Posted October 04, 2019 by droid productions
Overview
After finishing up Making Movies, I decided to start a new project, called Love of Magic. Since I wanted to make a slightly longer initial release, I thought I'd set up a thread about development thoughts and updates, just to document things for myself and anyone interested. When I get closer to the actual first release, I'd love to hear from people interested in testing.
Love of Magic can best be described as Persona 5 meets Harry Potter (or at least Harry Dresden); it combines a sandbox /VN game (similar to Making Movies) with turn-based magical combat in a dungeon environment, inspired by an old mobile game, Sword & Poker.
Visually, I changed a bunch of things. I'm now using DAZ (and getting used to rendering times).
Here's some VN gameplay from the first day of University. Mostly just introducing the characters, and the world of Magic. I'm still tuning the facial animations, trying to get the right emotions for their state. Often that means going back and rendering/rigging/animating new ones. But I like the general effect; the characters feel a lot less static, though obviously with fewer options. It still takes a while to set up a full animation.