dfbreezy Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) Summary: One day, the face of the Earth was changed permanently when it came into contact with a mysterious force known as the “Alpha Nebula”. With it, humans developed various unexplainable abilities, and divided themselves based on those traits. The main factions include: The Tonitrui, the Excedente, the Praecantator, the Permuto, and the Northmanni. All have their own set of unique abilities that came with infamous Alpha Nebula collision, with the exception of the Northmanni who remain largely unchanged. Among these races however, existed a special group of people who managed to retain all the other race’s abilities. They were a very powerful, but small isolated group of people, called “emulators”. Arin Arlento was one of these people, living in a remote village with his grandfather and other emulators. All was going peacefully, until it was attacked by the Northmanni empire, who slaughtered his entire race and kidnapped his childhood friend, Aria. Being the only other survivor, Arin escaped into the Northmanni empire, hiding and plotting his revenge. That is until finding out that Aria is still alive, and is being experimented on by the Northmanni. Resentful of the world that took everything away from him, Arin begins his quest to retrieve his friend, and exact retribution on those who destroyed all that he held dear. It’s one misguided man against the world. Genres:[action, adventure, superpower, psychological, romance, war.] The GUI, done by Trey Fletcher; Structure: the story would be mostly linear as the choices mostly appear during battle and have their instant bad ends attached to it. The common route before each branching point is not very long as it serves to introduce the heroine who you would be branching into. It has an enforced playing order of Alacria->Aniam. Once the reader branches into the four other heroines the main story ends there and it focuses on the specific problems of the heroine. Due to various issues, Episicava would be released in 3 separate volumes as opposed to one whole. Setting: one of the main features of this story is that it is adventure styled. The protagonist and his posse of troubled combat capable girls move about on the various continents to seek new shelter. Each continent represents an ethnicity or fault of human nature. Northmanni- Modern day society. Styled after Japan and America. Fulgur- represents humanity’s scientific progression and the harm it causes. Tribus- represents African tribalism and the cultural implications it puts on its people. Progress: story- 1) prologue- 100% (will be used for demo) 2)part 1- { common route 100%, Alacria's route 70%} 3)part 2- {common route 100%, Aniam's route 70%} art- 1) sprites - 85% 2) bgs - 100% 3) cgs - 95% 4) GUI- 100% 5) Character designs- 100% music- 100% programming - 75% Team; Kotario (me) - Lead dev and main writer Snailmusk - Assistant dev and secondary writer Tristan Hallihan (Cipher) - Secondary writer Tim Reichert - Composer Nathan Cleary - Composer/Sound designer Leo Flores - Concept artist and character design Zhao - Main Character Artist and character design Hanh Chu - Secondary Character Artist Kertasu - Secondary Character artist Alais Legrand - Backgrounds Artist Joe "Bonesy" - Programmer/Marketer/PR Valhalla - Graphic Designer miscellaneous Please show your support for the Episicava visual novel by becoming a patron! thank you! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3731847 check out our website at : http://epicworksnovels.com Some of our recently done CGS: Some of the backgrounds done by Alais Legrand; Thanks! Edited July 9, 2017 by dfbreezy Forgetful Frank, FeralBlade, Arcadeotic and 3 others 6 Quote
Arcadeotic Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) To be completely fair, when I first heard of your project, I thought it's gonna die soon and/or suck majorly After reading this post and looking at the single character art, I'm positively surprised Seems good, hoping for the best for you Edited July 31, 2016 by Arcadeotic dfbreezy and Rose 2 Quote
oystein Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 I pretty much second what Arcade said here, seems pretty neat! Keep it up and best of luck. Regarding this post, perhaps rework the format of the presentation. Cheers. dfbreezy 1 Quote
Aizen-Sama Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 What Arcade said. That sprite looks fucking nice. Good luck and keep it up. I'll have an eye on this. dfbreezy 1 Quote
