Wanting to take a good break from Ren’py, and RPG Maker MV was teasing me, I’m back with the engine I started with on Steam!
I’m currently working on a big project.
A retelling/soft reboot/mega crossover(?) of everything I’ve released on Steam, as a Visual Novel with simple RPG Battles.
(Or almost everything, it’ll depend on the resources found + what my imagination can provide.)
Yes, a game like “Les Quatre Alices” or “A.L.A.N.” but better.
Time to work!
I had gained experience since then and this game, which got the title of “Alice and friends” (it might change) will be better.
More good battles, more characters, better presentation, a backlog to read previous dialogs and more.
Not a rehash/reskin/dare-I-say-assetflip (it that even possible to do?) of “Les Quatre Alices”, "Shirina" or "Dark Fairies".
Now RPG Maker can export to Linux too so Windows, Mac and Linux are in the plans.
No other language than English, unless I try to use that translation plugin I had found… (wait and see).
Before anybody asks, no, nothing will be removed from Steam.
All my Ren’py works are here to stay and the “old versions” of my previous RPG Maker / Twine games (A.L.A.N., Shirina, Entre-Deux, etc) can be obtained with their Ren’py counterparts.
For exemple : With "Les 4 Alice: Lorange Journey", you get "Les Quatre Alices" & "4 Alice: Lorange Journey".
Alice D, old VS new
However, I’m not sure for the achievements support. As much as I love them, putting them in RPG Maker MV is quite a daunting task.
The wrapper to use + right plugin had caused me trouble in the past for my other games + incompatibly problems on certain PC.
I’m sure those issues still exist.
I remember having trouble getting another game made with rpg maker mv on Steam to launch not too long ago and the problem was from there.
Also I’m not sure this method works on Mac and Linux.
Now Alice Brown really look like a kid!
Anyway, right now, I have the basic plot points written for Act 1 (my plan is for the whole story to be in several Acts).
Act 1 cover “Les Quatre Alices (rpg maker mv) / 4 Alice Lorange Journey (twine remake) / Les Quatre Alice: Lorange Journey (Ren’py re-remake XD)”.
I’ll keep you all informed as I made progress.
Title Screen
Also 9 days before ChatAid arrives. ːsteamhappyː
Upcoming story: ChatAid
I’m proud to announce that “ChatAid” is coming soon on Steam.
Description:
When you found a wacky program on your PC called “ChatAid”, you ended up in a chatroom. Someone needs your help.
Features * A short story written in Ren’py, in Two Parts, with 4 endings in total.
* You can choose your name, nickname and gender.
* Steam achievements.
Unlike my previous works, which were always bilingual (French and English), ChatAid and any future stories will be English Only. Why? For simplicity’s sake.
French is my mother tongue, yes, but it’s also a very complex language compared to English, and it’s so much harder to write stories with character customization in French.
For example, I had trouble getting “neutral” words in French for Ivanoile and Nuri, since they are nonbinary. In English, it was so easy to do. “Hir”, “they”, “them”. Done.
I also got the bad habit for making a lot of typos in French, unlike in English, and getting proofreaders is difficult. (Also I’m not a very patient person and waiting for the typos fix while x story would be ready for release is really annoying!)
And, well, Steam sells all over the world and the English text is the most read. So English Only for now on.
40% discount / 40% de rabais
Until the 22th / l'offre prend fin le 22 juillet.
Also the dlc got a 15% discount / aussi le DLC à un petit rabais
Changelog:
*Dual Language Screen and bilingual UI.
*New text box and choice buttons.
*Click-to-continue image added.
*Credits updated with links.
*Font Architect Daughter (for the characters' names) removed, since Amble is easier to read.
*Help screen removed.
*Brackets [[ ]] removed on the Codex words.
*One typo fixed in French.
*Tiny revisions for the English translation.
*The characters get their accent (aka "é") back in English.
Saliéka's Cycles are waiting for you...
Major updates in the works.
After completing the “Reverse Me” trilogy, I made the decision to update all my other games so that they match Reverse Me, presentation wise.
It’ll take a good while to do, but you’ll see:
* Dual Language Screen and User Interface
* ADV style reading instead of NVL
* Revised English translation for some games
* And more!
“A.L.A.N.: Rift Breakers”, version 4.0., is almost completed with those changes. Here’s some previews.
The “Reverse Me!” series will be a collection of shorts and linear stories, all based on fairy tales or legends. They’ll have something in common. “Rez/Ru” is the first story, the other will be released as DLCs.
I don’t have any ETA for the other stories - since I still have to write them in French, translated then into English, and put everything into Ren’py - but I do intend to complete at least 1 or 2 before the release in August.
Since there are a lot of fairy tales I can get inspiration from, I also don’t have a clear number of stories in mind. Will the “Reverse Me!” series be at trilogy or more? Only time will tell.
All stories will have Steam Achievements.
Sales of the week : Hack the Core, Latangerine Last Journey
