The day the power outage is when the comic program starts
Hello everyone, I am your transparent gamer designer Ocarina. Some time ago during the development of "Bloody Flowers" encountered a few funny things, making me feel the impermanence of life, just like the flowering tree in the game, there must be a cycle of start, good, bad, and empty ............ (Sister smashed over a keyboard: Speak human language!) In fact, it is we had a power outage, and then we were blessed by the disaster.
Not our Bone Nail Studio cat chewed up the electric wires, simply a power outage, then tripped and burned the computers or something. Simply, since the beginning of July, the studio began to constantly blackout, blackout, blackout ............ Then we developed the "save computer documents at any time small assistant" - the manual. The specific way as follows:
In between power outages, three persons and a cat were hot as hell, so we often slipped to the convenience store to enjoy the air conditioning, and even brought a laptop to write documents there. After a while. Convenience store owner: (look at you guys very poor look) Cat to my store and raise it? All: No! Because our cat is actually the treasure of the studio ah! As evidenced by the picture.
[Main Character]
............ apologize for not letting the main character turn into a cat in this game. Next time for sure! Just during our convenience store to enjoy air conditioning, we met a member of the comic studio who also came to enjoy air conditioning, and after a chat, it turned out that the entire campus was experiencing frequent power outages. What's more! They are nearby! We've hit on them online before! With the lure of our cat, we have a comic book cooperator! Cheerful news ！！！
Be like：
Sorry for putting the wrong picture.
Be like：
All of us are very happy. The decision to use comics for the plot was not made on a whim, but we had planned this before. We just didn't find a good creator to work with. In the city where we work, there are a lot of studios that do girlie comics, but we wanted something a little less girlie, especially in terms of subplots and plot expressions, and we wanted to find a strong partner...... These are famous guys we've been asking for before, and we're really glad they (for Cat's sake) are willing to join the production process of our game. That's probably how luck will turn out for us when we work hard!
There is a fruit that will keep you in the underworld forever after eating it
Hello everyone, I am Ocarina from Bone Nail Studio, today in the finishing character dynamic when I saw the completion state of Student Xiaolin, I thought it was quite lamentable ......
Danruo Lin, in the game her nickname, is "Student Xiaolin". This character is one of our most discussed internally, from appearance to character to her ending, and...... her way of realization.
records "Pomegranate, also named Danruo. ...... Pomegranate sweet is called the heavenly pulp, can cure the poison of Stalactite." This word has a very thorough feeling of beauty. Pomegranate is a kind of magical fruit, and delicious, and beautiful, but also particularly expensive. In Greek mythology, after Hades, the king of the underworld took the maiden Persephone to the underworld, Persephone ate the pomegranate and was no longer a fully earthly creature from then on. She possessed the attributes of Hades and henceforth needed to live on the ground and in Hades separately.
This is also a mythical explanation of the change of seasons in Greek mythology. From this perspective, the pomegranate is as if it were a delicious fruit with a strange dark atmosphere. The young girl consumed the fruit but became a resident of the underworld. How sweetly does the fruit need to be for the maiden to accept such an end?
We originally wanted to write a major character who was pushed by impermanent fate to become a deviation from her expectations, but she thought that the final form was her quest. However, when we designed the game, we did not give Student Xiaolin a lot of freedom of movement, she was more like an NPC. After many discussions(arguments), we defined Student Xiaolin as a girl who: She aspires to a good life, but cannot define good.
She desires an adventurous career but is timid and pliable. She wants to cling to someone lively and strong and wishes she could decide her fate. She is such a sweet, soft, ordinary girl (the artist disagrees with this), crushed by the vagaries of fate. What first drove her on that fateful journey was a very small idea that cannot even be described as a "dream": I want to see the world, I want adventure. [Here are the spoilers] Then she turned into a monster. [End of spoilers]
We are a puzzle-based game and do not include a monster fighting part, so this "monster" is more of a personality alienation. Therefore, when discussing with the artist, we also wanted her to be a harmless-looking girl, but with a sense of vulnerability under the surface ...... (Thanks to the artist "sister" for not killing me) (Yes, the artist is called "sister") (Do not assume the gender of "sister"!)
