Project BEAT

We are Project BEAT. And we hope you join and support us in this journey in creating this visual novel game Development Progress* Production Work (Recruitment, File, other prod stuff lol) : 15% Art & Design:19% Writing: 16% Code & Assets: 17% Music: 2% * Development Progress changes depending on the current workload

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Hello!

Thank you for checking our updates for PROJECT BEAT

How are you all doing? While the member are busy card against humanity, games, weird chat time activities during general chat time, some being unbelievably calm during the craziness at chat, and of course bribing people for  baked goods, we’re still in the middle of working BEAT!  So an update!

Script is still in that state of progression wherein it needs work and continuity. Writers and editor are doing their best even with their busy schedule and they're really  great. What we only need right now is someone who can fully lead the writing team. We will be posting for a new position called Writer Lead. I sure do hope I could find one for the project in the near future so he/she can help out the writers :D

We will also try to go  around the net going to interview some music students and what they usually do in a club to give us more information and add some for Music story parts. Club activities, how the orchestra functions, usual problems or issues inside a program,  events and other things to ask. This has been brought up way back during writer's meeting but I think this is a good time to do it since we are now building the story outline for BEAT. If you know anyone who goes to a music program or clubs - please PM me here or email [email protected]

Music - I apologized if it seems it's in limbo as I would like to make proper comments for the music once I am done in Design and can focus in the story so the music that will be used in the final material are well set for the story. Many thanks for Swampie for the draft music too :D

Gameplay - for awhile now I am revising it to have a better flow in the vn with removing some initial ideas from the proposal/gameplay, and putting potential ideas that can be possibly simple to enhance the game for the players.

Design - Why is the GUI taking so long really with more version of changes? I would like to honestly say because I have more creative freedom on what to do with the project. Usually Renpy has already a built in template and I only need to reskin their template to fit the game in other request. With BEAT, I am more inclined to improve the basic idea because it's our project I'm very much involved in...also I tend to say 'oooh let me make things better' then I ended up burning my hours in that design >< There is also the part how the flow of the design will be, keeping the player's at ease of playing even if it's Renpy VN.

Art art art. The team are continuing with the character expressions along with background. Update too short? Lol

So I guess that's it for our usual update. PS: Checking the schedule we're at Week 22 of the project. Huh, we survived in that crazy chat for 22 weeks.  - AI

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GTKS: Linka

Want to know our staff, check out a new segment we're doing while we'll be still making Project BEAT. It's called GTKS or Get To Know Staff, I'll be asking the project's staff about them and soon will be taking requests from our lovely fans, so I'll be starting this off with one of our great artists, Linka

Bloody Yank: Well, why don't you tell us a little about yourself?

Linka: I'm Linka or Linka08 from Indonesia. i'm currently preparing myself to get in a university and this is my first time to join a visual novel project in long term

BY: How long have you been into drawing art

Linka: I've been into drawing since Kindergarten, but started taking it seriously in middle school and try to focus with it after graduating from high school

BY: What made you interested into Visual Novels and drawing for them?

Linka: To be honest, I rarely play Visual Novels, but I really like the concept that it's a novel with illustrations on it so it feels like we are enjoying a movie/game. That's why I think that it would be amazing if I'm able to contribute to one of the visual novels out there.

BY: Why is it that you went with BEAT for your first VN and not another group?

Linka: Because at that point BEAT is one of the project that was opening a recruitment and it looks promising. Also, I liked the concept/story, which is kinda different from the other recruitment post at the time. The story really has a good character development where we can see the MC become a better person and also the improvement of his music and his relationship with his friends and a girl, and it's not just the typical boys meet girls in a school type of romance story.

BY: What personal things are you working on besides BEAT

Linka: Currently I'm working on some visual novel project other than BEAT and a webcomic that has been delayed almost a year.

BY: What is it that you are excited for in BEAT?

Linka: I'm very excited for how the game/VN will turns out, and I mean in every aspect of it. I'm pretty sure that the story will be very good and people will love it!

BY: Anything that you want to tell the readers before we end this?

Linka: Well nothing in particularly but as I said before BEAT is not an ordinary VN you will love it!

