{"id":20898,"date":"2022-10-22T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:06:34","slug":"20898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/10\/22\/20898\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #15 &#8211; Flamechaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! It&#8217;s almost November already, and yet I still haven&#8217;t finished posting about what I made over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from earlier this year, I&#8217;ve been working alongside a team of other UMich students to make an anime-style visual novel called &#8220;Flamechaser&#8221; about lesbians piloting giant robots in space and uncovering a deeper conspiracy lurking in the shadows. We released a demo of our minimum viable product earlier this month on itch.io, and we&#8217;re planning on releasing the full game on both itch.io and Steam in the spring of 2023!<\/p>\n<p>I hand-drew all of the mech and character sprites, as well as designing the logo and painting all of the background art. There&#8217;s another artist on the project helping with cleanup\/flat colors\/graphic design\/some of the character designs, but otherwise the majority of the art can be credited to me. I feel extremely lucky that I&#8217;m getting the opportunity to work on this project alongside some really talented people, and I&#8217;m going to put in my best effort to make this visual novel a brief yet enjoyable experience for its readers!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current main title page featuring all of the main characters:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20739\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/main-title-version-1B.1-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"881\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/main-title-version-1B.1-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/main-title-version-1B.1-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/main-title-version-1B.1-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/main-title-version-1B.1.png 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a promotional poster design I drew to celebrate the release of the Minimum Viable Product earlier this month:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20740\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Promo-poster-jpeg-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"895\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Promo-poster-jpeg-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Promo-poster-jpeg-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Promo-poster-jpeg-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few select screenshots from the game&#8217;s most recent build:<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20900 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/karahara-unhinged-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/karahara-unhinged-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/karahara-unhinged-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/karahara-unhinged-1024x520.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-20902 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tsubasa-vs-karahara-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tsubasa-vs-karahara-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tsubasa-vs-karahara-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tsubasa-vs-karahara-1024x614.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20899 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/flamechaser-haneko-screenshot-300x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/flamechaser-haneko-screenshot-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/flamechaser-haneko-screenshot-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/flamechaser-haneko-screenshot-1024x593.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in following along with the game&#8217;s development, be sure to check out our newest builds and updates on our itch page and our Twitter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jarojakd.itch.io\/flamechaser\">https:\/\/jarojakd.itch.io\/flamechaser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"648\" data-height=\"972\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JAROJAKD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by JAROJAKD<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for me to get back to working on making new prints and managing my inventory before Youmacon happens in two weeks&#8230; See you guys next week for the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! It&#8217;s almost November already, and yet I still haven&#8217;t finished posting about what I made over the summer. Starting from earlier this year, I&#8217;ve been working alongside a team of other UMich students to make an anime-style visual novel called &#8220;Flamechaser&#8221; about lesbians piloting giant robots in space and uncovering a deeper conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":20547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1884,1571,1883,1887,1885,1886,1699,1882,1888],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20904,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions\/20904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}