Hearstrings (PREV. Bound By Mourning) - Story boarding CH 1 rough draft

The Plot has CHANGED DUN DUN DUNNNN - You can see the original idea over in the first develog here. Raptor and I did our best to try and make it work but all good things change and evolve!

The story so far: 

Follow Haily and AJ (working names), two girls under long term hospitalization, share a room and a bond. Find secrets, stories and more than anyone could bargain for....

Currently planned features:

• Jrpg style game play
• Turn based battle system with options for fighting,talking/bartering
• functional costume systems
• puzzles
• visual novel cutscenes and dialogue choices

page 1

In this first page the idea is that haily will be woken up by a bright light in the hospital door, ending up seemingly outside. As she wanders around she goes from the hospital parking lot to a castle foyer mixed with a hospital waitingroom. As Haily talks to people she finds out that these people have either been waiting for forever to be seen or drowning in forms to sign before they can join the queue.

Page 2

You then explore the endless looking dungeon for a way out when you spot treasure, requiring rinse and repeat of fighting the boss

At this time there's not a whole lot I can share as we're still working on the story chunk by chunk! I will be working on proto

You can see the story boarding process Raw Live here!