I’m making today a planning day. I’m going to do a short horror visual novel about a young woman’s mysterious new roommate. I’m getting down in a notebook all the art I’ll need to do and the sequencing of the story so I have a baseline for my script. I’m so excited to be a part of this jam and to make something great!
2/04/19 - I’m working on making sprites today. I’m sketching them out on paper, and I’m going to scan and trace them digitally once they’re all done!
I’m using Danganronpa sprites to help with anatomy. I’ve gotten into that game recently and some of them make really good reference art! It’s mostly to help me get a hold on any foreshortening and use of hands, still practicing with the latter, but getting a lot better!
2/05/19 - Spent all day drawing up backgrounds! Really happy with most of them! The game officially has a name, ‘Daydream’, and I’ve got the file up on Ren’Py.
The plot’s kind of inspired by R. Michalski’s ‘The Cat Lady’ and MasochistFox’s ‘Purple’. I like the idea of mental illnesses taking on more literal forms to haunt people.
Tomorrow I’m gonna draw up CGs and start script writing!
I spent all day getting the dialogue coded in. It's been wonderful seeing all the art and writing begin to come together! I should've made my sprites a bit bigger, but live and learn! It's good to know for future projects :3
Awhile ago, I liked a post on tumblr compiling a bunch of free sound and music sources under creative licensing and/or public domain, so that's coming in handy! I'm going to try adding all the sound tomorrow but I also have some personal things getting done (including a program meeting for early highschool grads like me!), so worst comes to worst, I'll have to do it thursday. It's pretty much my last thing to do!
