Update 17/03/2017
Aand, it’s time for another update on the little VN of ours! First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. I am Mnyonywaji, writer for this little project. As Abbie mentioned last week, I was on holiday so I couldn’t properly help her with previous update (Last week update can be find here, on our lemma soft topic, since it was rather short we didn’t upload it here ! sorry ~Abbie) This week we managed a few things. We are currently working on the characters’ sprites and backgrounds. Since we have a cheerful mermaids theme twisted with horror story, our characters have a wide variety of expressions planned. From smiles and laughs to fear and terror… poor visual artists! (← says the one who planned all the expressions in the first place ;> ) What would be of a story about professional mermaids if we didn’t show you….
…their swimming suits! I know, I know, you probably wanted the mermaid attire, didn’t you? But professional mermaid shows are soo much about preparations, trainings, creating routines and choreography. The swimming suit is a vital part of daily life of a mermaid. Only after lots of hard work the mermaid can finally wear her scales and create the magical atmosphere at the show. Oh, and don’t be sad. I’ll talk someone into wearing their mermaid suit for the update next week As for the backgrounds, one of them is what we want to boast about today - Loreen finished men’s bedroom this time. Obviously, since these are in the same building, it looks awfully familiar with women’s, right? But the little details are what make the difference! Can you try to guess who are the two guys living there?
As for writing, I resumed working on the scenario after my break. I am currently working on the not-so-horror part, where all the characters meet, develop likes and dislikes for each other etc. And it is hard, I tell you I am probably too aware that it is the part which translates to player’s attachment to characters in the next part of novel, when things start going WRONG (whatever that means, I am not spoiling you now, not yet at least )
Speaking of which, you probably wondered, how come we came up with this twisted idea of cute mermaids in horror story? It started in June, last year, when Loreen and Abbie stayed at my place for a few days. Lots of chatting, laughing, playing board games. One of the talks ended up in pondering about mermaids as real life performing professionals (hmm, no, I don’t really remember HOW we did reach that theme, we totally jumped from topic to topic in some wickedly brainstorming). We agreed it sounds like a nice background for VN idea, which we have thought of making for a long time already. But as we considered obviously heartwarming idea of people performing as mermaids, we strongly declared it sounds too positive to realize it simply as it is. And so the dark theme appeared, introducing hopefully interesting twist to the mermaiding idea. We keep our fingers crossed that you like the final outcome! See you next week! - Waji Thank you for following our development. If you have any remarks, comments or advice please don’t hesitate to share. Feedback is extremely appreciated.
not sure if anybody follows my blog since I’m pretty inactive on tumblr, but maybe someone would like to check out Devblog of visual novel I’m making with friends?
