28 Sep 2022Developer post

Astrology, a kind of naming metaphysics

Hello! I'm Ocarina, the game mover. Naming is a kind of metaphysics, for example, I don't want to tell you that the name "Ocarina" actually comes from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. And the name of the character in "Bloody Flowers" in the names of the characters are also b

Hello! I'm Ocarina, the game mover. Naming is a kind of metaphysics, for example, I don't want to tell you that the name "Ocarina" actually comes from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
And the name of the character in "Bloody Flowers" in the names of the characters are also buried in a little ambush, I believe that the players who have played the DEMO should have completely GET!
It does not matter if you do not get it, I'm the spoiler today.
(Dragged away and beaten by Jiabai......)

I' m crawling back, I have to be dramatic today.

[Yinchen Zhang]
The first is the main character Yinchen Zhang. The family name Zhang is followed by his adoptive father's family name, if you played the DEMO should know.
"Yinchen" means "hidden Mercury". Mercury, the ancient Chinese called the star of "Chen". I do not know if you know the previous Mawangdui unearthed silk book in the sentence "five planets out of the East to benefit the middle Kingdom", every teenager should be for the blood it! The Book of also has a similar description, "five planets in the sky, accumulate in the East, benefit the middle Kingdom; accumulate in the West, benefit the foreign Kingdom. Five planets belong to Mercury and are gathered in a direction, which means the country of its direction can rule the world."
In other words, the magical star Mercury will lead the five planets to concentrate in one direction of the heavenly wall, and the country in that direction will "rule the world".
Giving the name to the main character also contained a lot of expectations yooo~.
However, he is not a shining Mercury, but a hidden Mercury. That's why some players said, "I feel he was upset to see the drawing at the beginning", because at the beginning Yinchen does not know what to pursue in his life, just like meteorites, collect meteorites. As he explores his memories, he gradually has richer human feelings, and also in our conception of the series eventually to his alienation, with stronger power, to fight the unnameable alien god.

[Vulkan]
When we talk about the planet Mercury, there is a prophecy in astronomy that "there is a star between Mercury and the Sun", which prediction came from various calculations in astronomy. This star, which has not been seen, is believed to exist and is called "Vulcan", or Vulkan.
Of course, as science and technology progressed, the advent of high-definition astronomical telescopes made it clear to scientists that there was no such star as Vulcan. Instead, over the long years, astrology and the occult have often recorded, speculated, and acted on it as part of the celestial orbit, and as part of the influence of fate ............
From this perspective, this guy Vulkan was the antithesis of Yinchen from the beginning, but he represented the kind of dark, wise and strong power that also always attracted to Yinchen ............

[Nix]
Some buddies have already found out that the black-hearted boss of the Meteorite Association, The queen of dark circles under the eyes of green-haired, The guy who can't even die from a blimp jump, the lover of sweet and sour pork, and Miss Nix, who has mechanical prostheses, the goddess of the blackness of Greek mythology.
And at the time of our naming, her name comes mainly from the second moon of Pluto, Nix, the goddess of the night.
That is to say, the five moons of Pluto have all been
Charon the ferryman of hell, Nix the goddess of the night, Hydra the nine-headed snake, Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell, and Styx the goddess of the river Styx.
(That is, the President of our Meteorite Association can also be called Sister of Pluto's second moon)
Using Nix to name the President of the Meteorite Association actually contains another big hole that we dug ......
In the fight against ■■■■■, the members, including Nix, are like Pluto and the moons guarding the farthest reaches of the solar system, maintaining the faltering civilization at the edge of human reason and knowledge, and fighting against the tumbling sea of gray ......... ...
No wonder the dark circles under the eyes are so heavy, Miss President!

That's it for naming characters related to astrology!
Next time, we'll tell you about our other roles related to plants, especially the Bai family ............

