Time for a big update on the progress of the various games in the works! Let’s start:
C14 Dating
Deandre asking a tough question to Melissa… 😉 the new GUI interface is still not implemented in the build
Writing for this game is finished since last year, but now even the scripting (which means adding all the various characters on screen, their facial expressions, the musics, etc) is at a very good point. What is really missing now are the romance CGs, which the awesome Deji plans to make next month. Fingers crossed, but MAYBE in July we will be able to start digging-ahem I meant playing this game! 😉
Queen Of Thieves
I’ve made more progress in coding/designing it. I’m not going to talk about it in detail anymore here, since during development things change so quickly that would probably be a waste of time (for example several of the features in previous blog post have been changed once I’ve tried them “on the field”!).
If you’re interested, check the forums: http://www.winterwolves.net/viewforum.php?f=32
Regarding the writing, I’m happy to report that the first draft of all the yuri routes is finished! the plan now is to finish the missing otome part and review what is already written, to match the yuri part which is generally longer (so even the otome will be around same length).
The new casual outfits for the three sisters 🙂
Regarding art, I should be getting some NPC soon, together with some fixes for the yuri romance characters. There are still the romance CG to do, and several other minor stuff (icons, tilesets, etc) but in general it’s at good point too.
PSCD & Undead Lily
Those two games should have a good amount of gameplay in common (both card-rpg based). As you know, PSCD writing is done, art is almost finished too even if I still need to design all the cards. For Undead Lily, the artist finished all the cards and is remaking the images in the new style. For example, here’s Aquaria and Magma:
Please note: the images above are only sketches, so not final images, which will be much more detailed. But you can already see the big quality improvement 🙂
Each character will have a covered/uncovered outfit, and to make my customers happy, you’ll be able to set for every character in the game the outfit to be used ! 😉 It will be an option page full of buttons, considering there are 14 characters in the game!
As you can see, a lot of progress have been made in May. I daresay… may it continue next month! 😀
May I ask (ha!) who’s the background artist for C14?
I’d be tempted to lengthen Aquaria’s covered skirt – not because it needs to be more modest, but because it looks like an obvious opportunity to make a mermaid-like dress. 😛
Ah, it seems I can’t post an image with html: http://i.imgur.com/Oby4xtL.png
(Hoping that works, it’s a quick mock-up of what I mean.)
Background artist is Sandra Mistal (don’t know if she has any deviantart page). She did Roommates/Nicole backgrounds too.
The longer skirt for the covered version looks nice, I’ll tell artist to do it 🙂
Ta! Will Google-fu!
I LOVE that Undead Lily art
Woohoo, progress!
I clicked on the forum link and read a couple of the threads, and I have a comment on one of them. Since I don’t have a forum account (and really dislike signing up for internet forums just to make one or two posts), I hope you don’t mind if I post my comment here:
Regarding the issue with weapons overlapping costumes, in both cases the glitch involves the same costume, which is a coat. I’m not a programmer, but it doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to fix — no need to check every single one of the 175+ possible costume combinations for errors; just flag those items which are a coat or robe, and make alternate versions of the weapon images (might only need to do it for the bow and crossbow) that don’t overlap the “skirt” of those outfits. Does that make sense?
The picture with the pants covering the tops of the boots doesn’t look that bad to me. I’ve seen people who actually do it like that; not everyone who wears boots tucks their pant legs inside them.
Took another look at the close-up image of the legs and realized that it’s not just the pants covering the boots that you’re concerned about, but bits of the boots sticking out around the edges of the pants. So yeah, I agree that’s a problem.
Yes and that’s just one combo 🙂 of course I’ll try to fix as many as possible but that’s the problem with customization using 2d art (with 3d is much easier).
All my congratulations and respects to your Background artist Miss Mistal . She make wonderfull things ! I really love the designs of aquaria and magma as much the ”censured” version. I would love magma has my girlfriends but she seem very rock n’roll. So i wouldn’t be surprising if i finish with Aquaria. She seem more serene. X) Again, wonderfull works of Miss Mistal.
Hello ! C14Dating is the game of yours I’m the most looking forward to at the moment, has there been any news since this update ?
Thanks, and keep on the good work 🙂
Game is really at good point! For updates check this forum thread: http://www.winterwolves.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&p=34631#p34631
Thank you, will keep an eye on that topic. Looking forward to the trailer !