Finally, Wedding Vows has been done and released! You can view the page with downloads here, and the comments and discussion forum here.
Today, I wrote an essay about creating characters for a Visual Novel, by thinking about characters being defined by their relationships to each other. Posted it in at the Lemmasoft forums, which is a forum for amateur / hobbyist English-language Visual Novel and dating-sim creators, which I am a part of (with Wedding Vows as [...]
Continue reading about Relationship Webs and Characters in a VN
I was browsing through Scott McCloud’s books the other day. Scott McCloud is a Western comics artist, and he has authored a graphic novel called Understanding Comics, which is considered to be the classic and best textbook reference for the study of comics as a medium. Anyway, I just skimmed through some of his ideas, [...]
Finally! The Wedding Vows project is on again! Today I met Wei Man, a former coursemate and junior in the NUS Games Developing Group, who has agreed to be the artist for the project. And she liked the story, and was willing to illustrate it. We discussed art styles that would suit the mood and [...]
I recently finished reading the Ender saga novels by Orson Scott Card. However, apart from the powerful stories and themes in the novels themselves, what struck me the most was his philosophy and thoughts about writing, which he put into the preface of his books. Very thought-provoking insights into the nature of how to write [...]
