|2018| Photopsia Demo - Loutanina Productions

|2018| Photopsia Demo Work

|2018| Fanart Collection

For my Graduation Project I made the first part of my whimsical horror visual novel story, Photopsia: The Girl who Saw Stars.

You can find it over here on itch.io; https://loutanina.itch.io/photopsia

Currently, only the demo containing Day 1 and Night 1 is up, but I was planning to continue working on the game. When I launched my biggest update the lack of reception ended up being quite demotivating and so it was on hiatus for a long time. But hey, there’s still about 1 hour of content in this visual novel, so if you’re interested try it out!

Since the story is a bit of a slow burn, it develops slowly, the people who know where the plot is going are excited but I’d like to avoid spoiling the whole story for my upcoming rework of the format. I’ll try to make it more of an adventure game/visual novel hybrid.

The full version would consist of 3 Days and 2 Nights.

|2017| Escape Room Project

The poster I made for the game!

The trailer I made! Music in the first part is made by Tyas, and that in the second part was royalty free music I found on Youtube Audio Library for which I’ll add the credits when I find the piece!

WIP for the poster, still like the base set up and colours.

The first sketches of Photopsia’s protagonist, Iris. She used to be a religious fanatic, but it didn’t add anything to the story so it was removed.

Later sketches where I explored the style I was going to go for with Photopsia. I’m still very happy with these sketches of Iris.

A storyboard, I have a physical sketchy storyboard as well, but that one I will only show people I meet in real life as I think the system I set up is quite clever! At any rate, I wanted to either make Iris’s story an animation or told through fighting game character animations at first, as I was just coming out of the Escape Room project and wanted to do a bit more with animations.

The next idea was to make an RPG Maker Game, here’s a screen of a WIP, but this idea was scrapped as I thought the concept wouldn’t fit as a RPG Maker game and I got frustrated with how hard it was to change the UI elements.

My own custom sprite for Iris, she used to be called Noelle in the past, so that’s why her name is different in the filename.

Iris’s expression collection for different outfits/states for RPG Maker.

I switched to Ren’Py, a visual novel engine, this is the start screen of the game I made in that engine.

The design for the in-game UI elements, it was first designed for Tyranobuilder, but I didn’t like the lack of control in that program and ended up switching to Ren’Py for those reasons.

Hallway Environment. I was not very good at backgrounds, but since this is pretty much a one-man project I had to make them. Overall I wanted the player to have a cramped feeling but with this aspect ratio and lack of environment drawing experience it was a bit hard.

Living Room, I had first layered this in a way so Iris could be movable in the scene, but decided against it because I felt I had to prioritize other features.

Iris’s Bedroom

Speaking animation of Iris with her hair down wearing her nightgown. Looks better in engine, the hair, body, clothing, mouth, eyes and eyebrows are all split up in separate folder so everything can be easily changed in code and all the moving parts can move separately.