04/11/14 - A New Day Dawns

So rises the flag of the Viperidae blog.
I've always had Viperidae Studios as my main group/associated name for game development, I just never thought to actually create a dev blog for it.

To be short, Viperidae Studios is my main gig/group. This is the umbrella company right here. There's a subdivision of Viperidae, which is LADYproject; that subdivision focuses on visual novels, though, which, arguably, may or may not be games, depending on which side of the internet you come from.

Viperidae is meant as a spot to progress my actual video game work (which means everything that ISN'T a visual novel). I've got a few projects that I work on in my spare time right now, and I'm currently learning bit-by-bit on how to code shit. For now, I've only got a few terrible RPGMaker projects to show for.

That being said, I'll make progress posts on here in addition to on LADYproject, when I have something to show.

This is my current "in progress" list. Mind you, these projects have maybe like the first level done, and I don't constantly work on them, either -- they're very long-term and I mostly use them as a stress reliever. There's a very good chance they'll never come out.

Guide: (! = RPGMaker Game, ! = Most Likely Dropped, ! = Working Title, ! = R18)

• Menda City /// ! /// Hey, lucky!! Escape from the super-advanced-techno-fied medical research facility! Don't mind consequences, because results are what we aim for, lucky! Meant to be a horror game (somehow), but as of now it's just a really weird escape demo. That's right. Demo.
• YANO: You Are Not One /// ! /// Russian themed horror RPG. No actual fightan. You play as a bunch of masked folks in a snowy Russian village. One day, you and your comrades go to investigate an abandoned military building a bit south of your village. And everything comes tumbling down.
• Butterflies /// ! ! /// A girl wakes up in a hotel. She doesn't remember much. But she knows that she must go to Montgomery Hill, the village in the west. Cue a horrific adventure through a tiny old village to piece together her past and clarify who she is and what happened.
• LIKENESS ///! ! /// Lucille wakes up in a dark, dark room in a big, big mansion. This mansion is ruled by Marie, the Queen of Dolls, and all who live inside are dolls themselves. Though that sounds harmless, these dolls aren't exactly mentally stable. Prepare for hyperviolence and lolicide.
• Endless /// ! /// A fog-covered city. No way to escape. Monsters at every turn. And only a handful of survivors, all with trust issues. You have to escape the nightmare.
• Incubii /// ! ! /// Kaori was once a beggar who devoted herself to the church despite not being eligible to be a nun. One evening, she's mugged by a group of bandits who break into the church and attempt to rape her, and is stabbed in the process. When she wakes from what seems like death, she finds herself in Hell, but instead of a lifetime of suffering, she's sentenced to lead a group of demons and incubi to victory against the gods, providing "nourishment" for them as they fight. NSFW, somewhat otome-ish, harem end, etc. Fetishes, ho!
• MaMagicka /// ! ! ! /// In a world known as Fortitude, seven kingdoms live in relative peace. Until the smallest of all six countries known as Demoraoh rises and wages war on the other six, sending hordes of horrible monsters to each land in the hopes of gaining all of the Artifacts of Power, gifts bestowed on each of the countries by the Goddess. You play as the six heroines of Fortitude in an RPG adventurer. Monster rape, pregnancy, debauchery, and even quests for each independent heroine that can lead to great riches or even romance. The main gimmick here is, boobs = magic, so any character with large breasts is skilled with magic, while a flatchested woman is more likely to be a combat class. Needless to say, VERY NSFW.
• Die Furcht /// ! ! /// Quite German-themed. Play as three different characters in a strange and grim little town where mysterious deaths are cropping up. Something about a mysterious ghost nun. To be honest, I lost most of my documentation on this idea.
• Divine Heart X /// ! ! ! /// My very very very first RPGmaker game, which actually had a demo released. You've got some deity bullshit in your bloodstreams, some asshole wants to murder the shit out of you, find dem five crystals orbs with your buddies and triumph! Unfortunately, back then I was new to mapping and formatting and all that cool stuff, so it looks like shit, but it's kinda fun and charming, in it's own way. Uses a lot of music from various vidya. Yuck.
• Floating Head Syndrome Gannako /// ! /// Gannako is losing her head. She keeps it tied to a string so that it won't fly away. Gannako travels to Pear Island to search for the Dream Rabbit, in hopes that it can reattach her head. Very surrealist and 2deep, but pretty nonsensical and cheery, too.
• Foxville /// ! ! /// A news reporter travels with her crew to Foxville, a ghost town where drug dealers and murderers are said to hide things. Her van breaks down before they reach the town, however, and while fixing it, they're met with a young woman, scared and delirious, who runs out of the woods, screaming for help. The van fixed, two of the crew take the girl out to safety and to get help, while the reporter and her camera man stay behind. The camera man goes missing into the woods, however, and the reporter follows, only to be met with the entrance to an old, abandoned asylum, from which the girl from before escaped.
