When you are immersed in the culture of manga, anime and visual novels, you notice the similarity between some characters from different licenses. Their personalities, reactions and goals are more or less the same. When such patterns become familiar and impose themselves as models, we talk about archetypes. We propose you today to make a tour of the main types of characters in mangas, animes and visual novels.
So we meet again in this month of September and we propose you a small assessment of this summer period.
We’re halfway through 2021 and our groundhog team is still hard at work on Revenge Story! Let’s take a look at what was done in June.
We hear a lot of warnings about the blue light diffused by our screens, but what do we really know about it? Let’s recall together what this famous blue light is, the consequences it can have on our health and the solutions that exist.
Once again, the past month has been productive in terms of progress on the game thanks to the reinforcement of the team by a chara design intern. Here is what was done in April!
The visual novel, or VN, appeared in Japan in the early 80s. It is a type of narrative video game that can be subdivided into different subcategories that we will discover or rediscover together.
Today, the video game is considered as an art in its own right. It belongs to the classification of the 10th art along with computer graphics and web design. However, few people know when and how this official consecration took place and, that’s good, because that’s precisely what we’re going to see together.
Video games are a rich medium. It is therefore not unusual to find hidden winks in some video game productions. Whether they are secret messages, bonus mini-games or explicit references, easter eggs take all sorts of forms. However, who could have hidden the first one in a game? So let’s go on a hunt for the original egg!
The past month has been very productive in terms of progress on the game, especially thanks to the reinforcement of the team by a chara design intern. Here is what was done in March!
While some focus on a different type of experience, most video games rely on a narrative to immerse us in their worlds. However, there are many ways for a studio to build its narrative. Today, we’re going to focus on the different forms that narration can take in video games.