Falling Hearts (GxB) Cancelled

[IaMe]

Falling Hearts is a free GxB otome slice-of-life visual novel from IaMeotomegames.

STORY
To 17-year-old Yuuki Kuro, life couldn’t get any more boring and typical. Day in and day out, she strives to find something exciting in this fleeting moment we call life. And what’s more exciting than falling in love for the first time?

CHARACTERS

YUUKI KURO
Goes By: Yuu
Age: 17
The main character. For 17-year-old Yuuki Kuro, life is nothing but a fleeting moment in the universe. Can Yuu find the happiness that she is searching for? Or will she realize that what she has been looking for, has been around her all along?



SAKUYA MAE KAGUYASHI
Goes By: Saki
Age: 16
Yuu's best friend.


RYOU WATANABE
Goes By: Ryou
Age: 21
A freelance writer who happens to be Yuu's childhood friend. He also may be a bit of a womanizer, in the politest way possible, of course.


SHINOSUKE SHINAMORIE
Goes By: Shinn
Age: 19
Kaien Itou's guitar-playing nephew who has been like a brother to Yuu all these years.


TAKESHI MORINO
Goes By: Takeshi
Age: 17
A quiet guy whose nose is always buried in a book.


HIKEI SHIROGAIA
Goes By: Hikei
Age: 18
A quiet transfer student from the northern regions. He's you senior in school-- and in life.


HIIRO HANABUSA
Goes by: Hiiro
Age: 16
A laid-back slacker who spends most of his time sleeping.


NAO LASHEYNA
Goes by: Nao
Age: 18
A very studious lyricist.


Nue Lasheyna
Goes by: Nue
Age: 18
Nao's twin. Nue is a very athletic musician who loves playing basketball.


KEISUKE MADARAKI
Goes By: Keisuke
Age: 27
A clueless guy who just happens to be a teacher... and your all-around ladies' man.


KAIEN ITOU
Goes By: Master, Kaien
Age: 29
A martial arts master who took Yuu in when her parents died.

Background Sample

TEAM
Producer: IaMe
Writer: Ran
Artist: KingV
Composer: ???

FEATURES
[*]Eleven Characters
[*]Sprites and Profiles for all characters
[*]30 backgrounds w/ some variations
[*]64 CGs
[*]3 bonus images
[*]15 custom soundtracks
[*]9 total routes (incl. a twin route and a group and alone paths)

PROGRESS
Writing: 0%
Programming: 0%
Sprites: 100%
Logo: 100%
GUI: 0%
BGs: 0%
CGs: 0%
Music: 100%

QUESTIONS:
1. What do you think about the premise?
2. Does the plot appeal to you? Is there anything too vague to understand?
3. Which character is your favorite?

For more information, check out the development blog here. and go here for demos.

IaMe: Feel free to ask any questions, though as I live in Australia it may take me a little while to get back to you-- if I'm not in semi nocturnal mode that is!
Ran: Thank you so much for checking this out!

[Kyra10]

A brief synopsis:

Falling Hearts is a story about a girl’s quest to end her boredom and what’s more exciting than falling in love for the very first time?

Falling Hearts Overview

Game Includes:

Eleven Characters- main character, nine obtainable characters (some secret) and a best friend

Sprites for all characters

Profiles for all characters

Changeable Names for Main Character

30 Backgrounds with some variations

64 CGs

3 Bonus Images

15 custom sound tracks (made specifically for this game)

A total of nine main routes plus a special twin route and also including a group and alone path

Love the art! <3
After i read this, it left me feeling so excited for this game~
Good luck with this!

[IaMe]

Love the art! <3
After i read this, it left me feeling so excited for this game~
Good luck with this!

Thank you for your interest, I will be sure to pass you praise to the artist

[Ferdokki]

I like the art style. It's so cute, cartoony, and yet lovable!
The male character designs are really great-looking.
Umm...one critique though. Takeshi looks like he has boobs. I think it's because of the curved lines near the button-up part of his jacket.

