It's going to be a long development because it's a hobby project that I do solo after work (i have only designer in help, who turning my shitty concept arts and sketches into images and animations).

Subscribe and like if you want - so that I can see how many people are interested in this and try to write as often as possible and share some arts without spoilers.. 

As soon as the creative part is completed, I will start creating dialogues and plot rails. And then I'll take care of the combat system.

I've always been embarrassed to show off my creations, but I decided to create a devlog to structure my thoughts and ideas, as well as keep a report for myself. But if you're suddenly interested, I'm always happy to communicate, discuss and feedback.

Basic info:

Title name - Last breath of harmony. 

* Game genre: Visual novel/ turn-based strategy. So far, it's more of a hobby project that I do after work and on weekends for myself. 

* Setting - Dark/Splatter fantasy - guts, gore and revolution. 

* The battle scenes will be in style of fire emblem/gemfire (more Gemfire - love old Koei) in the form of 5x5 or 5x1 battles (in boss fights). on 10*10/12(?) squares battlefield with some strategy mechanics. The stats of the game characters will be constant, which is justified by the lore of the game - events take place within 1-2 weeks, there is no time to grind the experience. The stats of AI-controlled characters will change to moderate difficulty and lore twists. 

* I planning to make 2 difficulties:

-  Novell (easy battles, if you love to reading dialogues and watch nice arts) 

- Original (as originally planned) - for hardcore TBS players (i hope it will be enough hard - will see on alpha test)

* Each unit will have unique abilities backed up by lore.

* The dialogues will be in the spirit of JRPG in the form of a portrait (not anime)+text in the dialog box, on the background of the game graphics. Cutscenes will be made on the game graphics. 

* The turning points will be in styled as cutscene illustrations (fortunately, I have a good designer).

* TRL - Just started. So far i wrote about 90 pages of script, composed about 15 music themes and have all of characters concept and lore in my head (29\35 is drawn by my designer friend).

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This 1st message will be updating log - telling about something new ideas ;D

Deeper concept in message below.

Harmony Island is a place where a fragile dystopian world is balanced between six neighborhoods. Under the rule of the king, it seems that the island is thriving, but ambitions, secret deals and a thirst for change are bubbling under the surface, invisible to the eye of the Royal Guard. 

Ore and diamonds are mined in the Mines of the Crown, young magicians are trained at the Mage Academy, weapons and armor are forged in the Royal Forge, the Jaeger Grove cares the grove for royal hunts and farming animals for food, and the Merchant Guild manages the flow of wealth. This balance is about to collapse, opening the way to chaos, and a new, terrifying era. There is only one small (chemical) element left.

There will be a total of 4 paths and 6 playable factions (5 main characters each) 

These main characters will be in the game both under your command and as your opponents, depending on the choice of your faction. 

And for every fight with such an opponent, I decided to make a signature battle encounter music theme.

I will introduce you to the Factions and it'a characters as they are drawn. And 1st introduction will be below.

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New faction reveal: The Merchant Guild!

Tank Unit - Jay Wakker

Jay Wakker is a former guardsman. He realized that he had no place among idle young soldiers, and the drill of Colonel Karmian and Captain Viatrass bored him. Patrols and marches don't make good money, and the fact that he's one of the most talented solider doesn't affect his income. 

The cunning guildmaster Gustav-Graves spotted Jay and offered the vacant place as his bodyguard. Since then, Wakker has been plagued by doubts - on the one hand, good money and no boring military service, on the other, he does not quite agree with the methods of the Merchant Guild. He may have a skull with coins on his shield now, but the crown of the Royal Guard still rests under this paint.

Melee Frontline Unit - Raze-Cut

Raze-Cut is a symbol of the merciless methods of the Merchant Guild and the greed of the guildmaster. Instead of the Royal Guards offered to Gustav-Graves by the king, he bought out a bunch of pirates who were sentenced to be hanged on other islands. Raze-Cut is one of them. A thug convicted of piracy, robbery, and mass murder is now the guildmaster's personal enforcer. 

For him, there are no concepts of honor and pity, in general, he is not even very hungry for profit. The main salary for him is unpunished cruelty, the proximity of danger and adrenaline. His family died of typhus, he himself was bought out from the gallows - there is nothing left to lose and he goes his own carnage road.

Range Unit - Emily Nelson 

Not much is known about her. She says she lost an eye while boarding a merchant ship, although rumors in her home port say that her father knocked out her eye when she was a child. She is cold and bloodthirsty, but perhaps hiding insecurity and resentment behind a mask of rudeness and feigned confidence, she, same as Raze-Cut, was bought out from the gallows, before the execution of the death sentence.

Support Unit - Brad'o'Bread

Fresh produce, great food, the best and healthiest - but only for the guildmaster.

For the rest, he cooks whatever he has to: rotten meat, leftovers, sometimes even carcasses that he stole from the battlefield (he considers it a delicacy).