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22 Sep 2022Developer post

I dug a big hole for myself

Hello everyone, I am the game mover Ocarina who is getting a little fatter every day. And speaking of fat, Crazy Thursday is a non-event in the local area? Let me miss the opportunity to burst fat overnight. Recently we released the DEMO page on STEAM , and then several brothers

Hello everyone, I am the game mover Ocarina who is getting a little fatter every day. And speaking of fat, Crazy Thursday is a non-event in the local area? Let me miss the opportunity to burst fat overnight.
Recently we released the DEMO page on STEAM [Bloody Flowers], and then several brothers in the studio jerked the cat every day and prayed: one more player to play our game, one more player to play our game, another one more.........
There is not anything that can help.

(By the way, did you know that the search for Lycoris emojis is all Klee's?)
(If you have any more Chisato emojis, please make sure you send them to me! With our cats to say thanks!!!)

Although a few people played the DEMO but gave us a lot of valuable advice, I have all pulled out a small notebook to record down!

Especially the exit, check, package interaction, and the music part, are scheduled on the arrangement!
Sorry! We were really not careful enough about the interaction before!
In other cases, we have recently encountered several bad files in other games we play on STEAM, which makes us very nervous, and we are afraid that we will fall into the same pit after landing. So we are recently making a big deal with our programmer, and we hope that the archiving will be good.
(Mourning the broken keyboard ............ while we were testing the archive)

Speaking about the development, we have fallen into the technical pit before, it is known that our programmer has only one brother and the owner of the studio cat Jiabai (how dare you assume the gender!!!) And also responsible for part of the art. The awesome point is that he can almost be considered a full-stack engineer. The not-so-awesome point is that we don't seem to use any server knowledge except to study steam's achievement system ......

Then he gave us a whole separate set of plot editing tools.
It means, there are a lot of features, very comprehensive, theoretically, everything can be supported, but what exactly we want has to be mentioned on the spot.
So our work scene is:

Ocarina : One more version! Add two scenes!
Jiabai: Wait, I add a table.
Ocarina : STORY re-matched!
Jiabai：Wait a minute, I'll add a field.
Ocarina : Did I just waste the story ............

To get back at Jiabai for making me do a lot of work, I brought up a bunch of new requirements for him. Theoretically, moving along this path, we can put scene exploration, plot, and puzzle solving together nicely throughout the game. In reality ............ this is a long way to go for the entire Bone Nail Studio to achieve this goal.
But! No matter! Let's move forward! Let's do it!
Making games makes me happy!

(You guys wait, I'm going to fill two shovels of dirt in the pit for Jiabai............)

Anyway, the increasingly complete (and complex) editor has given us more possibilities for plot expression, and all of us have been working on this piece recently.
Another good news is that when our page is uploaded, several buddies who have done games together before have expressed their desire to join, and soon our cast will go from three people and one cat to six people and four cats!

One of the brothers who is joining us in a month, from 0 cats to a family of two cats, really congratulates ah!
In such a short time, adopted by two cats, he must have some kind of natural potential ............

Finally, a list of the recent updates.
1 Speed up the walking speed of the adult characters
2 Increase the tips for checking the bag
3 Optimized the achievements of STEAM platform and fixed the bug of not being able to get achievements
4 Increase the achievements that can be obtained
5 Drop points of dropped reading items (linked together can be used as reading the Notes of LanZhuTang) are adjusted to be more conducive to collection
6 Fix the bug of closing part of the interface
7 Optimize the room jumping in the linear exploration plot part, reduce the invalid time
8 Optimize the light effect of some scenes

Coming soon:
Interface interactions and background music section, and most important: the subsequent episodes continue to be improved.

Thank you very much to all of you who have been following us!
We warmly welcome you to follow us on the STEAM platform, follow, add a WISHLIST, or whatever, thanks for your reading is our greatest encouragement!

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13 Sep 2022Developer post

From alchemy to the seed of ■■■■■

Hello, brothers who play the game! I'm your game mover, Ocarina. It's finally not hot anymore! The air conditioner isn't tripping anymore either. Maybe a lot of things in life are like this, when you need it he has frequent problems, and when you don't need it he's fine again ...

