(Future Fragments) "Vie", CG Artists, NPCs & Progress on things! (Patreon)

Albatross has handed me the engine; he needs to add a few things to it still, but I'm working on maps as we speak!

Triangulate is continuing his decimation of the game's artwork, as usual :P He's got some stuff regarding NPCs we'd like to show you also!

I've been working on the new NPC designs as well as contacting CG artists, one of which you'll hear about today!

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THE NEW WOMAN IN TOWN, "VIE"

While Faye and Talia are both from the year 1000, Vie is a character from the far off year of 3000 (where a majority of the game takes place).

We can't give away her alliances or motives yet, but we can give away a few bits about her personality and abilities!

(To get the probably biggest questions out of the way, you can't play as her unfortunately, and you will see hentai scenes with her in them, haha.)

So as you can see, she has some devices on her wrists, as well as her belt; these devices interface with technology in general and allow her to transmit her thoughts/will directly into the technology, hacking it at the speed of thought, as it were.

Since the majority of, well, EVERYTHING in the future has technology embedded in it, this makes her significantly powerful. She doesn't have much direct combat strength, but she can manipulate things around her to do deal the damage she needs to.

Specifically, she can literally digitize herself into the walls/ground/ceiling, allowing her to effectively teleport anywhere she would need to go as fast as an electronic signal would go (which is pretty fast in the year 3000).

If she has a major downfall, it's that she is not only an eternal and extreme optimist, but she outright only hears what she wants to hear/will twist things to her favor; for example, if you say that you don't want to go out to lunch with her, she would take that as a sign that you're just busy, and you'll be seeing her at dinner, instead, not that you're outright rejecting her for a date.

This can cause her to help people she really shouldn't be helping...

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THE FIRST NPCs

Triangulate will be making a number of NPCs for cutscenes and the like. We'll be going with a list of the following NPCs for now, with more to possibly come!

- Scientists (you can see some of them here)

- Rebel Soldiers

- 1 Unique NPC per level (as in, completely different from anything else)

- Vie and Faye, of course

- The King (through holograms/transceiver on the suit)

- Regular enemies altered for NPC purposes 

The scientists and rebel soldiers will be "hairstyle/palette swaps" to note.

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CG ARTISTS PROGRESS

We've been emailing people in "waves", about 10 people at a time, and the first person we've officially given a "test" to do (as in, they want to be on the project and do CGs, we just wanna test em out for sure) is http://rtil.deviantart.com/  ! You can check out some of their amazing art there to get an idea of the kind of quality they'd have for the Game Over CGs :D

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And as usual, thanks so much for your support; we're aiming to give you nothing less than the best game we can do!

The NEW Ice Demo with the new engine and all is still on track for late November, or the first few days of December!

(As an extra note too, if you wanted to check out the other two games of mine (especially if you're a yuri or a futa fan, respectively, since we're not doing either of those in this game), they're at http://www.patreon.com/reclaimreality and http://www.patreon.com/hentaiwriter.)