And so…

I’ve decided to remove Tailley from the romantic options list.

I feel having him in there makes the game a little too complicated, since he doesn’t have anything in common with the other characters.

He may appear as a minor character though, since I do still like his design. We’ll have to see. (Maybe in ISWO revisited Tailley will get a path! Haha, as if that would ever exist.)

 

Anyway, I had some fun with Renpy today, and coded the first little bit to the intro of the game.

I have to say it’s quite exciting to be able to actually play through and see all the text and graphics in action. And the background doesn’t look quite as messy in game either, for that matter (which is actually quite nice).

 

As for other updates, Hei and Ailen’s sprites are completely done, expressions and everything. Just need to finish Reve (who is significantly hard to draw, damnit) and I won’t have to worry about sprites anymore! I won’t put any pictures here though; I want to keep things at least a little bit interesting, haha.

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First background!

So the background for Hei and Castor’s apartment is done. Technically Reve lives there too, but he’s upstairs.

 

They’re not the neatest, but hey, this isn’t like a super intense project or something. Just something for fun!

emi

ISWO Sprites

Basic sprites and one expression are done!

I don’t think this project is big enough for them to have multiple poses, so they just have the one. I think that’s fine for now though.

I went a bit stylized with the lines (inspired partly by TWEWY), and i’m pretty happy how they came out.

Just need to do expressions and sprites are done then on to more art, and getting the script out!

Personally I like Ailen the most at the moment. He’s such a sweetheart! Of course the others are nice as well, eheh.

Also… the title seems to have stuck. As much as I mentioned before that I don’t really like using titles that are more than one or two words… well, I spend a good few hours yesterday trying to think of a new title, and going through a lot of name generators and translators and thesaurus sites to try and come up with something interesting, but nothing seemed to fit. So thus, this project is for sure going to be ISWO. I doubt i’ll be typing out the full name very often…

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Character Concepts

So i’m finished with character concepts, at least for the MC and for the love options.

Little tweaks will be made to clothing and colors when I do sprites, but otherwise the designs for the characters are pretty final.

The setting of the VN will be a futuristic sort of city (I haven’t name it yet, so i’ll just call it ‘the city’ for now).

Castor is the main character that you’ll play as. He’s fairly not fashion-forward, as you can tell. He gets emotional pretty easily, happy, sad, scared, etc, but is pretty easygoing otherwise. He moved to the city to get away from his old life, as he felt too stagnant. He is trying to decide whether to go to school or to get a job.

Hei is Castor’s new roommate. As far as he can tell, Hei never goes outside if he can help it, unless it’s to do photography. He runs a blogging website and makes all of his money online doing that and selling photography prints.

Reve lives in the same building as Hei and Castor. He acts nice to everyone, but Castor suspects he has ulterior motives. He runs a company that makes high-end metal jewelry and accessories, and does welding as a hobby. He lost his left eye in a welding accident as a teenager, thus the scar.

Ailen owns and works at the cafe on the bottom floor of the building where Castor lives. He has a bit of a potty mouth, and likes to talk a lot, and to everyone. He and Reve used to be a couple, but they broke up a few months ago for some reason.

Tailley was (according to Castor) in the same class as him in elementary school. Tailley either doesn’t remember this, or doesn’t acknowledge it, and acts as though he doesn’t know Castor. They run into each other on the street fairly often though, as Castor’s apartment building is near the park where Tailley works.

And so that’s all for the boys. I also did a character blurb for Castor’s twin sister, Luxy… but she won’t have an actual sprite in the game. Castor will contact her by phone and ask for advice on things from time to time.

emi

It Starts With One

I am new to the VN community, but am getting started on my first project, It Starts With One (ISWO). Or at least that’s what i’m calling it right now. I’ll likely have it re-titled tomorrow because i’m not super fond of the ‘multiple words long titles’ sort of thing.

It’s going to be full of BL, yay~

more updates later ❤

emi