Crescent Moon: The Truth of Feelings v1.0

Hi again!

So, just to make it quick, it's a holiday season here (not 'season', but only two weeks), and I had a very little time (there is a pack of homeworks I haven't done), so I had to work on the easier project.

Just to tell you, a few days before the holiday came, I received an e-mail that said that one of my VNs, Crescent Moon, had been uploaded to Softpedia. Well, being curious, I decided to check it by myself. Yes, it was true that Crescent Moon was uploaded to Softpedia, but the review, "Very good story but poor background" . Ouch. Luckily, there hasn't any user review yet.

Being ashamed (yes, I created the BG), I decided to fix it, and then I found out that I no longer had the old resources (it was in Ren'Py 6.9.0 in my old PC, which was virus-infected and I had to delete all of them). So I also had to download the Windows version of it, and then open it in the Ren'Py 6.10.1d launcher.

I didn't dare to play the game (you know how bad it was), so I just went straight to the script. But before it, I went online to find some BGs. Morguefile and Imageafter didn't give me a satisfying results, so I almost got desperate. And then I went to Flickr. At first, I thought that the pictures aren't freely used, so even though there was a lot of good pics, I couldn't download them. But when I went to the FAQ, I found out that some pictures are licensed by CC, which meant they could be used for free. Then I tried to find some good pictures for the background. Luckily, there were so many good pictures there.

Done with the pictures, I checeked the script. Well, some of the terms weren't quite matched with the BGs I had downloaded, like 'white castle', the BG showed a stone castle. So I changed them, quite a work. Then I fixed some mistypos, and then with the addition of some words, the results was great. While the old one consists of 216 screens and 2856 words, here's the lint for the new one:

Ren'Py 6.10.1d lint report, generated at: Tue Sep 14 05:29:09 2010


Statistics:
The game contains 240 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 3200 words, for an average of 13.3 words per screen.
The game contains 0 menus.


Quite a lot, huh? So, then after I upload them to Ren'Py Games, I'm gonna tell Softpedia that I have the update for Crescent Moon. Hope they like it better, and so are you :)



Anyway, this was it. I still got a lot to do. My new project, it might stopped for a while, since after this holiday, I will have a mid-term test. So, see ya!

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The Continuation of The Project

Whoa, it has been quite a while since I wrote on this blog, right? Nine months. That's quite a time. And now everything is new on my life. New class, new friends, and so on. And there were many things also happened around my projects.

The first one probably is the NaNoRenO. It is an annual contest where people make a VN from scratch in only a month. It was held on March. I showed the announcement of the contest to my friend, and I also asked whether she could write a short story. She said yes, and in about a week, she gave me her story. And there were about three months left.

The first time I read the story, it was a good one, actually. But I thought it was too short. I then decided to edit the story. In my surprise, the story could be a very long story, or a novel instead. Time passed by, and when there's only a week left, I hadn't finish editing the story. I decided to give up on the contest, because school was also getting harder (it was almost the end of the year).

And then, another chance came. Indonesian's VN Forum, VNProject, held a little contest, similar with NaNoRenO, but this one, there was a prize for the winner. I really wanted to join the contest, but there was a time problem. At that time, I was having my Semester Exam, and unable to work on my project. There was no further improvement on the story, so I decided to cancel the project.

When the holiday season came, I opened an old file contained a story from my friend who wrote the story of Crescent Moon, Himeka-sama. When I read it, I decided to create a new project based on the story.

The story was about the friendship of two orphan boys. Well-written, and like Crescent Moon, it was originally written as a fanfiction , now for her favorite boyband. After I edited the story to fit for an amateur VN (changing of names, some places, etc.) , I got more than 7000 words. If I finished this, it will be the longest VN I've ever created.

But, once again, things didn't do well. I couldn't spend my time working on the project since I was at my aunt's house. I was pretty busy there. But I managed to finish translating and editing the story at the end of the holiday.

I started the programming at the beginning of the twelfthgrade. But that was it. I was hardly able to continue working. This year is a lot busier than before. At the positive side, I got a friend who will help me with the Graphics. Asukawati will help me on the CG and Character Arts, so hopefully you won't see a Paint picture on my VN anymore.

But it wasn't easy. As I am facing the National Exam, she is now also facing her new semester at college. And for this project, I didn't give myself a deadline. I think I won't be able to finish this project, as long as I am still at the school.

Last but not least, I hope I can make some progress on the project. And I may not write often here, but I hope I can tell you whenever I get a good progress.

Cheers!

grim_reaper