Genre: Life Simulation, Romance, Social
Rating: Teen
Platform: RPG maker XP
Inspiration: Harvest moon, Animal Crossing, The Sims
Website:http://www.celestialdance.weebly.com


Summer had dawned and come to a close on cue, as the leaves slowly cascaded from greens to ambers. The oncoming fall had welcomed more than just the chill of winter to the town of Araysia.
The story begins with our eight year old hero Alice and her mother Julie, moving in to the sizable town of Araysia. School begins in a few days, and the excitement has finally set in. The thoughts of a new life swarm her mind, but little does she know that her move was the dawning of something greater than a simple story she predicted. Control the hero through her life over a series of chapters as she slowly grows from a young child to adulthood whilst making friends, developing a personality, attending classes and perhaps even starting a family.


Secrets of hate and betrayal linger behind Araysia's otherwise perfect persona. Death and destruction lay itself on the doorsteps of each of the civilians that inhabit the town. Follow the trail of the murderous scheme put together by one of your very own from start to it's climactic conclusion.


The main section of the game takes place in the town of Araysia: A modern, yet fairly sleepy town with quite an array of residents. People more in and out in each chapter, therefore leading to a fluctuating demographic. The town has many stores and locations such as Candy stores, clothing stores, an elementary school, a Chinese noodle shop; and the list carries on. Unlike the neighbouring town, Araysia is a fairly middle class town with a few families struggling, and a couple thriving.
The other locations where a portion of the game plays out is in the rich city of Elica. The location is only accessible by bus in the later chapters of the game. Elica has a few more locations such as a video game store and a high school. The teenage chapter centers around this town since the private high school is where the children are educated.

• Play as the hero in five different stages of her life: Child, Pre-teen, Teen, Young Adult and Adult
• Shape the hero's life to your liking and play how you choose.
• Develop the hero's personality, Popularity and relationships.
• Solve the town's mystery and restore peace and safety to the streets.
• Participate in a variety of activities that build the older you get such as Mining, fishing, bug catching and cooking.
• Attend classes, and take part in school daily with different lessons nearly every day.
• Make friends with the villagers and unlock interesting cutscenes
• Follow the pieces of individual family stories that eventually connect together to form a town legacy
• Go on Vacations
• A realistic crush system allows romantic relationships to blossom from chapter two and onwards
• Select from eleven boys to have a relationship with and eventually marry.
• Change your clothes to influence how people around you think of you
• Attend town events such as Lover's day, Cake day or the festival of lights
• Custom interactions such as kissing, hugging and other speech related interactions such as story telling, small talk and conversations
• Give gifts to raise friendship
• Refine ores and make your own jewelry for profit.
• A happy ending for all of the stories.
• Experience events for both romance and friendship
• Each character has their own story and personality

These are the main 24 characters of the game. They are all of the hero's age or of a similar range. Most of them find a romantic interest in another NPC.

Love Interest: None
Description: Max is the son of the Destiny family, and Roxie's older brother. He comes from a wealthy household but, like his mother and sister, remains untainted by his wealth. Max can smile through any situation in order to cheer people up. His happy-go-lucky composure is his best known quality. Max is the fastest to mature of all of the characters. He remains the main NPC next to Roxie.


Love Interest: Roxie
Description:Andy is a sweet, mature young man of few words. His twin sister is Anastasia, and his mother and father constantly fight over small things, many times it being who will cook dinner. Their family lives off of the small amount of money loaned to them by the mayor and the help from the Destiny family. He acts as the head of the family and is the only one that seems to be sane in the house. He usually ends up doing the cooking and cleaning around the house.


Love Interest: Cindy
Description:Tyrone is a passionate artist with flirtations tendencies. He lives with his single mom, Lia who was widowed after Tyrone was a young boy. He is an only child and enjoys pranking other kids.


Love Interest: Tai
Description:Leo is a shy boy with a lot of fake confidence built up inside of him. He is sweet for the most part, and very calm as he matures. He is 'enemies' with Tyrone, however it is quite obvious that both have a friendship beneath all of the hate. Leo lives with his father, Julius, and has a mother who is frequently mentioned.
Leo wants to be a vet despite his father's wishes for him to continue to be a pro fighter. Julius and Jade Draco are Leo's parents, but they were forced to live apart by Jade's father.




