July update

Hey guys.  Sorry for being absent most of this month.  A lot of serious real-life stuff's been going down and has been taking some time away from this project !  Not to worry, however, I still have my mind on it all the time, and give it some peeks and pokes whenever the opportunity strikes.

To hold everyone over for now, I thought I'd throw out some random screens, sketches, and ideas I've had over the last month or so.  Onward !

Unsorted concept sketches

Here's some stuff that I sketched up a few weeks ago.  Because of the spoiler risk, I'll forego the captions and let the pictures speak for themselves.  The style isn't a serious study but is meant to harken back to character designs of the late 1980s and early 1990s (as usual).  Enjoy :)

The "Equip" Menu, pt. 1

As promised on our Twitter feed, some of the first real in-game menus are going to be shown in this article. I was hoping to finish more in the past couple days so that I could create a video out of it, but there wasn't really enough content to justify such a thing.  So instead, below the cut you'll get to see a whole bunch of early menu concept art, in addition to screenshots of the real thing.

Logo / Box Art concepts

You guys may have noticed the new header at the top of this blog. That's a bit of a prototype for the logo I'm hoping we'll be able to have commissioned for the game. I'm not that great at font metrics, but after several hours of tweaking and path-editing in Illustrator, I think I've got the vectors down to how I want it. All that's left would be to send it off to a pro to give it a nice paint-over so that it can be used in our promotional art, title screen, and etc.

And now for some fun stuff. Here are a few sketches I did starting from back in January coming up with the logo:

Dialog Mockups

Sometimes I can't decide on a damn thing.  Well, at least when it comes to tweaking the finer details.  These mockups show my decisions on how to create menus over time.

To your left is a very recent mockup.  There are more interesting screens after the cut.

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