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Hi...

It was my brother's birfday, but I did get some done! No more endings have been completed, BUT~ I have finished Annoyed!Snow White and her second arm position, and the third one is sketched out in detail so that should be finished tomorrow. Expression are easy, they don't take long at all so all that will be left is coloring her and the 8 endings left As of now Wednesday and Thursday sound like a possible goal to have the two sprite sets and the plot finished.

Next week this time I'll be off to go camping for four days and then half a week after I come back it's off to visit a friend (with my laptop though so I'll prolly be working on this still cause I have no life~ and the person that I'm visiting is actually one of my editors that I'm making help me XD~

Well then, hopefully tomorrow I'll be posting with a sad Snow with the finished third arm position. Till then taTA~

I has COLOR!

Holy shamoly. I feel like I've been working FOREVER today. (I have but I feel like I should have more to show for it ):)

Anyway, here is lovely Rose Red all nice and colored like. I still need to decide whether I'm softening the outlines or not (probably should) but other than that (and finding shading that went outside the lines and other touch ups) I'M DONE. She will have 3 arm positions and about 10 expressions (whether they will all be used I dunno, be awesome if so).

I have sketched out Snow White's two arm positions, but that's all I got done for her, I spent about 3-4 hours coloring this damn sprite over here you see (God I hope that this game makes me a million times faster at coloring these, I love this new style of coloring I've come up with but it takes me FOREVER).

Now even more big news... I HAVE FINISHED 12 MORE ENDINGS. Yes not just just 2-5, but 12, 12, 12~! This means I only have 8 more, and these are going so much faster! I'm def being more economic with my explanations, instead of copypasta-ing all over the place which actually uses a lot more time.

I'm sure I'll finish up the Plotline before Wednesday. Then I'll just have to worry about Snow White.

Short Post

So although I spent 3PM-10:45PM dedicated to the 6Flags venture, I was able to a whopping 4 more endings finished! Omg I know. Official progress on story below:

Snow White and Rose Red: Plot 93%

Prologue: 100%

Chapter One: Plot 100%

Chapter Two: Plot 100%

Chapter Three & Four: Plot 100%

Storyline Events: Plot 100%

Ardal Events:

Rose Red Path: Plot 100%

Snow White Path: Plot 100%

Faolan Events:

Rose Red Path: Plot 100%

Snow White Path: Plot 100%

Sister Events:

Rose Red Path: Plot 100%

Snow White Path: Plot 100%

Donovan Events:

Rose Red Path: Plot 100%

Snow White Path: Plot 100%

Chapter Five: Plot 62%

Last Event: Plot 100%

Endings: Plot 12/32 = 37%

Word Count, you ask? 22,000. No CG progress however. I hope to finish a lot tomorrow. Hopefully a lot will equal the 20 endings left...

Art Progress, but I'm losing tomorrow entirely D:

So although I was right to predict that I would have NO TIME yesterday to work on this, I still got a crapload of artstuff done (credit it to me staying up late >3<... although I was watching a fatal frame playthrough for about an hour or so of this).

Number 1: I finished all of Rose Red's lineart. All I have left are tweeks and color! I still have to do the Festival of Colors versions of the sprite (god I'm a masochist) however. Which brings me to...

Number 2: Both Rose's and Snow's festival clothing have been designed! Yay! I'm not much of a clothing designer so this is a pretty big thing XD (it was pretty big when I designed the girls' everyday clothing too...)

Number 3: This may be the BIGGEST accomplishment art wise that I have had it and it has pretty much solidified that I'll be able to draw this game... As you can see above, I have DRAWN SNOW WHITE'S LINEART! I was able to match the style (biggest feat ever, seriously) and other than a few tweaks I'm done with it. I still have to come up with 2 arm positions and do all the facial expressions but seriously I'm so happy right now!

Storyline front... XD I only finished writing 2-3 more endings! It's so tedious and it's just the same stuff slightly tweaked over and over again.

I'm also very distraught over the fact that I have LOST tomorrow as a day to work as my Mom has decided impromptu 6Flags outing that I HAVE to drive her for. *sigh* I'd rather not, but I don't have too much choice in this matter.

So though Saturday was going to be my posting for recruitment date, it looks like I'm going to have to push it back. I want to get at least half of the endings written.. and the two arm positions done so I can color the two linearts (so that I can post fully finished sprites).

Gaaah, wish me luck :)

Last CG Set Update for a while!

Yo! It is your daily update (because I have no life mwahahaa)!

Today I started working on annoyed Rose. Yes her hands are currently green... I never said I finished working on it 8D'''' I spent most of the tie designated for her arguing with her arms because armposition3 just did NOT want to happen. Once I finish it's just expressions (easy easy) and coloring (not so easy, but easier than the lineart) to do. Then Rose Red will be done and it'll be on to Snow White.

I still hope to finish this by the end of Saturday, but work (although I only work 9 hours a week). And real life *is driving service for half her family* is butting into my uh... stare at the computer before finally getting motivated time XD'''

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Anyway on to other things!

Chapter 5 has been written! Yes! The only thing left are the endings! All 32 of them (though really most of it will be copypasta) As of now I have finished 5/32.