Love Interest: Tytannia
Description: Tristan is known to be quiet and shy around others but otherwise a happy little boy if alone. He is frequently bullied by Anastasia and has an obvious crush on Tytannia. He lives with his mother and Tytannia who both push him around, hoping he'll grow a backbone.



Love Interest: None
Description: Jet seemingly has no emotion what so ever when it comes to actually needing it. It seems that when you make him happy, he tends to show too much happiness. He moves in when he is a teenager with Kyler, Jay and Damion.




Love Interest: Piroline
Description:Kyler is mature and sweet, but still can be harsh and rude. He had a rough childhood and remains very close with Jet, Damion and Jay. He frequently feels superior to people the same age as him, calling them kids. No matter how he acts, it is a well known fact that Kyler has a good heart. He moves into Damion's house when he is a teenager.



Love Interest: Kandi
Description:A calm gentleman who is very mature for his age. He is charming and kind, but if someone angers him, he will lecture them for hours!



Love Interest: Anastasia
Description:Damion aspires to act in movies and on stage. He is close with Anastasia and frequently bullies those under him. He is arguably the most liked boy in all of the high school.




Love Interest: None
Description:Gage is the head-strong son of the Knight family. He is kind and sweet as well as hot headed and loud. His words frequently are spur of the moment causing them to sound childish, juvenile, innocent yet adorable.He is Andy and Max's best friend and lives with his mother and three sisters.




Love Interest: None
Description: Aris is the nephew of Suzie Erin Layton, the grade 3 teacher. He moves in at age thirteen into her house. Aris is very sweet and charming, constantly rivaling Tyrone in the pursuit of ladies.






Love Interest: Tyrone
Description:Quiet little Cindy loves to read and keeps her title as the shy little mayor's daughter. She is frequently bullied by other girls, but will keep a secret at all costs. Her closest friend is Tyrone who is very popular among everyone else while everyone ignores Cindy.



Love Interest: Damion
Description:Beautiful and princess-like Anastasia, Andy's spoiled twin. She forces her mother and father to buy things they can't afford leading them into greater debt.




Love Interest: Tristan
Description: Tytannia is loud and won't be quiet at any expense. However, Tytannia is sweet and childish. She originally comes off as a major tom-boy, but as she grows up, she matures a fair bit. She was left with Lara and Tristan when she was seven, since her large family was moving to an island. Tytannia still considers her family to be hers, despite her abandonment.



Love Interest: None
Description: Serenity is a self-proclaimed know it all. She is egocentric and very much in love with herself. She is Leo's cousin and moves in when she is a teenager.



Love Interest: None
Description: Willow is incredibly intelligent and quiet. She is close with most of the girls including Cindy, Kandi and Tytannia. She is uncaring and apathetic for the most part.



Love Interest: Leo
Description:A prissy princess and originally from a rich family, Tai moves in from England to a smaller house due to financial problems. She misses her horse and doesn't understand that she's never going back home. She is best friends with Anastasia and good friends with her supposed victim, Leo.


Love Interest: Andy
Description:Sweet and innocent, the youngest main female goes to Roxanne. She is Max's baby sister and a part of the Gemini quad.(Max, Gage, Andy and Roxie) She tries her best to be sweet and kind, but she has an alternate hot-headed side to her. She is very close to her mom and loves pretty things, though she wishes she could fit in with the boys.



Love Interest: None
Description: Scarlet is a loud and happy teenager who is Piroline and Jet's cousin. She lives with her uncle, who is one of few who can understand her sarcasm.



Love Interest: None
Description: Dakota is a stereotypical girly girl. She is air headed and not too intelligent, but she is said to be very pretty.




Love Interest: Jay
Description: Kandi is the sugar sweet odd-ball of the group who helps her mom in the candy store. She is really playful and can come across as childish.



Love Interest: Kyler
Description: Piroline is a sweet and happy young lady. She is an aspiring singer and is best friends with Kyler. Piro is Jet and Scarlet's cousin and lives with her uncle.

Your welcome Roxie, I have probably said this a multitude of times, but I am REALLY looking for this project,.
Many games these days are very similar, and don't have as much of a background as this project does This is one of the first social sim that have been created on RPG Maker XP, which not only has the social aspect of the game but a full story-line, including side stories for nearly all of the characters, the story-line is realistic and talks about issues that don't normally get spoken about.

