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[hiroki-san]

Project

Maybe I should share something that maybe soon I will forget. Not about Game Development again, but in my experience about Love.

I haven't had any interest in love or relationships before since Elementary to Senior High School. I do have crushed but I never attempt to give any gifts, effort, or thinking for a lifetime relationship with them. Because I focus on school and my hobbies. I remember what Am I said before that I will start getting a Relationship IF I have a good foundation of work to sustain the needs of my future wife or husband whoever it is. Almost all of my friends have one like the literary majority of my friends who are younger than me.

When I got in 1st Week of College. I don't have any feelings or a plan to find the right person for me. At first, I did my routine, doing some freelance, hobbies, and focusing on school. Until I met the Code Name "Hiro".

Project: All of the code names I do use Project terms.

Project Hiro is based on being a Great Friend. He was the first one I met in person in my 1st Year of College Life when we needed some Pictures on one of the Activities in a Minor Subject. He is also one of the First Members of my group. I got a weird feeling for him. Like I want to know him more, and maybe have a great conversation with him.

I got the first Night Sleepover in my life. Almost All of who hard work making the project of NSTP are here. we have a great bond and It's my first time drinking alcohol. I just literally drank the one cup of it that I shouldn't not. while Hiro is having a conversation with others, I just do having a conversation with others. And then, An unexpected scenario that I heard their conversation about his experience.

I still don't make a confession but when I heard that he had an experience with someone and he had a girlfriend, that's when I got a very hurtful feeling that can't hide for a month. I have a quote that I used "I don't get involved with or love someone who is already taken.". I'm fucking embarrassed to everyone that I got to the point that I can't talk to them and the ambiance feels different. At that time, I really hated a lowkey person.

I'm okay If I got rejected after a confession but having in love that I don't know that he has the one and not revealing is a much more painful feeling. it took me months to move on from this shit.

I frequently ask and do have a conversation with Summer to get some tips. Frequently have a conversation.

And then I got a Feeling to Summer. and the same as Hiro who is also a lowkey person who says that he is "single". Bro got rejected even though I didn't start confessing lol.

But yeah, he is also a good friend but I'm glad that I moved on so quickly with him than hiro lol

Lastly, Project Hunter. Well, same as others so I don't have much explanation here. lol

I see a pattern. Every single semester got fell in love leading to a negative ending. and I can't still move on.

Maybe this Project Hunter will be the last thing I will do in this Journey. I will go back to my old routine so that I can focus on what I need to do. Such an Immature move since I don't have much experience with relationship things.

Relationship sucks.

[hiroki-san]

Hiroki-San!

It's been a while since my last blog. I've been busy in the past couple of months. So yeah. UncleJohn > Hiroki-San!!!. Since Uncle John is now taken by *cough* Ministop...I decided to change it from a silly name to a formal name that suited my character. Here's some of my Rendered with my Director!.

I have two upcoming long blogs so stay tuned!

[hiroki-san]

January 2023 Game Development Blog

What Happened to Project Friendship? It is abandoned. It is discontinued?

I will explain in this Blog. Hello I'm UncleJohn and I'm back 👋.

It's been a while since I haven't posted the Latest Blog (My Last Development Blog is September of 2022). I posted the update of Game Development in Twitter.

" The Game Friendship will postpone for a while. Thanks for your patience. "

https://twitter.com/KaotoGames/status/1592193664939614209?t=rWX8ojeNqF9-QFh7DJ95FQ&s=19

The Reason why the Game Development is Postponed is that I just can't handle all of the work majority by myself. All the arts, Coding, and Writing Script is quite overloaded. It's my fault that I make the Game will be a large scope again. This Game Development is not Cancelled, and it will be continued soon (It will take a while but Once I'm ready again, I can now continue what I started in this Development).

