Welcome back, and a thousand praises to you, Your Majesty!
This is the second My Lovely Empress dev log from the teams at Game Changer and Neon Doctrine. We hope that this series of behind-the-scenes peeks at the process of game development gets you excited for when My Lovely Empress launches on Steam, Switch, and Xbox later this year!
In case you missed out on our first dev log, check it out here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2052990/announcements/detail/4232902400527959178
When last we met, we looked at the creation of Empress’ setting and your seat of power, the Crimson Empire. Today however, we will go into the character you play the game as: the most powerful man in Ashuwa, Emperor Hong.
Son of the Great Emperor Khan and the Empress Dowager Wang, Hong is hardly the warmonger his father was, nor the cunning ruler that was his mother. He is a lover first and foremost — a devoted husband to his wife, Empress Xiang, and a dutiful son to Wang.
However, love tends to inflict pain equal to the happiness it has previously gifted, a lesson Hong learns when disease first takes his mother, and then his beloved empress.
Now a man with an entire empire at his command but with nothing left in his heart to lose, you must guide Hong through the treacherous grounds of both politics and dark magic, whatever it takes to bring Xiang back from the dead.
But how did we create Hong?
Our despairing protagonist actually went through a few changes over the course of My Lovely Empress’ development! His imperial regalia was Initially inspired by the designs of ancient Chinese emperors as portrayed in stories like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Raswan’s early designs for Hong’s face were sleek and clean, with a slightly villainous glint in his eyes. Check it out!
Quite the looker, isn’t he?
The next design however, looked far more feminine, softening his features while allowing for various possible designs for his hair.
And finally, the last few additions came: a goatee for his face, and fantasy dragon regalia for his clothes to look like armor, inspired by his warlord father.
Now that’s our Emperor Hong!
We hoped you enjoyed this sneak peek into My Lovely Empress’ development and the brains behind your powerful, yet unstable Crimson Empire.
Wishlist it here!
~ GameChanger Studio and Neon Doctrine 👑
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