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Vyre || Prophecy: Corrin's Tale
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Pixel Artist, Indie Game Developer // Currently Working On - Prophecy: Corrin's Tale.

Somtimes I just disappear...
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Started work on the Team HUD UI, basically the first steps of replacing the Follower system with a switch-in team mechanic (only because it will save my sanity in the long run).

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Image showcasing the first three Team HUD Portraits for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Depicting the characters Corrin, Isla and Jade, each portrait is comprised of a character bust against a back strip, which details the flower symbology of that character's passive ability with a abstract line divided shadow pattern.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Getting back to sprite work, thought I would change up the characters each session to avoid burnout; this time I selected Jade and began work on her Idle animations. Going to spend the rest of the week on sprites, so it might go quiet for a little bit.

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October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Back on the writing grind, planning the narrative. Game writing is a fun challenge, because you have to consider mechanics as well as the typical story components like characters, locations etc, but I love a challenge.

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Photo depicting a snapshot of my notebook, with notes planning the core narrative for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Finished some behind the scenes dialogue stuff, but I did change some visuals around both in the UI and level as well; the most notable of these is the addition of child drawings, as a prompt that these are objects Corrin can talk to...trust me, it makes sense, kinda.

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September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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You know you're getting a bit too into the narrative, when written notes for just two sections of it, looks like a well-worn journal.

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September 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Within the ranks of The Council's vast empire, stands the metal machines of carnage, the Steel Priests; but don't let the name fool you, there is nothing holy about these merciless masters of brutality.

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Image showcasing the design sprites for the final entities for the Demo version of Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Depicting The Council's hive-mind machines, the Steel Priests, there uniformed design of steel blue is accented by glowing red rank markings. All bar the Spectre, which takes on a probe droid design, assume a humanoid like appearence; however, the Redeemer's legs are replaced with numerous metallic tenticles, giving it a taller height befitting of it's high-ranking role.
September 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Continuing on with dialogue busts; had to do some character redesigns (Both for bust and overworld sprite) so it's taking a little while longer, should all be wrapped up tomorrow though...well for this batch anyways.

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Image showcasing dialogue busts for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Since the last bust showcase, I've finished up the remainder of the Raft Dwellers, and implemented the core of The Council enemies.
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Slowly working through the character busts for dialogue and cutscenes (well at least the ones for the Demo). Like everything else, these might not be finalised, but they're pretty close.

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Image showcasing the first 13 dialogue/cutscene sprites for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Each sprite is a detailed bust form of the character's in-game world sprite, keeping as close to the orginal design as possible, but with some liberties taken to compensate for the more detailed sprites.
September 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Finally finished the cutscene mechanic; obviously I'll need to make the actual sprites, add audio and tidy up any imperfections, but the foundations are done, so that's another milstone achieved. Followers next I think.

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September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Created some icons for the Archive sections for use in the Main Menu; was originally going to make them like encyclopedia britannicas, but since the UI is mimicking a digital interface, I decided to go with CDs instead. Should get them in and working tomorrow.

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Image showcasing icons for each Archive section for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Designed to look like CD sleeves with a partially taken out CD, in keeping with the digital design on the Main Menu, each one keeps to a smilar red theme with imagery depicting the idea of what each section represents; for example, the Nebrullian Botanicus depicts leaves on its sleeve, as the Botanicus covers everything to do with plants and fauna.
August 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I have this folder on my Desktop where I just store notes for ideas, bits and pieces for narrative and whole bunch of rough Microsoft Paint sketches; so I thought I'd share a few of them, just so you can see none of my ideas started out perfect.

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Image showcasing a bunch of different sketches done in Microsoft Paint during the planning stages of designing the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Some of them represent closely the finished design, but changes and alterations were made mostly on all final assets; these sketches just show that the idea didn't start out perfected. Image showcasing a bunch of notes to do with various aspects of the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale during the planning stages. Some of these represent final additions to the game, while others were of ideas that either morphed into something else or were dropped entirely; these notes however, should make it clear that the crux of the game was never a uniformed idea initially.
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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3/4 of Corrin's Walk Animations are complete; I'm not someone who can animate for hours on end without getting burnt out, so completing an animation set is big progress in my eyes. Hopefully I'll get them all done and replace the old ones soon enough.

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August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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What was supposed to be a couple days, turned into a couple weeks; but the Intro Intermission is finally done. However, considering I went overboard and made it 8 minutes long, this is only a snippet of it, but it will give you a good idea as to why it took so long.

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August 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I would have had a nice preview of the intro Intermission by now to show off; but tests proved I needed to rethink the interface of the Intermissions, both from a visual standpoint and from a player engagement standpoint. Thus I have spent time getting the new UI made.

