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Fantasia: Surreal Cosmic Progeny

Fantasia: Surreal Cosmic Progeny

Thread has been updated! Please enjoy~
So, what's coming in Demo 3?
- Over 100 new optional events!
- Continuation of the main story!
- New and improved pamphlets, interface for rewards and more!
- Every cutscene updated from small scale file replacements, to fully blown cinematic animations!
- A myriad of fun characters to get to know, despise and secretly adore! Each with their own reasons for doing as they do!
- Over 20 more crazy bullethell boss battles!
- Writing fixes and adjustments out the ass!
- Both Lilac and Koko attain their ENNUI's gift.
- New animation style that better fits with Pjcr's drawing style! See below for example:
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- Planetary Exploration unlocked, with multitudes of worlds to explore!
- Each main icon has a three part optional event trilogy that at it's end unlocks a celestial body. Or in Esperia's case; Multiple!
- Story Mode added, for those who just wish to experience the story, and struggle with the Danmaku!
- Living breathing environments that ooze life and activity!
- Her
Milestone reached: I have completed the main storyline for Disk 2. Sans a cutscene, four boss fights and an escape event, so now I'm going back through and re-writing EVERYTHING to make it more compact, succint and impactful. The less is more treatment in a similar vain to Fantasia's Re-write patch for demo 2.

And if you've been paying much attention you know I had up to 4 cutscenes to make, yet now I have only one? Did i make all three cutscenes in a short span of time??

The answer is: Yes. Although i should warn you these cutscenes are potentially placeholders. As one is may be too short and one is not the submission Xiie intends to deliver.
Without any further foreplay, let's take a look!

Fantasia Scene 17 - Shadowed Quasiroyal

Fantasia Scene 18 - Unleash the Inferno

Fantasia Scene 19 - Power

But hold on~ you may have noticed I went against my own planned out sheet from last page!

Fantasia Scene 16: Pride Eclipse
Lilac's ascension cinematic, similar to FS09, and by the time I'm producing it, I'll have most of the assets I need.

Fantasia Scene 17: Windswept Beauty (Changed to Shadowed Quasiroyal)
This will be a small one-lined scene where the Queen of Shadows introduces herself. This scene is potentially already made thanks to Xiie's masterful hand, i will simply need to add a character Splash and some cool effects, most likely.

Fantasia Scene 18: Unleash the Inferno
Koko's ascension cinematic, I know a fair bit about how i want this to go and feel. The general vibe is that- Koko is pissed, and now, she has a perfect means of demonstrating that. She will hold back no longer.

Fantasia Scene 18X: Power
I'm not sure if this scene will even be made, but if it is, it will function as the end of disk 2 cinematic... it will primarily feature Wi at her most ruthless as no one can hope to stand against her. it might end up being just an in-game scene instead. This is the first time FANTASIA will be mentioned, which is Wi's ultimate goal. I care not to spoil more than that.

THEN WHAT??
Well it probably goes without saying that I now know how this is largely going to go, so I'll just keep at it, I suppose. :3

Fantasia Scene 19: Watermelon
This is a goofy scene where Zardari appears to be doing his thing of killing shit, but in reality he's just cutting up watermelons in a very menacing and skillful way, to which the gathered
Well that's because I've decided to make Fantasia Scene 19 - Power a legitimate scene and just scrap Fantasia Scene 19 - Watermelon because its premise is fucking stupid. I could also do such a thing with picture events.

So if you're a clever cookie you've probably worked out Pride Eclipse is the only cinematic I haven't yet made for Disk 2, and you would be correct! Well- unless you count the two ENNUI Empowerment Scenes and the numerous DENUI Damnation cinematics.

Although I haven't finished remastering all the old cutscenes yet, either... although as scene in the prior update, i did finish Fantasia Scene 10 - Resurface of Traumatism which leaves the only large scale remaster as Fantasia Scene 09 - Protege of Naamah

Although, this isn't all that happened in the world of gamedev for me!

