Mini-update

Well, I've been really busy lately so I haven't been able to update this blog and work on my VN as much. But my goal this month is to finish Act 0 of Lotus and get a good chunk of Act 1 done. Currently I have 36k written (6k words written today, actually), but it's a far stretch from fast progress. Still I'd like to update this blog and the LSF thread (which hasn't been touched in months) at the end of this month with some big updates! I'm hopefully aiming for 75k as a word count goal  (funny considering I wanted the original to be around 70k lol...with radical plot changes comes radical shift of amount of work) and some makeshift screenshots or promo art.
Stay tuned!

Examples of recent sprites (top: Griffin. bottom: Jane). So just try to imagine the characters in Lotus like this. I've been experimenting quite a bit with Flash, and I now know that I'm not really fit to be a programmer. *V*;; 

Meanwhile, more script planning! Yay! Finally getting stuff done.

Just kidding! Those weren't the final sprites, unfortunately. Upon looking at the sprites, I didn't really feel that it was suited for the VN, and they didn't look exactly right to me (anatomy problems ugh). I'm also still tweaking with Chase's/Raina's/Elise's designs; I had some trouble coming up some ideas for their outfits and I'm not completely satisfied with what I have at the moment. I feel that I'm generally discontent with the names I've chosen for everything...which leads me to think that there might be a major overhaul in some compartments. On another note, surprising that there are a lot of votes for Tobias in the poll. xD 
Though, lately, I've been feeling extremely demotivated overall to produce this project, which is why work on the art and writing have been slowed. Whatever it is, I'll try to figure it out and soldier on (though I'm not sure if this is comparable to being a soldier). I really want to finish this project, in the end. Hopefully I'll be able to do it!

The final sprites! :D I thought I had needed to wait for a while in order to make the game with more updated art (way back when I thought out the plot), and it was a good thing that I decided to do that. 

Also, I'm redoing the whole story! There were too many troubles with the last one, overused cliches and plot holes included, so I decided to do it all over again. It's still the same story, though, with supernatural hunters and the like. It's just going to be more different, more confusing, and, hopefully, more fun. 

Recently I've also been experimenting with piano music...fun, fun.

I just noticed the previous post was posted on April 1st.
:P
It's not a joke, though. I'm trying to get the script done as efficiently as possible (so I won't procrastinate).
Anyway, some more art! Woohoo! I drew the main menu screen two months ago but I don't really like it, so I probably will redo it. This is just a sneak peek at what it is so far.
On another note, I'll finally start the sprites. I've drawn enough sprites to know how it goes and how to make it come out the way I'd like to for the tone of the story.
I've also sketched a few CGs, but they were really early ideas when I didn't have a fair grasp of the script.

Finally!

I've finally reached 20k on the script! (gosh, when I look at it, it's not a lot, but it's still something) Hopefully I can get to 60k at the end of this month, or at least finish the first act of the script. The art, in the meanwhile, just might change. I've been exposed to a lot of styles and want to try something different, though it's not entirely dramatic.
And, a lot of NaNo games are out! Check them out; they're all a lot of fun to play through and you'll definitely love it. I'll be spending the next few days playing these games.

March Marathon

Haha, no art for today. ; 7; Sorry guys. Everything I have is either weird, random doodles or off-limits stuff.
Anyway, I've made a lot of progress on Lotus! I've typed a lot of it into the Renpy engine (previously I had to write it down on paper and it's been killing my hand) but now it's all good since I can use the keyboard. Though my fingertips are feeling kind of weird....
And I've started on the CGs/sprites for the game. I wanted to wait a bit to experiment with a few styles before starting on any art (aside from the menu art...that's kind of done lol).
But, yeah. I hope this all goes well!
(and I might start trying to compose my own songs. as sad as my first attempts might seem, I hope my nonexistent piano skills will pull me through. 8D