He was once a chef on the Duke's frigate on one of the islands. But a virus, after cooking a delicacy of bats, clouded his mind. After a couple of dishes of dead sailors, he was ignominiously dismissed and sentenced to the gallows. Well, then Gustav-Graves appeared..

Comman Unit - Guildmaster Gustav-Graves 

The real Triple G. Cunning, unscrupulous, ready to do anything for the sake of profit and economy (except saving on his safety). A skilled trader, a sea wolf, devoted to the crown and the island of Harmony - his image is for all residents and the king. A dirty crook, a smuggler, a traitor - for everyone else, this is a real Gustav-Graves.  He and his team of thugs skillfully maneuver between unjustified cruelty and treachery and the image of law-abiding sailors.

Next faction teaser in some days as Art Process Video! Portraits almost done (4\5), battle music prepared! 

So yeah.. Teaser! Revealing next faction - Mages Academy! Here is an Art process video. Music OST and Bios will be next! (Preparing OST background for now).

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New Faction Reveal - Mages Academy

Tank Unit - Armagard

Armagard is the best blacksmith of armor on Harmony Island. He and his brother, the weaponsmith Avengard, have been inseparable since childhood. But everything has changed since Becklaria and Raval needed guinea pigs for their experiments with gas. For these reasons, a caravan of blacksmiths traveling to the mines was captured.. and then..

oh oh delay..  I was drowning in my work last weeks.. so here is bonus art of Cyida (topic is marked 18+, so I upload it with a clear soul lol)

Mages Academy Music themes are done. Stay tuned - upload soon.. Crafting in process

Ah yes.. bonus art.. (click to watch)

ps -  sry for link, but idk if it is allowed to post such kind of arts here :D

I plan to post more often, so if it's not difficult, what would you like to see: The process of writing music? The drawing process? My attempts to learn how to code? Something hot from the art? Plot development of the script?

Sry for delay again! Here is new battle theme music and bios for characters.

Support Unit - Rouche Adonio.

Rouche is young gloomy magician who since childhood, he was a thin, shy boy and was bullied by other children. When he grew up, he passed the exams at the Мagic Academy and chose force protection as his magic profile to learn protect himself. After completing his studies, he continued his development under the strict guidance of Professor Raval. And in the end Rouche Adonio became a dean of "Defensive and Protective Sciences" profile in Academy. Now he shares his experience with new young boys and girls who have decided to choose this discipline as their main one. The events on the island will make him test the power of his defenses.

Melee Frontline Unit - Clyve de Breach.

Clyve is an unsurpassed master of the magic blade and dean of this profile in Academy.

 His father was a scout guardsman and little Clyve always sat with him when father cleaned and sharpened his blade. When the "War of the Lost Isles" began, mr. de Breach, like the rest of the Royal Guards, went there. But, unfortunately, he did not return from a distant island, like many guardsmans.  Only the blade that Clyve cleaned and sharpened with his father returned... When Clyve grew up, he passed exams to join the Mages Academy,  and after learning special techniques, he empowered the father's blade with magic and developed his own techniques of "flying blade".

Some sketches of command unit of Royal Guards

oh.. main work is fck me out, but project always take a part of time. 4\6 factions are ready. Sooo let's finish Mages Academy themes.

Range Unit - Vista leMark

Vista is the deputy rector of the Academy and a master of ice magic. Always ambitious and overconfident for everyone except Professor Raval. leMark was fall in love with him (and maybe still is), but the professor preferred experiments to his personal life. Maybe that's why this femme fatale began to study the magic of ice in order to extinguish the fire of her heart.

So let's check the Balance Keepers side: 

Royal Guards faction:

Range Unit - Loryn.

A young and ambitious crossbowman who believes that speed and sharp eyesight will save him from any trouble. Lorin is the "eyes" of Karmian, ready to single—handedly make his way into the very lair of the enemy. However, his excessive self-confidence often prevents him from realizing the scale of the impending nightmare.

Although, most likely, he hides his fear of danger, behind his maximalism and bravado.

It was he who first encountered the terrifying results of Raval's experiments and saw the transformed Armagard in the gas box. This encounter erases the youthful grin from his face forever, turning the exploration into a desperate attempt to survive and warn the others.

Support Unit - Sister Denaya

Denaya is the voice of mercy of the Guard. While the men brandish swords on the training field, she prays for them and learns new defensive spells. Her strength lies not in her physical strength, but in her ability to keep up the spirits of those who are ready to give up.

Her main weakness and at the same time a source of strength is her secret love for Lorin and the hope that it is mutual. She accompanies him on his assignments with a heavy heart, realizing that prayers may not be enough against what they face - something unknown, but much more dangerous than the guards' routine of patrolling, catching poachers and resolving domestic disputes. 

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In the finale, her faith and his maximalism go through their cruelest test when the Guard's loyalty is confronted by a bloody revolution on Harmony Island.

Here is a their battle encounter theme - March of the Young Hearts.