeful, but still quite depressing/drab/emotional. 83

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And the first ever screenshot (lol):



Those black things are my problem once again ._.
I dunno but it looks super nice like that lol

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Alicia and Allen, brother-sister soldiers from Blackstar 521 Platoon.



Aria, soldier from Ayrio 862 Platoon and Shinrai, soldier from Silverwind 497 Platoon.


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New side-charas They'll appear briefly in some scenes at the demo.
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Statistics:

The game contains 704 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 10,247 words,
for an average of 14.6 words per screen.
The game contains 4 menus.

I finally reached my word goal for the demo! =))) brb party-ing

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le screenshot



This time featuring Sirius

[Coren]

Is it just me, or does Sirius look significantly wider than Yuna? XDD

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I... didn't notice that XD I'll try editing.

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Le revive



Here's Gaia's finished sprite lineart!



Aaaand sprite sketches for Alicia and Allen.

I know guys I have been off for quite a long time, and I'm really, really sorry ;_;