There you have it folks, a quick interview with one of our amazing artists, Linka. I hope more of you look into this and make sure that you give us questions so we can ask our next member and make some good headway. This is Bloody Yank, signing off for now!

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Hey there guys, sorry for the long hiatus, we were just taking some time to make some updates to the drafts, but now we can show off these great final drafts on our characters upper body. This goes from 3 group pictures with one of them being a chibi version, Ally, Miki, Rem, and Ike. We'll be posting more stuff in the coming months, so be on the look out. if you have any questions about BEAT, ask in the comments and We'll answer you in a short amount of time. This is Max, giving a quick look into the future with BEAT. 

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Wip LineArt Room for Project Beat!  #‎projectBEATvn‬

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Our background artist Eli with her clean lineart of one of the rooms for the game. All of the artist have also contributed in the research of the room. Such as the size and fitting. 

Now who the heck would sleep under that large thing?! 

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Development Progress*

Production Work (Recruitment, File, other prod stuff lol) : 79%

Art & Design:30%

Writing: 27%

Code & Assets: 37%

Music: 0%

* Development Progress changes depending on the current workload

So what’s happening?

Something to share during development: We have started discussing the main character’s residence and found ourselves so thorough and concerned of a fictional character’s bladder and stomach. Questions of where will the kitchen sink and bathroom. Thankfully we found a solution and hopefully our fictional main character doesn’t die from lack of fictional apartment facilities. Below is the project artists’ collaborative efforts to make sense of things.

We managed to get a composer Lukedoc321, he has a great portfolio and we’re lucky to have him in our project. You can check it out https://soundcloud.com/luke-dougherty-3/sets/portfolio

Otometea has joined as well for the writing team, with all the writing positions filled. We won’t be accepting writer’s for the time being, however I do hope you could try out other positions if you are interested :D

Our Media and Comm Windchimes will be departing the team as she will be very busy in the next few months. We wish her the best of luck! Please support her own project http://ladsindistress.tumblr.com/

Thank you for checking our project!

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With new talents joining in the Project BEAT since it opened it’s recruitment page at Lemmasoft, the project is getting into the stage that various ideas are coming in, as well as deciding on factors in delivering the game to you guys. Last week we had a vote whether we should cut the story in different parts like an episodic kind of visual novel or giving the public the whole thing. At that time it was rare for almost all of us to be online due to different timezones but the chat suddenly was active for a few hours with people sharing their opinions about the proposed direction of the game. I’m more on episodic, I admit as Project Lead I can push a final say on things but another part of leading and guiding different individuals is to also balance, understand and compromise on what is best for BEAT. And though seeing the member’s reactions weren’t in my favor, it’s a great exchange within the people working to make this game something for you guys can enjoy.

But enough about that what are the other updates I can say for now during development:

We’re finalizing the design for one of main characters, Ally. The image there shows a sneak peek of her!

Since another artist have joined in, she will now be handling some of sketches for secondary characters, one of which is that girl in the middle

Another GUI draft of using cellphones as part of the menu system.

I think this will do for now in the update as we’re still in the middle of deciding hairstyles. Why? It’s important damn you.

I do hope for your support as we develope this VN. :D - AI

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Another status update! What can I say in this update that I might spoil stuff? 

• We're basically working on the prologue of the story, showing tutorials and how the game will be played. • The four main characters are now decided and their description are done. • The four silhouette you see here will be introduced to you soon. It's a given they're the main. • The whole GUI and screen layout are now in draft (wireframe though) and we are just reviewing if it's actually possible on how we want to play it then moving on with the actual look • We actually have a working logo to show buttttt we would like to show it to you once it's ready.  We hope to give you more updates in the next few weeks! Stay tune!

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Just posting a sketch from the project artist Linka. Showing the height differences of the main characters in the game. You may have quick (and slight) idea of their personality :D - AI

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Game map

I think this is my second time creating a game map, the last time it was easy and small but with this game, I always imagine what are the locations needed for the game...then it started to expand...then add more locations until it became like a crazy doodle that no one can understand. 

 There’s actually a beach there, a music hall and a field...I swear it’s just...there.