My goal for tomorrow is: Hands on 3rd arm position and 5 more endings, if I get those done I'll be getting pretty far. Tomorrow will probably break my update streak XD~~ Anyway BABAI.

Oh, P.S. Word count is at 18,000 for plot. This game is going to take more than one sit down to play I think.... we'll have to see how much the actual script will take up.

An Update everyday you lucky folks

So.. yes. Sad Rose is sad. Chapters 3 and 4 plotwise are now COMPLETELY finished (other than a few adding of choices I forgot to put in the first time I wrote it)

I also finished arm position 2 (as seen here) and sad expression. I'm drawing everything in lineart, before I color it so I can be sure what I'm doing XD.

I've also decided against having forward facing positions as well for this game. I don't have the ability to redraw this in a fast amount of time. Hopefully after drawing all of these CG Sprite Sets I'll get faster :D

But yes... GO GO STARLING POWERS GO!

It keeps me going~ It keeps me going~

Hiiiiii~ Okay so more updates!!! (God I have no life, or is this just procrastination, who knows, all i know is that I'mma compare each of these to see which days I'm more productive).

ANYWAY. Two more paths completed today, all I have left is Donovan's paths. I also have some art to show! Covered in my derpderp. I outlined this baby twice, the second time was me being SMART and doing the pen tool in PaintSAI, which is an amazing way to line art SERIOUSLY. It's clean and easy and fast. All I have is Rose Red's Normal Pose done, but everythings cut up nicely so I just need to draw more poses and then more expressions (that last part is the easy part!) I also might be adding a forward facing head.... I'd like to at least *sigh* but I'm worried about making it look like it's part of the same character.

Anyway wish me luck as I continue on! Just need two more paths, chapter five, the endings and to finish this CG Sprite and then do Snow White's and then I can go ahead and post for help! Cause then I will know that this baby will be happening for sure.

Chugging Right Along

I have now finished both Sister Paths, and Rose Red's Faolan Path (all that's left for Rose Red is her Donovan Path).

I am finding that I love writing for a VN much more than I did just writing a story. Being able to explore all these possibilities keeps me interested and being able to finish it in chunks (i.e. each path) it's easier to stick to.

All 8 paths' events are different than each other, I have then all reveal something different about either the girls or the boys or the world in general. To get the complete story of my Snow White and Rose Red, you have to play through to get every event.

Also the plot of this has gone over 8000 words today, I can only imagine how many words will be in the game itself.

Progress.

Progress! It hath been made!

Okay so it has been made somewhat. Rose Red's Ardal Path has been completed (sans the endings as I'm going to write all those after all the other events have been finished) I'm going to do her Faolan Path next and then probably hop over and finish both Snow White's and Rose Red's Sister Path and then go back and edit things so that none of the reactions will contradict each other. After plotting is done I'm going to try my hand at getting these sprites looking right (Unless I get hit by inspiration to draw, which I hope I will) I did make the decision to color and ink in an almost fairytale like style :D which will hopefully be easier for me and work with the story well~

Snow White and Rose Red

So the main point of this blog is to let me talk about and update about Visual Novels I may be working on to keep my interest up on them.

So what am I doing for my first ever visual novel? Well I'm an idiot and I have set myself a lofty goal of writing a 60-80 (still debating) day GxB Visual Novel with 32 Endings and 2 points of view. Yes, I know, I'm absolutely crazy. What can I say, I picked it for a summer project and for the last week and a half I've been working nonstop on it.

So what is the plot of this VN?

In a nutshell it is an adaptation of Grimm's Snow White and Rose Red, one of my favourite fairytales. It is adapted in the style of Shannon Hale's Goose Girl (you take a fairytale and then you fill it out and answer all the questions raised into why some character did one thing or another thing).

The fairytale is the tale of two sisters with an incredible bond who live in the woods with their widowed mother. They are goodly sisters by nature. In the winter they give home to a bear and then spring comes and the bear must leave, saying he must guard his treasure against a dwarf who would steal it. The two sisters then encounter the dwarf in mortal danger several times and help him.

The ending I won't spoil (If I can).

My adaptation gives both the girls and their mother gifts that they are born with (Snow White for instance has the gift of Communication and can thus speak with animals). I change the character of the dwarf to a goblin like man who is quite pretty and then I also add one more character so there are 3 "winnable" characters. You can also play through as Snow White or as Rose Red and due to the nature of their gifts and the nature of their very different personalities, these different point of views will tell the story in a completely different manner.

So How far am I on this lofty idea?

All six characters have been designed, though no sprites have been drawn.

The Plot is 1/3 Complete. All parts of adaptation have been adapted. I only have to create the original parts of the plots such as the events for the paths (There's at least four events for each winnable. Then I have to specifically plot out the 32 endings (some will be very similar with only slight differences in them so this is not as hard to do as it seems by numbers).

Once it's completely plotted out and I have both Snow White's and Rose Red's sprite sets done I will be looking to recruit a programmer, editor/co-writer for all the script and if I'm lucky a background artist (if not well then I get to do those too) The thing I'm worried about most, however is the amount of CGs I will have to draw (due to the amount of endings) I guess I can only just cross my fingers that it's easier than I think. Anyway... the practice will be impossibly good for me.