Education is the key to success

I’ve planned to release the next demo by now but my beta testers (huge thanks!) have suggested me some changes which I’m trying to bring into effect. Please be patient.

In the meantime I’m working on a new location which shell be Adalbert’s library (the books Myosotis have used to persuade the Wiseman came from Adalbert). He’s a scholar and he’s living in an old library. Although a new building for the university library was erected students still prefer to use the old one. Especially that its owner eagerly serves with them advise.

Below is a conceptual sketch and the final drawing for this location. Firstly I didn’t indent to make it such a busy place but then I thought that the students would bring a little more life to it. The building itself was inspired by a library I found in Poland in the city of Jelenia Gora.

conceptual sketch

final drawing

Main menu

Quick look on the main menu I was talking about previously. It will show at the beginning of the game and every time a player will hit the “escape” key.

main menu

load window

quit window

Game poster #01

I’m working now on a main menu for the game which I will show in a few days. But for now, being tired of programming, I decided to make myself a brake and draw an illustration for the game, something like a game poster. I’ll probably make some more in the future.
This one presents two half faces. One is Myosotis (the main hero of the game) and the second belongs to Griffe (who was described a post ago).

Griffe

He may look like an evil boss character our hero could meet at the end of the game but looks can be misleading. That doesn’t mean that he does not have anything on his conscience, but on the other hand – who hasn’t? The real reason why he’s not an evil boss character is that this game doesn’t have any. Is the world a better place without them? Not necessarily cause evil can handle itself easily without them.

So who is this guy? Well, one more mystery to solve, that's for sure.

I’m not certain how to name him. He’s original name I gave him years ago was Griffe, which means “Claw” in French. Maybe I’ll stay with that or maybe You have some ideas?

Sketches

Here are some quick sketches of some characters you shall meet during the game. I’ll not give away any details concerning them by now. You will have to wait for the color version of them with I promise to deliver soon.

Vacations

I’m going on a vacation so for about 4 weeks there shall be no new posts about the progress of the game. That does not mean that I’m not working on it.

Nice vacation to you all.

Neesan - older sister

Neesan, older sister of Myostis, is another character of the “Trader of Stories” game. She's a shoulder to cry on but can also quickly put you in place. Being a single mother on a husk farm is a hard full-time job and requires a strong hand and even more stronger will.

I present here her character in the game environment (from sketch to final design), a conceptual sketch and some cutscenes with her.

conceptual sketch of Neesan

Neesan preparing a meal (in game environment)



a shoulder to cry on…


and a helping hand when needed