Hello everyone!

Plueschkatze here! You can call mit Katzi! <3 (Which would translate to kitty, so that'd be fine, too! Hehe.)
I've teamed up with others for this gamejam. And since I feel like writing a Devlog, I'll do so for us! ;)
(The others are: Yobob, Reese and ElieTaping!)

Game Title:
The Beast named Eliza

Concept:
Horror RPGMaker Game. It's the short story of young Eliza who's a beast now.

Data:
RPG Maker MV
A bunch of unique art and also music, while also using edits of the standard RTP.

Screenshots and WIP:

Titlescreen:

WIP from day 5:

I'll do updates soon! :D

I hope everyone has A LOT of fun! <3

ooooo omg rpgmaker horror is a genre i really like. best of luck to the whole team!

Thank you for your support! Look forward to updates and stuff from this dev blog!

Since Day 2 is almost over, here's an update!

I spend most of the day setting up blockouts of maps for our game
and eventing some smaller parts.

I also started some art, which is heavily WIP.

Pixelart:

Some walkcycles for the NPC base.

And a concept sketch for the Beast:

Yobob also did a pretty awesome theme and is working on more music for our game right now!

Not much else to show off right now!
I hope everyone is having fun!

wow this mood is looking really incredible!! i cant wait to see more of these enviornments.

Started with DAY 4 a few hours ago.
I couldn't make progress on Day 3, since I had a lot of other stuff to do, but now I'm back.

Todays goals:

• Get the villager base sprite done!
• Additional 1: Do hair and other generator stuff for Villagers.
• Progress on Mapping (Get Map #2 done)
• Additional: Start Map #3

Here's a WIP of the villager base sprite:

Here we go: Day 4 update!

I've been working a lot on the art today, but there's still SO MUCH to do.
I guess I'll continue a little more after this update, but since Day 4 is over now (0:10 am here) I'll post my progress.

I could finish everything I planned to today.
So here's the map I was working on: A forest path.

Nothing fancy! ;)

And here are the villager sprites. I stoped adding detailed shading at some point, because I recognizes that that will be covered up by clothing anyway, haha.

edited the hair later, to fit a little better while turning.

(I also did another knife that is facing upwards, but didn't import another gif)

now with edited hair.. just a little higher/more volume in the side view version :P

I'll move on to the next map now.
So for Day 5:

• Finish Map03 (out of 10 in total, btw)
• Work a little more on the MC sprites.

Edit: Oh and I also started a gamedev tumblr. https://plueschkatzedev.tumblr.com/

And here we go with the day 5 update.

I work on another sprite! There's still a lot to do but I really, really enjoy doing sprites and I start to fall in love with doing sprite animations :)

And here's another map:

It's kinda hard to make compromises due to the limited time, haha. But I think that's ok looking =)
Still two big maps (thereunder the biggest in the game) and 5 smaller ones to do... that's no good~

And beside that there's still other art to do... 4 Sprites (including the beast and girl above) and 2 character portraits to use on dialogues!

Still a LONG way to go :)

DAY 7!

Worked on the Titlescreen today!

And here's another map! ;)

UPDATE:

Instead of 4 we are only 2 members in the end, since both others found no time to participate, so we took over everything.
So it's just Yobob and me! :)

We've done a bunch of smaller adjustments, pushed art further aaand Yobob did A LOT of eventing.
Right now almost everything is done, we shortened the Story, so the end is more of a cliffhanger then supposed.
Since we wanted to go for the possibility of triggering 2 different endings at the point where the game ends now! Haha.
We might finish the game after the jam. We'll decide that once we've taken a little bit of rest! :P

I'm finishing the missing art pieces right now.
Once they are done I'll do the creditspage.
And I'll take a couple of screenshots and stuff for the games page!
That's when I'll have something to show you again.

But good thing is: Yobob and I really had fun doing this project, so we might collab again! :)

Worked on the bust for our main character. Feedback is welcome. I need to look at something else for a while before checking back on this, haha.

i featured this devlog in our last email! i really like the how the character looks--very nice art and it also gels i think with the style and type of game you're working on. i think for crit--her dress fades to black and it makes her apron looks like its floating.

Thanks for the crit J! I'll brighten her dress a little.

We are done with the demo/first build and uploaded it!

Feel free to check it out:

https://plueschkatze.itch.io/the-beast-named-eliza

We didn't manage to tell the full story, but about half of it.
So we will do an update in the near future and add the full game! :)