A Standard Mission [Action][Comedy][KN][NaNoReno 2015]

[TheDesman]

A Standard Mission
(Working title)


Two rival Contractors, mercenary spies-for-hire, cross paths during a mission where they are hunting for the same target.

Story:
Set in the early 90's Sensei is tasked with infiltrating the French foreign legion to steal intelligence about their recruits for the British government.
However during the mission he runs into his long time rival Lézard. After their encounter the mission becomes anything but standard as the two of them, being deep in hostile territory, soon find themselves having to worry about much more than each other.



Characters

Codename: Sensei
Name: Classified
Age: Classified
A man of Japanese origin with a bushy mustache he's very proud of. His main trait is his ability to absorb knowledge and a phenomenal memory. He will outsmart his opponents because he’s better prepared and because he can assess a situation faster.
He has never felt the need for friends but recently he has found himself anticipating the next time he and Lézard will run into each other.





Codename: Lézard
Name Classified
Age: Classified
A Frenchman that has the uncanny ability to get anywhere. His specialties are wall-climbing and death-defying feats of parkour. He will best his opponents by arriving from unexpected directions and by disappearing down paths none thought traversable.
The love/hate-relationship between him and Sensei causes his emotions to be in constant turmoil as he fluctuates between respecting and loathing his rival.






Team

Writer: That's me
Artist: Dust (not on this forum)
programmer: Sparris (might be on the forum but I'm not sure)
Feedback/editing: Sights


Process
Writing: 90%
Sprites: 80%
BG's: 50%
Programming: 20%
Music: 0%

[CrimsonMoon]

This looks interesting, and the sprites are cute too. Good luck with the project.

[Godline]

Lézard has the coolest mustache known to man. Clearly.

[TheDesman]

Codename: Thorn
Everything: Classified

Wonder who this women is and what she is up to?

[YossarianIII]

I like the amount of mustache you've got going on in this preview, The Desman.

Sensei's mustache is all , but then Lézard's mustache is all .

I hope your dialogue characterization is on the same level as your mustache characterization.

40% of writing is pretty good for this part of the month, so best of luck on making it to the goal!

[TheDesman]

I like the amount of mustache you've got going on in this preview, The Desman.

Sensei's mustache is all , but then Lézard's mustache is all .

I hope your dialogue characterization is on the same level as your mustache characterization.

40% of writing is pretty good for this part of the month, so best of luck on making it to the goal!

From the beginning we decided to make a shorter game, so that we'll know for sure that we'll be able to finish it in time.

[TheDesman]

Just a short update with the menu. Hopefully we'll get more done on the characters soon.

[TheDesman]

Status report; the work goes on.

The first version of the script is soon finished, and I think that we're going to be end up around 6k words. This process has been rather slow because I have rewritten everything several times. During this time I managed to change the location. Thankfully I did it before our artist had started doing BG's (he did the characters first). So this did not turn into a problem for us. It was a major improvement for the story and I am thankful that I implemented these ideas before it was too late.
Remember to keep in touch with your artists.
Having a clear outline for the story on day 1 might be a good idea as well. But you tend to think differently when under pressure (at least I do), which you'll be if you start planning and designing your story only under march.

Speaking about artists, our character sprites are almost finished and our BG's are well on their way. The only thing that lagging behind are the images for some of the events.


We've changed the sprite for Thorn and removed her hat.

[TheDesman]

The script is as good as done. Just some final adjustments left. Character sprites are all done. The backgrounds could use some more work, but most of them will do. What's left are the CG's, which are sort of necessary. We could release the VN without them but we would not be comfortable doing so.

All in all this means that the odds are in our favour of making it in time, although it'll be challenge.