A romantic visual novel… with bugs! …kinda… You need a certain topic for your next article when you and your best friend stumble upon a dance school near your campus. However, to make it more interesting, your best friend challenges you to learn how to dance as you are terrible at it. Now we need to see which dancing genre you gonna choose though…
Flowers I would give to each of the romantic interests (plus Mar-)
Since it's February (I know, very late Valentines day stuff) editing:This was written during Valentine’s Day… and something happened- might as well write what I would give to each of my characters as a flower (...since I literally put down some headcanons on how they would react to bouquets) might as well tell you what I would give to each of them, giving in the vibe they emminate :3 which doesn't mean they will particularly like them. I will work on wether they would like it or not-
I know I will make some of them suffer with the choices I'm going to make-
Anopheles
I would give him a Buckeye Belle Peony. It's elegant and red... No other questions asked.
Benny
For him, it's an easy response. It's the LAVENDER! He is soft and sweet, I would totally be comfortable being with him. Plus I tasted Lavender honey before, it's sweet >w<
Theo
Well... Theo is a more difficult one for me. Mainly because I have two flowers in mind for him.
One would be the Anemone. this flower's name reminds of bacterias, but if you actually search it up, it looks rather pretty
And the other one would be the Edelweiss. :)
Forest
Easy guess. A Dahlia. Full of herself, full of petals... you get the idea. Her confident ass is what gave it away.
Lewis
Welp, Another one to who I would give two kinds of flowers-
One of them would be the bleeding heart.... let's stick with that.
And the other would be the Forget-me-not! He is so soft and fragile in a way, like this small flower! He is precious.
Connor
So... There is this annoying man that I oh-so dearly want to punch in the face sometimes-
Sunflower, I guess...
Or maybe Daisies as a participation award, I really see him as an annoying roommate, or worse... my brother-
Wakaba
Now I prefer doing him-
A Lotus would be one if I can put it in a bouquet, but I can't so-
Hydrangea would be a strong competitor too, cause he feels so elegant :D
Or! I would also want to give him Orchids.
Mar
Now for him, he is a sweetheart although not a romanceable character. :3
I would give him either Sweet Peas or-
Or Daffodils, he is a nice friend in my opinion ^^
Since I have nothing in here, why not just make stuff about them and react to you! :D
(If you want to know how they would react or what would they do in some case scenarios, you can just send an ask, the box is open! :D)
Though, you should be wary with all of them over what kind of flowers you give them-
Anopheles:
Anopheles is usually a really traditional guy.
You giving flowers to him? What kind of thing is this.
Would 100% be confused at first.
Will accept it, because it's a nice surprise.
"Oh- For me? Well, I'm simply flattered, I didn't expect to get a gift as lovely as you."
Benny:
Benny is gonna be really happy when he sees you with flowers.
First, he is gonna jokingly try to guess who those flowers are for.
If the cat is out of the bag he happily flaps his hands and gives you a hug, thanking you for the gift
"Oh? And for who are those pretty flowers? Wait, let me guess. Is it for the coach? No? Then someone with pretty blonde hair? Close, ok so-"
Theo:
Theo would look unfazed at first but.... wait is that a small smile I see?
Wouldn't look surprised or happy (at first)
Would thank you out of generosity
Upon looking closer and feeling the bouquet of flowers he starts to smile slowly
"Thank you for the flowers... I'm gonna find them a nice place."
Hint: the nice place is in their office.
Forest:
She feels really grateful to get flowers from you.
She is in awe. The fact that you give her flowers is adorable for her.
She thanks you and tease you for being cheesy.
"Awww for me? You shouldn't have! You really watch enough romantic movies for this I see."
Lewis:
He is a hopeless romantic, so of course they will be delighted to get flowers!
Possibility of them crying if you are together already. If not, prepare to get friendzoned, he will still appreciate it.
"Oh! Flowers? For me?? Awwww, thank you friend!"
Connor:
He is gonna flip.
He would be loud and proud over you giving them flowers
He would show it to every passerby to show them the flowers you gave him.
"Oh neat you gave me flowers! Hell yeah! I GOT FLOWERS FROM MY PARTNER! LOOK AT THIS YOU MOTHER-"
Wakaba:
...
He is a tsundere and will definitely not show you that they like the gift
Will accept it nonetheless
If he sees someone look at his flowers he triumphantly smirks at them
Since I have nothing in here, why not just make stuff about them and react to you! :D
(If you want to know how they would react or what would they do in some case scenarios, you can just send an ask, the box is open! :D)
Though, you should be wary with all of them over what kind of flowers you give them-
Anopheles:
Anopheles is usually a really traditional guy.
You giving flowers to him? What kind of thing is this.
Would 100% be confused at first.
Will accept it, because it's a nice surprise.
"Oh- For me? Well, I'm simply flattered, I didn't expect to get a gift as lovely as you."
Benny:
Benny is gonna be really happy when he sees you with flowers.
