Kosmic
Monday, April 1, 2024
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Skye artwork plus other news
とにかく、このキャラはスカイ・チオネー、新月都の近くの山の上で城に住んでいるハーピーです。その城は都市が化物と妖魔で氾濫したのとき最近現れただけ。その前にスカイは普通な市民だけでした、しかし荒野育ちでしで人間社会とその法律が好きではない外国人だ。現在の混迷を気になりないでも琴音の闘いを見ているで楽しみを見出す、時には道にもっと障害物を増やす。
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Onward
So 2024 is just around the corner, there's still a lot of things I want to finish before I show more gameplay. I feel like December was mostly a successful month of progress, 2 more stages of the 4 I had left are 90% complete minus enemies and some missing background elements. Although some of the earlier ones now I feel like I may need to go back again and improve slightly as I don't think the quality is quite on the same level as the more recent areas as a result of many refinements to the game over time. I added another type of magic that has a more unique ability compared to the other spells, there's one more left I have to make. That's all I really have to say for now, I feel before February I should have all the stages and areas in the game finished as long as there's no setbacks. So next year expect to start seeing some more substantial news once spring comes around.
Also I want to thank everyone who helped me reach 1K in pledges on Patreon, I can work more comfortably now than I have in the past not having to think about bills as much. With this though I'll have to work even harder to ensure VD gets finished and the final product delivers.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Last month of the year...
Another month already over, I know many want to know what's happening, and whether another demo is coming. Well good news is I feel like I made a lot of progress this month, more than I usually get done at least. I've added and polished multiple areas in the game, made some existing parts a little longer. I still have around 4 stages not finished, though 2 are in the early phase of development. The world map overall has changed pretty dramatically since the last version but people probably won't notice much since the demo only covers a small portion. I say world map, what I mean is the hubs that connect between areas were initially just save points, sometimes you find the ghost merchant there. I made there areas more interconnected with more to find. The actual map screen that you see on the pause menu also looks different and more detailed.
Bad news is all of this work means I haven't been able focus on any other aspects of the game like the enemies, dialogue, abilities, music for a while and will likely be that way for a least a couple more months. So the game is still not very presentable past the early stages unfortunately and even making any gifs/videos doesn't feel right at this time now with how bare it is. So even though I said January might be a possibility for a new demo update, most likely that won't be happening...
Which honestly is hard for me to have to admit, as I feel like I've been working on this game forever, not to mention MR which can't focus on at all right now, and many are eager to see more. However Vivid Dead means everything to me, and I won't rest until it is completed and polished to highest quality I can make it.
Monday, September 25, 2023
Summit Hut
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Forest Foes
I've been moving around a lot lately and am no longer living where I have been the last 5 years, or even permanently settled where I am now, so it's been a little harder for me to focus on development than usual. But I've gotten back to a more steady pace for now at least.
Risa's animations are just about finished though still needs a lot of play testing, another major character Skye whose role I haven't touched on much still needs work but is about 2/3s done animation wise.
A lot of people are probably expecting to see more H content here but understand that VD has a limited amount of that and I don't want to show everything too early. The female characters Sayomi, Hano, along with Risa and a couple others can get grabbed by enemies as well, so I have to keep the amount just for Kotone at reasonable level.
Stages wise I haven't made much progress TBH since the late update, still around 4 left that need to be started. The one water stage I made a gif of before felt slightly bland and I ended up mostly redesigning. Also a few still need music which I'm trying to get to now. One thing I want to improve is the save areas in between the stages, I feel like some more secrets or sidequests added to them might help make the world feel a bit more alive, but that's still up in the air for now.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Short Vivid Dead Update
I've had a bit of rough time the last few weeks getting everything done that I wanted. While I've been trying to avoid it as much as possible, I had to go back and rebuild some areas a in order to fit with changes made to the game's flow, and ultimately decided to remove some stages that I was planning so that I could put more effort into other areas of the game that I think still need it. Some parts of the cut areas I merged into the existing ones however. At this point there's 5 stages left I know I definitely need to make, and the ones already there now mostly just need more polish and tweaks. There's also some enemies, items, NPC I still need to make and add to them. Like I said before, VD won't likely be a very long game but I don't want to give away the total number of stages just yet. The castle area, as you can maybe guess is the last one, which very early on, before I changed the art style, was going to be a hub and the player would be traveling to different worlds Portrait of Ruin style, but I later thought it would be better to have the player work their way to the castle so you could see it in background in later areas.