Nahilys

Hi, Nice looking game, looking forward to it. Thanks for following us on Twitter, hope we can help each other. Don't hesitate to come check out our own thread here on Fuwanovel. Nahilys, for Lekasoft Studio

Hello everyone, after quite some time of work, I am happy to finally post a huge update on the forum. You will be able to find : - several new assets such as backgrounds and soundtracks - a first look of our revamped sprites - a first look at our GUI and menus We are not able to share a demo of the game as of now since we are using a lot of placeholders still to help us work, but I would happily give a DL link to our current state of development to everyone who has interest in it. Just contact me here and I will give it to you through Google Drive. Obviously, any feedback would be highly appreciated Thank you very much for supporting us. P.S. : If you are interested in helping us in any way possible, feel free to contact us and tell us what would you be interested to do for/with us. Although our main development team is complete, we are still open to every proposition we could add to the game. Nahilys https://www.facebook.com/lekasoft/ [email protected] [email protected]

Looks good! I feel like outside backgrounds look unfinished though

Does this include Original Projects posts?

Hello, I believe our writer has the talent to live up to the expectations, even though his style might be very different than what we are used to in eastern Visual Novels. As for the quality checking, we do have someone tagged for it. Even though I did give him the role of "Graphic Designer", Kia is one of the most important members in our team, working as a GUI Designer, Animator, Lead Coder, Quality/Style Checker and provides a lot of experience and councels to my leadership. Although, I must admit we did not look for any editor and/or proofreader as of now as we don't really need any yet. We are mostly focusing on working out the art style and GUI since most of the demo script is already done as well as a short part of what comes after it (Around 20% of the script 1st draft has been done so far). Due to recent bugs and the forums update, a big part of the original thread has been deleted, so I will have to wait a bit if it is possible to get it back. We did finish working on our True Heroine design, but I won't be posting her yet. Now that all of our characters designs have been done, we are starting to go through a huge Quality Checking phase to ensure every character do share the same style and also remove obvious flaws in the drawing. We are also planning on mixing some details to make the art style more unique which is a bit hard to do, but we believe it is always worth to take more time to improve the quality of our game. As for the backgrounds, more sketches have been done, but nothing good enough to share. I did want to ask everyone who would feel like being interested in the project if one would be interested in speedpaintings from our artists? I do know our character artist has the ability do produce some. If we do receive a positive answer, we will most likely plan several ones when it comes to drawing the Main Menu pictures (5 in total).

Hello, my thread in Original Project has had a good part of it being deleted since the update, moslty the pictures & spoilers included. I'd like to know if it was possible to have it back in some way or do I have to edit it again myself ?

Hello again ! Here are some updates : - Thomas Burns design added. - Gallery added (Mainly for teasing ) Thank you for the support ~

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Hello, thank you very much for your support haha I agree that Lisbeth's design is one of the most detailed one so far, but that's also because of her less important impact on the story. She needed something to be recognized and appreciated, as we only have 5 characters in the story, we would not want one of two to be left aside, so we're puting as much work as we can on every single one of our characters. Those drawings are the first we made for each one of the characters, so they might slightly evoluate during the development of the game, but not by much. Our second "Side Character" is almost done and we are working on our Main Heroine design at the same time. Although I have to say this last one might take a bit longer than any other, I can assure you she'll blow your mind ! We are also receiving a few sketches and concept art concerning the backgrounds of the game, although due to our artist being Japanese and hardly speaking english, it might take some time before we can show off finished work. If a good enough number of peope still want to take a look at some sketches of his, I'll happily post a few. Thanks again for following our progress !

Update ! - Lisbeth design - Normal Pose Sprite has been added to the main post ! Check it out & don't hesitate to give us your opinion

Hello, thank you very much for your support, very appreciated ! I can tell our artist is very pleased to know her work is liked. Although she did start school again this week, we should be able to show some more around this week-end ! We are actually still working on some piece of art on the side (outfits, expressions, BG) as well as the script post-demo. We should also be able to show some work from our background artist as well soon enough ! Our work right now focused on our five characters designs and first sprites, so we can use them to creat our main menu background, from which the GUI will be fully created. Once we get a few sprites and GUI, we should be able to have some interesting screenshots to show off as well as working on a third editing of the current script to make everything work together. Do not hesitate to give us some feedback about the art and story if you do see some flaws in them (using "spoilers" preferably). If you want to know more details about the project or join us to help, do not hesitate to contact me here, on Facebook or on our mail.

Hi. Downloaded this game today, but I got a blackscreen when I launch it. I only have a first sentence that appears in Japanese, needing me to click to make it disappear as it was some kind of a Prologue but nothing else appears. I still got the music when launching from the .bat, none when launching from .exe Both have the sentence appear, then nothing happens. Works after launching it with Phenonemo_en.exe... Which was not supposed to work. Whatever...