Then the artist was happy to give a few options.
、 [Chose a hairstyle for Xiaolin， and I will draw a Q type.] So, Student Xiaolin almost became pink hair !!!
Then everyone's focus gradually shifted ..................
[I don't understand so I ask if the shape of boobs is reasonable?] [I don't understand either, I will find more big boobs.]
The focus ............is very strange ah ............ Anyway, finally formed this look that everyone sees now.
To match the character, the hairpin on the head was also changed to the shape of a rabbit.
Because of this hairpin, it needs to take some responsibility that should not be borne by the weak......
The final product is this: (engineering debugging, does not represent the final effect within the game)
Finally, let's take a look at what the initial birth of Danruo Lin AKA Student Xiaolin looked like:
Still can feel my heart when I first saw her. And then ultimately be apart. In a sense, Student Xiaolin made her wish come true. Goodbye, Student Xiaolin.
Game Production Gossip 01： Dig a hole for joy, fill a hole for pain
Hello everyone, I'm Ocarina, the producer of the Monster Dreamland series, ah sorry! Monster Dreamland the series has not been officially exposed to the public, our current external game is "Bloody Flowers", the first part of the overall monster AVG series we want to do Monster Dreamland constructed.
Yes, this is a ...... giant pit that the three of us have been trying to dig.
After being taught a lesson by our predecessors, our basic philosophy was that "no matter how grand a picture we want to paint, we have to get down to business and come up with a playable game", which was a blow and a shout for the team. The project and production process of these scattered in our various versions of the progress and chat records, now organized out of quite interesting, I will write a comprehensive production of these angles of handwriting, probably these aspects.
Character: the character and interaction of the main and supporting characters Scenes: "A Tree" throughout the three eras Story: a simple main line with three eras of transition and another line constructed with reading items Puzzle: measurement of difficulty and length Engineering: how to build a version with the brothers around and far away during a special time Steam: the first time to build an account and access steam's SDK ...... ...... Basically, every pit stepped on, is based on our naïve thought, really digging a pit a moment of pleasure, fill the pit ......
The process of filling the pit is quite happy.
First of all, back to the game. One of the team members has been writing various novels about the Meteorite Association since 2018, but as an extremely socially afraid person, he is not willing to come forward to talk about the story and the Association, so I'll say it for him.
This is a series of stories "meteorite will bring strange energy, open the thin wall between reality and non-reality, but the meteorite as the seed of xxxxxxx can hatch what kind of monster, depends entirely on the human who embraces the meteorite". To feed the seeds of xxxxxxx with humanity, and the sight from the universe far away is watching everything. Although located in the highest gaze, able to cross time and space, the human will in this gaze seems to have no equivalent ability, and even can not be taken into account in the same numerical system, but, only the human will and choice, can fight with it, and change the fate originally written into time. The overall series is probably such a conception. But the novel will become another thing in the game, the game needs not only to watch, read, but to experience, to turn the rhythm of the text into the rhythm of walking, adventure, and puzzle solving in the game, which is something we have been grinding for a long time, until now still tirelessly explore. And in addition to solving puzzles, how to add more pieces about affection, gain and loss, and not so melodramatic, is also recently in the game script constantly polished point.
A small disclosure about the script: if you pay attention to the collection and reading part of the game, you will read a completely different story from the main line from the reading items.
Back to the team, we first met in the process of playing Hollow Knight, and also decided to make some games together because of our common love. At the beginning of making the game, we got some industry funding support. However, if you pay attention to the game industry, you should know that at the end of last year, a round of unlicensed winter began, and the funding was completely broken. However, there are not many of us on the team, and at the moment, Bone Nails Studio and my Cat can fully support us, so that we can adequately polish the project of this monster series and continue to add interesting parts. At present, the first AVG puzzle game of this series "Bloody Flowers” has landed on the steam store, welcome to add your wish list to support.
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