cruelDate [KN][BxG][Dating Sim Parody][download]

[unknown5]

DOWNLOAD SHORT KINETIC NOVEL in Completed Games section
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 91#p274891

TITLE: cruelDate
CATEGORY: Dating Sim Parody, Kinetic Novel, BxG
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Warning: contains some Pythonesque and ecchi humor.
WARNING!!!: i tried to draw the art for this. =P
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STORY
You've just signed up for the computer matchmaking service, Perfect Mate, which has a 100% SUCCESS RATE.
Will you finally encounter the person of your dreams? What amazing adventures await?
Let's find out by starting your wondrous journey of love and romance TODAY!
(oh, bugger. forgot to mention that the love matchmaking AI is powered by DoD/NSA counter-terrorism spinoff technology.
meh, minor details. not like anything could go wrong ...)

Take 2. I suck at writing summaries. Let's see ... GLORIOUS GAY ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS ... nah.
Meh, got bored by all the anime/manga where a lame, nondescript male protagonist gets swarmed on by lovelies.
Decided to poke some fun at it. Complex male-female social psychodynamics in a dystopian surveillance state
are explored using stick figure diagrams. FIGHT THE FUTURE! wuh? Am I making some of this up? Hmm ... maybe.

Urgh, this new summary is much worse than the first one. OTL

Take 3. This KN tries to portray women realistically by making them all psychotic.

Okay, I'm just gonna stop with the stupid summaries before I dig myself any deeper.
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CHARACTERS (rough - cleaning up/coloring sprites)


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SAMPLE MISC CHARACTERS

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SAMPLE STORY IMAGES



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SAMPLE MUSIC
nothing serious. short bgms .ogg format

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PROGRESS
Writing: 100%
Art: 100% done
Music/Sound fx: 100%
Menu/Interface/Extras and stoof: 100%

CURRENT STATS
The game contains 593 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 5624 words
for an average of 9.5 words per screen.
The game contains 8 menus.

UPDATES
5/6/13: i'll update with more stuff later. just wanted to post this up for now. uploaded pics
5/7/13: lol i need to resize these pics (done). uploaded 2 bgms. just started messing around with LMMS today.
5/8/13: made 2 more bgms. having fun with LMMS. updated stats. added main menu pic that i just whipped up.
5/9/13: oh god, I SUCK. oh well. ALMOST THERE. need to slap some sounds fx in there and prolly upload demo kn tomorrow.
5/11/13: finished demo kn yesterday. will sit on it and think about it some. might tweak. dunno. at this point i've stared at it so long i don't know if it's any good or not anymore. meh.
5/12/13: lol, cleared up some of my goofs.
5/15/13: uploaded it. also, i didn't bother to archive/obfuscate it. feel free to poke around. i'm still using an older version of ren'py tho, cuz i'm lazy.
5/18/13: redoing the sprites and gonna try coloring them. wish me luck. i'll need it. QQ

attempt at coloring. better than my previous tries. dunno.


5/20/13: finished redoing sprites. pretty much at my limit for my current skill level. must keep improving.
will upload new version soon. after a week, i'll move it over to completed games, i guess ...
5/20/13: urgh, saved my sprites w/o the alpha layer. GAAAAHHHHH!
having trouble developing a consistent style. still learning tho, so consistency is kinda tough for me.
here's betty all buffed (and with her neck centered =P). much different than before.

5/27/13: new sprites below. this is currently the limit for my skill level. will keep on improving.
anyhoo ... gonna move this over to completed. done. done. on to the next one.

[unknown5]

hope to get this demo short kn done by the end of this week and wrap this one up.

was gonna do an old zombie thing i had lying around next, but then had a neat idea yesterday that i might do instead.

these next two projects will also double as training projects to improve my drawing skills.

should be fun.

edit:
lol, i'm regretting calling this "cruelDate" since "perfecTMate" seems like the more natural title and thus will cause confusion.
Ah well, whateva.

[unknown5]

so, i finished the cruelDate demo kn yesterday, but i think i need to let it settle for a bit first.

anyhoo, here's two sketches that i did playing around with light values.
trying to improve my drawing skills.

might use them for my next project. it's a simple, dark fairy tale story ???, i suppose.
it will be in b&w with a similar feel to the sketches.

forest


waterfall (yeah, kinda abstract/messy, but ah well)

[Flowers from Nowhere]

contains some ecchi

Then it should be in the "Adult Content" section. Go here http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3671 to get access.

[Nuxill]

contains some ecchi

Then it should be in the "Adult Content" section. Go here http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3671 to get access.

you can have a general thread on this section of the forum as long as you only talk about the 'ecchi' parts on the adult forum. Does having some 'perverted things' make it count as an adult game if there's no porn? Is there any porn in this or is it just a few perverted things?

[unknown5]

doh.

originally the description read "contains some ecchi humor".
but then i inserted "Pythonesque" so it then became
"contains some ecchi and Pythonesque humor".

lol.

if it were a movie, it'd be PG-13.
not adult section material.

simple fix
"contains some Pythonesque and ecchi humor".

edit: also, i'll prolly release around Friday-ish instead. also, i goofed and wrote that it's a demo. it's not a demo. it's the whole shebang.
short kn.

[unknown5]

okay, uploaded the link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/etztdrre0bs04 ... im-all.zip
52MB, win/mac/linux.
urgh.

[unknown5]

not comfortable with coloring. trying to get the hang of layer options.
tho this one looks better than my earlier attempts at coloring.
decided to maybe redo the sprites. dunno. maybe. depends on time.
trying to learn as i go along.

[unknown5]

done. moving to completed games section
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 91#p274891