Hello, brothers who play the game! I'm your game mover, Ocarina. It's finally not hot anymore! The air conditioner isn't tripping anymore either. Maybe a lot of things in life are like this, when you need it he has frequent problems, and when you don't need it he's fine again ......
After we put a little demo, yesterday a group of friends asked me why there is an alchemical array in the game. I: This is a complicated question, but I can not dramatize it............

I really want to go back to yesterday to kill this pretentious self.
When we first planned the game, it was determined that this would not be a single story but a series of stories, each of which would give birth to a "monster" - a beast hatched by combining the seed of■■■■■ and human nature. And this combination is equivalent to modifying the nature of "life", as if the hand of God changed the genetic button, creating a new life.

In order to give such a mechanism a suitable vehicle, we chose Alchemy. Not only because Alchemy has such a widely known example of human beings Alchemy ......
And Alchemy's graphics, symbols, algorithms, not to do puzzle solving pity ah!

The essence of Alchemy, whose source is the , can also be regarded as the progenitor of modern chemistry. It analyzed elements, combined elements, and tried various equivalent substitution elements to achieve the purpose of transforming other elements into gold, and then Nicolas Flamel created the legend of the Philosopher's Stone, which led the simple "Alchemy" to a higher field - I will exchange the elements for I will trade the elements for the time, the elements for life, and the elements for miracles.

But something is gained and something is lost. What will be the price of everything you get in exchange for Alchemy?
So we created the puzzle part of the game, where the main character and his father love Astronomy and Geology, and their favorite meteorite will become the element of alchemy. The main character and the two girls have precious dolls in their memories, and their memories and beloved objects will also become elements of Alchemy.
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This Alchemical Array in the game is not derived from the and , the source behind our alchemy points to the outer gods ■■■■■. Therefore, we also adopt elements of ■■■■■. However, the background of our setting (spoilers here) is that the dependents of ■■■■■ infiltrated the East a long time ago to inflict destruction and stir up hearts. They adopted European Alchemical symbols to rewrite the rituals of ■■■■■ in order to make it easier to compel people.

The people who laid out the Alchemy Array want to use the greed of the human heart to hatch monsters, while the main characters reverse the Alchemy Array trying to save the city and the people they love.
Essentially all things are tools, love is eternal ............
............ right?

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13 Sep 2022Developer post

The day the power outage is when the comic program starts

Hello everyone, I am your transparent gamer designer Ocarina. Some time ago during the development of "Bloody Flowers" encountered a few funny things, making me feel the impermanence of life, just like the flowering tree in the game, there must be a cycle of start, good, bad, and

Hello everyone, I am your transparent gamer designer Ocarina. Some time ago during the development of "Bloody Flowers" encountered a few funny things, making me feel the impermanence of life, just like the flowering tree in the game, there must be a cycle of start, good, bad, and empty ............
(Sister smashed over a keyboard: Speak human language!)
In fact, it is we had a power outage, and then we were blessed by the disaster.

Not our Bone Nail Studio cat chewed up the electric wires, simply a power outage, then tripped and burned the computers or something.
Simply, since the beginning of July, the studio began to constantly blackout, blackout, blackout ............
Then we developed the "save computer documents at any time small assistant" - the manual.
The specific way as follows:

[Save!Save!]
[Save!Save!]
[Horry!]
[Save!Save!]
[Power outage]

In between power outages, three persons and a cat were hot as hell, so we often slipped to the convenience store to enjoy the air conditioning, and even brought a laptop to write documents there.
After a while.
Convenience store owner: (look at you guys very poor look) Cat to my store and raise it?
All: No!
Because our cat is actually the treasure of the studio ah! As evidenced by the picture.

[Main Character]

............ apologize for not letting the main character turn into a cat in this game. Next time for sure!
Just during our convenience store to enjoy air conditioning, we met a member of the comic studio who also came to enjoy air conditioning, and after a chat, it turned out that the entire campus was experiencing frequent power outages.
What's more! They are nearby! We've hit on them online before! With the lure of our cat, we have a comic book cooperator! Cheerful news ！！！

Be like：

Sorry for putting the wrong picture.

