I truly realize how large a task it is to put together a really good OP (opening sequence) for your game.  The OP team finds itself scrutinizing every edit and every frame.  I think we still have more to go, but at least we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Anyway, every pass we make gets us closer.

Most of my time has been spent debugging the script as well as taking care of purely administrative/business things, but I have managed to crank out the Briel and End sequence scripting.  Also we’ve done some more of the OP/”demo movie,” but that is still only partially complete.  Hopefully we can power forward on those tasks.  At this point, we’re debugging script errors, adding in some of the conditional brnaching and dropping in backgrounds.  One last art dump should finish things, and then we have final testing/tweaking, package design…shopping around for retail partners…then we might actually start shipping these guys!

This was done as a composite image just so that I could get the visual height differences (master file had pixel height lines that I removed from the web version of the image), so some of the art doesn’t match perfectly.  And yeah, there are some cast missing…but…at least you can start to see the cast fall into place.

While I’m posting images, here is a production Settei of Ed’s friend at New Pacifica University (Earth), Tina.

I’m posting a tentative background.  We’re still working out some details, but I think this is the direction we will go.  This is the Vinatu Royal Academy’s fountain in the area known as the Garden.  Liora likes to read news here.

Whew, Liora and Seta scripts now complete.  Still waiting on Briel, along with the end sequences.  Then we integrate backgrounds, the H scenes and we should be pretty close.

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Kindee scripting done!  Note that there are still bits of the script that need to be changed, but the bulk of the scripting for the Kindee story arc is now in place.  On to Liora!

Well, took a bit longer than expected, but Elika’s story arc scripting is complete.  I’ve still got a few bugs, and the three size (no pun intended) scaling that I picked isn’t working out, so I’m going to have to make the difference in size even more dramatic to get the effect I want.  Still, progress is progress, now with Elika as a template, Kindee and Liora will go faster.  Hmm, yes, I’m also working on an arc for Seta and Briel too, so that means we have a little bit for everyone!

Anyway, back to work!