I've been hard at work on Chapter 3 and I'd say I'm done with about 50%, maybe a bit more, of the script. I'm exploring some more character interactions, some that began in previous chapters and a few that had to wait for their moment.
I'm finding that writing for ORS is much harder than for GGGB. While GGGB was pretty straightforwar...
2020-05-20 16:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
While I'm working on Chapter 3 I also went over 1 and 2 to polish and add a few things! There's a point in Chapter 2 where Louise can ask Lena to sleep with her. It was a scene that I thought almost at the day of release, so all I could do was add a short choice menu. But I knew I wanted to add a bit more to it.
I also twe...
2020-05-19 16:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
With Emma I tried to deviate a bit from the more stylised body types I like giving to my female characters. I wanted to make her a bit shorter and curvier (what's gotten to be called T H I C C) and with a style and personality to go with it. She's a bit more alternative, one of those free souls who care about life in a different way. To represen...
2020-05-16 11:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's keep commenting Lena's uploads to her Peoplegram!
This time Lena will have two choices: either to upload a picture from her photo shoot with Danny or one of the drawing Ian made of her (yes, this required a new variable so it will cause issues with Chapter 2 saves, using a new one when Chapter 3 comes out is advised).
What woul...
2020-05-13 23:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Robert is one of those characters that force themselves into the story. He started by being just a random drunkard Ian would have his first fight with. But as I continued to develop the story, searching connections between characters, it occurred to me he could be Lena's co-worker. And, of course, he'd be interested in her. And from that point o...
2020-05-11 12:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Stan is another archetype I didn't include in GGGB: the nerd. Closer I had was one of Eric's versions, or maybe even Ashley's dad, but they were far from this.
While thinking about character dynamics for ORS it occurred to me that a character like Stan could provide some interesting interactions. He's not an attractive guy able to se...
2020-05-10 08:28:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time you wrote some polite and encouraging comments for Lena's Peoplegram. This time it's Ivy's turn, and she knows what's up! If you were one of her paying subscribers on Stalkfap, what comment would you leave in this picture of hers? Some of my favourites will appear in Chapter 3 of the game!
2020-05-08 15:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT: As I explained in another post, the game has been reworked f...
2020-05-06 17:54:57 +0000 UTC View Post
When I came up with Axel, he seemed like a very interesting character to me. In GGGB we had Jack, who started of being an exaggerated representation of the "player" type of guy, an overly muscled, cocky, successful, apologetically amoral and sexually aggressive character that could tempt the naive Ashley into naughty stuff. Later I tried t...
2020-05-06 13:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Same as with Lena, I wanted Ian to have several friends that would pull him in different directions. Jeremy contrasts sharply with Perry: he's a merry and outgoing player, a guy who is mostly interested in going after girls and is not ashamed of it. His social spheres are very different too, he's into clubbing, fitness and nightlife. Jeremy has ...
2020-05-03 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT: As I explained in another post, the game has been reworked f...
2020-04-30 15:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT: As I explained in another post, the game has been reworked f...
2020-04-27 19:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was thinking about what game to make after GGGB and what to include, I realised I had been missing goth aesthetics all this time! It was a look I hadn't explored yet and I think it can be pretty sexy, so I decided to made Louise some kind of a grown-up edgy goth girl. She's not a teenager anymore so she has left the more extreme antics be...
2020-04-27 01:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Ivy is the bad girl of ORS, a bit like Jessica was in GGGB. She can serve as a role model for Lena and open up some interesting and naughty possibilities for her to explore story-wise.
Jessica was one of my favourite characters in GGGB, but I wanted Ivy to be different, even if she fills in that same archetype. Jessica was conceived more l...
2020-04-25 14:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody!
I've done nothing but work during this quarantine (well, maybe I played a tiny bit of Doom Eternal) and Chapter 2 is underway. I'd say I've finished 3/4 of the writing, maybe even more, and all the art is done on my part and commissioned to be coloured. If everyone does their work as scheduled, Chapter 2 should be ...
2020-04-22 16:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In GGGB the role of the nerdy and shy girl fell onto good Ash, kind of. Before coming with the idea for Our Red String, I had another story in mind (maybe I'll talk more about it some day, or maybe I will manage to make a game out of it at some point). There was where the idea of having two main characters first popped up, and the female main ch...
2020-04-19 17:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! We had this little dynamic on GGGB that I really liked where you could comment Ashley's posts like you were her real followers and I'd pick some of those comments and add them in game, making Ash react to them.
I want to do the same thing with Lena and ORS! So go ahead and write down in the comments what you would comment<...
2020-04-18 19:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I like Alison's design quite a lot, too. She's one of Ian's friends, and she sports a more busty, mature look (even though she's only one year older). She's unapologetic about her personality and seems to have her priorities really straight. I have in mind two main roles for her, and you'll be seeing them in Chapter 2... And one of those c...
2020-04-17 18:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Not all characters that will play a part in Our Red String have been introduced yet. There are a few that will be making their appearance as the story goes on.
In Chapter 2 you will meet a new one that hasn't been revealed yet.
2020-04-15 13:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello people! As I'm working in Chapter 2 I've been planning and tweaking some stuff. I had a few months to plan Our red String, but there's just so much that goes into making a game that it's impossible to account for that. As I keep working and thinking, new ideas and mechanics pop in my mind. I would like to do so much! But I...
2020-04-14 18:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Cindy is one of my favourite character designs. I think she's the second character I came up with, right after drawing the first version of Lena. While Lena is a full-bodied dark-haired beauty, Cindy is slender and golden-haired.
It took me a while to define her personality (that's still an ongoing process to be honest) but I'm excit...
2020-04-12 18:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the things I wanted to try and improve in ORS was giving the main characters more context. After all, we are who we are because of the people that surrounds us. To that end I wanted to put more focus and effort in the side characters that interact with the player.
Perry is a very peculiar character and I wanted him to be as far from...
2020-04-09 13:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Having Ian as a playable main character beside Lena has been a bold choice, but one I had been wanting to make for some time. Dave and Jack, en even Eric were very interesting characters to write in GGGB, and I thought about a lot of scenarios and choice mechanics I could create if they were playable characters. I knew I didn't want to make the ...
2020-04-07 19:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This final release of Chapter One has a completely re...
2020-04-06 15:31:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As the female lead of ORS, Lena was the first character I designed. She went through a few iterations until I was happy with her look. I wanted her to be have a similar body type to Ashley, but a bit more curvy, with striking blue eyes and shiny black hair.
I also used her to search and decide for the new color style the game would h...
2020-04-01 12:28:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Alpha was a very stable version, so this Beta shouldn't have any bugs. The proofreading is...
2020-03-30 14:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally here! I'm excited and nervous to see what you guys think. I hope there's enough c...
2020-03-28 11:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Red String chapter 1 will be released tomorrow! This is the final bit of teasing I'm doing before launching the Alpha, and it's to show you another aspect of the game where I've invested the money you entrusted me with!
Backgrounds are very labour intensive and expensive to make. The only way of producing backgrounds I...
2020-03-27 12:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody!
Chapter one of Our Red String is almost ready and the Alpha will be released this Saturday, 28th of March for +$20 patrons! As always, the Beta will be released for +$10 patrons a few days later, and the final version should be out for +$5 a week later.
A lot of work (and money!) has been put into ch...
2020-03-26 12:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post