Well, this is my Very Short Sentence so I will want to share more. I'm always active on Twitter (I just retweeted some hot stuff, and shared something that I liked to share). I really appreciate your time and support for following my Journey. Take Note : My Twitter is kinda 18+ so Don't Visit my Twitter if you are Under 18 🤘.

https://twitter.com/UncleJohnKun

Anyway, I have another Project that I've Involved. I can't reveal much yet because I don't have permission to do that but maybe soon once the Project Game Reveal started (I joined their team as Game Programmer around November 2022). Here's a Picture leak (Not actually leaks because It's posted officially on their Twitter but no information was leaked, only screenshot).

POV of doing Debug Area of the Project. To easily see and modify the value and information of the Game. (Only Selected Beta Testers can view this).

Here's my quick Game Development Blog for this Month, sorry for not giving a monthly update for the past couple of months. Thanks for investing your time to read my Blog.

And Belated Lunar/Chinese New Year 🎊

- UncleJohn

[hiroki-san]

September 2022 Game Development Blog

Hello, The Base Assets of Each Character is now done. And yes, I forgot again the remaining two full body artwork of the main characters. I will discuss my current objective, and Game Development Progress Report for this month.

Artwork by UncleJohn, Produced by KaotoGames

DeviantArt : https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun/art/Let-s-Team-Up-Go-Go-Go-927732279

Last month, I started college in 1st Semester 1st Year (I Hope that I still have energy and determination for doing this Game Development 💪). So far so good, I can still handle my Time ~~ Thanks for the Time Management? ~~.

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A short Script *Insert the artwork* 📃

Yamato : Let's Team up, We can't lose this round.

Kawano : Ouch, What the fuck is that??

Enrique : Heyyy kid!!!!!! No full autooooo. It's Against the rules.

* rarararaatratratrat ~~super ultra max full auto activated~~*

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Yes, The main body sprite of each character is now done (I'm still thinking about reworking the Clothes, It's Plain and simple). Now, I need to draw their unique, and common facial expressions. Also their clothes for different events.

This is a Simple Description of each Main Character.

Shawn Nishimura as an introvert and Innocent person.

Enrique Hernandez is a Childhood Friend of Shawn Nishimura

Yoshiko Haru as President of Student Council

Yamato Kiyoshi as Genius and Music Lover.

Kawano Taro is a Dorm mate of Shawn Nishimura, and a Deliquent person.

Artwork by UncleJohn, Produced by KaotoGames

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun/art/3-6-Base-925378214 / https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun/art/6-6-Base-926125886

I'm still thinking about adding two more hand positions but it takes a lot of time to adjust the clothes. Maybe I should decide if I finished all the facial expressions and different clothes. I much preferred the dark color of the clothes because it's a design choice for the game and there's a meaning behind that. They're sharing the same skin color and shading except for Enrique Hernandez because he is a Filipino Character.

I Reworked the Protagonist Design and personality. It's not suitable for my current story lines, and it does not fit the current artwork design.

I didn't show all of the UI of the Game, selected concept only.

All of this UI Design Concept of this Game was created using Some Editing Application of Smartphone. I just keep the minimalistic design, and dark gray and white color to keep the ambience of the game suited for the real ending.

When I am always playing a Visual Novel Game, all of the movements of UI or Animation are just pure plain. Like PowerPoint presentation (Well, I know the main focus of visual novels is in the story), but... I want to show the player an organized UI and to appreciate the other parts of the game like characters info, not only the main game.

I'm not professional at digital art, but I want the player to appreciate the GUI of the game. Since Ren'py Engine is #1 Engine used for creating Visual Novel Games, It's quite hard to make some custom animation movements for the UI.

Twitter : https://twitter.com/KaotoGames/status/1563899762616967169?t=dqoqM51j_TnLsNhBKtdNtg&s=19

Osmium Games is now a partner for working on this Game as a Lead Game Developer. I don't have any needed equipment to start coding the game, so... A Game Developer from Osmium was volunteered to do the Game Development thing. It's nice to see that this project is getting to make some progress now.

