Valentine's Day/We Still Aren't Dead Edition

Roses are red. Violets are Blue. Our Dev Team isn't dead, we still love you.

In fact, we’ve been busier than ever. A lot of stuff has happened since our last update, so grab your booze and enjoy spending Valentine’s Day alone while reading about an in-development eroge, because we got a lot of stuff to talk about.

Act 1 is coming along nicely. The outline for has been completed for sometime, and while a few adjustments are being made, writing is going smoothly. With some of us even starting work on our routes. However, there is some heart wrenching news. Material Tire decided to break up with us and leave his spot as Julia’s writer, but he's still around in an editorial. That hasn’t set us back, though, as the details for Julia’s route have been written down for a long time, so it’s only a matter of tweaking her a little and having our new writer type it all out.

Speaking of tweaking, we’ve tweaked some of the girls’ designs a little. We haven’t changed their body types or looks (Don’t worry, Amelia is still chubby), but we have changed their clothes a little. This was done so they look less like tourists and more like they came from a different country. It’s nothing too significant, but we’re happy with it.

We also know what we want our backgrounds to look like now. We have a few made and also a few samples, but we haven't settled with a BG artist yet. Hit us up if you’re interested.

Next up we have the first and official introduction of one of our side characters. We here at EDT are happy to introduce Charlotte, Sasha’s little sister! A.K.A. the little ghost hiding behind Sasha in the Halloween picture.

                                               

Charlotte Beleren

Age: 10

Birthday: October 21

Hair: Brunette

Eyes: Teal

Height: 4'3”

Favorite Food: Burgers, but only if they don't have the tomatoes. Claims to hate fish, but she'll eat it if she knows that Sasha or her mother can't see it. Generally prefers sugary foods, like any kid.

Favorite Color: Purple, almost a violet tint. She likes drawing with it because “it stands out more than the others.”

Other information:

-        Sasha taught her how to swim. She likes to play Marco Polo with other friends, but only when she isn't 'it'. Is a bit of a scrapper, tends to get rough and has a strong tomboy streak, commonly picking fights with other children her age.

-        Has a fear of bugs, most of all bees and wasps. Strangely enough she isn't scared of spiders. “Mama told me spiders ain't a bug so I ain't a scared of them no more!”

-        Thinks fish are slimy and gross. Sasha frequently tries to take her fishing, but all she does is chill at the pier with Sasha while looking for things to do. Most of the time she tries to watch TV, but because of frequent power outages she either sits around and complains about how there's nothing to do, or she draws.

-        Goes to elementary school. There's only one in the town, and she shares a class with 30 other kids, at a school of about 60 other 4th graders.

-        Sasha always dresses her up in skirts and dresses, but she prefers shorts “like big sis.”

-        Isn't too conscious about the war going on. Understands that their neighbors are at war, but like most kids, doesn't think of it beyond people killing each other.

Also, here’s some Vincent concept art. We’ll do a Vincent Edition soon, but enjoy this for the time being.

Hopefully we’ll be introducing more side characters soon, so stick with us.

Well, that just about does her. But before you go, have some treats that the girls made to celebrate this occasion.

Happy Valentine’s Day, EDT.

Perfect Girl Edition

Name: Vyra Wells

Age: 18

Sex: F

Blood type: A

Nationality: Rhen-Palait

Vyra, originally known as Victim-tan, comes from Rhen-Palait. She arrives at Marin shortly before Vincent.

Vyra Wells is the epitome of a perfectionist. It takes Vyra three minutes to do what a normal person could do in one. Vyra handles even the simplest of tasks with extreme care, as though every task should be her highest priority. She goes to such lengths as to redo someone's work if it isn't up to par with her own standards. While not particularly critical of others, Vyra is simply concerned with how others would judge her.

Vyra gets along well with most refugees, however she opts to stay impersonal in most relationships.She and Amelia are often at ends, with their vastly different approaches on how to come to solutions. Where Amelia would prefer to rush through something and get it done, Vyra would be precise and analytical. Vyra gets along well with most people, despite her fussiness over minute details.

