Making voiced game is not sth simple.

Some people has complained me, saying my game is too expensive even though it is voiced. Okay let me explain in now how “voices” will make the work more complicated than an unvoiced game.

See, to make a game we will have the scenario (of course).
Let me show you the screen caps of my scenario (in Japanese, already being proofread)

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I can’t just give this to the Voice Actor to read. First I need to make an excel file of this like:

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yep. I need to write down the voice code, and comment, to make them know what is the situation when the characters are speaking. But again, this is not the script I need to give to the voice actors. I need to make it show vertical! Japanese are used to read vertical scripts, and most of the VAs I used asked me to write it that way. Remember Japanese comic? they are all written vertically. I need to convert it to:

 

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Yes. this one is pdf, and what I gave to Misaki VA.Well I bet all developers have their own style to make the final script, so it might be differ each other.

So, is this finished? No.

after I gave this final script to the VA, they will send me the voice data in like 1-2 weeks. and then I need to check them. cut the voice per dialogue, and delete some part which they recorded their breath too loud (like ighhhh when they took breath between words), and then check. Since some VA read the dialogue wrongly ^^;;; like “oishiii”(long i) and “oishi” is different. Also some kanji have 2 way of reading. 「何百面相」can be nanbyaku mensou, or nani, hyakumensou. *dies and sometime I have no choice to ask them retake the voice. Not mentioning the noise. Yes, I need to clean the data from noise too! ^^;;

And then lastly debugging. I need to make sure I’ve put the right voice on the right dialogue. Yes that was a long progress to do ^^;;;

Happy New Year! (^ω^)

…thought it’s not really a new year anymore orz. Sorry for being too late. Too many things happened at Christmas and New Year.

I lost my iPhone at Christmas Eve at Malaysia’s taxi or airport (I’m not sure which one) so my earlier days on this new year were full of panic. I need to get a new iDevice first before I can make Kuon route. orz. Also it was a great rain when I attended the winter comiket last year. Full of people, yes. And too many bellongings orz. Thanks to some VAs, I finally managed to bring my stuff there and home safely (yeah they helped me to sell the stuffs there).

About comiket, seriously I was surprised. There are too many people (of course) but more than that, people close their table much much faster than any other cons I have ever attended. Comiket is just 1 day (it was 3 days long, but different circles will attend on each days), 10am to 4 pm. But then many circles has already closed at 12, even if their games are not sold out. Then at 2pm, people surrounded my table has already started to close their table too. TOO FAST. I mean, it’s not cheap! Just 1 day and it costs more than 100 usd! But seems that people who came from different region wanted to close the table earlier so they can go to other booth, or go to Akihabara to buy some stuffs there. I see I see… but then my table there was so lonely without any people surrounded me 🙁

anyway, The new year has already come, so I’ll start to make kuon route asap.

This route, might be darker. And actually I kinda confused how to add the comedy onto it.

Hope you’ll like this one too ^^;;;

Current progress

Sorry for the long update. Too many things happened lately and I didn’t have enough time to update this blog.

Okay, so, like what you might already notice, Cafe 0 ~The Drowned Mermaid~ has been released for iOS last month. I’m so sorry that I can’t release East Tower – Takashi on schedule (which I hoped to release last month actually) because of various reasons.  The proofreading (Jap) kinda took more time than Akio, because the person in charge is very busy now, and then I got sudden business to go aboard for more than a week, and then some of the voice data needs to be retaken, because of echo and some other technical problems. And also, this one will be longer than Akio. I will sell it at same price with Akio route, 5.99 USD. 🙂 I haven’t finished coding East Tower-Takashi now, but as long as what I see from the scenario, I bet it will be around 50% or more longer than Akio route.

And then… well actually, I kinda redraw some sprites (again) to fix their eyes for Takashi path. swt. Akio path, and the Lite one will also get the update later once I’ve done the Takashi path. Another thing new at Takashi path, is, that I’ll use 9 VAs. (I use 7 at Akio path) 2VAs will join this game, which will voice some character that appear in the past arc.

Last, for anyone that wait the Android version of the game, I must say I’m very sorry to say this but, I still can’t make the Android version currently. Not just because I will need more time for it, but I also just realized that, I might get problem with google checkout, because of my country movement. I registered google checkout using my Japan address and bank acc, but then if they ask for identity confirmation, I won’t be able to prepare it because I moved to other country. And my current country is one of the country where we can’t sell paid apps yet in google play store. SWT. Another problem is, the file size. I hardly compress the file below 50MB because it’s fully voiced. I know that google said we can use extension file for it but, the problem is that, I don’t know how to use it ^^;  So, I’m very sorry, but it seems that I don’t have any option now beside concentrating in iOS app development.

Thank you for your attention and I hope you enjoy the games 🙂

Chu-3

East Tower – Lite released…. finally

Finally it’s released …. puh…. it does seriously take time. I hope you like it anyway :3

Also I just wonder about few things so yeah I made a new poll as below:

Which one do you have

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I’m thinking to make android version of the game later. Maybe around end of the year or next year, since I heard android is easy to get pirated, and it doesn’t sell well compared to iOS. But then I heard that more people like Android better surround me. So well yeah, I wonder to know about this more :3

East Tower updated!

It’s pretty much done. Maybe  I will submit it to apple tomorrow since it’s already too late today.

I don’t know how long Apple will examine my apps, but it seems to be around 5 work days.
I’ll try to set July 18 for the release date, but it’s all up to Apple. Anyway, the game itself will be 5.99 usd, and the demo will be free.
Akio Route only, since I haven’t finished other character’s route.