That's it for now, the blog is kinda short but this is my current progress report. Thanks for your time to read this blog and I hope you are still following my Game Development Journey.

[hiroki-san]

August 2022 Game Development Blog

Hello! Today is maybe the Great start of making assets for this Game Development. I did some research about the Daz 3D and I will discuss it in this Blog.

Artwork by UncleJohn, Produced by KaotoGames

Background Used (Credits) : https://wallpaperscraft.com/download/books_vintage_paper_cards_notebook_retro_74362/1920x1080

DeviantArt : https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun/art/Selfie-923786263

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A short Script *Insert the artwork* 📃

John : Let's selfie again 👉

Yamato : Ok ♥️

Kawano : Why Am I Here!!!!!

(Yes, I'm out of ideas for this short script 😝, "bawi ako next time". The title on the top-right of the artwork is presenting my current event just like last month "Not related to Game Development").

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While I'm doing Artwork, I'm still thinking "How can I do Backgrounds??". I don't have any skills or knowledge for doing a background. So, I've tried to look on the internet for free commercial-type backgrounds to use but it's not suitable for my needs. Since I Don't have any budget, volunteer, or collab to get some artists to do the background, I need to find other ways. So I found out about the Daz Studio/Daz 3D, a software like Blender. But to use and render it smoothly, It needs an Nvidia Graphics Card. My budget for the laptop since I can't create a Crowdfunding Campaign is P20,000 or $360. The budget for a laptop with Nvidia is around P50,000 or $900.

You: Why laptop and not buy a Desktop Computer?

Me: Because I'm currently living in my Tita's house and the electricity here is so expensive as hell. Last year, when I was doing my old game development, I got so many limitations by using a computer (Now the computer is on my little brother and he's been using it for digital arts) and now, I don't have any PC to work on. The laptop consumes less electricity while the computer is a bit hungry on electric ⚡.

I hope that It's good to combine both 3D and Anime Character Sprites because I don't have any choices. Even if it's painful to render, at least I got Background for free!!!.

Background Used (Credits) : https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=17302

This is a sample If I have a team who can draw background (Sadly, I'm currently the only one who is working on this game)

Well, this Game Development is still in danger (Because I don't have a Piece of Equipment I need to work on) and anytime can be postponed or canceled. I will try my best to continue this bit by bit. Either try to get a part-time job but the Game Development will be postponed because I don't have any time for it {Cycles ~ College>Part-time>Collage>.....}. Or Open a Crowdfunding Campaign (The Best Choice is Kickstarter but it's not available to create in the Philippines).

Game development is my passion but I'm more on Digital Right now because I only have a smartphone that I can use this whole year. I need to become productive rather than wasting my time on nonsense things.

Kawano Taro Sprite (Not yet Shaded)

I am currently working now on Kawano Sprite and the Photo attached to it is not yet shaded. There are 6 main lists needed for the clothes.

Hobbies

School Uniform

School Club

Half Body Towel

Personality Style

Casual Outfit - No sample yet

The other is a special event for each character (No Idea yet but I know there will be more suits needed for special events.)

I'm not good at shading but since I'm the only one doing this, I still try my best to learn more about digital arts. It's my first time using a symmetry ruler to make it better 🙌.

Full Body Art of Each Character (4/6 Done)

Did I say last month that I will make full-body Illustrations for each character? Well... Ummm. I didn't finish it, Only 2 characters left (Sorry about that). I need to rework the main character for some reason. But hey! There's a Progress 👉

In case you're wondering why all the characters are wearing black. Because I'm not good at shading (For real). In other cases to not look like there's no meaning behind it, It represents D̵̗͓̦̜̈͌̊̏̏̌͆̾͂̅͆̕͘̚ě̴̡̛̲͇̯͓̤̦̮̖̹̗̱̰̜̈́̃́̿̓̓̀a̵̧̡̧̝̞̲̜͂̑̋͐̽̉͘ͅţ̸͙̺̹̬͇̮̽̈̈́́̽͐̐̋̌̎̓͘͝͠͝h̶̜̫̮͉̮͍̮͓̬̩̫̀̐͛͂̏͐̍͋͊. (Lastly, don't mind my grammar 😆)

Thanks for your time to read my blog ♥️

- Uncle John

[hiroki-san]

July 2022 Game Development Blog

Hai there! This is my First Blog here on Tumblr and thanks for reading and supporting my work. All of my Blog here will be the Progression of the Game, and Skills progression will most likely demonstrate my growing understanding of Writing Story, Digital Art, and Game Development.

