ComiPO Ver.2 is now available in English (aka the rest of the World)… so uh, has it become a really good software or…

OK, it’s been a while since I blogged about anything but let’s start with the recent news that is relevant to uh… me…

First, let’s talk about ComiPO! For those who don’t know what ComiPO is… it’s this software from Japan where you can make Comics/Manga even if you cannot draw. I reviewed it quite a while back in this blog post… Yes, click here…. trust me it’s safe. It’s actually a really fun software to use. So fun that i even made an OELVN using it.

Click here to read more about “Hammer Visual Novel” – Studio Mugenjohncel Entry for NaNoRenO 2014

Café Memoria… what in the world did I get myself into this time?…

Once upon a time, the Handsome (yet Gloriously Fat) Uncle Mugen is skimming through lemmasoft to see what’s going on. By chance I saw “this thread“ in the Work in Progress of Café Memoria. According to the thread…

Café Memoria is a new restaurant in town, run and operated by a woman named Elena Pervova. You, as the male protagonist (Ryne), are curious about this restaurant and decide to eat lunch there. As you enter, you are greeted by a female friend of yours, and the daughter of the owner of the restaurant, Anna, who happens to be quite shy. Since she works here, perhaps this is an opportunity for her to improve. How well do you think she will do?

Normally, I’d read a thread and then move on to the next until I saw this image…

Looks nice but…

Oh… I recognize those! His scene contains a few models I hosted on the Sketchup 3D Warehouse. So this is Café Memoria… looks good enough. In the typical Uncle Mugen fashion, I casually showed it to my peers and asked them what they think of this building… let’s just say we ended up in a nearly (almost) 2 hour debate ranging from why this building isn’t energy efficient to it’s somewhat brutalistic aesthetic. At the end of the debate we have two options… if this building existed in real life, we will…

Hammer – NaNoRenO 2014 OELVN (Visual Novel Entry) is now released

Title:
Hammer

Theme:
Suspense

Story:
A mysterious illness has spread throughout the world killing people everywhere and in desperation, you escaped and wandered aimlessly and ended up in some remote cabin somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Credits:
Graphics – Uncle Mugen (Mugejohncel)
SFX / Music – Off the shelf Commercial – Royalty Free SFX from BlueFX + Original Uncle Mugen Recordings from BlueFX
Story – This Anonymous Guy from 4chan /jp/ way way back
Engine – Ren’py 6.13

Download Links:
Renai Archive [WINDOWS / MAC / LINUX]
Mega [WINDOWS / MAC / LINUX]

Relevant Links:
Lemmasoft Release Thread
Lemmasoft WIP Thread

 

Whew… it’s been a long road but definitely worth it… WIP rant coming soon 🙂

 

Announcement: “Hammer” a Studio Mugenjohncel NaNoRenO OELVN entry

Warning! Horrible English!

And now comes the obligatory WIP announcement. I’ll be joining this NaNorenO 2014 (again, as a one man forever alone team ;_; ) with a short OELVN entry called “Hammer”… So the story was about a mysterious illness has spread throughout the world killing people everywhere and in desperation, you escaped and wandered aimlessly and ended up in some remote cabin somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

The WIP thread can be found here in Lemmasoft Forums

But yes, unlike previous OELVN projects where most assets are hand drawn… due to time constraints because I am very busy person but I do not want to quit making OELVN’s, I decided to toss aside quality for now focus on Maximum Efficiency by relying on Sketchup for Backgrounds and ComiPO for the character sprites… They are 3D and may not look as good as 2D but they look good enough… Another thing that separates this OELVN project is it’s extremely minimalist approach… yes, GUI is thrown out of the window so I can has focus on the story. I know what I’m doing is basically using cheap and quick methods to get something done but you see… NaNoRenO is all about getting the job done within the allowed time… and this is something I plan to complete in time allowed.

I really can’t say much at this stage other than I’ll be releasing this OELVN work this coming March 29, 2014… the extra days are just to be safe that I have thoroughly bug tested it so will has no problem in release time.

Also, go check out the NaNoRenO WIP section of Lemmasoft, there are so many OELVN projects going on right now. Some will finish, some will not, some might be delayed but that is a lot of potential OELVN’s to read and enjoy and I wish everyone luck and good fortune and may every Dev finish their projects…

So… how is my English?…