What I can say about Akio route, is that this game is like an introduction about the world of East Tower. There are some episodes where Akio is confused with his feeling, since he thought the main character is a man.

You might be confused with this game genre. But yeah. this is a mystery comedy otome…. how do I suppose to say that??? swt
I guess you’d better to try it yourself to understand. Seriously I hardly find any words to describe it ^^;;;

Also, I got so many questions asking if the game will be available on PC too or not, also, android.

Okay I did a test. The game is working fine on PC, Mac, Android, ipad, iphone. But!!!!

It will look shaggy aka the flash effect happened because of the difference of resolution>> for android tablet, ipad and android phone

For PC and Mac, I will need to recode some menu, since I disabled the full screen feature (you won’t need it for iOS). And also, it’s too short if I need to sell separately for PC an Mac.

So the conclusion is, the game will be available for iPhone/iPod touch next week ( if there’s no problem with Apple side), hopefully.

 

 

 

Some news about what happened lately :3

It’s been a while since the last time I renewed my blog. I’m sorry. Too many things happened lately that beyond my prediction.

It’s a weird 2 months seriously. I never thought I will go to Japan repeatedly many times like this LMAO. Anyway, I managed to ask Toranoana in Japan to sell Cafe and dupli, also I meet some seiyuu I knew from twitter and bakufu there. It’s hella fun (★ω★) and so LOL hahahaha! I also went to butler and seiyuu cafe, but I won’t tell more about them here.

Anyway, about East Tower, it’s pretty smooth so far. I just need 1 more CG to finish the game, probably will start the test from tom. Also, Google has approved my acc fine, so I can release on Android as well. Too bad I made it on iOS  resolution (960×640) which means I need to change some image and menu to fit it on Android (800×480) so yeah… Android might need to wait until the iOS ver is done.

 

Hope you like it~~

East Tower for iOS

Yes. I still got problem with google checkout merchant acc which made me can’t sell the game for android.

So, I decided to release the game for iOS first. I already tested it with my iphone and worked fine.

Also, I wanted to tell that, I already asked some seiyuus to voice it. As far I already asked 3 seiyuus, and 1 hasn’t replied yet. I’ll use 7-8 seiyuus this time, which means double the number I used for cafe 0. I will ask them to record it all, but if the game file is getting too big, maybe I’ll make it event voice only and keep the files, which I might use later.

Last, well, I hope you like it! Tough I might need times to finish it all. (maybe end of June for fastest, or beginning of July)

End of Comitia 100 and the new game, East Tower.

And then Comitia 100 has ended. The sales are… well not as good as what I’ve predicted, but not really bad as my first Japanese event experience. I met some people, interesting ones, which gave me more information about the doujin market in Japan.

Then, about my newest game, East Tower. I’ve finished the sprites and Japanese scenarios. I planned to make this fully voiced, and that’s why I made the scenario in Japanese first. But then, another problem occurred. The android file size. Android has 50MB file size max to its app. Of course, now you can use the obb file (extension files) now, but the problem is, my programming level is not high enough to use it SWT. So, maybe I’ll make it half-voiced, which means, only some events will be voiced. I might make the full version which is fully voiced for PC later, though, I’m still not so sure if I will do it or not. The android one, like what I said before, will be parted for each character route.

Last, for all consumers, please be patient to wait my reply. I’m sick now, and maybe I will need more time to reply the emails you’ve sent to me. Seems I’ve been in hikkikomori mode too much, which makes me don’t have enough power to travel so long like what I did last week.

Thank you for everything, and I’ll try to update the game’s information asap.

 

Regards,

Chu-3

About the dUpLicity and the future games.

First, I put again the vote I asked you below:

Do you like to play on PC or smartphone?

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Okay, then like what you might know, I released dUpLicity ~Beyond the Lies~ yesterday. I know that the story is kinda unique, and maybe not all of the players would like it. It’s pretty dark and serious. That’s why I want to make my next couple games more fun and bright. Yep, it would be adventure with comical touch. I want my player to laugh too beside cry or sad 🙂

Currently, I have 3 ideas on my head. 1 for smartphones (otome), 1 other otome (dunno for PC or smartphone), and 1 Cafe 0 continuation.

I was planned to add in-app-payment system for the smartphone one, but honestly, I still dunno how to do it. And of course, the biggest problem for smartphone is the file size. I want to make my game fully voiced, which, I’m sure it would take spaces.

Well I guess I’ll use around a month to make a plan of a new smartphone game first a trial. It doesn’t mean I wouldn’t make games for PC anymore, but maybe I’ll take more time for my next game. What kind of game is it? Well… I just hope you’ll like it 😀

WordPress error!!!

Okay, I guess a lot of people will be wondering why this site is so full of trouble lately. Seriously, I don’t know. I just tried to delete unused sql database, since I saw a lot of error because of it. (Yeah I’ve been testing so many wordpress and it’s kinda messed up the whole sql) But then I donno why… my blog’s posts also deleted accidentally T^T ugh…. seriously I don’t know why… I just deleted the blog that was directed to wrong url, but then why the one with the correct url also deleted as well??? T^T  Well anyway I made a new blog now…. to bad I can’t save the old posts I made.

And here is the polls I added on my last blog. Fortunately I managed to somehow saved the plugin setting. I hope you’ll help me on this market research.

Do you like to play on PC or smartphone?

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I’m learning a new engine now, which is a flash based, and seems I can use it to make android and ios app, though, seems it’s harder to code than renpy.
I’m not sure if I will use this to replace renpy yet, since the code is very complex and I need to get familiar with it first. It’s AS3 based though, so you can play in any type of computers 🙂

 

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