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Mr Bird sketches

L: Some doodles of mr Bird. I like the left one, very close to what did I want to get.

The new character concept

L: Working on a small (really, really small) free DLC for the first chapter. It's related to collection items in your inventory, such as toy horses. 

This funny fella's name is Grullo and he is a fiercful fan of horses. There are more expressions of him below. 

L: Мы работаем над маленьким (очень, очень маленьким) бесплатным DLC для первой главы. Оно связано с коллекционным�...

2018-12-26 22:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Updated Inventory design

L: Hello everyone! 

I brought you some mockups of the new inventory design. Our coder, mold.FF, found the way to implement small but important feature - it's a drag-n-drop crafting, and it forced me to change the items grid for it. I spent a lot of time trying to make the design more accurate and close to the other screens. Seeing my design agony, Grimm decided to support me in this quest. We changed thousands of textures until we found this neat texture of paperboard. It took its ...

The secret stuff

L: Not so secret anymore :D 

These icons we used for Steam achievments. Probably we'll make some stickers later~

Remaster news!

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L: We are working on the remastering of The Crown of Leaves. Why now? Below is a small explanation!
When we started with the Crown of Leaves, I was a noob in any kind of code. We didn't even knew what visual novels are! We just wanted to tell a story about our world, but comic was a bit complicated way to do this. When we found info and articles about the visual novels (and RenPy as well), we thought something like "Wow, this looks pretty simple! Maybe we could try to create so...

The New Year Arch

L: Grimm and me spent the whole night, trying to figure out how Shanglanians celebrates their New Year. 

It's the biggest and meaningful holiday in this world, just like in ours. Everybody wants to leave all the negative and problems in their past and to meet the bright and promising future. Shanglanians are making their own New Year Arch, assembling it from different materials. For example, Nourian people are using forging with sea-themed decoration, their archs are huge and solem...

Attack! [SPOILER, WIP]

DESCRIPTION AND ART BELOW

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L: Okay, I'm really afraid to say something spoiler-ish. I'll try to avoid it, but it's not that easy and probably there will be some spoiler things anyway. 

It's Roui and mr. Bird are fighting with the Snakelock. I'm not sure, is there even a small reason to make a fighting system only for this episod...

Roui

L: Working on Roui's poses. Just wanted to find his typical gestures, probably will draw more soon :> 

Rise and shine!

Grimm: Mwahah! I dunno why I drew this even, I just love the idea of Roui the psycho. The outfit inspired by the Shining.

Mr. Bird concept

L: I changed the shape of his head and added more sadness in his face features. Obviously I have to fix his old sprites, because they are a bit off. 

Love this guy.

Video process: Waffles sprite

L: Found a few records of drawing process of Waffles~

Nice to see you!

Hey guys, we glad to see all of our new Patrons here! Welcome.
We'll post the fresh materials tomorrow - a video process and a few colorful things we made for the Crown's steam page.

The secret room

L: Officially we are still on domestic vacation (and doing nothing), but actually we started to work on the next chapter xD I just wanted to revamp our workflow and started from the script and the first idea we recently got. There is no need to tell about all those internal revamp, we focus on the sketch instead. 

You probably remember this bg. It was drawn a long time ago, but was not needed yet. Grimm and me expanded it and decided to add a few more important details. There also some Ru...

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U know xD

The Greenhouse [WIP]

L: There is no end of polishing! Vander's greenhouse is our victim now, because we can't stand that completely destroyed perspective. Luckily, we borrowed some parts from previous version. 

The moral is: if you do something, DO IT QUICKLY. Before it's getting old. 

THE CROWN IS ALREADY ON STEAM!!

OH MY FREAKING GOSH.... I mean. Ahem.

Hello everyone! 

Finally, The Crown of Leaves has successfully went through the way from Greenlight to release! Now you can fully experience Roui's story and get to know him better, meet new characters, and also dive into the world of Shang-La and the riddles of the Hill Camp. Explore the environment, meet the hillcampers, collect items and fill up the Mindscape! 

We have tried to release several plot routes, and e...

The end of Tigla-Dera [SPOILER WARNING]

L: I marked this cutscene as spoiler, because some people who didn't test the game could be a bit... surprised (even if they saw WIPs and stuff). Probably some of you still want to keep it secret for yourselves, until the game release :>  

Anyway, the end of this video is exclusive, we didn't post any sketches earlier. 

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This cutscene is concluding the end of 1st chapter. There was supposed...

The Crown

L: We used this art for a cutscene. I'm curious, how much people find it while testing the game? 

The last edits

G: We are doing the last bug hunt right now, and Lazy here is just because I love this moment in the game xD

4 days!

27 is almost here. Can't really believe that :D 

We have good news for you - the game has been accepted by the Steam shop already (a few days ago), so we are busy with the Steam Trading Cards right now. 

What's up, Crown?

Hello, guys! We are not dead, just busy fixing all the bugs reported by our ALPHA testers. They found a lot of stuff, from typos to crushes, and most of them are fixed by now. We will be trying our hard to make the Steam version as stable as possible ^^ 

Thanks for you help, guys <3 You're awesome.

"You look so pretty!"

L: We watched "Superjail!" a week ago and I can't help, but drew this xD Because Warden's obsession with Alice is exactly like Ing's obsession with Flynn. And he loves purple. 

P.S.: Flynn, shut up. I remember I drew a sketch where you were asking for boobs. Enjoy your boobs now.

Goblins!

L: I scratched some doodles from my sketch folder. I don't know why I like these guys so much, but I was not completely satisfied with their design. Now I finally figured out how should their half-bird half-human skull work.

P.S.: bw sketches are from the final game cutscene.

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Do you know, what does it mean? (: 

Hellooooo

L: Continue to work on the final cutscene. 

Here is a brand-new goblin, that I (re)concepted a couple of days ago! 

Floating [WIP]

L: Working on the final part of... the final cutscene xD It will be done in style of the intro, but without red accent color. 

Roui seems a bit unhappy with all this bloody situation, because he is dead. I know, all scenes of this seria looks pretty much confusing, and I can't wait when you will dive into the deep of this weird story. 

Tsourai [WIP] - night version

It's almost done, just need to add the colors to the characters here.

Cameo characters

L: Hello everyone! 

I have to notice, that some cameo characters can't find their places in the 1st chapter of the game. Working on the plot I realised that we got a huge disbalance between main storyline and side-quests - there are two many of them, and game is not so big as it may look. Most likely, we'll show them as background characters for now.  

There will be more space for them in the 2nd chapter. Such characters as Fel, Kudret, 2018-11-01 19:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy Halloween!

L: I decided to make our own contribution to Halloween content :D Grimm gave me a neat idea of Roui as Harry Potter and Serban as his owl Hedwig xD Probably there is a dialogue like this: 

Roui: Trick or treat... or I kill my owl *OOC intensifies*

Serban: That's why I wanted to be a Voldemort, not a freaking pet!

Someone behind the door: Roui, you did a mistake. You should be cosplaying J. K. Rowling.

Hugs

L: Now this scene have a night render!