I have managed to make playable sections of Harmful Heaven at this point. It's a visual novel, so it's no great achievement, but the fact that I've made it this far means that the project is in a development that's going well.
Two people are very important in this project, Utsukushi Hana and Eurobeatlover, I love them very much. They are very aware of the work and progress I make, I'm still in charge of the design, art and writing but I show everything to them, having points of view of people who know about those things (One is good at drawing and the other at writing) is important, the final Harmful Heaven would be a lower quality thing if it wasn't for them. (Nothing assures me that the actual Harmful Heaven could be bad too, I better be quiet and keep working on it).
Talking about Harmful Heaven as a complete game, there are things that have changed from when I started developing this in January of this year, here a small list of things that were going but not anymore.
- The two protagonists were going to be devoid of feelings. They were not going to be hired killers, but because of the story taking place in the apocalypse, they were going to kill anything they came across, without hesitation. It's much different now, but will the current Sera and Desi be forced to kill in the current storyline?
- Much less gentleness, and kindness. I don't know how to say it, now and before in the story there were going to be deaths, tragedies and despair, but before it was in a dry, half sarcastic way. When the story was much simpler and shorter it looked good I think, but not now. I like the current tone much better.
- In the first post I said there were going to be 5 endings.... With all the changes made to the story, none of the 4/5 endings can no longer be integrated into the current version. Writing one more time I could come up with replacements for the new storyline, but it's a shame. Maybe I could put those discarded endings as bonus scenes.
I was thinking about creating a reddit account to upload clips of the game in some rpg maker subreddit, because I've seen how games get to win people that way, but I don't know, maybe it's not that big of a deal and what I post in itch.io is enough.
For the next posts I will be more open about characters and story segments. I've analyzed it and it won't be that big of a deal to introduce the important characters. And maybe by telling elements of the story I can make it more interesting. Things are going well, very good.
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