dfbreezy Posted September 18, 2016 Author Posted September 18, 2016 Here is a sample track from Episicava's OST called Bad omen. Quote
Forgetful Frank Posted October 20, 2016 Posted October 20, 2016 This really does sound interesting to me, and looks beautiful. I wish you all the best, please keep up the great work! dfbreezy 1 Quote
DarkZedge Posted October 20, 2016 Posted October 20, 2016 Man I can't believe I didn't see this earlier, I find it quite interesting and the art and sprites look pretty damn amazing as well. Keep up the great work, I'll definitely keep an eye on this one. dfbreezy 1 Quote
dfbreezy Posted November 20, 2016 Author Posted November 20, 2016 (edited) Two sample texts of the story!Sample 1 Sample 2 Edited November 20, 2016 by dfbreezy Quote
dfbreezy Posted January 5, 2017 Author Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Good News! Epic works has partnered with Nutaku to develop and publish Episicava! As such, our date for our crowdfunding and game release has been set! The link to it would be posted here when we start. Thank you all for your patience! Edited January 5, 2017 by dfbreezy Quote
dfbreezy Posted January 11, 2017 Author Posted January 11, 2017 Our trailer for the Kimochi has been added! Quote
dfbreezy Posted January 26, 2017 Author Posted January 26, 2017 Good news Guys! We are finally live on Kimochi! Come and support us for great rewards, and help bring this Vn project to life! https://www.kimochi.co/Episicava Quote
Nier Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) Kimochi? Never heard of it. Why not IndieGogo? Edited January 28, 2017 by Nier Quote
Fred the Barber Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 The art is quite nice and the plot doesn't sound bad, but honestly, both the crowdfunding writeup and the screenshots make it clear you need someone who knows what they're doing to line edit it (no, that's not me volunteering, just me offering some constructive criticism). Quote
Nier Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) Oh ok, so apparently "Kimochi" is Nutaku's newly launched crowdfunding website, no wonder I never heard of it. This might actually be a more suited crowdunding platform for adult visual novels than IndieGogo is as it is is specialized toward that category and that consumer base, unlike IndieGogo. Edited January 29, 2017 by Nier Quote
dfbreezy Posted February 14, 2017 Author Posted February 14, 2017 Hey Guys, I just want to thank all those who took the time to back us on Kimochi and to announce hat we'd be live on Kickstarter next month with a short demo of Episicava's game play and a spiffier trailer as well! Look forward to it, my friends! Here's a gift for you all, Episicava's first CG; Nier 1 Quote
dfbreezy Posted March 17, 2017 Author Posted March 17, 2017 We are now live on kickstarter! Help us reach our goal of making an awesome action visual novel! Link. Syforc3 1 Quote
dfbreezy Posted April 6, 2017 Author Posted April 6, 2017 Hello Everyone, We are terribly sorry to bring you this bad news, but unfortunately we'll have to shut down Episicava's campaign due to internal issues with our art team that we feel would prevent us from completing the game by our original planned deadline. We feel that delivering to our backers is our most important obligation, and as to not end up with a disappointing release, we feel this is for the best. Nevertheless, we refuse to give up on the project and have decided we will continue to work on a release, but instead as a trilogy, which will allow us to better balance out our timeline for development and budget. Each volume will be 1/3rd of the full game and will be sold on the same planned outlets.We are very sorry for causing this inconvenience, especially to those who backed at the higher tiers. If you still want to support us for the game, you can opt to support us through our patreon: link Feel free to ask us any questions you might have either through direct message or on our twitter, Facebook and discord channels; twitter.com/Episicava1 facebook.com/EpisicavaDiscord.com/ZhUkUEk Thank you for supporting us, we hope you will continue to do so in the future. Quote
dfbreezy Posted July 9, 2017 Author Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) Good news! We've completed our extended demo! Play it by clicking on the image below! We also re-launched on kickstarter a few days ago! If you're able to support us, we would be eternally grateful! The link is in the image below. Edited July 9, 2017 by dfbreezy Quote
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