Galactical Maiden Ciel - Indiegogo Campaign is now Live!!

[EroBotan]

Updated a couple of stuff ...
1. Himiko-hime and her character description story uploaded
2. The main story, Kana and Alice's character description are updated
3. Kana's idle sprite is updated

critique and suggestions are welcome, especially on Himiko-hime's character design

[EroBotan]

a screenshot of the wip battle scene. It still lack some stuff like character portraits, shadow, etc. Hopefully I can finish the battle system soon. Let me know if you have suggestion and stuff!

[EroBotan]

my blog is acting weird tonight ... half of my post is written in bold, 1 picture can't be copy pasted, earlier my post is always center aligned though this one is fixed by itself ... T___T

[EroBotan]

WIPs on command center screen inside starbeast Genbu which also act as Kana and Alice's mothership

[Astrid]

I like the premise, but the main chara design is a bit too raunchy for me!

[EroBotan]

I like the premise, but the main chara design is a bit too raunchy for me!

aww .. too bad

raunchy ... guess that's what happen when you tried to combine cute, badass, and sexy together ... orz

[nyaatrap]

No she should more raunchy heh It's up to you.

Just one tiny thing, I think it's better to resize all images under width 1024. Else, it causes some problem on notebook viewers.

[EroBotan]

No she should more raunchy heh It's up to you.

Just one tiny thing, I think it's better to resize all images under width 1024. Else, it causes some problem on notebook viewers.

haha, you pervert XD !

Thanks for the info about notebooks stuff though! I've resized everything ! I really didn't know that it will be difficult to view for notebook viewer, sorry ^^;

Time for an update!! I redesign Himiko's cloth since a friend of mine said that the original design is a bit bland so I made a new one and add more stuff to her design. What do you think?


oh, and here is some new Kana's sprites in her labcoat and gymnastic outfit!
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[nyaatrap]

I redesign Himiko's cloth since a friend of mine said that the original design is a bit bland so I made a new one and add more stuff to her design. What do you think?

What is her personality? The design itself is nice, but a fox mask implies sly, tricky, or having shadow personality (you can ignore this Japanese saying, since it's an English game. Or you can use this as a story plot)

[EroBotan]

mmm ... her personality ... . she is a serious person, nagging a lot, expert in summoning magic, brave and fierce. She has a weird way of thinking which often lead to "totally missing the point" situation.

About the mask itself, it's actually not magical. She just loves to wear it too look cool ^^;. Maybe I'll use the sly fox theme for one of the enemies, I think there is one character that might match the fox's personality

What do you think? I hope her personality is pretty interesting, critique is welcome ^^;

[Graph]

This is looking pretty interesting! It must be a large undertaking with all those battle sprites you're making. I can't wait to see it in action!

[EroBotan]

thanks a lot! Glad you like it ! I'll try to get the demo up as soon as possible! (.. that 'soon' is probably in 2-3 months though ... thanks to the crazy amount of the battle sprites XD .. I still aim to finish it sooner though ).

[EroBotan]

During my first post, I was talking about Research Points System to level up Ciel form’s power, skills, and equipment. Basically, Kana has to decide what kind of activity that she wants to do each day ( Attack enemy’s base, chat with either Himiko or Alice, and Research). When Kana choose “Research” she will receive some “Research Points” that she can use to buy upgrades for her Ciel form. Please note that this action is always successful so receiving “Research Points” is guaranteed.

After some brainstorming, I decided to add two other activities: Gymnastic and Meditation.


Gymnastic will give Kana “Physical Points” which can be used to buy physical type stats and skills. These stats and skills will be useful in overcoming dungeon obstacles ( cliff, traps, etc ) and physical battle.

Meditation will give Kana “Mental Points” which can be used to buy mental type stats and skills. These stats and skills will be useful in conversation (noticing lies, persuade people, etc ) and performing magic in battle.

I plan to have 6-8 stats. They’re mostly the same stats that you can find in most RPG ( strength, agility, intelligence, charm, etc). I plan to have lots of skills though, something like skill trees so you can customize your build or maybe even multi-class system!!

With these two new activities, I’m hoping to remove or at least lessen the grinding element in RPG game. I also think it will add more strategy element in the game. What do you think ?

[EroBotan]

Do you see that round stuff you in upper left corner of the screen? It serves like power bar with 3 levels ( green, yellow, and red). This bar will be consumed when Kana uses her Ciel System Overdrive skill. The drawback with this skill is that if it’s used with less than 3 power bars then it will consumes a great amount of Kana’s HP. So spamming this skill is really a bad idea ^^;

The bar can be filled with a successful attack/dodging. As the bar increased the white cylinder stuff will begin to spin faster and faster and emit lightning sparks (I’m still sucks at drawing lightning though >.< )

[EroBotan]

some pics of the enemy bosses


a WIP sketch of Kirishima Nanami, another enemy ^^;


Not much stuff to show today since I've been busy researching about marketing, funding, coding, and video editing. Hopefully I can create a gameplay video soon ... I need to buy "Fraps" first though .... more money gone from my wallet T__T