I’ve finally had a few days off from working on other people’s projects to spend a little bit of time on one of my own. This is the very first screen from a JRPG/Adventure that I’m working on. Expect to see more soon.
I’ve started writing the scripts for a comic book mini-series starring Kyle and The Purple Patriot. I’m exploring all options, including self-publishing, pitching to mainstream & indie publishers and crowdfunding.
If you’re a comic book artist and interested in collaborating on the project, I’d love to hear from you. Email me: contact@nobullintentions.com to discuss it.
The art above is from the game, but other art styles are welcome, of course. A more traditional comic book style is perfectly acceptable, or whatever style you think would suit the characters. I am looking for someone who is genuinely interested in the characters and wants to collaborate with me on a satirical, politically-incorrect comedy comic.
We’ve released a pack of six high quality backgrounds for your anime/visual novel games, comics, manga, etc. These are all themed around school so you have an exterior, a classroom, a corridor scene, a science lab, a rooftop eating area (OF COURSE!) and a swimming pool. They’re all shown in the video.
The pack is available from our website : http://nobullintentions.com/?portfolio=visual-novel-backgrounds-school
We’ll be releasing new packs, so if you have any suggestions or requests for particular scenes or themes for collections, we’d love to hear them. Our next pack will be themed around a town.
The teaser trailer to our in-development visual novel “Criminal Investigations: With Woman’s Tears”.
A few people told me that the text in the screens I’ve posted so far looked too small. It’s actually a problem I’ve been considering for a while now. We’re targeting a range of devices so you could potentially be playing the game on a 24″ HD monitor, a 50 inch 4K TV, a 10 inch tablet or even a handheld like the PS Vita. Clearly one size is not going to fit all here. So I’ve created the game with an auto-adapting UI which (currently) has two modes. Above are two different screenshots, each taken in the small and large UI modes.
As you can see, the size of the text changes, as does the size of the dialogue box. When you get to prompts and menus, those are automatically resized too. The only things which doesn’t currently resize are the little buttons at the bottom right but only because I haven’t decided what I want to do with them yet.
All of this will be seamless when you play the game. Some platforms will set the mode automatically and others will let you choose but either way, it will “just work”.
One of the reasons that I’m developing “With Woman’s Tears” in Unity instead of Ren’Py or another established visual novel engine is that I like the flexibility that I get from rolling my own. These images are all exactly the same scene with exactly the same background and sprites and only a simple post-processing shader to give a different effect.
This allows me to make the characters feel part of the scene and to create variations of scene without creating new artwork. If we run into performance problems on mobile, we can simply drop the post-processing shaders there, but it’s a relatively cheap effect.
A few people have asked about character profiles and that seemed like a good idea, so I’ve started putting something together. We can’t give away too much about characters in the game because part of the mystery is figuring out who you can trust and what motives the characters have, but I’ll be putting together some “case files” for our main characters. Let’s start right now with Ben Levy.
The very first public screenshot from our new visual novel mystery “With Woman’s Tears” You assume the role of an FBI agent who comes to the sleepy town of Monmouth when a fourteen-year-old girl goes missing. Over ten days in Monmouth, you must find out what really happened to Madison. In this screenshot, you’ve just arrived in town late at night and you’re met by your police liaison.
Some WIP art for Alex, one of the characters in our in-development visual novel “With Woman’s Tears”. Alex is a student who works nights at the hotel where you stay for the duration of your investigation.
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