Much of my free time this week has been directed toward Daz Studio and experimenting with its many features. The biggest challenge has been learning jargon and understanding key fundamentals of geometry, textures, shaders, and lighting and how they all … Continue reading Iris Character Concept
I have kept these drafts from Van’s story unpublished for years. The likelihood of reinstalling “The Sims 3” with all the characters and content I used to own and pose the remaining screenshots for the final three posts is fairly close to “nil”. Please enjoy these text-only wrap-up posts from the first Chapter. If I continue with his story, it will be in an entirely different format. — Isabella Gonclaves is born shortly after sunset early on a Sunday evening. Medically speaking, the birth is uneventful; though the labor endured by her mother, Benita is unpleasant enough to elicit a … Continue reading Part 23 – something wondrous
I have kept these drafts from Van’s story unpublished for years. The likelihood of reinstalling “The Sims 3” with all the characters and content I used to own and pose the remaining screenshots for the final three posts is fairly close to “nil”. Please enjoy these text-only wrap-up posts from the first Chapter. If I continue with his story, it will be in an entirely different format. Please also note that I had initially intended to start doing some crossover posts between my ongoing stories. This appearance by Cole Donblas from “The Donblas Lineage” was the first planned crossover. — … Continue reading Part 22 – the perfect utopian world
I have kept these drafts from Van’s story unpublished for years. The likelihood of reinstalling “The Sims 3” with all the characters and content I used to own and pose the remaining screenshots for the final three posts is fairly close to “nil”. Please enjoy these text-only wrap-up posts from the first Chapter. If I continue with his story, it will be in an entirely different format. — Gabriella’s birthday party provides a very much-needed distraction away from the controversial circumstance of Benita being several months pregnant and living with Van while remaining conspicuously unmarried. Van has given up debating … Continue reading Part 21 – help is on the way
Much of my initial time spent developing “Nash Must Learn” is devoted to creating a foundation where the building blocks for the story will eventually take shape. Keep in mind that my motivation for doing this is entirely selfish. I … Continue reading Lorie Character Concept
Faith is a quirky, small-statured character in Nash Must Learn. Her unremarkable appearance, aloof demeanor, unkempt mouse-brown hair, and limited acquity with ordinary life skills are all expressions of a lifelong struggle against high-functioning Autism. Faith may appear stupid and … Continue reading Faith Character Concept
Daylight breaks before Cedar rests. She has not stopped moving since her flight from the insects and has been traveling at a near-running pace for what feels like an eternity. She has no idea which direction she moved, how fast … Continue reading Homing Sense
Cedar reflects on the events in her life as she expends the last cartridges for her weapon. She’d made every one of them count and not a single one of the valuable implements was wasted, just as she had been … Continue reading Zero Hesitation
Desiree (Dez) is the one character in Nash Must Learn with whom Nash has the most history, the strongest emotion, and the deepest contention. Readers are introduced to Dez shortly after the opening segment where she and Nash are reunited for the first time in several years following a bitter fight. They are cousins and have fond memories of growing up together. Her attempts to act sunny and blithe are short-lived during the sentimental encounter as her emotions spill over upon seeing him again. Much of the story will revolve around or involve Desiree in some way. Nash must learn … Continue reading Desiree Character Concept
Once complete, the “Nash Must Learn” project will be a visual novel with branching subplots containing information needed to resolve the larger plot. Relationships will not be handled in “tracks” or “routes” but will progress naturally as one might find … Continue reading Michelle Character Concept
Cedar is startled awake by the injured companion she had met nudging her urgently, “NEH, NEH!” Confusion swirls around within her sleep-muddled brain while the man shuffles about the cabin in a bluster, making an unruly racket. Her limbs feel … Continue reading Without a Fight
Cedar lives in a post-civilized, Earthlike world set two thousand years after a series of events that led to humanity’s rapid decline and near extinction. Nature has reasserted its dominance in mankind’s absence and time has erased all but the … Continue reading The Follower
Some of Cedar’s earliest memories are of unhappy occasions when people from the village failed to return before nightfall. She cannot recall any one of them who was seen alive again. The Hinterlands are dangerous, especially so at night. The … Continue reading Two Worlds
Now that Cedar has been properly introduced and her world somewhat explained, the narrative will begin to shift away from an omnipotent point of view and zoom in closer to the characters and what is happening to them within the … Continue reading Empathic Tendencies
While imagining the world in which “Sci-Fi Girl” lives, a few things come together rather quickly. The world is post-civilization and Earthlike, though not necessarily apocalyptic. Perhaps it is Earth in some alternate form. Some untold series of events caused … Continue reading Hinterlands Cedar
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