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A short, Gameboy adaptation based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Mantle of Lady Eleanor".
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Storm the castle with only four units in this turn-based SRPG Visual Novel
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Unfinished text adventure of an unnatural phenomenon that happened in Dubai in 1984
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https://asatiir.itch.io/cyberhold-prototype
This is a prototype I've made of a project a few friends and I tried making a while back, originally we wanted to make it on Unity but we were very inexperienced and I found it was pretty doable on RPG Maker using a combination of the MV3D plugin with a few others (listed in the game's credits). I still had some trouble with balancing enemies and some parts need more refinement, but I thought I'd worry about that when I rework it into a full game.
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itch.io Community » Game Development » Devlogs · Posted in Roses Will Rise | Strategy RPG Visual Novel
I made a poll yesterday, asking people if they would like to see how I draw things on hexels for Roses. Surprisingly, I got 5 out of 7 votes saying "yes". I'm using the part of the cutscene that I'm currently working on, it shows my method in its entirety. I don't see any reason in keeping this method from others, if someone finds use in this, they might possible find a quicker more effective way on how it works so that others may benefit from it.
(turned transparent to show placeholder sketch to show what I'm doing.)
It's no secret that I'm using layers in order to animate it (animation to be made later), but working layers makes it easy to focus on parts of the character's body from both the shape of the body and also help with shading. It is especially important with the I'm going for that is very heavy in shadows and contrasting bright colors.
Let's take a look at it with the grid on, I am using the smallest trixels option in hexels since they are very flexible and help making the angular drawing be what it is.
There are 4 elements I'm using here:
- Lit Hexels (color)
- Shaded Hexels (black)
- Inner Outline (color)
- Outer Outline (black)
You might be thinking those are just two but it's important separate them for my explanation. Please use the bottom picture as reference for the 4 elements I'm using.
I usually start drawing the character's basic shape with the colors and then start using the shaded hexels. In this piece I started with black to draw the basic shape, then added the lit hexels onto side I want lit. Lit hexels are what you see the key lighting shines on, it's the main light in the picture.
Shaded hexels (black):
This is the most important element of this entire method, but also the most obscured since the backgrounds black also. The shaded hexels here are dependent on all the elements listed here to be what they are. A fill light would usually be used here to eliminate the shadow this are lights on, but is, and in this case also, not used for mood, leaving key light main source of light.
Inner Outline (color):
If you use hexels, you would know that the outline tool doesn't draw on the line of the shape, but on the inside and the outside of that line. This is a much more flexible solution than the former description as it gives you more options as you would come to realize in this post.
The inner outline acts more like a key light, to show an outline instead of losing the shape entirely to the shadows that the black background consist of. Showing where the shape of subject ends in the dark. it's on the inner side of the shape just so it ends seamlessly with the the lit hexels.
In some cases is doesn't necessarily need to be the same color as the lit hexels, but that depends of the lighting in the scene. I will illustrate that better once I draw a scene that shows that in a later post.
Outer Outline (black):
Like the shaded hexels, this particular outline goes invisible in the black background, but works as an outline in lit areas. The reason this outline exists is so the inner outline's color and the lit hexels don't lose shape or clash with other colors as there isn't much shading in this method beyond the pitch black shadows.
Let's take Firalda's hairband's knot as an example. The Outer outline is drawn around the parts of the knot that are on the foreground, and over the parts in the back, overlapping the bits in the back to show depth. Notice that the inner outline melds with the lit hexels and is tucked beneath the outer outline that overlaps it.
I drew an extra shape (right) to further explain my method.
As you see here, the outer outline is invisible once we turn on the black background, but the inner outline helps preserves the shape of the subject.
To further explain this method, I moved that shape on top of the knot. You can see that the outlines have perserved the shapes in their own respects both in dark and in color.
I probably didn't explain this method very well, but that's the reason why I posted this in Roses' community forum, this post is open to for discussion if anyone would like to contribute or ask quesions.
Not much of an update with this version, added a few placeholders, some size fixes and the rest is more to help with the rest of the game past chapter 1.
Changes:
- added new placeholder for the intro.
Game available here
Also available on the Google Play Store (older version)
also I got this sweet fanart from pileobeans off twitter, S'Ouila braiding Firalda!
