Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta The Knife of the Traitor. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta The Knife of the Traitor. Mostrar todas las entradas

jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2014

Che store!

Che store is now open! (Click)
If you follow my tumblr then you know that i’ve been working stuff for a small store. It ships internationally and of course it only features characters from my games! It will be open until the first week of December, I will open it again hopefully with new items.

domingo, 18 de agosto de 2013

I'm K.O.

Hello everyone! I'ts been long since I've posted here!
I'm kind of feeling crushed for personal reasons, but I guess this is sadly good fuel for my creativity. At this point, you will have noticed that my work is hevily propelled by my mood, which sounds sickly pretentious btw...orz

As always, I'm going to update all of you with my current projects:

The Girl in Red: Well, the GUI art is still on concept because me being damn slow with everything lately. Yet I think I like a lot what I'm planning here. Probably my GUI's feel pretty old fashioned because it tends to have a lot of kitschy elements everywhere, but I'm trying to have a balance here.






It's quite sketchy but...What do you guys think?

The Hurtful Wall: Can you see the little poll on the right? I'm amazed of how many people have voted for THW to be finished. I promised everyone who was waiting for it that I will get it done.
I'm leaving this greatly spoilerish sprite of Lois. It's my favorite btw.
This is how Lois looks when she got an sprite...And why should she have an sprite when you play as her?
Any guess? (At this point, I don't even know if I'm making any sense with this crappy english of mine)

TKOT: Everyone got their prizes yay! I just need to draw the remaining ones that I offered everyone!

I think thats...All haha.

jueves, 20 de junio de 2013

Anouncing Winners!

The time has come!

Fanart Category Judge: Clua


-First Place- Carassaurat!
Carassaurat takes Os, Corvus and Vosges to the sick world of noir gangsters! I actually prefer colored ilustrations but the strong shadows and soft gray highlights got me here. The interpretation of the characters  in this universe is totally fun, even if they are set on a serious looking mood. I love the fact also it's presented like a mockup screen of an actual game(I was very tempted to draw everyone on this style!)
Carassaurat displays his skills to take TKOT characters to another level making them look more realistic, more human(You see, they have nose!) Yet, because of the nature of the original designs, they  look  bizarre! Out of place! I think this is why this entry is my favorite.

-Second Place-Okumis!
This entry....IS TOO CUTE! It's actually the first one I recived and gave me hope to continue the contest :_:
Okumis drew an adorable entry, where Os is a thief and Gervase is the law here, a policedogman(Dear blog follower, I hope by this time, found Corvus there)
The pallete choose is vibrant and the flats and gradients are placed correctly, so it gave an ilusion of volume. I've actually had a hard time with this entry and the third place winner. I think both have their strong points and weakness. I choose this one as second because Gervase. Even if Os looks a little bit OCC there for me, Gervase is perfectly characterized for being in another dimension.


-Third Place-Merula O!
Merula O drew almost all characters from the game and placed them into a gang. A japanese school gang!
They have interesting clothes! I love particularly the ones choose for Os. She really looks badass there!
My main problem with this entry is how characters are portrayed. I can understand Os being bossy, but
the remaining characters are not expressive enough for me to catch their personalities. Even so, I believe this entry is great because of the amount of work and love put into it.That's why I choose it for the third place.




Fanfic Category Judge: Anarchy


-First Place- Niz!

This entry consists of some strong scenes and characterization choices. The author adheres to canon characterization for the most part, but also extrapolates and builds upon them, adding fun little details, moments, and interactions like Gervase bringing Os a towel, or Vosges snarking at Os's unexpected contributions to the student council, as well as reinterpreting them to great effect, like Lilja still being preoccupied with death but advocating against it, which seemingly helps to trigger Os's decision to start changing.

The structure of this fic is... interesting. We move through four perspectives - Lilja, Gervase, Vosges, and Os, and it progresses chronologically as well, which means that with each shift we're getting more and more information about Os from different perspectives, including information about that character's relationship with Os as well as their thoughts on her issues... but is the story actually progressing? It seems like the classic conflict - climax - resolution structure has been heavily skewed. We start off the story with the exposition, jump straight to the Lilja section with Os being all introspective and questioning herself (and possibly considering death) and then making up her mind to change ("hardening into some sort of resolve"). The rest of the fic is focused on the aftermath of that - Gervase, Vosges, and Os's sections are like a very extended resolution section where Os goes through the steps of starting to change - dismissing Gervase, doing student council work, letting Vosges go, and so on.

