Why Not Share A Sketchy, Never Fully Finnished Design Of My OL1 Mc?

Visual Novels, Sprite Crops, and You

Ridiculously specific thing I'm thinking about (and this is in really broad strokes and will segue later) but something I've noticed is that English Visual Novels tend to have their character sprites cut off around the knees more than I usually see in Japanese VNs, where they'll cut off around the hips or waist (unless characters are supposed to be explicitly standing further away.)

(Screenshots from Hustle Cat, Dream Daddy, and Growing Up's Steam pages)

(Screenshots from Little Busters, Aokana, and White Album's Steam pages)

Obviously this is a huge oversimplification. I've seen lots of EVNs that have sprite crop at the hips or thighs and vice versa.

But I think there's interesting presentation benefits to both methods.

If you crop at the knees, you can see more of the character designs, and probably fit more characters onscreen without it feeling as cramped. That would be useful for third person games, where you'll probably have more than one character on-screen for most of the game, if you decide your main character should have their own sprite when they talk.

The hips method, on the other hand, could make the speaking character feel closer to the camera/an invisible first-person protagonist. I think that could promote a more "intimate" feeling, which could be desirable in romance games.

It also never hurts to experiment with visuals that zoom in and out on the sprites, with varying crops.

(Screenshots from Muv-Luv's VNDB page)

For example, I think Muv-Luv looks fantastic. It positions the characters on a sort of 3D plane, and I remember it having small camera pans. It's useful for immersion, even before it begins showing action sequences. I know it's taxing to direct, but I've always wished more VNs looked like Muv-Luv. It's also a game from 2003, which makes it doubly impressive.

I've heard minori titles like Supipara and eden*, or Type-Moon titles like Mahoutsukai no Yoru or the Tsukihime remake are also a cut above the rest in how "cinematic" they feel, but I have less familiarity with those games (although I'm planning to play them in the future). I'm also running low on space in the post to add many more pictures, and expressing the focus on "movement" in more cinematic VNs is difficult to do with still images.

I don't really have a point to end on, these are just some assorted visual novel thoughts.

Is it finnished? Hell nahhhhhh

Do I keep it rockin'? Hell yeeee 😏

How can I NOT repost this to my one follower to see i love everything abt this

I have a VISION🥺

GROW.

Throwback to the unfinished peace

WIP of my oc from @collegetennisoriginstory 🤧

A REALLY good if 🩷🩷

Once it's fully done I'll post it again, as well as a good little chunk of get to know her spam text hehehe

Shoutout to Chris he's my favorite white boy

Bruh. Why did I read this and immediately think of "go white boy, go white boy GO! go white boy, go white boy GO!"

I have it stuck in my mind now. Thanks, Anon.

Our Life: Ages

Well, as far as I can tell, this is accurate. So, here y'all go I guess!

The colours coincide with the games btw, and their respective Steps from - 1 to 4. BlueGreen for OLBA, GoldOrange for OLNF.

It doesn't have all the ages, but it has most of the relevant ones presently. I'll probably make another one later with the NF parents and extras too, but I just wanted this one for easy reference atm.

So... Who's ready to meet Eliana? Prepare yourselves to enter the Realm of the Fae in Chapter 12, releasing May 9th at 9 A.M. EST. 

Early access on Patreon starts on May 4th for the Midnight Tier, and May 6th for the Twilight Tier.

IN THIS CHAPTER.

Reassure [A] that everything will be alright (because it will... right?)

Discover some new nervous habits from Blane

Reveal a new side to N (or has that always been there?)

Attempt to analyze K's thoughts

Wonder why Rylan is being... quiet for once?

Additionally, Chapter 12 includes three (!!) one-on-one scenes with the RO of your choice in anticipation of the upcoming romance lock

STATS.

Game Total: 572,090 words (+60,665)

It's also been a while since I've done this, but I'll be posting sneak peeks from the chapter up until release date, starting tomorrow.

I'm so excited for everyone to read this! Thank you all for being so patient and I will see you very soon <3

Hey all, it's ya girl, Tulipwallowing (I made this tumblr just to follow IFs and this is my first post)Here's my @infamous-if tattoo!!! I think it turned out so good and I'm so happy with it!!! Special thanks to Amy for allowing me to get a tattoo for Infamous!!! The SD is Seven's initials that MC has in game (does this make me the worlds biggest sevenmancer? (no)), the 7 initial inbetween the S and D was inspired by @somewillwin 's fanart, and the star is just the infamous logo. The "Rock n' Roll saved my soul" is from the Infamous Tumblr's description!!!! Infamous has been extremely cathartic for me. My father passed away suddenly and unexpectedly- I'd been an infamous reader for a while and had thought how cool it would be to get an Infamous tattoo- but Infamous provided me a mental escape during the whole process and I spent most of my time on the 60 hour train journey thinking about or playing Infamous, and it made me eternally grateful. I loved being subbed to the patreon and getting to read everything- so I thought, why not honor (it feels so pretentious to say it's honoring but I can't think of another word...) Infamous with a tattoo? My idea was originally just to put the S7D, but I figured go big or go home, and worked tirelessly (in ms paint for about 9 minutes lol) to make a slightly bigger tattoo. I worked through several designs and eventually settled on the one you see here (refined by Sierra Lynn ofc!!) My artist was @sierralynneart on instagram at Crow's Nest tattoo! Thanks to her for doing my second ever tattoo!!! (seven claims their first ever irl victim with the tattoo) Feel free to ask any questions about getting tattoos or the process!!! I can also share my concept art/the digital version of this if anyone wants it!

Tramell Tillman in SEVERANCE 1.07 // 2.10