The break yesterday was a good idea. It let me clear my head and sort out some plot issues and now the first act is back on track. As I’m working on the first act, I’m finally starting to play around with the character designs, and now I can finally tell everyone what my visual novel is about.
As I’ve said before my intention was to come up with something silly and fun, so I wouldn’t go too overboard with the project, and the idea actually sprung up couple of months ago. It sort just popped out from the general idea of what was the silliest dating sim I could come up with. The answer?
Giant Monsters.
Yup, the Visual Novel will be about romancing one of four giant monsters so they don’t destroy the city. And the title? Kaiju Crush.
The four monsters will be a giant woman, ape, dinosaur and robot, all classic archetypes of the Kaiju genre. The real challenge has been making them intimidating enough to seem like actual Kaiju, but still cute enough so they will be characters you’d actually want to try to romance.
Here’s a WIP of the robot design. It’s been very challenging to get the look I’m aiming for, but I really think I’m on the right track.
(FYI, this image is horrible because I photographed it with my phone, also I like to use cheap notebooks to brainstorm since I’m too stingy to use fancy sketchbooks and it tends to block my creative flow)
