Creators of maybe pretty okay Visual Novels.

Day 2 of NaNoRenO!
Work today and yesterday consisted of GUI work in photoshop. Here you can see a mockup of what the game screen will look like. I’m taking a lot of inspiration from Persona 4; the theme this month is angled rectangles!
This is also an example of Ayako’s wide range of facial expressions that came with the sprite. ray-en really outdid themselves with this art, her myriad of expressions really build a character! Hopefully I can do it justice with my own writing.
I’ve decided on a vague work plan; the first week is dedicated to getting the GUI to a respectable level in-engine, and importing/converting all of the free assets i’m using so I have have everything ready for weeks two and three, which will be solely dedicated to script writing. Week four is for finishing up; making final changes to the script draft and getting it edited, as well as polishing up the game itself.
I’ll admit I don’t do schedules well, Nano is training for me!
Full size image is available at the project thread on the Lemma Soft Forums.

Introducing Catnip!, a Visual Novel for NaNoRenO 2015!
Set in a near future where genetic manipulation to create ‘perfect’ babies is common place, recent leaks regarding the experimental creation of super soldiers has turned public opinion against the government. The government meanwhile continues to fund private ventures into creating the perfect soldier, with one particular laboratory focusing on the addition of specific animal DNA into our own.
None of this matters to our protagonist, 10 year old Rei, until one such experiment shows up at the park looking for adventure.
Catnip! is under construction using both free assets and personal work, using the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine. Sprites, BGs and music have been or are being sourced from the Creative Commons. with the UI and script being done internally. There will be minimal branching, mostly used for in-the-moment conversational decisions that have little affect on the larger story, and will take an hour or more to complete.
As a result of most of the interesting things being outsourced, I won’t have much in the way of things to show you, but I hope you’ll stay tuned for project updates; I will make an effort to include at least one project-related pretty thing to look at each post!
I hope to make weekly updates on my progress at the very least, likely every Sunday until the end of NaNoRenO.
Very excited to get started on my first NaNoRenO project, and I hope you’ll look forward to playing Catnip! at the end of the month! For your time, here’s the example sprite of Ayako, the main focus of Catnip! and possibly the cutest girl released into Creative Commons yet!

Art by ray-en and released into the Commons by Yukari on the Lemma Soft Forums. Logo by CrimsonMoon of the Lemma Soft Forums.
Saikou Zone is participating in NaNoRenO!
Head over to the Lemma Soft forums to see what it’s all about. Details on the project will be posted on the start date of March 1st, so stay tuned!