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The game takes place at a psychiatric hospital named Sanity Care. The sole purpose of the hospital is to find the best method in which to raise and harness an inner beast that can reside within a child. After 60 years of very small progress the hospital is being threatened to have all funds cut and the entire facility along with it's doctors disposed of.

With time running out the doctors at the facility shift their attention to a promising child that arrived 2 years earlier.

You play as that child's brother.
You wake up to a loud explosion only to find the bars to your cell open and your brother nowhere to be found. Alone and afraid you must find your brother and then escape the hospital. Along your path you'll encounter other children, doctors, SWAT teams, or creatures that will either aid or hinder you based on the actions and choices you make.





A few years back I participated in an indie game maker contest. I wanted to see what kind of a game I can produce within a month.
Itch io game I made


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The result was a "demo" that lacked gameplay and focused solely on Dialogue. It may have been my first time but I learned a lot back then. Although story driven games are nice. Sometimes people like a blend of story being learned as you play, not so much as it being dumped on you.
I never really had time to work on my ideas for RPG Maker, but quarantine is still in effect and I'm out of work. Given the free time I want to see what I can do but this time on Rpg Maker MV.

Here are the characters so far.
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Stephanie.png
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Fog.png
Scarlett.png
Lea.png
Effie.png
Hekla.png

Someone Dm'd me wondering why some of the kids were wearing different color shirts and that's because the hospital they're at is sectioned in 6 different colors. The Green shirt children are being experimented on mentally. Blue shirt children are being experimented on surgically. Orange shirt children are being experimented on in a dietary sense (being fed roaches and rats for example). Purple shirts are being experimented on physically. Yellow shirts will be experimented on genetically. And finally Red shirts are being experimented on through isolation. Red shirts are the most dangerous among the children at the facility. I have yet to come up with an idea for a character with a good plot in this area. If I can though, I will make a character, but for now I'm only making characters for 5 sections of the game.

Main sprite walk cycle {Female}
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Feel free to check my Deviant-Art Page which will be linked below this. It shows small little improvements to the characters. :kaomad2:

Please watch me on this journey and feel free to comment on my work as well. Don't be shy!
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Added another character named Erick. He's wearing a blue shirt because he's going to be located at a different section in the hospital.

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Added two more characters named Marcel and Fog.
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Going to do 1 every two days again. Doing two characters in 2 days flat is kind of unreasonable for me. I think it might drain my motivation :kaomad2:
I was working on making sure the characters feel organic to the story while also looking up tutorials on how to create sprites. A couple of my friends and someone who DM'd me said, "the drawings look fantastic but you can't just make a nice drawing and call it a day. If your sprites look mediocre then players will just consider your game nothing more than a forgotten thought."

They bring up a good point.
So these past two days I've been looking at other peoples sprite work and trying to understand the base of the body for the sprite. I really enjoy MV's sort of style on sprites more so than others. The problem is the over exaggerated head vs a small weird square body. It looks silly. While looking around I found this amazing user by the name of Anisoft. The user made a sample of his sprite and I knew there and then this was the direction I wanted to take my sprites. The last time he was seen was on 2018. Despite that I sent him a message and hope I can honor what he has created.
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Next week I'll upload a character and very slim but perhaps I shall upload a sprite as well.​
 
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Quick update
Though I practiced a bit 2 days ago, I'm coming to understand just how talented people on the forum are. Making sprites has its own level of difficulties vs drawing. One pixel can really make it or break it. Here's what I've come up with so far.
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It took all my day just to make these. Now I just have to make them walk! :kaoslp:

Don't think I'll finish them by tomorrow since I still have to color my drawing. I'll upload the new character tomorrow!! Hope y'all are excited as much as I am. Thought right now it kind of just feels like I'm talking to the wind:kaocry:

No matter I just gotta keep at it and soon all my work and passion will speak for itself. :kaopride:
 
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Here's the next character. Located in the same area as Erick; her name is Scarlett.
Her glasses are not drawn yet so I made a placeholder for them for now. I'll update her image again next time.
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I couldn't get the sprite done in time. Though I am still working on it. It might take some time since making sprites is still fairly new to me. When I made sprites for Vx Ace 2 years ago I could get away with a bit because there was less pixels and more room for the imagination. With Mv Sprites and me making them taller than the average sprite. I realize that detail is very important. If I half-arse it. It'll look silly. So bear with my slow progress :kaocry:
 
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Added a new character named Lea. This is my ninth character!!!! Almost at our 13 character goal. :kaopride:
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The walking sprite I am making is still in development. I will upload hopefully a gif tonight. If I can figure out how to make a gif to begin with. If I can't I will just put up a picture. It won't be done. But I should be finished with the down walk cycle.
 
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Sorry for the delay/quick life update.
My Guinea Pig gave birth two days ago causing me to shift all my attention to them.
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Though I was really excited I knew I still had work to do. So after I tended to the babies I got my drawing done. I did not however finish the walking sprite. Because of that I am making sure next update I have the entire walking sprite done as punishment to myself for not balancing my time properly. With that said here's the new character that I had created and her name is Effie. We now have 5 boys, 5 girls, and 3 Guinea Pigs!

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Well done on keeping your project going. It's wonderful work, and you put in so much effort, time and passion. I really wish you well deserved success and recognition for your work :)
 
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Well done on keeping your project going. It's wonderful work, and you put in so much effort, time and passion. I really wish you well deserved success and recognition for your work :)
Thank you very much!!!! :kaojoy:
Motivation has increased Ten Fold



Well as promised I finished the walking sprites for the girls. I made a gif of the Up, Down, and Left walk cycle, and not for the right since it's basically just the left mirrored.
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I really wanted them to kind of have a more up and down motion to their shoulders. But sadly anything I tried around there just kept looking weird. I'm sure if i tried a bit more perhaps I'd get my desired effect, but for now these are the main walk cycles. Now I have to add the clothes and modify these a bit for the male walk cycle which will be a piece of cake. I'm going to start making sprites for the characters now, while finishing up the rest.

As for the new character, her name is Hekla. She is part of the blue area as well. Her scars from surgery, unlike the others I've made, are on her back.
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