Be like：

All of us are very happy.
The decision to use comics for the plot was not made on a whim, but we had planned this before. We just didn't find a good creator to work with. In the city where we work, there are a lot of studios that do girlie comics, but we wanted something a little less girlie, especially in terms of subplots and plot expressions, and we wanted to find a strong partner...... These are famous guys we've been asking for before, and we're really glad they (for Cat's sake) are willing to join the production process of our game.
That's probably how luck will turn out for us when we work hard!

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13 Sep 2022Developer post

There is a fruit that will keep you in the underworld forever after eating it

Hello everyone, I am Ocarina from Bone Nail Studio, today in the finishing character dynamic when I saw the completion state of Student Xiaolin, I thought it was quite lamentable ...... Danruo Lin, in the game her nickname, is "Student Xiaolin". This character is one of our most

Hello everyone, I am Ocarina from Bone Nail Studio, today in the finishing character dynamic when I saw the completion state of Student Xiaolin, I thought it was quite lamentable ......

Danruo Lin, in the game her nickname, is "Student Xiaolin". This character is one of our most discussed internally, from appearance to character to her ending, and...... her way of realization.

records "Pomegranate, also named Danruo. ...... Pomegranate sweet is called the heavenly pulp, can cure the poison of Stalactite." This word has a very thorough feeling of beauty.
Pomegranate is a kind of magical fruit, and delicious, and beautiful, but also particularly expensive. In Greek mythology, after Hades, the king of the underworld took the maiden Persephone to the underworld, Persephone ate the pomegranate and was no longer a fully earthly creature from then on. She possessed the attributes of Hades and henceforth needed to live on the ground and in Hades separately.

This is also a mythical explanation of the change of seasons in Greek mythology. From this perspective, the pomegranate is as if it were a delicious fruit with a strange dark atmosphere. The young girl consumed the fruit but became a resident of the underworld. How sweetly does the fruit need to be for the maiden to accept such an end?

We originally wanted to write a major character who was pushed by impermanent fate to become a deviation from her expectations, but she thought that the final form was her quest. However, when we designed the game, we did not give Student Xiaolin a lot of freedom of movement, she was more like an NPC. After many discussions(arguments), we defined Student Xiaolin as a girl who:
She aspires to a good life, but cannot define good.

She desires an adventurous career but is timid and pliable.
She wants to cling to someone lively and strong and wishes she could decide her fate.
She is such a sweet, soft, ordinary girl (the artist disagrees with this), crushed by the vagaries of fate. What first drove her on that fateful journey was a very small idea that cannot even be described as a "dream":
I want to see the world, I want adventure.
[Here are the spoilers]
Then she turned into a monster.
[End of spoilers]

We are a puzzle-based game and do not include a monster fighting part, so this "monster" is more of a personality alienation.
Therefore, when discussing with the artist, we also wanted her to be a harmless-looking girl, but with a sense of vulnerability under the surface ......
(Thanks to the artist "sister" for not killing me) (Yes, the artist is called "sister") (Do not assume the gender of "sister"!)

Then the artist was happy to give a few options.

、
[Chose a hairstyle for Xiaolin， and I will draw a Q type.]
So, Student Xiaolin almost became pink hair !!!

Then everyone's focus gradually shifted ..................

The focus ............is very strange ah ............
Anyway, finally formed this look that everyone sees now.
To match the character, the hairpin on the head was also changed to the shape of a rabbit.
Because of this hairpin, it needs to take some responsibility that should not be borne by the weak......
The final product is this: (engineering debugging, does not represent the final effect within the game)
Watch on YouTube
Finally, let's take a look at what the initial birth of Danruo Lin AKA Student Xiaolin looked like:

Still can feel my heart when I first saw her.
And then ultimately be apart.
In a sense, Student Xiaolin made her wish come true.
Goodbye, Student Xiaolin.

