The Flower Shop

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the flower shopThe nice art you see in this page is from another project I started, called “The Flower Shop”. It features cute manga art from Deji and writing from Sake-bento. It tells the story of a lazy young man, Steve, that gets “exiled” into a farm with his old uncle Sam, because of his poor grades at school.

His father, typical man-in-career, can’t stand having such a lazy son, so decides to see if such an experience can change his life or at least his mindset.

The game should also feature some simulation parts, beside a weekly planner similar to the one found in Summer Session. There will also be several different endings. Definitely something more than a simple visual novel 🙂

Over 80mb of voiceovers

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I rarely makes games with “impressive figures” or “features” to show off, but this time, I did it. Bionic Heart will surely have more than 80mb of voiceovers! That is quite a lot of voices, since in practice the whole game is voiced, even when the main character Luke is thinking. I think that this added a lot of atmosphere to the game and hopefully people will be happier to buy it, after seeing all the work there was behind it.

I’m looking forward on a release coming around the end of this month, depending how long takes to voice the remaining texts 🙂 The work is about 70% done, so I really hope to be able to release the game at end of June at least.

About other projects, at the moment I’m working on Heileen 2, and two more “top-secret” games. One that will mix a popular card game (poker) with a visual novel, and another that will be space-themed.

I hear voices!

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Yes, the voiceovers actors are doing a great job. And I can officially announce that I’m going to release Bionic Heart fully voiced, unless some really unfortunate events occurs (which at this point I really hope doesn’t!).

In the short clip above you see part of the introduction and the first choice you have to make in the game. You can notice a system similar to those used in Summer Session, each character has a relationship value towards you that can change during the game based on your actions. Don’t be surprised if later in the game there will be unpleasant consequences to your early choices… characters remembers how you have treated them in the past! 🙂

The last ending

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I just finished the last ending today. I’m talking about Bionic Heart game of course. I wrote all 24 different endings. I called internally this one the “happyending” one. It will be the hardest to get, since beside doing the right choices, you’ll also have certain relationship values with both Helen and Tanya to unlock it.

A quick preview without any real spoilers:

“Luke quit his job at Nanotech, and went help Helen to run the shop. Meanwhile, Tanya would take care of Othello and the new bigger flat they bought together. Now Tanya has a real goal: make Helen and Luke’s life as longer and happier as possible.”

Of course, now I’m sending all the texts to be proofreaded/edited to improve the quality, but the meaning will be that one 🙂

Meanwhile I started to contact the voiceover artists. I probably won’t release the game with all the voices, even if will have to test it carefully, so who knows… maybe the actor are faster than I thought, and will be able to release the game “fully voiced!”.

Stay tuned for more info an an official release date for Bionic Heart. The adventure game all science fiction fans shouldn’t miss!

How to waste an afternoon!

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…sigh 😀 Today I wasted the whole afternoon to restyle the blog layout and the forums one. The blog was very quick but the forum took lot of time! I changed from the previous one because I realized was really too much different in style vs my own winterwolves and tycoongames websites. Beside that it’s true that white/bright text over black/dark backgrounds are harder to read and make pain to the eyes ! 🙂

Luckily this morning managed to go forward on Bionic Heart development. There is really only a few endings missing right now. I have almost all text written for those new endings, I’ll need to send them to sake-bento who is proofreading/editing them and then will start selecting the voiceovers for the game. I’m not yet sure if the game will ship with all the voices, I doubt it since takes some time for the actors/actresses to dub all that text (the game has almost 50k words by now).