Yes it has! I didn't go anywhere with the series game design thing. I might still, but I lost all the work in progress script data for End of Light, and I had compiled a lot of tedious crap and have yet to gain motivation for it again.
Rather, I have spent the last five or so weeks watching Ao No Exorcist, or 'The Exorcist of Blue Flames'. It's pretty much the story of a human kid who finds out he's the son of Satan and swears he's going to kill him. And a lot of other bullshit happens. Episode 22 was...particularly mind-blowing, to say at the least. At least it got somewhere- episodes 20 and 21 were awful filler crap I didn't even care about. Overall though the anime has been a good experience, and given I see it as seperate to the manga because of its deviation away from it, I'm going to be able to enjoy both :)
Anyway I've been highly considering doing a game based on the anime where you could play through the episodes. I was originally going to do Episode 8- the Esquire Exam, but I was thinking of doing an original level called Episode 18.5- Yukio's Nightmare. A lot of Yukio's feelings aren't explored in the anime, because Rin gets all the expositional monologuing and inner thoughts. Yukio is much more mysterious, especially since he isn't given to expression. He is quite quiet, reserved, and hates getting angry- though he does have a temper at his core. At least in the anime!
It basically leaves me room to do some explorative stuff. Of course, fanbased, but hey, I'm a decent writer! Don't underestimate my skills just 'cause I'm eighteen. I've been writing for a long time and I'm relatively good at reading people and a situation- as long as I'm face to face! I hate phonecalls :C
Anyway I'll be messing with the battle system and how I'm going to do the backgrounds. I want to practice pixelling as well as battle portraits, so I'm doing total sideview.
This is an early wip:
But the perspective is screwy so I have lots more work to do (plus redrafts...:c). For the Yukio's Nightmare stage I need Yukio's run/walk, his and Rin's battle graphics, several other characters and the stage boss. It is deliberately shorter than most stages (because it is a nightmare) but still shows off some goodies. Plus the good thing about the stage's boss is that if I do continue the game I can use its battle graphics for Stage 23. You know. Next week's episode. .3.
