NieR

NieR

re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them

One of the biggest obstacles in writing irredeamable was how large and spread the cast of characters had been. Most of the game was composed of disparate storylines whose characters rarely would intersect. One of the objectives of this game is to work with a much smaller and tighter cast of characters, hense the focus on a single extended family. It also brings the benefit that everyone has pre-defined relationships with each other.

This post introduces the flamebearers' main family. They are the main npc Jupe interacts with through the game and occasionally are fought as bosses. Thundercaller Jupe : The youngest of her siblings, she acts as the current matriarch of the family and is the strongest flamebearer alive. Tidebreaker Neptu: Second oldest member of the family. Neptu lives at the far coast with his husband and son, endlessly training amongst the boiling tides to regain his title as the strongest member of his siblings. Winddancer Ouran: Eldest sibling of the family. She lives in a village far above the highlands with her extensive family. She has been drifting away from the flamebearers current lifestyle in favor of caring for her village nad family, but still regularly trains to keep up her skills. Satur: The old patriarch of the family, Satur has since been banished to the forbidden lands for opposing Jupe's current rules. He is a survivor and a traditionalist, looking down on the flamebearers' current practices. Pluron:.... Venu: Elest child of Jupe. Venu has gathered a reputation has the fierce but kindly caretaker of the flamebearer home. Eri: Youngest of Jupe children. Eri is a frail and confused flamebearer, unsure of their place in the world and the power they hold. Jupe is still in the process of training them. Mar: Twin sibling of Mercy, Mar is a thrill seeker, always tracking the next big game hunt. They are responsible for providing food for the family and their servants. Mercu: Twin brother of Mar. Mercy is a frail but agile flamebearer, capable of achieving great speed and distances. His current role is to serve as a messenger, communicating information between the distant members of the family. Most of their designs are currently only at the silhouette level but progress is slowly being made as their role and concept is being solidified.

The stepping stone, an irredeamable post mortem

A big challenge when making any creative product is being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of ideas you want to express. It can be very difficult to decide what will be part of the first story and what will have to remain unknown. Irredeamable was a particularly difficult case as i wasn`t only trying to make a cohesive world for the game itself, but the first building block of a greater setting that require its own lot of setups. In such conditions, everything felt important and it took a lot of restraint to cut things down until only a tease of the true scope remained. Overall, it was a huge mess to work out, but I'm happy with the result and i feel a lot more free and focused in the pursuit of my future projects now that the foundation has been set up to build upon and i can use the previous reveals to do a lot of foreshadowing with very little.

I dont have much left to say about irredeamable (at least nothing im comfortable with spoiling for those who have yet to play the game) So i guess this is about the time where i should start talking about my current project.

Here above is a recreation of the design process for the main character. I had to get it all done pretty early since once i start working on the sprites and animations, i cant alter the design without redoing all of them. Aniway, i wouldnt really know where to begin talking about her, at least not today. So ill leave you all to comment and speculate for now. I`ll provide more hindsight on her character in the future once i figure out an angle.

The Ich.io page for irredeamable has been set up.

I finished setting up My ich.io page, you are now able to give me money if you are willing to suffer the consequences (which are a loss of money)

itch.io

Irredeamable by Blackblooms

The quest of a short angsty girl to end the world...unless...

Any and all money given to the game shall be used to feed my endless hunger for tea biscuits.... You have been warned....