First: Game Design Document WIP. I have more material but it’s offline. You can get to it as well from the main Ninefox VN page, along with:
- Appendix A: Resources.
- Appendix B: Inspirations (games).
- Appendix C: Inspirations (non-games).
- Appendix D: YHL’s taste in games.
The appendices are for my reference so I can keep track, but you’re welcome to peer at them. 🙂 The lopsidedness of “lots of random research” vs. “sparseness of actual design document” is typical of my process early-stage (in writing novels too).
Also, we may have decided on “lineart with tinted bits” as our art style for LAZINESS reasons. 🙂 I have to redo Cheris but I ran out of time.
My accomplishments today:
- WWISE: installation, integration into the project. I still have to go through tutorials for orientation, which will be fun! I’ve messed with Fmod a long time ago but WWISE is new to me! I’ve registered my project and have been approved for an indie license! Next up: WWISE Lesson 1: Applying an Action and Naninovel: Overriding Built-in Services, for which I’ll have to dig into some C#. It turns out Naninovel has its own audio services but for learning purposes I’d like to use WWISE. I may later have to expose some of Naninovel’s code (e.g. menus) but let’s deal with one thing at a time. (I may be using a Wilhelm Scream as a placeholder audio file…)
- Unity: added Scene Assistant for Naninovel, need to initialize.
- Graphics: worked on placeholder background, completed a Better Sprite for Jedao (see above). Cheris is mostly there since she has Resting “What the f*** did you do now, Jedao?!” face.
I will say that having noodled at these character designs for over a decade is now saving me time, although they’ve…evolved from the initial sketches from 2012, when I started writing Ninefox and Suicide Hawk. Sam Kabo Ashwell told me very nicely that it sounded like they were superheroes who sucked at picking superhero names! 😀 I also swear I have been working on figure drawing…
Old, from 2012:
I still have that sketchbook! It teaches humility, or something.
Listen, why a VN? I need stress relief.
Yours in calendrical heresy,
YHL