Most significantly... there's not much conflict in this entry, making it feel like less of a story and more of a vignette. Os comes to her decision fairly early in the piece, and the rest of it is just carrying it out without anything hindering her, so what we have here is a description of Os starting to change, instead of the story of how she came to that resolution. There's no real conflict or struggle, per se. Reading this is a more sedate affair where the author trickles little details down to you and you meander around the various perspectives to pick them up and put them together to form a complete picture. But even then, because Os's struggle is so under the surface, you don't really feel a sense of accomplishment or climax when you reach the end when we reach Os's perspective and the conclusion she reached earlier on finally becomes explicit - she's going to change. We haven't been following her struggles, we've been following her resolution of those struggles.

I like how for the most part, the story gives you details and expects you to get what's going on without spoon-feeding you exactly what Os is thinking, thanks to the constantly changing perspective, but a side-effect of that is that when you hit the ending, it seems rushed, almost like an afterthought or an answer sheet that infodumps a summary of what this story and Os's emotional arc was all about.

I also enjoyed that this fic was a twist on the TKOT narrative, by having Os reflect and change withoutkilling herself, thanks to Lilja's words. It's a fitting bit of irony that he's the patron of suicidals in the original work. It's a scaled down version of TKOT's narrative, even more scaled down than TBOT, because this is dealing with a schools and the individuals within it, which gives Os more space to develop as a character without having to resort to something as extreme as suicide in order to trigger character development. Too bad we don't actually get to see much development, since the transition from cruel Queen to wanting to change is so... abbreviated.



-Second Place- Camille!

This entry has a very simple yet effective premise, and a relatively fresh one too, compared to the well-worn high school setting. What if you take the narrative of TKOT and transpose it onto the bread-making industry? It's manages to hit a similar tone to the original in terms of the balance between drama and light-heartedness, and adds a cute rivalry-type dynamic to Corvus's and Os's relationship. Despite being the most well-rounded, concise, and polished entry, however, it seemed too much like a step-by-step retread of the original TKOT's dramatic arc, or at least of Corvus's route. The characterization is faithful and well-executed, and it's interesting to see these character dynamics reinterpreted in this very different, realistic setting, but it didn't seem to bring much new to the plate, which is why I chose to put it in second place.



-Third Place- Jasmine_Joy!

The one factor that placed this ahead of Meli's entry was the fact that Jasmine_Joy actually attempted to write a story about the characters of TKOT. Despite Meli's entry being somewhat better written and more polished than Jasmine's, it reads as the author shoehorning the characters of TKOT into a pre-existing story with stock characters. Jasmine_Joy's entry, despite being rougher, had more heart to it, and the characters have personalities that actually echo their canon characterizations.


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Congratulations to all the winners! I thought to give a little reward to everyone who participated and didn't win anyway. So I will contact you soon :D!!

lunes, 3 de junio de 2013

Contest Entries!!

Hello everyone!
I'm sorry I didn't posted this before, but this are the entries we got for the contest :D

Fanart Category(They are in order they were summited)

By Okumis
By Kathryn

 By Merula O
By Pandora

By Mink

By  Carassaurat


Fanfic Category(They are in order they were summited)







As I said before the judging will take a week(Probably less but a week is fine for you all to apreciate the entries) After that, we will announce the winners of each category.

Good luck to everyone and thank you so so much for participating!! :A:

domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

A small teaser!

So yeah, for the ones that doesn't know about my tumblr, I've been posting small teasers of  TKOT prizes!
This is basically all but the stickers and prints, I will go defenitely this week for them! But I'm glad I have everything else done! :A:
 A little comparsion of the things with my local currency(Peruvian sol) also from Japan and Paraguay(Lol I swear I had us currency and also canadian I guess I lost it!)
 Annd This are the stickers! The packing actually. I said there would be 6 stickers but I changed my mind so I made an sticker sack containing 24 small ones

Hope you guys have fun if you join! I'm doing my best to make a rewarding prize for both categories :D

miércoles, 13 de febrero de 2013

Neewwsss..!

