RMMV Uinua

[megumi014]

I decided to finally make a thread for my first game: Uinua. There is still a lot of work to do and the demo will most definitely take a while to come, but if I have the thread open I feel like I will be more productive The logo is most definitely provisional.

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An adventure game that pays homage to fairy tales and folk stories from around the world. A kind of serious story sprinkled with my dorky sense of humor that deals with self-reflection, ideal morals, the concept of love and finding your place in the world.

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: while this game is not violent in itself, due to the nature of fairy tales there are some serious topics discussed on the story that could be triggering for some people. Proceed with caution (It sounds worse than it really is, but it's better to be safe than sorry).

Spoiler: Trigger Warnings (might include spoilers)

Incest, implied adultery, suicidal thoughts, minor character death, unhealthy grief dealing, arranged marriages, kidnappings, alcohol consuming and depression.

Spoiler: Synopsis

In a world in which magic exists and fairy tales are real tales from the past, a young prince named Leonard (Leo) finds himself in a bit of a predicament: he has grown up reading those stories and worshipping the concept of being an ideal prince.

He dreams of going on adventures, travelling the world, helping those in need, and rescuing a princess.

His problem?

Well. “Thanks” to a very old magic curse, there is only one princess left in the entire world: his twin sister. And while keeping her from falling off a tree when they were 8 years old could count as a rescue, Leonard doesn’t think it could make it into an epic story worth to be told in the future.

For years, he has tried to find an enchanted princess, either politely kissing frogs, or asking all the maids of the castle if they wore a dress made of stars under their aprons, to no avail.

But when Leonard was close to lose all hope, on his 18th birthday a witch appears before him: “Somewhere in this world, there is a hidden sleeping princess that needs your help. If I tell you her location, would you make a deal with me?”

Spoiler: Features

Working on it, since I'm still trying different options to make it enjoyable to play.
For sure there will be an optional Easter Egg log about fairy tales for those who like to complete lists and different towns inspired by different fairy tales origins (Irish, Arabic, Russian...).
Most likely different endings and paths depending on your decisions.
Most likely quite a lot of objects to interact with.

All the portraits/sketches are provisional.

Spoiler: Main Characters

• Leonard XII Golden:

The youngest prince of Corilea and twin brother of the last princess of the world, Lianne.

He is very exigent with himself and always strikes for perfection. He wants to be an ideal prince and has devoted most of his time to learn about geography, sword fencing, horse riding, poetry and even flower language.

Leo always envisioned his 18th birthday as the first stepping stone to start his journey, but with no more princesses left to rescue, what has he been training all his life for?

Spoiler: Old Portrait

!!! I did not draw the hair, I put a random one to check the effect (the rest yep).
I still have to redraw the whole thing because I don't like the proportions xD But meanwhile here is the old version.

• Eren Grasshorn:

A grumpy lumberjack with a magic object that will be the key of the story.

Spoiler: On-going Portrait

• Irina:

A very laid-back woman that will join our protagonists with an agenda of her own.

Spoiler: Sketches

Spoiler: Secondary Characters

I actually have a list of more 20 secondary characters ready... but I think the less info I give about them the better

• Lianne I Golden (Lia):

The future queen of Corilea and twin sister of Leonard. She has been raised as a leader, and is aware that with her coming of age birthday, the world of kings and queens is starting to come to an end.

She has always encouraged his brother to live his life as he wants, and slightly envies the freedom he has to choose his path, but she is aware that Leonard is as chained down as she is, at least by his own mind.

Spoiler: Main Title

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Spoiler: Provisional Credit's Design

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Spoiler: Bits of unfinished maps

(So far)

Spoiler: Credits

Kadokawa & Enterbrain
(I own all the versions of Rpg Maker and mix the tiles)

Plugins

• Yanfly Engine (http://yanfly.moe/yep/)
• Hudell (http://hudell.com) [OrangeOverlay, OrangeMapshot]
• SumRndmDde (http://sumrndm.site) [PreloaderCore]

Tiles

• PandaMaru
• Candacis
• Cyanide
• Avery
• Ayene
• “FMS: Town of Beginnings Tiles” [Copyright] © REFMAP [Publisher]: Degica, Co. LTD
• Com-sho
• Bougainvillea (http://bougainvillea.egoism.jp/) (No edit)

Books

• LANG, Andrew. “Fairytales from around the world”. 2014. Barnes & Noble, Inc (New York).
• FairyTalez (http://fairytalez.com/)
• ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. “The Complete Fairy Tales”. 2009. Wordsworth Library Collection, Wordsworth Editions Limited (London).
• GRIMM, Jacob; GRIMM, Wilhelm. “Grimms’ Fairy Tales”. 1996. Penguin Popular Classics (London).
• GRIMM, Jacob; GRIMM, Wilhelm. “Cuentos de Grimm”. 2002. Editorial Optima (Barcelona).

Others

• Pixabay

 

[Kes]

Nice screenshots, but I have a query about the second one.
For reference, look at the box on top of the shelves bottom left, and the banner on top of the shelves bottom right. If you compare the vertical edges of the box & shelf and banner & shelf, you will see that they run parallel to each other. That is because they have the same perspective. Now look at the big desk and the shelf unit on top of it. Their edges are not parallel, because your desk has a slightly different perspective to everything else. It is more top down.

 

[megumi014]

Now that you point it out it's true, it look a bit weird. I made it with a grid, so the edges should be aligned but for some reason it seems like the desk is a bit wider on the back. I will check it out again, thanks for the input

 

[miani]

Those tiles looks very nice, I like how everything is detailed. My only complain is about the shadows, it's so much diffuse, I think object's shadow should be more harder. Otherwise some things will look like floating.

The story is nice, I think there's a lot of creativy space in this fairytale kind of narrative.

 

[megumi014]

@miani Thank you! I'm having lots of fun with the story I had it planned for a light novel, so transforming it into a game is very liberating xD

About the shadows I actually prefer diffuse shadows, I'm not a fan of hard edges shadows, but the second map is not done yet xD it looks too gritty and doesn't have light yet, so I hope when it's done it doesn't look as diffuse (right now is too much).

 

[atoms]

@megumi014 The mapping certainly does look nice!