Today we decided to share some lore and design decisions for our visual novel! Set in a contemporary, not-so-distant future, Lynn Austen’s world runs a timeline slightly alternative to our own. Technology has improved daily life, especially for our ambitious heroine. Reporting for clients has never been easier with her trusty Virtual Assistant! Witty and polite with a sleek interface, this AI allows the player to access client notes, article drafts, emails, and voice recordings. Take a look for yourself:
(1) new Tech blip!
Preview from The Technologion:
“Grey, Inc. just released a new AI update. Here’s a snippet from their website:
Meet Greyson, your virtual personal assistant. He connects to your existing smart home ecosystem and helps you have total control over your lifestyle!
A Great Listener: His unique evolving encryption encoding allows you to securely dictate information to him as he accesses and updates all your synced business, social, and productivity accounts to the cloud.
A Big Brain: With a zettabyte worth of memory at your fingers, Greyson can always recall local and cached data in a fraction of a second, so you’re always connected even when you’re offline. His new No-Brainer mode gives him short-term memory, so all new information is immediately forgotten in a configurable time frame!
Knows You Best: With improved prediction in Ghost mode, Greyson can autorun all your learned routines with minimal reminders after only a month of monitoring your data.
Stylish Too: You can also customize his or any of his family members’ appearance and voice with our ever-growing, open source library of cosmetic assets. You can even mod your own skins and audio files and upload it to our paid developer store!
Greyson always has you best interest at heart. He’s here for you.
Greyson is so savvy that you can actually follow him on social media.”
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A Sprawling Metropolis to Explore
We’ve no shortage of lore and locations in Primrose Path. There will be over 100 beautiful location backgrounds to experience—not including our atmospheric day, evening, and night variations. We will be introducing more in-universe teasers like Greyson in future updates!
Customizable Female Protagonist
Lynn is a woman with history, family, career, and taste. You can’t change that. But you can change her look! With five different hair colors and skin tones each, you can create a more relatable character to view in relevant, gorgeous snapshots in your CG gallery. That’s 25 possible CG variations!
NaNoRenO
This year’s NaNoRenO—the Ren’py version of NaNoWriMo (a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month)—is starting this March, and fellow developers using the visual novel engine are psyched! NaNoRenO’s premise is to challenge indie teams to create a playable, fully-developed visual novel by the end of the month!
A game the scale of Primrose Path can’t possibly be completed in that span of time, but the Quiet Days team is still sharing the game jam’s spirit! We won’t participate in NaNoRenO, but we’re inspired to push through development alongside it. We’ll be using the event to measure how far we can get with an in-house demo, and give more substantial visual updates in the future!
While our blog is still the best way to receive regular, thorough updates on Primrose Path, you can now keep up with our Lemma Soft thread, which we update as a sort of master document!
Nanoprogress
Continuing on the NaNoRenO thought, while we won’t be creating assets until March 1st, we do have a head start on concept and design work! Our progress so far:
Concepts / Design work
Characters: 21%
Locations: 11%
… We’re calling it “nanoprogress” for a reason, but rest assured, the steps we’re taking are anything but small. We’ll update as we go. Keep up!
Socials
- Micro-updates on Twitter!
♦ Factoids with Greyson!
- Live art development on Twitch!
- Art logging on Instagram!
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