" ...In the center of Nordburg, there is an Old-Patriarchal Church the center of the ancient-Monotheism in the past. After the division of the church, people serve for this Church has decreased and it has collapsed miserably. Surrounded by slums and dubious shops, there is no shadow of the world's largest religious city."

Nice to meet you, everyone. I decided to start writing, and reporting some progresses of my VN project: PRINCIPIA on Devlog of itch.io. About the VN itself, I created a game page too so please refer to it.

Game page:  https://nymn-wales.itch.io/principia

Since this is the first release, there are only a few scenes and you can playthrough in less than 30 minutes. This game is a bit plain and not well-written still, but I will make it further better on each overhaul. So please be delightful.

And about feedbacks, I always want some helps and tips for this game so please note me anything. If I got some comments for feedbacks on here or game page, hopefully I can reply you by that week, or month. Please be patient!

Creator's hubs:

Tumblr: https://lomlatu.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nymn2_PRNC
Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/lo-mlatu

【Monthly report】First release of demo, and some feedbacks( 9/28, 2019 )

OK, I wrote Monthly report at the game page itself, but posting here first is more appropriate. Sorry for double posting but let me take notes on here too.

Progress:

I could (Finally!!) release the demo of VN game I've longed for years. The story is still indeed short, but I could establish the method to keep making this.

The first chapter will be about 2 hours long with my estimation, since it will consist of 10 episodes. maybe It will take more than 2 months since I took almost one week par each two episodes of the first demo.

Some of the good points, and feedbacks of this game, from my close friends and my self-critics too.

Good point:

1, At least some friend addressed that "Nicolas and Hal are both empathizable as for now. And I can see that Alfred is a good friend to Nicolas, but he's also getting unpleasant one to him". Yes, that's what I wanted to explain about them all!

2, I am not a native speaker of English, but I gave much attention to write like English literature. Thanks to this, I could write in a solid literary style and succeed to establish my writing style for this game.

3, I gave some effort to make a good background to tell their occasions and Soviet Russian-ness of the society. There is only one pic with it, but it can give readers to the attention.

Critics:

(By my friends)

1, Maybe the theme of this game is ambiguous still. My friend notes me that "You should focus whether this game is about religion, or romance of Nicolas and Hal." I can say that it's both, but maybe I have to explain the religion and their relationships at the prologue and first chapter.

2, Some of my friend pointed out that Anna doesn't look aged properly. (I realized that one but didn't know how to fix it!)She's 40's but doesn't seem so older compared to Nicolas and Alfred, so I need to learn how to stand together her beauty and proper age.

3, Maybe it's odd that Nicolas and Hal are in already lovey-dovey at the beginning. It would be better if Nicolas is like "You're lying to me!!", and on the other hand Hal is like "Notice me, Nicolasu-kun ;(". I will fix this after I wrote up the entire first chapter.

(From Reddit forum)

1, Some people gave me some feedback on character design. Their eyes are quite large compared to the head, and ears are oddly placed to their haircut. I will draw them in more proportionally well-balanced, and more like Three-dimensional next time.

2, It would be better if they are simply lightened, or shadowed to each lighting environment of the place. Fortunately, Renpy has some functions for ingame layers, so I will use that for each scenes.

3, Thanks to Nicolas' smoking habit and Hal's religious view, I caused a bit controversy. So I will make more appropriate precautions on game intro by next update.

Next plans:
1, Write some new episodes: about 8 episodes and Implement some of them on Ren'py project by next month.
2, Fixing some of 6 feedbacks above.
3, Enhance UI, and add some illustrations for each scenes.
4, Make Albrecht and Alexei to appear on the game.

【Weekly report】A new scene for PRINCIPIA. Development is now favorable pace, everyone!(10/10, 2019)