I'm so amazed at the amount of unlockable content in the game (64 CGs??? AND 15 custom tracks???). I think it's really cool!

Good luck on the development!

[Kingv]

I like the art style. It's so cute, cartoony, and yet lovable!
The male character designs are really great-looking.
Umm...one critique though. Takeshi looks like he has boobs. I think it's because of the curved lines near the button-up part of his jacket.

I'm so amazed at the amount of unlockable content in the game (64 CGs??? AND 15 custom tracks???). I think it's really cool!

Good luck on the development!

I've been meaning to leave a comment here for a while now but never got around to it. I suppose now is a good a time as any. ^^ Hi ya'll! I'm currently the artist working on assets for Falling Hearts. So far all the sprites are complete and now I'm hard at work on designing the GUI for the game.

I'm happy everyone likes the art! Takeshi's sprite was one of the first done so he could use some touching up. Once the GUI is done I will go back and make adjustments to him. I definitely don't want it to look like he has boobs. ><

[IaMe]

I like the art style. It's so cute, cartoony, and yet lovable!
The male character designs are really great-looking.
Umm...one critique though. Takeshi looks like he has boobs. I think it's because of the curved lines near the button-up part of his jacket.

I'm so amazed at the amount of unlockable content in the game (64 CGs??? AND 15 custom tracks???). I think it's really cool!

Good luck on the development!

Thanks for your well wishes (I really appreciate it) and your honest critique (spoke with Kingv about it and as they've said above he shall be getting a touch up after the GUI is done)

[Rhuby]

First, let me say that the art is lovely. It's rather different from the usual anime-style sprites you usually see.

And, wow, that sure is a lot of work. Good luck! I'll be cheering you on~

I'll definitely be watching this thread

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[papillon]

Depending on how married you are to your game's name, you might want to consider changing it or adding a subtitle of some sort to make the name stand out more in people's minds.

There's already two other commercial games named "Fa[something] Hearts" - it's sort of asking for confusion, unless you have a really funny logo with the tumbling/falling emphasized ('Tumbling Hearts' is amusing, but then that again sounds too close to 'Rumbling Hearts' which already exists!)

[IaMe]

Sorry for taking so long to reply (but I got a bit scared)
I came up with the name falling hearts for two main reasons.
1-the common thought of what people do when to get into love is fall and they use their hearts to do it
2- it ties into my head world where the characters got their personality influences from (the world is called Fate of the Fallen)
again I'm sorry for taking so long to reply

[IaMe]

Also Logo

[Kingv]

I suppose it would be okay for me to post a few screenshots the GUI as well since it's been done for quite some time. ^^

[IaMe]

yep, yep it's totally fine.
Hiya KingV

[Googaboga]

This looks very nice ^^. I love all the art and GUI. It seems like a high quality game.

But I am a little confused about the secret characters. There are eleven characters in the game and nine of them are obtainable guys. All eleven characters are listed in the thread which means that all nine obtainable guys including (I assume) the secret ones have been shown. So I was wondering what makes the secret guys different from the regular guys?

[IaMe]

thank you for your interest and in regards to your question
The secret characters take more to unlock (you have to play through the game at least once for one and several times for the other) that and they are the two older characters (somewhat more forbidden romances because of their roles in Yuu's life). hope that's understandable enough (my brains jumbly at time and not the best at explaining)

[Googaboga]

I see. I get it now. Thanks :3.

I think having some characters that are harder to win over is a good idea :]. Especially since there are quite a few paths in this game. It's nice to shake things up a bit for some of them.

Since they are secret characters maybe you should remove their sprites or bios so people won't know much about them until they get the game. Or maybe they could be called unlockable characters rather than secret characters since people know who they are but can't do their path until they unlock the option.

Well anyways I'm looking forward to seeing the progress for the game. I hope it all goes well.