Synopsis
A boy has recently found a great MMORPG
in the depths of the internet. Excited, he stays up behind his
computer late at night, while a thunderstorm is roaring outside.
However, just as he completed his character creation - thunder
strikes!
All electricity and thus also his
computer shut down at once, leaving him in the dark. Though sad, he
has no choice but to wait for now. However, in the game, his
character has already begun playing without him...
Specifications
- three routes with one ending
each
- unlockable extra and choices
- 1920x1080 resolution
- ~20.000 words
- very tiny, but cute,
animations
Age Rating: 3+
Beware! Brush your teeth before and
after playing!
Warning
Because of the very tight
deadline we haven't tested thoroughly on all systems, so please
let us know if you find a bug.
System requirements
You will need Java version 6 or higher, which can be downloaded
here.
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Yes! Yes! Oh hell yeah~ we
made it!
That was the most
horrifying month we have had in a long time. Next time, we're
definitely making something simpler haha. We didn't even have the
time to sleep or update this blog properly.
All right so what did we
do?
Art
We made a lot of art for
the graphical user interface, but the minimap has been simplified to only show the area's
name and a small picture for it, since it just didn't work well with the
2D atmosphere we created.
Nevertheless, this was my
first time doing such a big and strange GUI, so I'm satisfied with
the results, especially since Firefly only needed a simple black
transparent text box. It took a looong time to do though.
Story
Me and K-chan discussed
the story and made an outline and flow charts before the writing even
began. After that it was a matter of me typing at the speed of light
and her and me doing a lot of proofreading afterwards.
Still, the script turned
out to be double the size of what we originally planned – oops ^^;.
I had a lot of fun writing it though, since it was a very novel way
of telling a story for me.
Scripting
From what I heard and
asked of her to do, scripting was hell for K-chan, but that's
probably because I gave her the final pieces of art and sprites so
late ahaha... I have to admit though, she had to do a LOT of new
things for this project too, from flying people to changing
title-screens to little animations and what not.
However, she can't fool me
that it was 100% bad. I bet you she was secretly smiling with glee
when mistakes made the characters rotate through the air while
looking smug. Definitely.
Music
OK, the music was
downright hell :'D! I was struggling with another deadline last night
and only had this day left to do the music. Then, I OVERSLEPT. K-chan
called me awake at 12:00. Why thank you, body! Couldn't you hang on
for a couple more hours? Dammit.
In the end I managed to
make 1 simple track while I stole some from our other work to fill
most of the gaps. We finally added 3 other creative commons tracks
after looking around for a good couple of hours too.
Music on the last day?
Never again man.
And that's about it. We
hope you enjoy it! Now please excuse us while we go sleep, game, eat
and blissfully do nothing at all. Aah bed, I missed you too <3<3<3~
~Anna
