This is a long term project of mine! I usually end up forgetting to actually finish quite literally most of my projects however so this is my method of keeping myself accountable. I have a tumblr blog for my deltarune fan project however, so if you want to deal with that go over to bre-hub on tumblr.
Anyways, have my ramblings.
Everything's good, progress on the script is steady and it's working up to about 3,000 words now. Which means the prologue is complete and chapter 1 is roughly halfway done, maybe a third if it wants to be a little longer.
But the main reason I'm writing this entry today is because I've settled on a couple major art style elements and finished Yugi's and Kaiba's designs. And considering their relationship is very crucial to my version of the story, I wanted to get these done first.
originals:
new:
Most of the differences are actually pretty subtle, I wanted to give Yugi less of an anime protag face and make his more afrocentric features more prominant, I gave Kaiba bigger ears, and the color pallete is more muted. Vibrant colors are very very imporant to Yugioh's visual identity but having a muted baseline for more everyday scenes that would benefit from one would be beneficial to a completed projects visual identity.
I also decided that each character's signiture color would shown in not just their eyes, but also in the shadows around their noses. Yugi and Yami actually have different colors, so when Yami possesses Yugi the purple will turn hot pink (also featured in Yugi's design).
That's all for now, I'll try to come around again if I make more progress on the visual aspects of the project or if we get a couple more thousand words down.
These definitely will not be coming out everyday but I just want to talk about how this thing is being written and what things I can do myself. I can write this by myself, I have written things of at least passable quality before and probably will again. I can also draw, it would be concerning if I couldn't seeing that this website hosts my art portfolio. So I can do the character designs, I can do the concept art, and I can make comics if I want to suffer. The main things that are going to hold me back in this process are: my inability to do 3D art (I'm heavily considering using low poly 3D elements in this game), I also can't really animate (this I may force myself to learn since I've been meaning to learn for years), also if this does end up being a "real" video game as opposed to a "fake" one, I can't code. These are all things that are going to conflict with this coming into existence so keep that in mind when reading these logs.
Anyways- this log is being started right after a hard reset on the script. The previous version got to about 10,000 words with long breaks happening every couple thousand words and I lost track of important story elements. So this time around I''m putting extra emphasis on making those story elements unavoidable and up front. Considering I'm much more of a pantser than a plotter this is very very important. The new version of the script as of today is at 2200~ words, the prologue is 100% done and chapter 1 is about a fourth of the way done. The main priority along integrating the new story elements I want to include is making this just exist. So the first time I say the script is done that will be the script will absolutely no editing because if I edited while writing this would never exist. But at that point I will be sure to go fully in on the art and finalizing as many designs as possible.
Anyways, thats all, 6 days till christmas, I'll probably be makiing just general stead progress on this and personal stuff over the holidays. Have some very happy holidays or else there will be hitmen waiting for you at your home.
Hello! My name is Harrier, I'm a plural but when talking about ourselves we're going to use I for the sake of clarity.
The original Yugioh anime and manga were a formitive aspect of my childhood, as it was for many other people. This aspect of my life is not unique, including me growing older and discovering more about art and becoming just a generally more mature person. Unlike most people however I'm trying to make a fangame that will probably rip the original story apart and glue it back into a new monstrous form. A few things about this project up front: I am very queer, and very nuerodivergent, whatever form this project takes this will be heavily reflected. I am also a communist, this will also reinform my retelling so if you do not want politics in your yugioh please go somewhere else. A more technical thing about this project is that it also may end up being a "fake video game", if you do not know what a fake videogame is please watch the Super Eyepatch Wolf video on the subject. This is due to the fact that I do not have the band with to learn how to code, there may or may not be pacing issues if it did become a real videogame, and releasing a series of youtube videos over a long period of time is much easier to do than figuring out how to release stuff on steam.
Anyways!!! Please enjoy whatever I end up putting on here!!!
(pictured: older concept sketches)