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 DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

The last pic is filled with potential for a gag gallery.  Now to animate ...

Yay for Yu filled with moar angst.

Hungry Whispers Sprite Preview

lol sprite

Download the full version off my dA, my all-nighter can now end.

*collapses into bed*

Yu's compartment before/after

....I'm so silly ... I need to check whether the bg layer for the window is transparent or not for the moving animation...crap!

Hopefully the after crash bg looks way more sinister now....

Volume control, hand and eye icons

I thought that it would make sense to have the volume control on Yu's actual phone, although I think this was probably already suggested before.

Basically, on selecting the phone in the inventory there would be a volume button below the map button, which would make the phone show this :

On selecting mute, the volume of the game is muted, and selecting the blue bars raises or lowers the volume, or maybe it just needs to be hovered over.

Here are the pressed and unpressed buttons, and used and unused volume bars:

Also the eye and hand icons:

Sprite update!!!!

Say hello to my little friends.

Oh yeh, I dno which colour to go for, for the bartender's uniform so I'll wait til the bgs are done for it then it can either go with or against the decor.  Either way, he looks pretty snazzy in that jazzy vest.

Sprites done, now I'll focus on the audio for the a bit! YAY.

Painted Defib (sort of)

I have attempted to paint over the defib model...however it will probably need some more work LOL.

Post Pros of BGs / Notice

I believe I can finally say that the bgs for the train corridors and Yu's room are officially COMPLETE.  Feel free to post up feedback but I highly doubt I shall go back to tweak minor changes unless they're horribly obvious.

Minor change for the 2nd pic but once the player has talked to everyone on the train on day2, they'd need to click on the magazine on the shelf to trigger the magazine cutscene.  I tried to make the room 'colder' but I think I've failed and just made it look 'refreshing' compared to the other bgs.  Oh well. It's certainly not 'warmer' compared to the corridor scenes but 'creepy'...not sure.  May take back my word and only tweak Yu's room tomorrow when I figure out how to make this creepier.

Hmm okay this is the first time I'm seeing all these bgs together and I've definitely over done it with the red hues on carriage 4 LOL. Silent Hill 3 overdose anyone? Actually maybe it's a good thing that it's slightly OTT, it makes a contrast to the subtle-ness

If everyone approves minus the minor tweaks, I'd say these are done and ready to be inserted into the engine.

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NOTICE:
Mike: Could you just extend your CU glass of water to fit the dimensions of 1280x720, 72pp?
Rumzi: How's it going with the items and the bar?
ML: What's the status of the bar? And will you be able to get a replacement tablet pen to help Michelle colour some bgs? (I feel rly bad lol >__>).

I know I've got Rumzi & ML working on the bar but this is just to see what you guys can come up with lol.
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Michelle: Since I'm in the process of re-writing most of the bits on day2, how do you feel about doing some of the assets for the magazine cutscene?  I'll draw up thumbnails and talk you step by step on what I'd like you to do if that's okay?  I'm thinking about using the art styles used in the cutscenes of fragile dreams combined with the use of silhouette type art. No humans involved, just inanimate objects with suggestive creepy concepts with mostly black bgs. Rope Emma/Kelly into this if you feel overloaded lol.  I'm also thinking 4-5 different illustrations but I'll try and keep it down to just 4.
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Chris/Tim: if you guys are still up to date you will need to help me try and write the cutscenes lol.  Will get onto that asap and send it to you.
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Errol: Do you have any ideas for the bartender's uniform? Or anything that looks cool and snazzy to fit the bar? XD
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Jade: You gotta do loads of stuff man, cos you've been slackin'!
- EDIT DAY2 SCRIPT
- SPRITES (bartender, Kemi, Kenny, Riko, old man, rage guy)
- MUSIC
- CUTSCENES
- WRITE UP
- DON'T STRESS.

Aw crap I just realised I forgot to add the ambient glows to the light beams of the corridors.  Haha oh well, guess I'll leave it. >_<

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Train WIP: Yu's Room

An update of Yu's room on the train. I have grander plans for this yet, but time is of the essence at the moment! It shall be onto the bar next!