Pjcr
He's been having trouble getting me files, but he did manage to squeeze a Xaela through before his computer decided to one hit K.O itself, he had it sent in for repairs, which are now done, and it crashed again but this time with the intention of fixing itself which I can safely assume succeeded. Currently I'm waiting for a storm to pass as I don't want to risk him losing all that data.

He did get me this Xaela. The one file he managed to sneak through.
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As for his progress on the work orders, he's gotten all of the main story characters outside of Xeltara and Lilith finished. He's a bit of a ways through Xeltara before the PC dieded and now is working on Lilith on his sister's laptop while he waits for his to fix up. I bought him a flash stick last payday (by which i mean) I obligated him to buy one out of his paycheck so if he was able to recover his files he wouldn't be in risk of losing all of his work. We may not get so lucky next time.

To recap so you fully understand how many files that his shitty internet and situation is holding hostage.
Naamah: 2 Files
Amberina: 4 Files
Young Koko: 8 Files
Xaramitsi: 8 Files
Xaela: 3 Files
Xeltara: 0-8 Files
Lilith: 0-8 Files

I will start working on his Disk 2 Optional Conent work orders shortly.

But wait! We aren't finished!

Jake
The 7 minutes and 15 seconds long track I commissioned for the Clash of Malevolence is finished!
Fantasia OST - ME 06 Malevolence
And of course because i wanted to test out it's syncing, i compiled a retread of Triforce with the end scene included!

The Clash of Malevolence
Good stuff, right? haha...

WELL WE STILL AREN'T DONE!

Remi-chan
Given the amount of which the characters ascend in this Disk it was no longer probable to have only two faces fit the theme. So I went and made a new animated set for Koko, Lilac and Lumi. it's very likely I'll make a second set of regular expressions for Sacreblu in the future as well.

Anyway, here's some samples of what the ascended sets look like. I've yet to add the power auras or implement them, but that will happen soon!
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All of these pictures are different, either slightly or quite a bit!

Xiie
As for her progress, Xiie finished the work I set out for her. So while I plan to send her a parcel with a flash stick to relay her new work orders, she meanwhile is going to be doing a sitting and sleeping sprite for every sprite she has made and is yet to. Sparing only the distinct few who have one already! The plan is she will send me back the flash stick with all of her current work on it and possibly all the work I'll need done for Demo 3. Then I'll start working on compiling a work order list for release and mail that off, and she will respond in kind with all the work orders. is it an efficient way of getting Xiie to hand in her work? No. Not even a little bit. But currently, it is the only way possible to bypass the internet restrictions she is suffering through in the Philippines.

Thanks pandemic.

And no, you didn't mishear me. Demo 3 is the last playable Demo prior to the games full release. The Release will contain both Disk 3 and Disk Δ which I intend to get fully finished and ready before 2023 is even here, which gives me about 3 and a half months to market it and get my dedicated team of testers to break it and report the errors to me so I may fix it. The current plan for the release is 3/14/2023. it is not a promise per se, but a plan. Plans can fray and have in the past, so until my artists have finished their work for um, the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME?? I won't be making any official deadline announcements. The past has taught me well.

Now you might be wondering, why that date specifically? Explain.

Well, 3/14 I make obvious enough, if you follow me at all you're likely to know that's the day the Crazy Chimp Collective was founded, the big thing about 2023 is it is the tenth anniversary of the Crazy Chimp Collective, which has been around since 3/14/2013.

So I would really like to make the game ready by that point, but the future is an in-navigable bitch of a thing, so were I you i wouldn't hold my breath.
It was finished a while ago but I forgot to upload it.

Here's the animation in and of itself!
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To give a bit more detail, I intend to finish what remains of Fantasia Scene 10 - Resurface of Traumatism tomorrow, which means doing not one but two animations, a hectic Svoli one and a not-so-hectic Pep one.

For Svoli, it's gonna just be this but updated to the new detailed style I use today.
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If you're wondering what the detailed style looks like, well:
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Much better! I think is the answer!?

Pep is gonna basically just be two frames with some edits here and there. I have the remainder of what I need already.
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