• Hatescape /// ! /// In a crimson room, a young girl sits with a crow. There's a big double door beside her, but she cannot open it. She must search for a key by jumping from reality to reality, making many mistakes along the way.
• Lonely Witch /// ! ! ! /// A girl in a mansion. There's two doors. Two paths. Two ways this can end, before you see the truth. My jumpscary horror game. Boo.
• Maylene /// A game I tinkered around with in Game Maker Studios a bit before giving up due to constantly running into bugs and errors. A side-scrolling platformer with surreal story. Lots of red. You play as a dude who needs to gather flowers to Maylene, his beloved. Was supposed to be short but kinda nightmare inducing.
• Push /// A game I once  started creating 3D models for.  I wanted it to be a 3rd person horror adventure game, that played off of one's usual expectations of horror games and twisted those expectations to screw them over. For example, you might find a shotgun with a few bullets. The normal person would fire them off instantly, and expect to find more bullets, but there isn't any in the level. You would need those bullets to shoot the boss to make the fight easier, but without them, the fight is quite a bit tougher. You would play as a girl named Marisol who only wants to get home, but has to go through quite a bit of spooky bullshit to actually get back.
• Bewitchery /// ! ! /// You're Ritz, a witch-in-training. Your mom was a pure-bred sorceress, but she married a normal guy, which pissed off her pureblood family and caused her to disappear after a while. Once your dad (who you lived with ever since) kicks the bucket, your uncle, Maximillian, comes back and forces you to work for the family. This involves keeping five male sacrifices in your house and evading the castle guard. One day Ritz gets fed up with her uncle's shit and decides to deck him one, and goes on the run with those five males in tow. Along the way she picks up a powerup in hopes to get stronger, but it's actually a book of lust power. The young witch gets super powerful magic, but only if she feeds off of sexual energy. How you get it is up to you, but fucking wild monsters isn't really becoming of you. NSFW, sort of otome-like, with harem end if you do your shit right.
• Sprezzatura /// ! /// An old game I planned, that was supposed to play like an old-school point and click adventure, a la The Cat Lady. There were three worlds, the bland real world, the vibrant and surreal dream world and the red and horrifying nightmare world. The main idea of the game was to take either the side of the dream world or the nightmare world. One of the two offered reality. The other was escapism.
• Tenebres /// ! ! /// A game I was working on in a deadline experiment last year. I wanted to get a short game out by Halloween, but that fell through and I never touched it again. Three teenagers bust into an old mansion, get trapped, some hellish woman from hell wants to chow their nubblies, etc. Gore filled, think Corpse-Party gore.
• Trashbaby /// ! /// A stylish RPG game with quirkiness up the ying-yang. You play as a common thug from the mafia who was buried alive in a graveyard after you fucked up on a job. You wake up to find yourself in a ghostly version of the graveyard, a dimension that you cannot nor the ghosts of the dead and forgotten can leave.
• Yami Nikki /// ! /// An old Yume Nikki fangame. It's centered in a hospital as a main hub. In your dreamworld, the hospital is the Nexus, the rooms the doors to alternate worlds.
• The Caring Woman /// ! ! ! /// In a monochrome world, a little girl is sent to an orphanage after the death of her grandmother, her only caretaker. While the girl adjusts to her new life, something sinister lurks in an alternate world, searching for the daughter it's lost.
• Unnamed Project A /// ! ! ! /// You play primarily as a high-school girl named Annie, who really adores her older brother, Richard. Richard happens to be moving out soon, but wants to take Annie on a trip to the city one last time. On the way there, the bus breaks down on road through a forest area, and the driver (and the few other passengers) go missing. Annie and Richard go out to explore and find them, but discover a house owned by a woman named Gretel, and ask for her help. Horror and stuff happens.
• Unnamed Project B /// ! ! ! /// You're Anna, a young woman with a fiance and an amnesiac mind. After a recent car accident, you start seeing figures of little girls out of the corner of your eye. They seem oddly familiar, too. You go out and search for answers as to who these girls are, and why they keep appearing.
• Unnamed Project C /// ! ! ! /// A game where you play as a suicidal magical girl. It was supposed to be Madoka-esque, but with a tweeest.
• Unnamed Project D /// ! ! ! /// A body has been discovered under a cliff. The body is identified as Rosaline Walker's son. Though the police chalk the death up to an accident, the distraught mother is determined to prove otherwise. Using clues left behind by her deceased son, she discovered the truth behind what happened.
• Unnamed Project E /// ! ! ! /// An extremely shoddy hentai RPGmaker game, similar to Violated Heroine or Vitamin Quest, where you play as Zinc, a busty wisecracking thief who was kicked out her her gang for unknown reasons. Your main objective is to go fight the demon-possessed priest who kidnapped nuns and ran off to an abandoned mine, but the mine happens to be the property of the gang you were kicked out of. In order to access it, you need to find the three missing members of the gang's Inner Circle, as well as pay the gang boss 50 000 G. Prepare for maximum lewd.