*subscribes to thread*

Update:

As you may know, our face sets are being replaced. So far, we have Teen Anastasia and the child versions of Andy, Max, Ace and Cindy. I've also finished Roxie as a baby. (Two years old) These are only the regular faces and doesn't include the other emotions quite yet. These are yet to be revealed. They will be revealed over a youtube video in the near future when all the main characters are drawn.

Of course, while helping loads as it is, Jonnie has become an official writer for Celestial Dance

So... I'm working on a new commercial. For now, This is the commercial on youtube!

As life moves on, I'm basically working on the school lessons and try to make a fishing mini game... which isn't turning out... yet

That's all I've got so far

Update #2

The face sets are going well as Leo has been added, and I will need to finish child and teen versions of Gage, Andy and Max. There was an error when scanning Roxie, so I'm going to have to ink her and scan her again. I am hoping I can get them looking a little better. I figured out a few bits of shading I forgot about...

The scenario simulation:
Celestial Dance is all about change... and making people happier So, I'm on a mini-project right now, still working on CD as well. Basically, you enter your mood and what recently happened. You pick one of four characters, and they say things that relate to your situation to either make you feel better or encourage you or what ever.

Also our dedications has been updated... nothing exciting there....

My next steps will be finishing up some more events and working with my voice actors so we can get all the events done soon. Also I'm just finishing up another blog post on Celestial Dance's website.

Celestial Dance has a youtube channel, but it's not totally up to date. This is the youtube channel for celestialdance but the more up to date one is My channel.

That's it
Thanks guys

Update #3

I've just been working on the dialogues for the scenario simulation.
I just did the banking system and I'm just doing a little work on a new video
I decided to try out the town hall. I'm thinking that it's possible that I may make a monthly catalog for the player to order stuff... and yeah.
I've just been writing the lessons for the school. Right now, I'm on to the last 5 days of unit one (which is the ever so boring history unit...) And the last day is a test on the previous lessons. Personally, I love writing the lessons so the third grade year should be finished really quickly and I should be able to finish up the writing of the events and work on the monthly events. I also want to add in a few more cheats... because it's fun

So... I finished drawing and colouring Gage and the child version of Roxie is almost done. I'm planning on finishing up some of the face sets Because I only have the normal pictures. And I want to draw Samantha... that's it

We also have 2 writers now, a spriter and our good old musician

Thanks,
~Roxie

Update #4

okay, so I just finished up another lesson and working on the various town events.
I've also been writing up a few friendship events. I just finished an event between Tyrone and Cindy which is inferring various things about Cindy.
Um... I've just been writing up some random events... I can't really think of anything else. I've been working on the dance studio... and the russian dance instructor. I've been doing a lot of spriting lately.
I've sprited the hero and the dance instructor. I'm hoping to do some more once school is out of the way and I'm in the middle of stuff. I'll bring in my laptop for my spare and I'll sprite and work then
I'm trying to figure out what else to do.... I'll be working on it right now, possibly drawing Tyrone.

Just for the record, these are the faces I have drawn:

BABIES:
Roxie

CHILDREN:
Max
Ace
Andy
Cindy
Roxie

Teens:
Gage
Anastasia

And that's all. I've been kind of busy lately, but some progress was done

~Roxie

Re-opened at the OP's request to update the project.

That forest looks awesome.

It is often one of those things people using XP tileset just can't get right and instead do big squares and call it forest.

This looks interesting and looking good so far, it reminds me of the classic Harvest Moon game (seeing that the game inspired you to make this). The maps are looking good too, especially the first one with the forest

Are you going to plan to make a demo? I'm curious to know.

Keep up the good work.

I'm glad you like it I still have to post the credits, which I'm working on. I can't remember who had a tutorial, but they did a super good job. So I really do have them to thank! Thank you for the comment~!



Thanks so much My very first HM game was Harvest moon friends of mineral town, and I've had every game since :3 I've heavily inspired the general game play on it, but of course I added my own twists~
I'm glad you like them~ As I said above, I have a few people to thank for teaching me the ways of the tileset. So I'm glad to hear they're decent!

