{"id":651,"date":"2010-04-23T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:17:42","slug":"games-as-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/games-as-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Games as comic books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be my goal with the Vera Blanc game series. Even if, as I&#8217;m not totally clueless, I &#8220;only&#8221; planned 2 episodes\/games for now. But of course if the game gets some decent sales\/becomes popular enough, I would plan\/add more episodes. Just like in the comic books, is very common to have different artists working on each episode. That&#8217;s what will happen with Vera as well, even if I really like the new artist, so in case of a possible 3rd episode I probably would stick with him \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n(n.b. the 2nd artist is the one on the left in the gallery)<br \/>\nTake a look at the gallery below. For each image there are two versions, one from each artist. It&#8217;s the &#8220;introduction&#8221; to the character of Vera and his background, so had to be the same scene. It&#8217;s interesting to notice how each artists drew the same scene, using the same description:<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-651 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/brandonmackey.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/brandonmackey-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/brandonmackey2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/brandonmackey2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/verasurprised.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/verasurprised-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/verasurprised2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/verasurprised2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true though that using that kind of comic-style art, the lines are more thick, this is due on the method by which they were digitized\/draw (they&#8217;re not digital art, but traditional pencil\/ink art!). The only solution would be to make them at bigger size but as you can imagine then the costs would increase exponentially&#8230; if you compare that kind of art vs my first games (artist was the super-skilled Rebecca Gunter) you can notice the difference in the lineart and in the colors.<br \/>\nHowever, I&#8217;m planning to do more of those comic style games because I like the way in which I can tell my story with them: more scenes means more power to the images, and less to the words. While my VNs are comparable to books or illustrated books, Vera Blanc is really comparable to a comic book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be my goal with the Vera Blanc game series. Even if, as I&#8217;m not totally clueless, I &#8220;only&#8221; planned 2 episodes\/games for now. But of course if the game gets some decent sales\/becomes popular enough, I would plan\/add more episodes. Just like in the comic books, is very common to have different artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,117,113,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-screenshot","category-mystery-detective-games","category-vera-blanc","category-winter-wolves-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}