Character Reveal: Hayley Benenati

(Chibi art by Riiko23)

Ted’s first encounter with this particular girl started with a crash – literally. This crash has become the whole metaphor behind their relationship, which has had its ups and downs due to her rough attitude and some-what mean sprit. She has a very hard time getting along with others, and doesn’t really try to, feeling that if others can’t appreciate her for herself, they aren’t worth bothering with. As she prefers to be alone, she joined the programming club, as programming can involve hour upon hours of sitting alone, just thinking. She enjoys reading as a pass time and funnily enough, baking.

Theme: https://soundcloud.com/sythalic-media/first-rain

(official sprite art by HandsofMidaz)

General overview~

Hey there! I know this kind goes against any rules your meant to have about updating, since this post will just be about what’s already happened within the project. But I figured I would get away with it since this blog is new 😉

So on this post, I’m going to be explaining what exactly Sythalic Media is and what we do.

Sythalic Media is a game development team, composed of one core member (myself, Rinima) and several contractors from all over the globe. This contractors include HandsofMadiz (the artist behind Nakajo!), Trass (the musician behind Dreaming Mary), DesertFox (the brains behind WarGirl’s and My Little Dictor), Crestforge, Riiko23, and Shoji Amasawa.

What we want to do is create games. No more, no less, but we have to start somewhere, and that somewhere is ‘When The Rain Falls’. I guess I should explain what this game is about.

First things first, this is a Visual Novel/dating Sim hybrid.

Plot
Ted, a 17 year old boy, has just moved away from his parent’s for the first time after gaining entrance to a prodigious college. He’s moved with his best friend of 5 years, who has moved away for unknown reason. His goal, to survive A Levels and go on to become a games designer! With this in mind, he throws himself into the school creative clubs, ranging from art, music, writing and programming. In each of these clubs, he makes new friends, and possibly, new romances.
But all is not what it seems, and walls are built to be broken.

Basic information
This is a dating game that will be commercial. Inspiration taken from Clannad. Will involve stat and relationship building. Sort of set out like RE: Alistair++ in that you can choose what you do each day. Character interaction is a key part of this game.Forgot to mention that the final few parts will involve a little Nakige, aka, it will get a bit sadder towards the end of the game, but is still firmly based in comedy for the most part.

In future posts, I will explain more about the characters in this story share art and music, but that is for another day.

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