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We are creating a visual novel game, spliced with a match 3 game. The theme is ice hockey romance. The title is Hat Trick, and the series is “Hockey Hearts”.
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I enjoyed it the last time I took the class and I’m really enjoying it this time too. His mentality towards game design, game-play, and player communities aligns with mine. It’s all about designing a toy for the player to play with and then letting them play, letting them build content to play with, and not interfering with that play, but observing it, and then finding ways to enhance that play, and encourage creativity, connections, and community.
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Been a weird month. As I’ve mentioned before, my primary goal this year is my health. So in alignment with that I spent quite a bit of time making appointments, and arranging transportation. Then dealing with the appointments themselves, medications, and followups. Add my general stress over being around medical types and migraines, and it’s … Expand “Blog Weekly Update 6/28/2024” »
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Blog Weekly Update 6/9/2024 My partner being the wonderful dragon that he is, suggested that instead of building a little town or fighting my brain, I could use my brain and build my cities in unreal. Since I was talking about already making it into a game. The effort would be part of the game, … Expand “Blog Weekly Update 6/9/2024” »
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Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae This is a new frame. To break up the flow. This frame the perspective is shifted. the vanision point is on the left instead of in the center of the frame. I’m testing colors, trying to find the right mix of greys. Added this distance shot to show … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 006.5” »
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VLog Weekly Update 6/2/2024 2nd Week of May Dug through some closets and boxes and found more of my supplies. There are still some inks missing. Some paints and brushes, and some of my art paper are still missing. They will turn up this month, I have enough to get started. Also build a new … Expand “Blog Weekly Update 6/2/2024” »
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Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae This is Chapter 1, Scene 1, Frame 008. No change still struggling with the Trolley shape and perspective. Including because I tried drawing it differently in the page layout rough draft that I worked on this week. Added the shadows and some color. This is after the shield spell … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 008” »
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Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae In this frame Todd has finished the protection spell, still working out the details of what magic looks like to him since this is a first person story, while I’m not sticking to first person camera view, I am trying to make each shot reflect what Todd would … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 007” »
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Project: WebComic – Todd and the Fae This is Chapter 1, Scene 1, Frame 6. This frame the really shows how the different greys contrast with each other and not really in a positive way. I think using the cool grey, the yellow grey, and the warm grey all together is the wrong choice. When … Expand “Story Board – Analog – Frame 006” »