Yes, this post again. Follow me meanwhile I eat this giant bowl of chocolate corn flakes and soy milk(YUCK)

About my games/projects:

+I wish I could, but I'm not entering nanoreno this year. Mostly because two reasons:
-I'm already full with other projects I'm helping + commisions + freelance work. I'm afraid doing nano will eliminate myself of the planet.
-Even if I might not enter, I already had an idea! And because I was impatient...I already started writting about it(see the following point of games/projects)

-I've been thinking for a long time about making a game about cannibals. Nano was the perfect excuse to make it reality! But as I said above, I might not enter this year...Anyway, I started a few weeks ago to write it.I don't want to make the same mistake as Eyes of Wilderness...To start writting and doing art in pararel, For me that's a great mistake...I would rather finish writting all of it and then doing the art-

So Le filet mignon was born(as my sister translated me, it means "the cute fillet" )
Have some concept art...This is all I will have until I finish the whole script. Wish me luck :D
What is about? Well, it's something very light...In the same lightness of TKOT(but this would not be comedy!) Might not spoil anything yet...All I can say that the heroines are all cannibals. But our protag can't be eaten that easily(You see him blue? Well, that's for a reason)

Ange, your protag-chan. (20 years old)
Ange and his brother Bryce(24)

Priestess Arianne (20) Totally not Annaise lol.
 Priestess Leonor(23)

Priestess Rayne(21)

I'm staying late some days to write more about it. So I guess more than 10k for arround May is not impossible? lol. Oh yeah. This is a BxG game or whatever. You can go through 4 heroines routes(3 shown in the concept art, one secret)And you can have 3 ends with each of them(love?, friendly and well, yeah, eaten or even worse than eaten haha)

+I've been thinking to throw an Eyes of wilderness demo. Would you like that? It's still quite incomplete.Lacks of various cgs and some insert stories...

+Don't forget there is an ongoing contest for The Knife of the Traitor!

About projects I'm helping with!:

Basiliska: I'm on the CGs now! One is almost done yay! After all cg, GUI is what needs to be done.

American Jurassic: Yesssss sprite art on the way.(Will not say anything else)



viernes, 8 de febrero de 2013

TKOT_Character Poll

This is something I did a while ago but never posted it...orz
I made a TKOT character poll last year, and the winner was Corvus!
This is a little interview with some facts of him: (Spoilers ahead.)

viernes, 18 de enero de 2013

The Knife of the Traitor-CONTEST!

There is 8 days left guys! Please don't miss the deadline! Good luck everyone ;D
UPDATE ON FANFIC CATEGORY 22/05:
There is no wordcount limit! Please, just be sure it's an auto-conclusive story.

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Celebrating the game is now one year older(On April!) I've decided to host a little contest in gratitude of all the plays the game had!(Thank you so much guys!)


.WHAT TO DO?.
-There will be two categories(Fanart and Fanfiction) Choose which one you like most.
-Draw two or more characters of the game(keep it safe for work)in an alternate universe!(But keep their clothes essence and color scheme the same)eg: Os got bones and eyes all over her, Vosges has mushrooms etc.
-Write about two or more characters on an alternate universe!(But keep their personality, relations and roles the same, eg: Os is a queen, SPOILER: Corvus is an slaved prince, Vosges is a peasant/magician, Gervase is an animal and Lilja is a god.)Safe for work also. (Wordcount between 1000 to 3000) Just spoke with Anarchy, she says there's no need for wordcount limit. So be free to extend your fic if you need it!(Just make sure it's auto-conclusive)


.RULES.
-The contest ends on May 29th.(Peru Time)
-You can only participate in one category.
-You can't show your entry on any public internet site until the contest ends!
-Submit your entries to i_polty@yahoo.es with the subjet "TKOT contest_Fanart category" or  "TKOT contest_Fanfic category"  (Please be sure to do it so!)

.JUDGING.
-The fanart judge will be me(lol) And fanfic judge will be Anarchy.
-The most creative and well worked entries will have the best chance to win.
-There will be no changes on which ones we will choose as winners.
-Around June 1st or 2nd we will post all the entries for you all to see, and a week later, we will post which ones are the winners.

