Unbroken Hours Dev Blog

It’s so hard to update without graphic updates but I finally got more graphical things done on Heartstring Bugs.

Dress the main character before an outing (a date basically)

Save Screen (Gray text shall be changed)

More Mini Activity Chibis

If you guys know the look of the previous interface, it’s getting another makeover.  I swear, this is the last time.
*Back to work.

~Sketch and Concept Art by ProsperPi. All I can think about is how long it took me to color this and I’m not even done.

Before these, there were 2-3 old versions of all these sprites that I scrapped. I must manage my time more wisely.>.>

Chibis. Enough said.

I would upload the game play video but the events and animations are out of order. Maybe that will be shown during the next update.

Oh yeah, the title of the game is now Heartstring Bugs. It took me one year to come up with a uber girly title. >.>

Finally, another update. I’m not burnt yet.

Anyway, word count at 20,000. That’s too less. Must write more.

More sprites. Check it out. So where’s the bottom portion? I messed that part up so I cropped the pic to cover up my horrendous coloring down there.

The awesome artist is ProsperPI. The only thing I’m doing is the coloring, and I’m trying not to ruin the sprites. XD.

Too bad, no guy sprites yet. Girl sprites first!

I basically got all the programming done for the sim. It took me a few weeks to fix the key errors that stopped me from working on this game for half a year.

I can’t really say anything about the story because everything is being changed again.

I hope I don’t burn out coloring.

When you think you’re done coloring, the sprite doesn’t match the background after you stare at it for an hour. @_@. Looks like it’s back to the drawing board.

Other than that, I’m happy with my background. For some reason, I’m having an easier time drawing the backgrounds than the character sprites themselves.

Come on, match the BG! Do it! Don’t make me edit you. >=(

It’s been a while and I’ve been painting a bunch of backgrounds, mainly nature ones though.

Here’s a screen shot of a project that is title-less at the moment. ^.^

I’ll sum it up as a parody with optional love interests. The aim isn’t about ending up with someone, but there are endings with it if you so choose. That’s all the information I can reveal for now because it may change later on.

Have critique? Blow me away. I am thick-skinned (I hope).

For Frozen Essence, if you are a GRAMMAR NAZI, contact me so we can finish editing the game right away.

I capitalize grammar nazi because I really want a grammar nazi.

Hey guys! I hope you guys are doing great for the holidays.

I’m hoping to pick up speed for some projects. I’m still planning to expand Frozen Essence in many ways, perhaps with some yummy merchandise.

Vote and give your opinions in the comments. I want to see if people are interested. ^.^

I’m flooding myself with projects and I hope I can keep up.

Frozen Essence’s editing is coming along. Hopefully it’ll be finished edited sometime in winter by the lovely editors. Then I can rest more easy with this visual novel.

Frozen Essence is not done, there’s some razzle and dazzle I need to add. Stay tuned for the “surprise.”

In late winter, I will be revealing the new projects I’m working on. I’m so excited! One is a commercial project and one is a freeware project. They’re in baby stages so I just need to stay motivated.

I never keep a blog often but when going to update it…

100+ spam comments since the last post? Man! Now I know why people have filters!

And the Mina bg pic on my blog keeps messing up. I don’t know how to position it properly!

Other than ranting about that, I might as well tell you I’m alive.

For 7 Troublesome Virtues, I added a shop system, but no inventory system yet. I’ll be painstakingly making that soon. And then I’ll have to think up items to add. I wasn’t going to do this at first BUT I just have to have it now!

For the secondary project, there’s 8k words so far. After I reach nearly 100k words, I’ll reveal that. So yeah, I want the secondary project to be 50% done before I reveal it. Otherwise it may go in the “never be finished bin.”

For Freelancer’s project, I am redoing some art there as the sprites I gave him a while back are outdated.

I’m slowly making/polishing the music for two other people.

And then I’m piling up more work on myself. I better stop offering for now. XD I wish I could slow down time so I can work on this, but sadly I have eye problems. I can’t stare at a computer screen for too long otherwise my eye prescription will get worse, and then I’ll have to get new glasses, AGAIN!

Dang it, making games are so addicting!

Couldn’t touch my laptop recently. It has all my work files.

Anyway, here are the sprites for the dating sim. I don’t have time for the last one for a while but this is the line up so far.

There will be still be slight adjustments when I realize I missed or messed up with some proportions.

As for dating sims, writing a story is hard since it’s all event based. It’s a bit of a challenge for me but nonetheless, I’m itching to see how it’ll all work out!

As with Frozen Essence, the editors are still at it due to the long word count and they’re volunteering too.
The new endings are still being done since I have to draw CGs for them.

All in all, it’s slow but we’re still going at it.

The Unbroken Hours Facebook page is finally born! Like Frozen Essence? Want to stay tuned with other works?

Check it out here!