The curved shelf idea took inspiration from a concept sketch (It was either Mike or JD's I think) which had a curved chest of drawer unit. I'm a sucker for curves, but the chest of drawers was too large to fit in the room, so I incorporated it into the shelving/wardrobe unit. Then I though, hell it! Why not turf a light in the back of it adding another ambient light source to the room. Once that picture frame/tv screen is on, should be able to have some really nice lighting going on in here.

Yu's items for Day1

 Phone closed...

 Phone opened after examination...

Yu's fancy wallet, "Maul Smith" designer brand.

And his ticket with amended spelling.

I'll stop here for today in item colouring and go back to sprites XD.  TO THE TRAIN GUARD...after snoozies....

Yu's House 2

I think the house is done now. I also added the requested changes and put the floors on top of each other and added connecting stairs. If some areas seem completely black, it is just the weird default shadows, the ceiling is actually there lol.

Yu's house blue print update + Yu's train ticket lol

 Just to make the wall divider a bit clearer (see 3rd pic), front door label added to make it clear where the front door is (thanks Errol) XD.

 I probs should've added the red squares like downstairs but I believe the pic below will explain all...

 View point from front door into the left side of the archway towards the living room and the wall divider.

View to the other side of the archway, if Rumzi could change the chest of drawers thingy to waist height that'll be awesome.  If we can get this done, Michelle and maybe a few others can start painting over these for the time being?  ML needs some more time to sort out the train environments so until then, Rumzi will be helping out with the train stuff.  If anyone has free time, I suggest painting over the item designs that Rumzi has kindly done just so that we can get some assets finished!! Cheers!

Oh yeh, Yu's train ticket XD :

Yu's House 1

This is the basic shape of Yu's house (ground floor). I am almost done with the second floor, I just need to do the bathroom.

I kept things as basic as possible so that it is mainly the perspective and proportions that are intact. I think that some proportions are probably wrong so I will change that soon.

More Yu Sprite designs

WARNING: Large file size!

Here be some expressions using the 'Normal1' base, and I think I'll do some more expressions using 'Normal2' base which is one of my original sketches.

Mike already knows this but I'll explain the animation process here.  After our initial deadline 'scare' I've decided to scrap the frame by frame animation like how it's done in Phoenix Wright for now.  While it'll be nice to actually have a slightly more sophisticated animation, I'd rather get the majority of the work done to a good quality standard.  Perhaps Yu will be the most 'animated' character compared to the rest as he will have two different 'bases' for his expressions - who knows!  We can always add and fine tune any details if people are still up for making a full version after I hand this dissertation in!

I'm really motivated to release a full version too - I'm still getting a good amount of positive responses on dA and countless people has asked whether there will be a full ver and when it'll be out etc. etc. etc! I don't really wanna disappoint those people either ;)

Anyway think I'll have an early night (lol it's 5:30am) as the plumber is coming round in the morning to fix the bathroom tap and I'm apparently going to a dance workshop Jane Austen style for some Bathonian festival later in the afternoon so I maybe dead for the rest of the day.  If anything text of give me a call if anything.

Sprite designs

Well, finally got round to it.  I have to say...this style is looking pretty bad-ass!

With coloured scarf which I'm really liking the idea of.  Maybe all the other characters can also have one item of clothing that is textured and coloured?

Obviously this one looks a bit weird using a CU bg but with the other normal bg it should be ok. It looks mighty swell - though I may just make the outlines a bit thicker.

 ... I really love the idea of the single coloured item...O_O

Special Banksy styled edition XD I shall start doing Yu's other expressions as well as the other characters now.  This is getting pretty exciting :D :D :D (Also cheers for Errol for his company and feedback too! ^_^)

Yu's house blueprints

The scanned version is terribly messy and complicated so I've done a cleaner version of Yu's house.  Feel free to add any more detail 3D people!

Defib!

Here is the defib. This was the second attempt at one as the first one came out....weird. It looked melted for some reason..lol

I kept the paddles flat because on the images for the portable defibs they had flat sticky paddles. I guess because they are more portable. I can do the proper ones if you want though.