Trapped Update: Sprite Sketches

This is a short update.  I sat down and designed the remaining sprites for Trapped.  Unfortunately I drew the sprites out on paper.  This visual novel has a total of 8 sprites (main character, two love interests, five side characters).  I would like to get the hang of drawing completely on the computer someday, instead of starting first with paper.   When I am at a friend’s house, I often bring my sketchbook and not my computer.  The majority of my digital artwork is done at home.

Here are the two love interests that will be in Trapped:

A human scientist who works in the lab as an assistant scientist

A merman who has been stuck inside the underwater laboratory for a few months.

I will be working on these two for the next few days.

Unette's Sprite is Done

Just finished another sprite today. I am getting used to working in Photoshop Creative Suite 6. I am still going to look at few Photoshop and line art tutorials before working on the next sprite.

Emotions left to right are outraged, angry, shock, sad, happy, and default (neutral).

Unette is the foster mother of the protagonist Amenti.  Unette is a workaholic and willingly devotes most of her time to her job than her foster daughter.

Up next is one of the possible love interests, a human scientist in training named Bryan.

Facebook Page and Other Social Networking Sites

I just made a Facebook page today while doing sprite work.  On this Facebook page there will be folders (rough sketches, sprites, etc) for each visual novel I am currently working on, posts from my newly created Youtube account, and posts sharing what I am doing at the moment.

Why did I make a Facebook page?  Well there are people who like going to Facebook.  These people might not like Blogger.  I'm building my audience while I start young.

You can click here to go to my Facebook page.

Other places I am using:

My website
http://darksirengames.com
Youtube 
http://www.youtube.com/user/darksirengames
Google plus 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109872889681791527789/about
Deviantart
http://darksirenftw.deviantart.com/
pixiv.net
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=5665087
zazzle 
http://www.zazzle.com/darksirengames

Working on Second Sprite of Trapped

It is a nice feeling going deeper into developing Trapped, my first visual novel.

The second sprite’s name is Unette and she is the adoptive mother of the main character Amenti.  Her emotions will be…

• Defualt
• Mad
• Outraged
• Sad
• Embarrassed
• Happy

I think I a satisfied wit the website to stop messing around the design.  I ditched the bubble background I used to have. The website can be viewed through this link.

My Wordpress Site is Up and is in Work in Progress

Hi guys!

My site is currently up and running. I just wanted to let everyone know while I am building on the site. You can go to the website through this link here.

I'm happy I got this far. I would need to work more on my visual novel so I will be working on my visual novel first before the website. The first post can be viewed here. There will be posts that are different there than here. Of course I will be still on Blogger since some people might be more comfortable on Blogger than going to a website.

One Sprite Finished, Five More to Go

So Im finally on the road to finishing this visual novel. My first visual novel with all original artwork (about a year ago I made The Coin with the help of a tutorial and pictures from Google). The sprites will hopefully be all done in photoshop and the scenery line work in manga studio. I was using manga studio for a friend so I guess I'll keep up with the software through my visual novel development.

Below is Amenti, the main character of Trapped and her emotions. This visual novel is not going to be a long one so the emotions: default, happy, mad, sad, shock, blush (probably won't be used for her), and eyes closed. So far each character will have a sprite that the other characters do not. Amenti may not have a blush sprite but Bryan will have one.



Before there was Remember Me, The Walking Dead (game) and Assissian's Creed (Vita) I used to wonder about the lack of dark skinned characters or characters of African decent in video games. There is still a chance I will get to work at a mainstream video game company someday. I know most mainstream companies are concerned with what sells so most video game characters are made with safe designs in mind. Of course I know the importance of making money but it feels nice being able to experiment.

Opinion on My Wordpress Site

As you all know I have been making a website with Wordpress. I would like to have an opinion on my website as it is right now. I have not made the banner yet which will go on the top of the website. I am thinking of having a drawing of a mermaid in the logo.

I like the colors pink, white, and blue. I was going to make the background pink as pink is my favorite color but I thought that would be too much pink. If I see a video game website with a lot of pink, I assume the games are badly made girl games and I quickly leave the site. So a bit of pink is good enough for me. Please tell me what you think and please ignore the "Purchase and Confirmation" buttons. I was experimenting with plugins for digital downloads.

Trapped is coming a long nicely. I am currently doing the emotion sprites for Amenti since yesterday. Since doing so, I have realized that I barely draw character emotions in general. Adding emotions to the faces of any characters in drawings can make any artwork more lively. I post the finished Amenti sprite in the next blog entry.