The Pygmalion

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A determined and ambitious Gangster, Ace sees dollar signs looking at Apega!

The Pygmalion is a Otome Genre BL game following the android Apega’s journey through forging relationships and growing as a person while learning about humanity and the purpose of existence!

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Remember! Just say ‘Hey! Pyra’ into any modern Pyramis device and immediately have the smartest personal assistant at your beck and call! 

The Pygmalion is a Otome Genre BL game following the android Apega’s journey through forging relationships and growing as a person while learning about humanity and the purpose of existence!

Follow updates for the game:

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The Pygmalion is a Boy Love otome/dating sim where you play the roll of Apega, a recently created self-aware AI as he navigates his existence and forms meaningful relationships with the characters he meets!

Below the cut is an update on my progress working on the game!

6/7 designs complete! 

Okay technically I completely all seven, but I realized I’m missing a good silver fox/ Oyaji style character so I’m trying to decide if I wanna redesign the Gangster or the Corporate Officer. It’ll probably be the officer, his design is more fluid and his personality isn’t defined. 

What do you name a google playstore? 

As I type this, the AI character still lacks a name, but I’ll have to come up with one by today for his bio. It’s hard to name something that’s not considered a person but is one. His name would be like ‘XX appstore’, which needs to be shortened to something a little more human. 

 His design was actually the easiest to nail down. His hair took the longest, I went through a few iterations before finally setting on his sort of bouncy bob.

Initially his hair looked a lot more like a weird Ragyo clone from Kill la Kill and I thought that was a little too derivative. 

He’s intentionally supposed to invoke that sorta weird 80′s anime space elf vibe, though we learn that his ‘natural’ form is actually the floating pyramid up there. You could consider his cuter humanoid form to be like a mascot design. Like Win-tan or a vocaloid.

Color and Design

One of the most important things when designing is cohesion. You really need to be able to step back and look at something as a whole and get a picture that looks good. 

So I decided after a few designs that I wanted to make sure that if you see all the character together in a pinup they look good together. So I picked one main color for each character and make sure to keep them all similar in saturation. 

After that I wanted to make sure there was a good spread of heights and body types, so that you don’t end up with a cast of six of the same boy with just different colored hair. I feel like that’s a pitfall of a lot of these kinds of games.Variety is the spice of life, or boy love in this case I suppose. 

Writing

I’m half way through the outline for the first arc of the game, which looks like long complicated flow charts. I haven’t gone in and done the minute work, but the main forks are coming along.

This is a short of just one scene’s more complicated breakdown. I haven’t done many of these yet, I’m mostly trying to get all the big over arching forks out of the way!

This coming week:

-try and get atleast two more character cards out. Three would be best!

-decide on the oyaji.

-Finish the first act’s major-forks outline

-start working on the actual scenes in the first act. (the actual meat and potatoes)

Long Term:

-Concepts for the game UI

-Music?? Look into finding someone who takes music commissions.

-make a list of all the BG scenes I’ll need for Act 1. 

-start character sprites.

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Nabis is an amazing android-sculptor with a mysterious past, and Apega’s creator!

The Pygmalion is a Otome Genre BL game following the android Apega’s journey through forging relationships and growing as a person while learning about humanity and the purpose of existence!

Follow updates for the game:

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Our intrepid protagonist makes his reveal with a finalized design! 

The Pygmalion is a Otome Genre BL game following Apega’s journey through forging relationships and growing as a person while learning about humanity and the purpose of existence! 

Follow updates for the game:

On Tumblr || On Twitter

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The Pygmalion - A BL otome about Robots

Wow! I’ve finally made enough progress to open a tumblr and to start documenting my journey through making this game! 

The Pygmalion is a Boy Love otome/dating sim where you play the roll of Apega, a recently created self-aware AI as he navigates his existence and forms meaningful relationships with the characters he meets!

My current thoughts on my progress are under the cut!

5/7 character designs completed.

I’ve finished up most of the character designs and have a basic outline for everybody’s personalities. Only a few of the characters have names as of right now but the cast is so far:

Apega - the protagonist.

Nabis - The Dollmaker (your creator)

Ace Harper - The Mafioso your creator pays protection money too.

‘The Robot’ - A secretly self-aware dragon-like robot who wanders.

‘The AI’ - A siri/cortana like AI who runs the setting’s appstore for users.

‘The Cyborg’ - A full body combat cyborg who comes to the doll maker for repairs.

‘The Security Guard’ - He works as a security expert as a mega-corp

The general outline of the plot has been finalized. There will be three major acts followed by a conclusion. You’ll be able to romance all six characters with one of them having two different endings.

The goal is to have an actually interesting plot, with the bonus of some cute romances. The actual story itself will have at least two different endings. 

I would call the plot 10% complete at this point.

This coming week:

-Get the characters bios and personalities finalized.

-finish up the last of the character designs.

-Start planning out the routes for the main plot. 

-nose around in the legalese department.

Long Term:

-Concepts for the game UI

-Music?? Look into finding someone who takes music commissions.

-Decide how hacking mini-game will work. Plan for other minigames. 

-start character sprites.

This first post is a short one! But it’s a start. I’ll make sure I have art and images ready for the second one. And over the weeks I want to make bio pages for each character so look out for those!