.PRIZES.
-There is one prize for each category's winner, and it's the following:
Decided to add more prizes for second and third place:
FIRST PLACE(For both categories)

-A pencil pouch/cosmetic bag feauturing the characters of the game.(There are two colors, purple and green. I will send them at random)
-A little brooch of Lady Os.
-Two bones hairclips.
-Two eyeballs hairclips.
-Two A5 prints of the game. A mini artbook (probably just 4 pages long) featuring the events after the tower...(Yeah, not pictured there, I need to work on the ilustrations!)
-Cute Traitor sticker sack(24 sticker flakes in total)


SECOND PLACE(For both categories)

-A cellphone charm set of Gakuen Traitor(Contains 5 charms)
-Cute Traitor sticker sack(24 sticker flakes in total)

THIRD PLACE(For both categories)
-A dressup game just like this one

I will sent this prizes worldwide! So have in mind that I will require your home address to do so.

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Updated this with the prize photos, sorry if they are blurry if you want any zoom to any of the prizes let me know! So far you can see all of my teasers here
I've haven't recived entries yet :_:

Happy New Year!.....Late!

Hey guys! Happy-late-New year! Hope everyone started with the right foot(if not, don't worry! Things happen...)
As always, some news:

+Carrogath and I started working on Basiliska again, I'm doing the remaining art for it to be complete :D!
Please wait for the final result! Meanwhile have a little preview...hehe:
Here is a wip Logo of the game(Yes! I'm doing GUI work too...Scary, right?)


+I'm working on American Jurassic sprite art too, sadly I can show you anything yet!

+I'm not sure if I will be able to do Nano this year, I would love to! Because I already have the characters and the idea in mind but maybe it's for the best that I start working on my own projects after I finish something with my other fellows haha.

+Yes, I'm still working on the bg tutorial orz...Maybe I should release it as parts.

+The Knife of the Traitor will oficially have a contest this year! I'm getting by mail parts of the prizes lol. I will write the rules and some other stuff as soon as I finish this  blog entry.
Have a little teaser of what would they be on this tumblr post

I think that's all! ;D

...No silly Clua! It's not everything! And the best comes in the end!
The Knife of the Traitor won the best comedy category on VNs Now! EVN awards.
Here you can see which were the nominated ones, and which ones were the winners!
Also The Knife of the Traitor was mentioned on Anonl's best of EVN!

Thank you so much for everything!!

viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2012

Almost Christmas!

Not really!
Here I bring some news.

I've been saying on the previous blog entries that I've been working on another project besides The Girl in Red and American Jurassic, that's Basiliska by Carrogath!


I'm glad to say that all sprite art is done :D, and posibly only CGs and GUI is remain to be done and all art of the game will be finished yay!
Here is a sneak peek of Orson, because I didn't had his sprites done when I did the image above:

About American Jurassic, now I been a little off the proyect because christmas was comming and I wanted to give presents to my family and consumerism etc...But I will be able to show some progress on the following months! Btw did you saw the Halloween drawings I did for AJ and TKOT?
Have another tiny Emily:


Annd to end this  news entry I just wanted to say thank you again to the ones who are still playing my games, I'm sorry I'm not developing any of my personal proyects(yet) The last week I wrote a little bit of Eyes of Wilderness because I strongly felt that I needed to write at least a little bit.

For all the people who liked The Knife of the Traitor, I'm planning to have an small contest next year, luckly with phisical prices for both fanart and fanfiction category :D! (Yeah, that was the surprise I was talking about hehe)

sábado, 22 de septiembre de 2012

News!

This is my important post!
As many of you, life has hit me with an iron glove(In the jaw, breaking my teeth. I bleed a lot)
So I questioned myself about many things, listing them would be boring and I will go down the
category of master whiner.

All I can say is the following:

I've been helping some folks of the VN medium as an artist, to fullify their projects. And because of this, I will have a long hiatus on my own projects. Hopefully I will go back to them soon! I been thinking on another projects to do because I really like the medium haha.

First, I offer my help to the developers of American Jurassic(Visit them!)
I thought to just color sprites or something like that, because I'm pretty insecure of my drawing abilities. But they encouraged me to do some sketchs for the sprite art. I think this project have a LOT of potential, that's why I wanted to be part of even doing something little. I'm very glad I'm helping as an artist, this will be totally a challenge worth trying and dying(Most posibly the last one)
So this are some sketches I've been doing, I won't show them fully because I don't want to ruin the characters updates haha. Have a little teaser!