Hello everyone, I am Nahilys, leader of Lekasoft Studio and I am very pleased to introduce a revamped look for our first game Lost Winter Nights. We are currently working on a 1st demo to be release to the public this summer. It will feature the whole Introductory Chapter of the game with one up to three poses with several expressions for each appearing characters. as well as half a dozen of original soundtracks and around forteen orignal unique backgrounds. We also plan to include a few CG for it. - GUI SNEAK PEEK - - THE TEAM- Nahilys : Project Lead, Original Idea, Scenario. Dave Burns : Scenario, Script Writing. (https://twitter.com/AceOfSpades_VN) Kia : Graphic Designer, Animator, Lead Programmer. Vaatry : Character Design, Sprites & CG Artist. (http://vaatry.deviantart.com/) Alexis Ril : Demo Backgrounds Artist. (http://anirhapsodist.deviantart.com/) Mock Off : Composer (https://soundcloud.com/joshua1207) Grey : Assistant Programmer - THE GAME - Language : English Genres : Romance, Psychological, Drama, Thriller Rating : 18+ (Sex, Blood, Strong sujbects). All ages version : Yes Special features - Animated Menus - Animated CG - English Voice Acting - 3 Routes including variations depending on which order they are read. - STORY TEASER - Another winter passes, with nothing changing. Ethan Wright is a 20 year old college student who lives a normal, satisfying life. With his four best friends, he can't think of anything more he needs. But something is wrong. An unshakable feeling that something is missing. Until, one night, he meets a strange girl, sitting in the snow. As weeks pass, Ethan will inevitably get closer and closer to the truth. - CHARACTERS - Full cast (Unreworked art) From left to right (REWORKED SPRITES) : Aika Sokolov Age : 20 Aika is Ethan's childhood friend. She is the very possessive type of girl but would do anything she can so she and the people she loves live happy. Morgan Crouch Age : 18 Morgan is a very smart girl who used to focus only on her grades but meeting Lisbeth in college made her discover real friendship. She is often treated as the child of the group. Lisbeth d'Arcy [WIP] Age : 19 Lisbeth is Morgan's best and unique friend. Quite rebel, she spends most of her time fooling around and doesn't care much about studies as she prefers to flirt with boys and especially girls. Thomas Burns [WIP] Age : 20 Thomas is Ethan's best friend. He has always been there for him, helping and counselling him about things he would not be able to decide on his own. Thomas is very adaptable to people and knows very well how to handle one's character. Alice Deslauriers [WIP] [Non-demo character] Age : N/A - CONTACT - E-mail : [email protected] / [email protected] Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lekasoft/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/LekasoftStudio - Gallery - [Soundtrack] Mock Off – Memories Lost : https://soundcloud.com/joshua1207/memories-lost [Soundtracks] Mock Off - Days : https://soundcloud.com/joshua1207/days

Updaaaate !

Update 3.0 ! STILL LOOKING FOR A GUI DESIGNER. - Team update - Team Leader, Developper, Scenarist : Nahilys. Script Writer (All 3 Routes) : ThanasisK Chara Designer/Sprites Designer : THE UNKNOWN ( ) Graphic Designer/Animator : In talks. Composer : MrKapow (+ Guitarist & Singers) Programmers : GreyWolfXx, Sylvain S. - True Heroine promotional chara design DONE. [Our artist does not want to see posted unfinished work so her art will be shown when our promotional video is done as well). - 1st Side Heroine chara design [Work in Progress] - Both Side Routes summaries [Work in Progress] - Promotion Video planned for Kickstarter. - Promotional/Opening Song [Work in Progress]

Thanks a lot for your feedback, I'll keep everything in mind for sure.

That is totally true ! I have been thinking a looot about her being the protagonist anyway, & I'll keep thinking about it. i have a lot of options, as I was also considering telling the story from a 3rd person point of view, therefore creating a more developped "MC". As my english is not good enough to be the main writer, I'll have to talk a long with the one who will accept to join the team & get his opinion on the subject, but for now we're trying to do our best on getting some work going & precising the game atmosphere. I hope we'll be able to find a good writer soon enough, I have so much things to talk about.

I'm confident in my story and in the writer we'll find to pull that off ! I feel like I'm more limited in terms of a creating a protagonist since he has to fit most people so they can get easily into the game.

That's a veeery good question ! More likely the 3rd one, just because the real main character is Alice & everything in the story revolves around her. The last choice of the game is even hers & not the protagonist's. It may sound strange, but that's the kind of story I wrote, & we all agree with it in the team right now !

I appreciate your feedback. She actually drew all of it with my advices and lead in one afteroon. It's a first shot, and i'm really looking forward to seeing even better work from her ! Still looking for an english writer, graphist and background artist though !

I do agree with your statement, in a sens... But that how our character artist wanted to draw, and even though I led her on the most part & we did a lot of changes to the original sketch but I don't feel like her very long legs are that much of a trouble. Anyway, this is mostly a sample for people to be interested in the project and see that we're working on it as hard as we can. We'll have to see how it looks after the coloring is finished. They are quite some anime for example that worked very well with a special chara design (especially long legs), one of them being Code Geass itself. So I am not that worried about it, but we will keep a look on those kind of details obviously while we keep working on the chara design.

UPDATE ! We got our first sample of the future chara design for our Main Heroine, Alice. A big thanks to our designer. [Edited : Work in Progress]

Wrong. You can easily write your full story & even your full script without having any artist on your side. Prepare your characters, write their full descriptions, their stories. Work on the routes, on the gameplay : What routes, when, how long, what's going to happen in each of them, how do I get to each one, what kind of choices lead to them, what kind of choices will there be in each routes, what does it imply, what types of endings, how many ? & so on... If you can answer all of those questions already, write them down here so people can see how it's developping & they'll be more likely to join the project.

UPDATE 2.1 ! 1 - Edited team members : Chara designer, Editors, Writers, Composer, Programmers. 2 - Story full summary added (non edited). 3 - Precised 18+ rating. Editing of the story summary ongoing, adding today or tomorrow at last.

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