Besides working at her part-time job, Vyra's time is best spent inside the refuge of her tent. Inside, she has around three guns to keep her company. Rather than shooting at targets or practicing her aim, Vyra simply enjoys assembling guns and taking them apart once they're done. The precision that's needed is a welcome aspect of gun-building.

Thank you for reading! We'll be sure to update more soon.

-Kiwi

Best Girl Edition

Introducing Julia, which is the girl whose route I am writing.

Julia comes from one of Baharistan's prominent families, and was sent to Marin alone as a safety precaution. However, she still keeps a close eye on the war; staying up to date through various news reports and having lengthy phone calls to her family at home.

She is one of the few refugees in Marin exempt from working, as her family pays for her stay and expenses. The immense amount of free time that results from this is mostly used on finishing up her education via correspondance courses on arguing with the other residents for her own amusement. Despite being fond of arguments, she isn't very good at it, and often resorts to personal attacks instead, completely disregarding the feelings of those she might offend; she lives for herself, not others.

Apologies for the inaccuracy on the chinese checker board, our artist have never played it.

I think you'd be hard pressed to make a character more cliched than the basics of Julia, as she is simultaneously the foreign money-guy, rich girl who is full of herself and tsundere with a variation of twintails, on top of that she's a high school student, but hopefully it'll still end up as something I can be proud of.

The only other option is not releasing.

Amelia Edition

Hey there, anyone, I'm the Outlander, one of the writers for Amare in Bellum. Originally, I just provided feedback on their forums as an outsider - hence the name Outlander - and soon found myself becoming a full member of the team. So which character did I hook up with? An adorable girl that goes by the name of Amelia Vahn.

Amelia was an old friend of Vincent's, but she moved away several years ago, fading out of Vincent's memory. She turns up in his life again at Marin, seeking refuge from the war, giving them the chance to rekindle their friendship. She's one of the happier residents of the town; always willing to lend a hand, or strike up a conversation, and never without her trusty camera ready to take a snapshot. Amelia chooses to ignore the war, disallowing it to be a part of her life. Her life is here, in the town, with the people.

I'm not big on cameras, but I think I got the best girl to write about; just looking at her artwork fills my head with ideas, it has gotten to a point where I spend more time writing for fun than I do playing video games. Very tragic, but I love it.

As for overall team progression: the writers are starting to create some scenarios for Act 1 and our code monkey, Fideon, is working on another build of the introduction with some assets to play around with. That's all for now, catch ya later.

 

Sybil Edition

Greetings and salutations, my curious friends. I am the fabled Syon. I'm one of the writers working on our project, Amare in Bellum. My job is to write a route for one of the girls. In fact, the reason I'm here is so I can introduce the girl whose route I'm writing. So it is my pleasure to introduce to you, the three people reading this blog, Sybil Dastun!

Sybil is a refugee from the country of Rhen-Palait. Her deadpan demeanour and blunt statements distinguish her from the crowd along with her ever-present bandages that cover her head and her nasty smoking habit. She has become infamous among the residents of Marin as a class A moocher; lingering around shops and bothering people for food, refusing to take up any kind of work.

As you can see, we have some concept art (and a comic made by our wonderful artist Kiwi) drawn by WaffleBunny and Kiwi. Enjoy.

This is all we can show you right now, but rest assured, there will be more to present in the future.

Votation Edition

Today the votation for "Introduction we are gonna be using as final release candidate or that we are gonna use for now and butcher and edit and use it as intro" took place.

After every team member vote was submitted in a completely democratic way that even the most first world of the first world countries would be jealous of, the results were obtained.

The winning draft was OUTLANDER'S

We will now proceed to edit, cut, write, paste the intro.

So yeah, basically. PROGRESS.

We are already working on it and can't wait to finish our first whole intro build!

Introduction Edition

 Hello, and welcome to Edition Development Team's blog. We'll be using this blog to record our progress (and hopefully have people track it too!).

Our project was started to pay tribute to Four Leaf Studios. We came together through their game visual novel, Katawa Shoujo.

Amare in Bellum (ah-mah-re in bay-loom) is the story of a young man by the name of Vincent Fahran, drafted into a war and subsequently injured. After recovering, he finds himself in a small refugee town, seemingly isolated from the conflicts surrounding it.

 Thanks for visiting! We'll try and keep this updated as much as possible.