Prototype
Kemoverse game
This article is WIP.
The Kemoverse game is my attempt at realizing part of the Kemoverse and the pre-Tuner story as a playable game.
The basic idea is that the game will be an online social experience, much like Second Life with less customization, but also like The Sims with less God mode. The primary focus will be interactions with your co-players through emotes, mini-games and other cooperative activities. It will also focus on exploration and interaction, so the world will be detailed and have almost all of it available to walk on to. There is a visual novel side to the game as well, providing a world and characters from the Tuner story to let you dwelve in to the Kemoverse.
History
V1 (Uni of Furries)
First version of the game featured a very rough outline of the desired interface, gameplay, environment and a player model. It was my first foray in to Unity and Blender so the models were overly simplistic and quite ugly. At this stage, I had a vague concept of the scenes, items and features that should be available, but they lacked a common theme except for the fact that this all took place at a school. The school idea stems from an earlier project that I had worked on many years back -- Furry Summer School, a renpy-based visual novel with drawn images. The FSS project failed beacuse I got overwhelmed by the amount of work needed to be done.
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The very first 3D Paru to ever exist. (April 2017)
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Testing Unity integration
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Rough concept design of interface and model. (October 2017)
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Indoors
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Outdoors
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Bookcases and computers (November 2017)
Around this time, I realized I needed a stricter and more coherent reference sheet to base my ideas of, so I tried to specify the idea on canvas. The basis for the game was born -- it would be a social online experience, backed by a visual novel for progression. I determined for sure that it would feature the Tuner cast as the story. With the help of User:ForwardIterator, a basic cat model took shape based on three planned races: Felinae, Canidae and Doragne (I know, uncreative names). However, Forward went offline for quite some time with an unfinished model, which I ended up modifying to my needs (adding eyes, texturing, etc).
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Forward's model with my clothes.
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Comparison with the (fucked up) original model (December 2017)
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Test import to VRChat (January 2018)
I kept adding various items and special effects over the course of a month, eventually adding up to two populated rooms. The code starting to suffer since I had not anticipated this direction in development, so I decided to redo everything in one new project.
V2 (Kemoversity)
For this version, I re-imported everything in to a clean workspace and made sure everything looked and behaved consistent. I polished the look, adding a bit more details, and generally just streamlined everything. I also developed more on the UI, adding loading screens and other useful elements. Paru model got a few different hairstyles and further improvements on the look. The outside world was dropped for the time being. Other than that, I did not introduce many new scripts or items, so it's fairly empty.
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Re-import of every item.
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Looking good. (March 22)
V3 (Vara)
In the summer, I got busy with life/school and dropped this project in favor of others. However, in December 2018, I took a look at my project once again and decided that it needed yet another reboot due to the new Prefab workflow in Unity that fundamentally changes how you create premade assets. The Editor itself had also matured, which contributed to my decision. So far, I've re-made the user interface to be sleeker and more fitting to the theme, reorganized the scripts to be more aligned to the component design model, and generally improved everything. The plan is to make a formal design reference sheet for the entire game.
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Overview of interface.