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Image showcasing a work in process shot of the new UI for the Intermissions for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Depicting a tablet device in retro-like colours laying atop mismatch wood planks with charred burn marks; these assets are some of those used for the "Broken" variant of the scene.
August 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Currently doing some recordings for the intro Intermission; a sequence that needs to be completed before I can test additional mechanics in order. I'm no VA, but it is sure as hell fun.

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Image showcasing a recording setup as I record some dialogue for an introduction sequence for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale.
August 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This journey of overhauling the combat has allowed me to re-factor a lot of other systems as well (such as NPC Spawns and Level States); which does ultimately mean a lot of tearing stuff out and rewriting sections...but at least it'll save me the headache in the future.

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Image showcasing a Notepad write out of a basic outline of Level States for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Each section details the changes in states to the levels, the order of cutscenes and dialogue triggers and what each asset included is (Player, NPC, Enemy or Scene object).
July 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Well I've made it sub 1000 with the errors (for context it was over 2000), who knew overhauling the combat was so invasive; mind you most of the errors are to do with name changes and references, but when you're working with multiple moving parts, it's not always easy.

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Image shows the script error count within Visual Studio, for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. It displays 815 errors, which is down from the 2000+ I had to begin with. These errors are due to the chnages in the combat system, where a ot of references broke or were removed, thus causing the mass exodus of does not compure to spew all over the project.
July 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Finished the design layout of the combat character selection scene; hopefully I'll be able to implement the functionaility tomorrow and be well on my way to actually giving the combat revamp some legs. (Character sprites are for testing).

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Image showcasing the design for the combat character selection scene for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. This image displays not only a similar monochromatic-abstract backdrop to the main battle scene, but also shows us the UI components of the character selection window, with selected characters placed dymaically in the scene to create a sense of belonging and depth. Image showcasing the design for the combat character selection scene for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. This image displays the scene before selecting characters, where there is no selection menu or character sprites, but rather 4 plus icons to indicate adding characters.
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Finished up the Combat HUD UI (bar the Effect icons), making a little mockup to showcase how they'll look during the encounter. I used a muted palette to capture the essence of the scene, making everything visually pleasing.

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Image showcases a mockup scene for the combat for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Depicting the monochromatic abstract scene with it's phantom leaves and rain; HUD elements are now layered on top for visual feedback during an encounter. At the top centre, we have the Speed Timeline, detailing the turn order of characters with portraits and speed values. At the top right we have the Inspection button which would allow us to open the Inspection menu for further character details. At the bottom left to centre, we have the current character details, with a portrait, HP/DEF bars, Finality bar and effect icons (the bars of which are isolated from the scene via a black background). From the bottom right, we have the attack icons of the current character(from left to right: Basic, Special, Ultimate and Finality), with a transparent flower depicting the Passive Ability and symbology of the character. As a last addition to the mockup, we have stand in characters showcasing how each team will be displayed within the scene, with characters getting further away and inwards due to forced perspective, with the further most characters fading out to create the illusion of depth.
June 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Went a bit ambitious with the new combat scene redesign; but there is just something so compelling about having an abstract-monochromatic backdrop, but the characters in full colour. Despite 3D not being my forte, it came out rather well I think.

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June 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Updated the main character portraits; some of them directly on the sprite, but all of them updated design wise to fit the new HUD and Combat UI. I'm not 100% with all of them, but if I keep editing them, we'll be here till next June, so their good enough.

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Image showcasing the updated character portraits for the seven main characters of the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. Each portrait takes design elements from each character's overworld sprite, but adds refinement and detail.
June 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Just spent a day and a bit planning Act 2 of the narrative; there's something nice about not always being plugged in, so I planned it in a more analogue way...I just hope I can still read my handwriting when I come to actually writing it.

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Image showing a whiteboard and notebook with text detailing various stages of the plan for Act 2 for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale
June 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Microsoft Paint, great for planning & quick note taking...and also procrastinating; but hey, I feel more creatively motivated now.

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Image showcasing a quick plan for Skill Trees, as a part of the combat system for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. And also maybe a quick sketch because I got sidetracked.
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I swear I do more than make attack icons, but I've finished them all now for the demo characters (well, the player characters anyway), so I can get back to planning the revised combat system...and everything else for that matter.

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Image showcasing each of the main player characters for the demo build of the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale, next to icons that each represent their different attacks/abilities for use in the game's combat system.
June 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Another 2 attack icon sets completed; they're simple things designed for visual aesthetics, but creating them with the idea of the characters they represent, gives them more meaning beyond simply UI icons, adding on additional layers to the deep narrative.

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Image showcases the attack icons of Isla, Corrin, Jade and Volyur for the game Prophecy: Corrin's Tale. They each represent the characters personalities, traits and secrets, making them not just visually pleasing, but thematically important as well.
June 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM