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Official Tumblr Blog for Coalescence: a visual novel about two monster hunters on a roadtrip to break the grasp a vengenful entity has on them The demo is currently out on itch.io here: https://diminutivethief.itch.io/coalescence-demo Created by @diminutivethief and @turtleslothart

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Coalescence Demo Released

Hi everyone!

We recently released our demo for our new indie game: Coalescence! It is a visual novel with some point and click elements. It follows the story of monster hunter, Andrea Bracken. Due to a recent near death experience, she's found herself indebted to a being known as Burn: rage and vengeance made manifest. In exchange for her life, it demands Andrea kill in its name. Lost, frightened, and sorely out of options, Andrea and her adrenaline fueled wreck of a partner Vera Lavoie go on the run to hide her steadily growing body count and find a way to break Burn's hold over her.

The demo is around ~30min long and can be played on browser or download. Please play the demo and give us your honest feedback! In the next coming days/weeks, we hope to share some of the in-progress art, screenshots, etc. Hope you enjoy! Content Warning for Gore and Graphic Depictions of Violence https://diminutivethief.itch.io/coalescence-demo

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Combat Assets 2

Various damage sprites for Andrea and Vera for combat. We go from Good, to Bad, to Terrible. Rather than having a normal damage bar, we were thinking of combat more as a strike system with the amount of damage being visibly shown through Vera and Andrea's sprites. Three strikes and you're out, hence three different states of being for the characters. Combat shouldn't be too hard, so we're not as concerned abt the strict health system, but it will also depend on how things expand moving forward.

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Combat Assets 1

Some of the items you can select during combat. Posting these on their own to show off some of the individual items. We've got flour, arrows for Vera's bow, and Andrea's hammer so far but we're likely to add more in the future!

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Combat In-Progress

Currently working on the next part of our game and figuring out the combat system! Here's a screenshot of what it's currently looking like. We're going for a puzzle like system where you can examine your environment to use your surroundings to fight Paragons. Right now, I've been mainly working in black and white just to figure out how assets will look in space but things may change overtime. I'll be releasing individual assets for these in the coming weeks as they're finished up.

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Bloody Bathroom

A continuation of the scene from the very beginning of the game. While this first image doesn't have the source of the blood in it, the image under the cut has the version with the body visible.

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Honey Tiger Diner

Sloane's favorite diner and meeting place. It is well populated and unassuming, making it ideal for hiding in plain sight.

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Andrea's Car

One of the first and most vital BGs we've got is the inside of Andrea's van! Andrea always drives with Vera in shotgun. We wanted the van to seem lived in with a number of wrappers and trinkets that Andrea's amassed through her travels. It was a challenge drawing the inside of a car but I had a lot of fun figuring things out!

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Full picture of the title screen for our game! It is also the background for this blog. Here's how it looks in game and on its own.

Our main character, Andrea Bracken, is on the left, and her partner, Vera Lavoie, is on the right. I wanted something that wasn't too immediately stressful and showed off them just hanging out in Andrea's van since their relationship is really the center of the story.

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Hotel BG

Hotel BG! Throughout the visual novel, Vera and Andrea stop by a variety of run-down motels and hotels. Aka just this background color shifted

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Sloane

An accomplished monster hunter who gives Andrea and Vera a job when they're at their weakest. She likes to keep things business-centered so not much of her personal life is known. Vera seems to have some issue with her but neither are keen on sharing the details.

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Vera Lavoie

Vera Lavoie is Andrea's partner and the one who inadvertently got her into monster hunting. She's less hesitant about following Burn's wishes, to her, what it offers Andrea outweighs any negative it could have. Vera has a tendency to be reckless and self-centered, with one foot out the door for when things go sideways, however she's still there to help Andrea over and over.

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Andrea Design

The full-body sprite of our main character, Andrea Bracken!

She's recently become indebted to Burn and thus, has to do its bidding. Although she tries to keep a cool facade, the lengths she must go to in order to keep Burn happy weigh on her. Half-body Sprite and Expressions Under the Cut!

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Here's the first thing you see when you open the game. We wanted something very shocking and violent to send you immediately into the action and how Andrea's feeling in that moment.

I was happy to get the chance to draw something really bloody and gorey for the first time in a bit. It was kinda funny though because we were initially working on this during an in-person indie game work session and everyo

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First CG of the game!! I had a lot of fun drawing this one since it had been awhile since I digitally rendered a full scene but I'm happy with how it turned out, particularly the texture of the fire. I also always have a lot of fun drawing Andrea, I love drawing her hair and outfit. This is the first time she uses her powers in the game and it's in a very dramatic scene so I really wanted to sell that emotion and her hesitance.

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Full picture of the title screen for our game! It is also the background for this blog. Here's how it looks in game and on its own.

Our main character, Andrea Bracken, is on the left, and her partner, Vera Lavoie, is on the right. I wanted something that wasn't too immediately stressful and showed off them just hanging out in Andrea's van since their relationship is really the center of the story.