Adepts' Trial

A NaNoRenO '16 Game In a world of peril, the Adepts are the only force strong enough to protect the innocent from criminals and creatures from beyond... -Read More-

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Adepts’ Trial - Alpha Version Released

In a world of peril, the Adepts are the only force strong enough to protect the innocent from criminals and creatures from beyond.

Alix like many others was born with the ability to draw power from a dimension known as Twisted Space to enact impossible feats. The law states when this power manifests that a person must take the Adepts’ Trial in order to obtain their provisional Adept Licence. For those who succeed, a chance to learn and channel their powers. Those who fail are never heard from again.

Today is Alix’s trial and their life will never be the same again…

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[adeptsuniverse]

Adepts’ Trial - Alpha Version Released

In a world of peril, the Adepts are the only force strong enough to protect the innocent from criminals and creatures from beyond.

Alix like many others was born with the ability to draw power from a dimension known as Twisted Space to enact impossible feats. The law states when this power manifests that a person must take the Adepts’ Trial in order to obtain their provisional Adept Licence. For those who succeed, a chance to learn and channel their powers. Those who fail are never heard from again.

Today is Alix’s trial and their life will never be the same again...

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Some of the backgrounds being made by our BG artist Helrouis.

Sorry for the lack of updates as of late. Alera started getting really busy and I’ve been too busy and/or lazy to do updates myself. I’ll try to rectify that up to the end of March. :)

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This is out cast, everyone together! ...except one ‘person’  e v e 

Will have to update this when I get their sprite done! 

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Deion, the tavern owner, is a handsome guy e v e 

A very confident man who is aware he's good looking and uses that to his advantage. Tends to flirt with anyone regardless of gender or orientation. Totally oblivious to anything that does not interest him.

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Background shenanigans

Hey, it’s Alera again and it’s time to show off some work in progress and my process of making the art for this game~

And today I’m going to talk about backgrounds! 

Like I said in my intro post I wanted to try some unique things on this project. And one of my main ideas was to play around with the backgrounds. Since I’ve been doing a lot of 3D recently for my work, particularly experimenting with low-poly styles, I got this image in my head that I wanted to try out. An imperfect, fractured, flat shaded, no textures style~ I thought it would be something different and interesting to see in a visual novel! OvO And it’s something I felt like I could achieve. Some people hand draw or paint amazing scenery, others can use Sketchup to make awesome 3D renders and me...err...I do...strange things...

Let’s see how this went!

This is my sketch, meant to be a sort of abandoned tavern. I’m very good at this =v=‘’

I started off by blocking off the base shapes in 3D. I quite like how the classes turned out! But I realized the whole thing seemed quite small, especially when I tested how it looked against the sprites.

Then I modeled more and more. I use Maya LT 2016 for my modelling btw. I modeled things straight and pristine and then cut them up to get the look I wanted. This isn’t healthy looking geometry, don’t try this at home unless it’s what you’re going for. xD  

Then I switched to Unity. No, we’re not doing the game itself in Unity, I’m only using it to make my renders! :’D Why? Because...I find it easier to set up my materials, scene and lighting in Unity and take a screenshot of it than faff around and set up for a real render that would take hours to well- render. And might not even look good! QAQ Or what if I forgot something? This is a quick and easy method that I think works for now~

And that is how the scene looked like in the end with some PS touch ups~ The bar is cut up on a separate layer so sprites can go behind there too. 

And this took me pretty much all day |D Which is annoying because it doesn’t look like much! This is like what, 2 shelves, few glasses, few bottles, I need to get quicker at this style! >A< Because there’s a lot more to be done! Time for more sprites! 

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Do you know where I could find a phone?

Have you tried checking your pockets?

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In a world of peril, the Adepts are the only force strong enough to protect the innocent from criminals and creatures from beyond.

Alix like many others was born with the ability to draw power from a dimension known as Twisted Space to enact impossible feats. The law states when this power manifests that a person must take the Adepts’ Trial in order to obtain their provisional Adept Licence. For those who succeed, a chance to learn and channel their powers. Those who fail are never heard from again.

Today is Alix’s trial and their life will never be the same again...

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Hellu! Alera here~ (Some of you may know me for making that evil Zayay game) and now I'm working on something new with TheeForsakenOne! (Known for many awesome games, seriously, check them out!) We're taking part of NaNoRenO this year as a team. This is my first time teaming up with someone to release a collaborative project like this but TFO has plenty of experience so I am really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Adepts' Trial is going to be a dark-ish visual novel with elves and demons and a test you must take with your life on the line.  e v e

TFO is doing the awesome writing and programming and I'm doing the art. My other responsibilities include: making the characters look cute, sneaking cats into the scenes, suggesting more dark ideas for the story, making up conspiracy theories.  At the same time as working on this I'm also doing my day job as a game artist and even though that doesn't leave me with much free time to work on this, it's actually giving me a lot of ideas I'd like to try on this project! I want to make it visually interesting and different looking and I hope I'll be able to show that soon~

Follow our progress here on our dev blog and on twitter, there's links on the left, more info on the top, our asks are open, and we hope to see you again at release! (＾▽＾)ﾉ☆*:.｡.