There is also another project I've been helping out. Kaleidofish(Visit her!) kindly hired me for her upcomming visual novel The Girl in Red.(Should I capitalize those? orz) I'm a complete sucker for fantasy setting stories, they blow my mind when It comes to character creation.Gladly I can say almost all the sprite art is done(I'm on it!!) I will not show the whole sprites here too. This is an small teaser of them(with an stupid 3d filter :u)
Annnnnnd there is a third project I will be working on! But that's secret, I can't say anything yet! But I'm gladly waiting for the oportunity to say it.

Finally I want to thank you to all the people who is playing my games, Tkot reached 3791 downloads (pc)
526(mac) and 89(linux)...That`s a total of  4406 downloads!(Not counting the previous version dowloads and the German and French translations downloads!) I think thats a lot! I've never thought one of my games would reach such a great volume of people playing it! The Hurtfull Wall, even as a demo, got tons of downloads too(242) I've been preparing an small surprise! But I will not say anything yet! D:!

Enjoy the fanart I've recived lately. I'm sorry I didn't upload this before!
Thank you so much for this :A:!

 Elsaa by Auro Cyanide!
Os by Cinnamoon!
Os and Gervase by Junawashere!
Os and Corvus by Nathaniel-Aoife!
(She is making her own VN take a look!)
Little Os and little Corvus by SilverHyena!


The Knife of the Traitor- Translations!!

Hi guys! This is your lame so called developer giving sings of being alive.
I will make a triple post today, regarding updates of the games and one tutorial I debt...orz
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The Knife of the Traitor is fully translated into the following languages:


RUSSIAN-Thanks to WKS
***Another Russian translation was done by Jiyuu VN!***

GERMAN-Thanks to Marcel Weyers

FRENCH-Thanks to the folks of Tsukiyo Novel

Hopefully more translations will come!

lunes, 2 de julio de 2012

Where I am?


I'm here, and with that I'm refering to being at home.I been trying to get some commisions lately, but
I guess I'm not good at selling my things.
Well, let's talk about what you really care of: Games.

Eyes of Wilderness: So this is my big project, not big exactly on size, but in content.

I'm happy to see that people is seaching on google about it! I was very surprised because I've only mentioned...twice? outside the blog.

So this are my sprites, the first one is mr. MC(Vagabond, yeah he is very thin) on the next row there is Kina the bear(Like Kina Malpartida, a peruvian boxer ha..Don't punch me..:A: )And on the final row is this girl and I will not spoil more!

Please note that I'm only posting the pose sprites(the expresions goes over these sprites and they are a lot!)




The Hurtfull Wall: I had a mayor block on the resolution of the story. Because the explanation of what was happening was waayy to fantastic, and at some point I want it to be at least a little bit of belivable.I tend to center a lot more on character interactions and how they feel about that instead of developing the plot, and in THW I think its very notorious(apart of being inconsistency, the visual)
Anyway I'm planning to finish this! Have a little spoiler :D!




The Knife of the Traitor: IT'S JULY ALREADY HOLYFFFSHI***
Luckly I wrote a considerably amount of words on Corvus child flashback.And to tell the truth, I'm kind of doubtfull If I will make it for the end of July, but you are totally going to get your game!
Oh right! Corvus won the character popularity poll...I have a little surprise for that haha.

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Next update will be an outdoors background painting process/tutorial!






viernes, 1 de junio de 2012

Lovely Fanart from lovely people

I know I should have uploaded  this waaaaaaaay before...orz
First with The Knife of the Traitor!
A super moe Os by Destiny Odisse!
More Vosges Love!(A grown up version) This one is from Myobi Marishka!
Os with her sexy look was made by Kersplode!
EEEEEEEEEEEEE This super cute doggies were drawn by my friend Juna was here!

Now with The Hurtful Wall

Beauty Lois in white dress by Jeje!

Elsaaaaa!! By LePapillionRouge!
And this is another Elsa, she looks evil XD By Lumen Astrum!

And finally with Eyes of Wilderness

An spooky Boris by Graph!
And a tranquil one by Khanachi!


Thank you so much to all for drawing my characters!