Artwork by UncleJohn, Produced by KaotoGames

Background Used (Credits) : https://wallpaperaccess.com/anime-school-scenery

DeviantArt : https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun/art/Graduation-Picture-920954256

Today is my Graduation Day 🎉 and I finished Senior High School at S.B.T.V. High School in the Philippines, while our Friendship Cast is Graduated from Kaoto University. So I am going to have fun and celebrate with them today. I hope that I can Enrolled at Kaoto University but It's in the other dimension 👉.

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A short Script *Insert the artwork* 📃

Photographer : Be Ready, In a count of Five!

Yamato : *Grabs John's Hand and then he smile*

Yoshiko : Chill John, You're blushing so hard 😏

John : He-hey!, Waitttttt!!!! *Blushes*

Enrique : Shawn, Smile 😄 This will be best group pic this year 🙌.

Shawn : Ok...

Kawano : This University sucks tbh 🖕.

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So I'm currently doing now is a Boy's Love Visual Novel Game "Friendship" that focuses on your character development and different ending for each route you choose. It's not a Yaoi Game, It's only Boy's Love (I Planned that you can also get a Friend Ending which is no Feelings for each other for those who don't have a love ending), Unlike other Novel Game that follows the day event, This game can have different event days depends on what you've been progress or chosen. And it will give an interesting ending that can be combined for each character (You might unlock the real ending 😉). As for now, the Genre of the Game is Visual novel, Romance, Boy's Love, and Psychological Horror. Also, The Game was for mature, and adult audiences only. The game includes Mild graphic violence (Disturbing and potentially triggering elements), Mild adult language, and Mild Blood Scene.

"Omg, There's a Psychological Horror?, I thought this is a Romance and BL Game?". Yes! But I can't explain it, It might be a spoiler so It will be mysterious for now. But don't worry, you will experience it If you see something out of content for this game 👉

Anyway, I already finished doing the Concept Art of each character and logo of the Game, this might be changed to make the quality better. (You can see the picture attached below)

Artwork by UncleJohn, Produced by KaotoGames

DeviantArt : https://www.deviantart.com/unclejohnkun

Now, I'm currently doing the whole body and Full Description to learn them personally to make sure that They will be right in dialog and story. I also finished the Prelude but It is just a rough sketch, I need to learn more about each character to get everything right. I've also written down some notes of different things I think would help improve the quality so far. Also, I have a discord channel, so if someone has any questions just ask! (https://discord.gg/GmVXqn8BSh), The Discord Channel is not yet good but I will work on it soon.

Unfortunately, I don't have a Personal Laptop or computer to work on this game. I already created Game Before but some of them are unfinished and canceled for some reason (gamejolt.com/@GoJohnCarloDev and Christmas Rampage at Lamina Studios). I'm using the Shared Computer before but I can't use it this year. I will be collage at another city (Manila) and the computer will not bring up, so I don't have any equipment to start coding. If you're interested in supporting the game's development to buy needed things, you're welcome to contribute to my Ko-Fi. (ko-fi.com/KaotoGames) I really appreciate it. Maybe, I will get my personal computer or laptop around Next Year or by December 2022. To make sure that I have progressed in this Game Development, I will make all the artwork and dialog by using my smartphone bit by bit. Also, to keep it updated to stay updated and productive.

So that's it, Thanks for your time to read my blog 🎉

- Uncle John