Logos!

And finally, after many long months, we have a legitimate logo to show all of you. Thanks to our graphic designer Eyedrop for making it, along with the Script Forge logo.

If you see the blog wildly changing shape over the next few days its from us renovating it a bit. There's no real exciting news to talk about beyond this, just more write-an and draw-an to do. There should be a few more useful character bios over the next few weeks, then hopefully some good news to look forward to.

Character Bio: Nikhila

Another week, another main character to show off. This is Nikhila, who's also written by PFM, and here's the blurb he wrote on her:

"Nikhila is a character that serves double duty by being the obligatory Indian co-worker and being delicious and brown, because we here at Script Forge like to play to the classics. A recent transfer to AerOpiner's central valley offices as an Administrative Assistant puts her in the exciting position to bounce around the office like a superball, even though all she really ends up doing is getting coffee and faxing things. Nikhila faces every task with the same level of seemingly unflappable and genuine enthusiasm, which is something exceptionally foreign considering the drab, gray office she now calls her workplace.

Born and mostly raised in the Punjab region of India, she escaped to England for a time before coming to the States and finally settling in warm, sunny California with its friendly police officers who forgive speeding (as Nikhila is so often inclined to do) so long as you have a pretty face."

Name: Nikhila Ayer

Age: 23

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 147lbs

How will Walter fair when he meets this Friendly Foreign Fresno Forza Femme Fatale? Fabulously? Well, maybe. Hopefully we'll all have a better idea of that in the demo, which we'll have new news on relatively soon.

Current Plans

Now I didn't want to make every blog update a character reveal for the next several weeks, so instead I wanted to say a few things before that, namely how far into progress we are and what you can expect in the next month or so.

Right now there's about three more character reveals planned, which roughly translates to about three more weeks worth of preptime for us before we start showing off anything cool. Currently our art and music assets aren't up to par to release a demo within the month, especially if we want good CG in there, so the plan is to release about a third or maybe half (depending on how you want to look at it) of Act 1 (~13k words), and put that into a script format and a pseudo-demo version (which would just be text and maybe some music, we're still not sure), and even then we're not entirely sure if we'll show it off. The idea though is we'll have it ready after the third reveal from now, though, so if nothing else it would at least be on demand.

So aside from that, the big question is "when will the demo come out," and the answer to that is "maybe four or five months?" Three if we kick it into overdrive, but no promises in the slightest there. Maybe six months is a more reasonable timetable. Who knows! Not me. On that note, don't take anything said here for anything, ever. Everything is subject to change, forever.

See'yall at the end of the week.

Character Bio: Laura

Christ, this week went by quick.


Speaking of which, its been a whole week and I haven't given any new updates, and it would feel wrong to start doing some cop out updates until at least three character bios are up, so you can probably see where this is going.


Anyways, here's the bio I managed to squeeze out of her writer, Edward! And of course, what reveal would be complete without some concept art I'll be yelled at for showing later. Neat stuff.

"Laura is another one of the charming women you'll meet at AerOpiner. She doesn't make waves, she doesn't put in the extra effort, and she sure as shit doesn't want to hear about your day. Regardless, Laura is your model employee, if begrudgingly. Trapped between her fathers expectations and his bankroll, she fulfills her role right up until the work day ends. Post-labor she drops the facade and takes on what she really is, a sponge for the nightlife. Short in stature and temper Laura can be found soaking in the music at any number of local bars."


We never wrote down anything about her height and weight, or I didn't look hard enough. 


There will be a bit more information on the script itself and some other things here within the week, and after that, probably some dead silence, and then, big news. Yeah.


Stay tuned, true believers!

Character Bio: Jennifer

Well it almost took a week, but the next character reveal is ready for your viewing pleasure. Sorry for the wait!

(Edited with a more up to date picture the art guys yelled at me to put up)

"Jennifer is one of the many diligent overseers at AerOpiner, the company that Walter works for. Around the office she is known for the relatively low amount of work she pushes on her workers and a frequent lack of professionalism when it comes to supervisor-worker relationships. However, a combination of a simple workload, a very secure position in the company due to her family’s influence, and the looming threat of her potential replacement being worse have all managed to keep dissent down for the most part.

Though born in Romania, Jennifer’s family history, education, and business career has given her a unique mix of Romanian, Russian, and American culture; something that keeps her coworkers (and Jennifer herself at times) trying to figure out exactly where she’s from."

Name: Jennifer Renczi

Age: 24

Height:  ~5’ 8”/ ~178 cm

Weight:  ~135lbs/ ~61.2 kg

HC: Brown

EC: Blue (fucking retcons)

Character Bio: Walter

I promised that there would be some bios posted, and I did force PFM to write a bio, so let's start out describing the most important guy, Walter.

"Who's Walter? Walter is the protagonist of "Transversion" he's a narcissistic, bitter guy working at a dead-end office job in the Central Valley of California, surrounded by people who he only has varying degrees of dislike for. Walter's a bit of a social grifter, a mannerism he picked up at a young age when he realized he wasn't very good at reading social situations. To remedy his awkwardness, he adopts various personae based on how he believes others perceive him. He can be the fun-loving straight man who always comes in second one moment, and the next a coward who quakes in his cheap ostrich leather shoes at his ultimately harmless supervisor, but he can never be himself."


And of course, if you ever need more specific information about Walter to properly stalk his look-alike:

Name: Walter Davis

Age: 23

Height: 6’ 0”/182cm

Weight: 155lbs/70kg

HC: Black

EC: Green

Look forward to the next character reveal in about a week!