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05 Sep 2022Developer post

Game Production Gossip 01： Dig a hole for joy, fill a hole for pain

Hello everyone, I'm Ocarina, the producer of the Monster Dreamland series, ah sorry! Monster Dreamland the series has not been officially exposed to the public, our current external game is "Bloody Flowers", the first part of the overall monster AVG series we want to do Monster D

Hello everyone, I'm Ocarina, the producer of the Monster Dreamland series, ah sorry! Monster Dreamland the series has not been officially exposed to the public, our current external game is "Bloody Flowers", the first part of the overall monster AVG series we want to do Monster Dreamland constructed.

Yes, this is a ...... giant pit that the three of us have been trying to dig.

After being taught a lesson by our predecessors, our basic philosophy was that "no matter how grand a picture we want to paint, we have to get down to business and come up with a playable game", which was a blow and a shout for the team. The project and production process of these scattered in our various versions of the progress and chat records, now organized out of quite interesting, I will write a comprehensive production of these angles of handwriting, probably these aspects.

Character: the character and interaction of the main and supporting characters
Scenes: "A Tree" throughout the three eras
Story: a simple main line with three eras of transition and another line constructed with reading items
Puzzle: measurement of difficulty and length
Engineering: how to build a version with the brothers around and far away during a special time
Steam: the first time to build an account and access steam's SDK ......
......
Basically, every pit stepped on, is based on our naïve thought, really digging a pit a moment of pleasure, fill the pit ......

The process of filling the pit is quite happy.

First of all, back to the game. One of the team members has been writing various novels about the Meteorite Association since 2018, but as an extremely socially afraid person, he is not willing to come forward to talk about the story and the Association, so I'll say it for him.

This is a series of stories "meteorite will bring strange energy, open the thin wall between reality and non-reality, but the meteorite as the seed of xxxxxxx can hatch what kind of monster, depends entirely on the human who embraces the meteorite".
To feed the seeds of xxxxxxx with humanity, and the sight from the universe far away is watching everything. Although located in the highest gaze, able to cross time and space, the human will in this gaze seems to have no equivalent ability, and even can not be taken into account in the same numerical system, but, only the human will and choice, can fight with it, and change the fate originally written into time. The overall series is probably such a conception.
But the novel will become another thing in the game, the game needs not only to watch, read, but to experience, to turn the rhythm of the text into the rhythm of walking, adventure, and puzzle solving in the game, which is something we have been grinding for a long time, until now still tirelessly explore.
And in addition to solving puzzles, how to add more pieces about affection, gain and loss, and not so melodramatic, is also recently in the game script constantly polished point.

A small disclosure about the script: if you pay attention to the collection and reading part of the game, you will read a completely different story from the main line from the reading items.

Back to the team, we first met in the process of playing Hollow Knight, and also decided to make some games together because of our common love. At the beginning of making the game, we got some industry funding support. However, if you pay attention to the game industry, you should know that at the end of last year, a round of unlicensed winter began, and the funding was completely broken. However, there are not many of us on the team, and at the moment, Bone Nails Studio and my Cat can fully support us, so that we can adequately polish the project of this monster series and continue to add interesting parts.
At present, the first AVG puzzle game of this series "Bloody Flowers” has landed on the steam store, welcome to add your wish list to support.

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Blood Flowers

Updates & announcements

4/25 Update

The full version of "Blood flowers" is now available

Live streaming trial event is in progress.

The “Blood Flowers” full version is here!!!

[The following contains spoilers, so please be careful if you haven't played the EA version.]

Current version status:

Why switch to the official release:

What are we planning to do next?

Update Announcement: fixed achievement showing bug

"Blood Flowers" EA version will be launched on Nov. 3rd!

Astrology, a kind of naming metaphysics

I dug a big hole for myself

The demo "Blood Flowers" is now officially released！

From alchemy to the seed of ■■■■■

The day the power outage is when the comic program starts

There is a fruit that will keep you in the underworld forever after eating it

Game Production Gossip 01： Dig a hole for joy, fill a hole for pain