Spoiler ahead - Game Intro Sketch 🎥🎬👀

Greetings Seekers!

Hope that this month is treating you gently! Thank you for your patience when we went radio silent - it was certainly not gentle for the dev team due to a certain virus striking us down but hey! We are slowly (yet surely!) getting back to normal. (*phew*)

To skip the long beginning, since we just got the music today 🎵  we were so excited to show you the draft of the game intro we are working on ✨

Long story short...

The Narrator will be a real VoiceActor, and the current voice is just a placeholder for development purposes (such as pacing and feeling of descriptions).

The video you just saw is about a third of the game intro (!!!👀), yet please bear in mind that only the very first few scenes have been added as rendered/polished artworks, and the rest are sketches/placeholders!

The art required for this video is finished, and you might have seen it already! The only thing pending is its assembly and edition :3 🔽

This is a work in progress, which means that the music volume and some effects vs narration will also be adjusted for when we get the final narration recording. But we are extremely pleased with what we got so far (Yes, yes! The Cap'n said that!)!!

We hope that you find it interesting to see how the things look before they are polished, and trough how many stages each artwork goes before being ready.

For the full game intro video, our amazing crew painted in total 55 custom full illustrations (some of them of really big size and others with lots of variations), and a few smaller details paintings and editions. The narration script was changed a couple of times (that's why no Narrator voice recording just yet!) until it was closed. Now it's sent for proofreading and off we go! 🚀🎤

So, how did we get started?

A look Back ⏳

After planning the full game, we thought about good script to outline the origins of your story. Something that will highlight what has happened to you, but without being too literal and obvious! After endless pages of text we've cut the intro script to the almost final version, and sketched it all out:

We took a few iterations, adding and removing some lines. Then we took all the sketches, and checked them on the timeline - verifying the tempo, adding and removing artworks in a very simple animation setup.

Once ready, we prepared all the images to be color sketched and then rendered, we put together a second draft. And then another one. And another one. AND ANOTHER ONE. And like that we've got to version 7 🙈

The video you can see today, is version 8, with part of the finished visuals (to double check if they fit), and first iteration of the soundtrack (also to double check if it fits), so we are on a good path to get this game intro ready!

Hope we come back to you with a final version very soon :3

Ah! And we didn't forget about the survey. It's coming! We just got a bit slowed down for a while🤒🤧😷 Please hold on for a little longer, it's coming your way :)

Take care of yourself, drink warm tea and wrap in a warm blankets! 🍂
Stay awesome :3

--Polly💌