{"id":1078,"date":"2012-10-26T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-02-23T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T10:15:03","slug":"heileen-3-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/heileen-3-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Heileen 3 status update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think is time for an overdue update on Heileen 3 status. First I said would be ready last Summer, then this Fall… well, tecnically could still be out this Fall, since Winter begins the 21st December 2012, and I really hope to have finished the game by then! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

You might wonder why such delay… well first of all, even if is not a RPG, Heileen 3 is probably one of the most important titles of my visual novel\/dating sim category. So I am trying to make it more polished than previous titles. Check the two screenshots below:<\/p>\n

\"Nightbridge\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Heileen on the ship bridge by night, nice atmosphere<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Marie\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Heileen and Marie in a farm \/ flower plantation<\/em><\/p>\n

And you can see here http:\/\/www.annjewelry.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n

As you can notice I hired a pro artist to do the backgrounds this time, since they always were a weak point of my past games. While not super detailed I think they look quite good with the characters in the foreground.<\/p>\n

The downside is that since I found the artist only last month, and such backgrounds require some time, only the backgrounds will probably take 1 month of work. However it’s not artist’s fault, but mine because I waited too long before starting commissioning the backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Yesterday also decided to have a full OST for Heileen 3, not with many tracks, but beside the main theme song, even the other 4-5 tracks in the game will be custom. I plan to offer the OST as download during the pre-order phase.<\/p>\n

Finally, in case you missed it, the game is not going to be a pure visual novel, but more a life sim. You’ll be able to learn several skills and like in my other game Spirited Heart, you’ll be able to get either a romance ending with one of the 4 boys (and later the yuri version will be released which adds 4 girls) or you can get a “profession ending”. Indeed, if you raise your skill high enough in a particular field, you’ll become a master in that profession and the game will end.<\/p>\n

Just to complicate the things, each profession ending is tied to the virtue\/sin system. For example, to become a nun, not only you need to have a high Faith skill, but obviously you also need to have a high Chastity virtue. We could argue that a good nun shouldn’t have any “high sin level”, but well for sure the Chastity is the most important! (and for gameplay reason I need only 1 virtue\/sin associated to each job)<\/p>\n

So as you can see even coding this part is not going to be quick to do. While is not a complex RPG like Loren, it still requires some extra coding\/testing before I can start the pre-order stage, which should only reveal some well hidden bugs.<\/p>\n

I’d dare to say that my estimate release date for Heileen3 is the first week of December, approximately 3 years after the second chapter! crossing fingers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think is time for an overdue update on Heileen 3 status. First I said would be ready last Summer, then this Fall… well, tecnically could still be out this Fall, since Winter begins the 21st December 2012, and I really hope to have finished the game by then! \ud83d\ude42 You might wonder why such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-screenshot","category-heileen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}