First, he is gonna jokingly try to guess who those flowers are for.
If the cat is out of the bag he happily flaps his hands and gives you a hug, thanking you for the gift
"Oh? And for who are those pretty flowers? Wait, let me guess. Is it for the coach? No? Then someone with pretty blonde hair? Close, ok so-"
Theo:
Theo would look unfazed at first but.... wait is that a small smile I see?
Wouldn't look surprised or happy (at first)
Would thank you out of generosity
Upon looking closer and feeling the bouquet of flowers he starts to smile slowly
"Thank you for the flowers... I'm gonna find them a nice place."
Hint: the nice place is in their office.
Forest:
She feels really grateful to get flowers from you.
She is in awe. The fact that you give her flowers is adorable for her.
She thanks you and tease you for being cheesy.
"Awww for me? You shouldn't have! You really watch enough romantic movies for this I see."
Lewis:
He is a hopeless romantic, so of course they will be delighted to get flowers!
Possibility of them crying if you are together already. If not, prepare to get friendzoned, he will still appreciate it.
"Oh! Flowers? For me?? Awwww, thank you friend!"
Connor:
He is gonna flip.
He would be loud and proud over you giving them flowers
He would show it to every passerby to show them the flowers you gave him.
"Oh neat you gave me flowers! Hell yeah! I GOT FLOWERS FROM MY PARTNER! LOOK AT THIS YOU MOTHER-"
Wakaba:
...
He is a tsundere and will definitely not show you that they like the gift
Will accept it nonetheless
If he sees someone look at his flowers he triumphantly smirks at them
Some drawings of the dateable characters in the game (+ the best friend)
I needed some drawings on the playlist for them at the time being (since it usually helps me develop the story further) and I feel like it is a nice way to start of the showing of the characters
Anopheles
is a true gentleman, will start off weird in the beginning when you meet him. (No, I won’t explain it any further than this
Benny
The good boy, the sweetheart, the guy with the golden retriever energy, also called as the himb-
Theo
This guy is the silent type, but I think his image is already ruined by this cute drawing of him with his pet frog.
Forest
This confident woman, is… actually the only dateable woman. (I was doing the dateable characters of this as my practice for male characters, and masc woman came out with a body similar to what I wanted to practice ^^”)
Lewis
Is a hopeless romantic, a sensitive soul.
Connor
A chill dude, gives off roommate vibes. Would mess with you as a joke, but also be by your side.
Wakaba
The sassy bitch. I don’t have anything else to say about him. Which is also a bit of a lie, because he is like a cat…. Plus he is a huge b-
Mar
The player’s best friend, they are obsessed with bugs and would talk about it a lot with their closest friends.
There's....... so much. So much so much. I'll try to sum up in bullet points.
As you may know from last week - I finally finished my flirt indicator tutorial screens. I've included a screen featuring Dart's finished face - quite handsome I think!
I drew my own quick stand-in backgrounds for the game... You can see one behind Jade up there. I kind of hate them!! But it's the best I can do for now, and I have to remind myself that I can always replace them later when I have the funds.
I added a 'click to begin' function on the title screen.
I finally put in art from the lovely @brightoakgame ! Look at all that detail!!
I coded in a score board at the end of the demo, so you can see how well you got along with the characters (and how drastically you can fail...)
I also did some concept designs for an upcoming character (as I do)... Put allllll the flirt indicators into the game, one by one... Here's a few samples:
... And I started properly writing and formatting my credits...
Made subtitle text in-code with double outlines (white + fake drop shadow) so I can change the text to aaaanything I want without opening an art program, as part of my title screen update...
Put in a bonus feature at the end with Katie...
Did aaaaaa lotttt of small writing edits, and heavily playtested Griffin's CG scene additions to make sure the new code was linked correctly...
Added expressions to Griffin's new lines, as well-- like this one
Did some troubleshooting bc my music wasn't looping correctly (I figured it out but it took an hour and a half of listening and testing the song over and over and I may have lost a fraction of my sanity from the experience)..
Also fixed my CTC icon because it wasnt showing up for certain characters.. Fixed Jade's superpower animation across the board..
Then I worked on finalizing the sound design (which includes manually adjusting the volume of certain sounds and adding in new ones) and putting in {w} tags for the whoooooooleeee game. While I was doing that, I came up with a new dialogue option (as I do):
......... I think that about covers it for now.............
An undercover assassin is on a mission to knock out her marks, but things turn upside down when a guild of enemy assassins is after her bounty. She runs into two mysterious men along her journey, both claiming to be trustworthy, but their secrets could lead her deeper into trouble. Can she trust them?
A finished version of the Jillian sprite sketch I made awhile ago (before sketching the others even) - The colors of the uniform are a nod to the name of the school, which is also one of my favorite flowers, a lesser celandine! I did add the schools logo, the flower, on to her jacket but its hard to see due to her pigtails
