Map of the continent; my plan for updates
Added 2020-05-07 19:44:37 +0000 UTCThis is the physical and political map of Pellenein, the island-continent setting of the story. If you would compare it to the real world it's about the size of Greenland or one third of Australia. The most important places in the world are marked on the map. As the story progresses, the map will be updated with new relevant locations. I'll also mention that most of the story is going to take place around Orithane and Borestias, so please temper your expectations.
Hope you will find it useful to orient yourself around the world! The map will be added to the bonus folder during the next update.
Many people said they were pleasantly surprised with the length of the first chapter. I wanted that first part to be a strong starting off point so that everyone can get a good taste for the story, which is why I worked hard on it for a few months before launch.
At this point I'm not completely sure what my rhythm is going to be with the amount of content I can develop, but in my estimation every monthly update from now on will have about half as much story content as the first chapter. Keep in mind I also have to develop graphical resources, which take a lot of time. I want each character to have different sprites for different moods, and they will also change clothing later on.
Because this VN is about a journey, we're going to visit a lot of different places, and each place will need new backgrounds. Most of the backgrounds in the first chapter are either placeholders or unfinished, and they will have to be touched up as well. A few of the character sprites were also woefully unfinished (The Marshall, the two male strangers, the shadow).
However, I'm well aware that most of you want more of the story, as you have pointed out in the feedback form. I will aim to have a good chunk of the story delivered every month, at least for the next several updates. Just wanted to give a fair warning that in the future I may have to take a month to focus solely on graphical assets.
I launched Pervader and this Patreon on the 5th, so for now expect the first update on June 5th. Most of the script for the next update was already finished before launch, but it needs a bit more love.
What are your thoughts? Feel free to comment or e-mail me about your concerns about the project or how I'm managing things.
Comments
I look forward to this blossoming into something great. Very well done
DaemonJaeger
2020-05-20 19:43:28 +0000 UTCI took a few creative liberties to make Reamus more... magnetic. But he is confident in his body; he's less confident in his abilities.
GigaSaddle
2020-05-12 07:08:26 +0000 UTCFound this VN through Reddit. I was *ahem* intrigued by Reamus' design and was willing to give basically any quality of story a shot for such a... generously designed MC. It's an odd complaint, but you may have done too good of a job designing Reamus. I was finding it hard to believe that this guy came fresh from a farm, with only a smidge of confidence about his body. Comparing sprites, he's more stacked than the Watch Commander lol... More seriously, this was wonderfully written. I particularly enjoyed your character work with Reamus, but all of your characters were obviously thought about a great deal. The music was beautiful and well utilized, and the backgrounds were also comparably beautiful. I'm pretty impressed that one person was able to put this together, better yet as a first game. I look forward to future updates, and seeing where you take the story from here :)
Coach Ledge
2020-05-12 05:47:36 +0000 UTCThe story has been very tightly designed around Reamus, Alen and Jymsar. After the first few updates the plot will really get going and we'll speed through a lot of areas and meet a lot of characters, but they generally won't stick around long enough to bond with Reamus at that level. Adding any extra character would feel very forced, and unfortunately I wouldn't be able to work it out in a satisfying manner. Also I use a thesaurus ;)
GigaSaddle
2020-05-11 19:38:05 +0000 UTCWhat I would probably do is indeed hire someone to compose some tunes, or a title melody only, but keep the free tracks. They're as good as you say. Usually I turn the music down or leave it off, not here though. Oh? If the game happens to raise interest, gets picked up by many more people, you could consider creating more routes. Because along the journey I'm sure Reamus will meet more strangers and of course make friends. Still the English is this good, wow... I played a lot of VN's, of the same kind, and most or none don't have it, I can tell through the way of how many words I've heard before. In most VN's I understand the vast majority of words. Here, sometimes certain words are completely unknown to me. It's just really mesmerizing. Hope you know this. Keep it up!
2020-05-11 15:35:06 +0000 UTCGiga is fine! I don't make the music, it's royalty free. I was considering hiring someone to do the music, and I still might, but I was very pleasantly surprised with the music I found, so maybe not. We'll see in the future. Alen and Jymsar will be the only love interests. And I'm from Romania.
GigaSaddle
2020-05-11 05:54:29 +0000 UTC