I've surely considered it! But right now, the game play has been kind of all over the place. I'm planning to try to finish up the game as soon as possible, so I'll be deciding fairly soon.

Thanks for your comment

 

It's been a slow weeks as far as game development goes. I shall be adding the line art of Tai shortly since she was drawn.

Currently in progress:
-The high school classes
-The Elementary classes
-Vacations
-Character dialogue

For those who wonder, the high school and Elementary classes follow a two period format:
Period one usually one class
Lunch follows
Second period is a second class
The students go home.

Quite often, the player will be assigned homework that will appear as an item in their inventory. The item can be used, and takes one hour from their time. (From what is done so far. May be reduced to around 20 minutes in game time. The screen will black out and the item will be replaced with 'completed homework'.
Classes, however, are sat through and taught by the teacher. History has a different topic daily that the teacher explains. The player will have to take (Fairly easy) tests. Heck, they can write down the answers and cheat! Why not Don't cheat in real life, kids. Be honest with all of your tests

Another example of a class would be 'creative writing'.
Each month focuses on a different aspect of writing, leading up to the final project. Basically, that project is worked on daily by the player. They will write a book (using options that are given to them)that will be published by the end of the year. From what is planned, there will be an item that will represent this book. When used, it will portray a simple story based on the choices the player made while producing the book.


The game does revolve around the player's choices as it affects what happens in the finale: the one they marry, their personality, popularity and relationships.

Popularity will be another thing I will touch on.
It is determined by the clothes, actions, personality and hygiene of the hero. Popularity influences relationships and makes it easier/harder to befriend some people.
Some people like Aris detest popular people due to his stubborn personality, while Anastasia will except no one inferior to her. Cindy fears those who are popular, while Max pays more attention to your personality than how popular you are.
If you choose to wear clothes from the boy's clothing store, your popularity will drop, while if you are friends with Anastasia, wear the nicest clothing from the girl's clothing store, etc. your popularity will sky rocket. It can be good or bad, depending on who you wish to befriend or romance.

Finally, for this update, I will explain the 'Crush system'.

Relationships for the romantic interests are divided into two parts: Love points and Friendship points.
FP can be earned in every single year. They are used by every character possible to befriend, and are determined by talking, gifting and interacting.
LP is only used by the love interests to determine your romantic relationship with them. They are introduced in the teen year and it is harder to earn it.
 
When it comes down to it, LP is the most important for the ones you wish to romance. You gain 1 or 2 LP per interaction which poses an issue for romancing...
... that is, unless they have a crush on you.
 
Crushes are introduced in the pre-teen year. It is determined by a random number that is generated daily. The likelihood of the crush increases the more FP you have for the person.
 
Once a crush is developed, LP will be increased significantly. you will gain 10 LP opposed to your 1 or 2 LP.
It's very important to try to get your target to crush on you early, since you need them to have a crush for them to be in a relationship with you.
 
 
So... simplified:
-Crushes are developed by random numbers
-The chances of the character having a crush increases the more friendship you have with them
-Crushes are needed to be in a relationship
 
Well, that's all for now

Not much to update this time around. We have casted a Leo, and currently are seeking vocal talents even still.

As for in-game updates, The children: Sparrow, Phoenix, Leverna and Gemini are set to make their first appearance in the game. Their facesets will be confidential, but the default sprites will be revealed to the public once completed.

It has finally been confirmed that we will indeed have a separate house for when the hero marries. It has been created and features three areas: The bedroom, the main area and the children's bedroom.

On top of this, one of the jobs has been completed. This is:



About: If the choices made by the player matches the requirements to be a home baker, the hero will have the job of filling orders
made daily. Their income from their orders are exponentially greater than regular baking.

Income: Varies per order.

How it works: A list appears in the home location in the adult years. Each day, there is a chance to receive another order. After the player fills the orders, they must head to the bakery and hand them in. Their money is then added to their paycheck with they can pick up at town hall.

This has been completed, but not currently tested.

NEXT STEPS:
I am planning to do at least ONE wedding tonight... which means spriting a wedding dress and a suit...
I am also going to sprite Sparrow tonight.
Hopefully I will get down to starting/finishing the writing career.
I'm going to finish up Leo's script
Work on some school lessons and do some of the young adult chapter


Well that's all for now~