Made in RPG Maker VX Ace, but less of an RPG and more of an interactive story with some sleuthing to be done, JiU: Re stars French-American Det. Elliot Mortensen, a man plagued by his own inner demons (which can be in/directly controlled by the player) and an overwhelming fear of the dark. As the story unfolds, the player watches as their choices either make or break Elliot's relationships, friendships, and sanity.
Wrote more dialogue for “The Obsessive Valentine”.
Added the best worst image gag ever.
Added to Theatre Lyrique d’Ombre.
August 30th, 2018
Began writing “The Obsessive Valentine”.
Added to Elaine’s House.
Added the third and final batch of Elliot lines for “The Poisoned Diner”.
August 29th, 2018
Cast Lauren Collis as Receptionist.
Added the second and final batch of Simon lines for “The Royal Flush”.
August 28th, 2018
Finished writing “The Disappearing Act”.
August 27th, 2018
Added more dialogue to “The Disappearing Act”.
Updated case banners.
The “Client” section of cases now shows who called in/reported the incident, because there were too many that cited “Mme. Bellamy” as the one who put Elliot on the case.
August 26th, 2018
Finished writing “The Garden of Angels”.
Added to Simon’s Basement.
I H A T E Q U E S T I O N M A R K S !
Fixed (?) an issue where Actor 12 would disappear forever during escorts if the game was saved and loaded, then where Actor 12 would never NOT be in the party after loading a save file where Actor 12 is in the party.
Oh my God, did I actually do A Thing? It’s been so long since I’ve successfully done A Thing with this engine.
Hid Actor 12 from the File menu.
Question marks now now utterly unimportant! :)
“The Garden of Angels” is now actually finishable.
August 25th, 2018
Wrote a lot of dialogue for “The Garden of Angels”.
Added the second batch of Elliot’s clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
August 24th, 2018
Added to Laurentin’s House.
Added to Renee’s House.
Wrote a lot of dialogue for “The Garden of Angels”. “The Garden of Angels” is now finishable (in theory).
I hate question marks.
August 23rd, 2018
Wrote more dialogue for “The Garden of Angels”.
Added to Timothe’s House.
Added to Le Jardin des Anges.
Minor touch-ups to some maps, BGS-wise.
August 22nd, 2018
Cast Dominic Walker as Dr. Nicolas.
Cast Charles Lacroix as Dr. Daniau.
Cast Robert Lennon as Front Desk Clerk.
Cast MisterMisc as Luis Bouchard.
Cast MisterMisc as Maitre D’.
Cast Charles Lacroix as Leonard Sauveterre.
Cast Xander Phillips as Sir Henry Cockburn.
Cast Xander Phillips as Casimir Winslow.
Added the rest of Bellamy’s “The Poisoned Diner” clips.
Added the first half of Simon’s “The Royal Flush” clips.
Added the single line for Sir Henry Cockburn.
Added two tracks by J0KRR.
Added to Elliot’s Basement.
Added to “The Garden of Angels“‘s script.
Updated French translation of “The Poisoned Diner” based on edits by Charles Lacroix.
Being an asshole to Emilie now makes Cheshire like Elliot less by default.
Updated Part One’s in-game credits accordingly.
August 21st, 2018
Added one new track by E.L. Music (Elisha Leenders).
Cast theswiftvixen as Alice LeBlanc.
Cast some extras.
Recruited Charles Lacroix as a French translation editor.
Recruited Cara Seragniel as a Chinese translation editor.
Started a rough Chinese translation.
August 20th, 2018
Continued working on an intro cinematic.
August 19th, 2018
Continued working on an intro cinematic.
August 18th, 2018
Began working on an intro cinematic.
Added Zeus’ Video Player script in place of Estriole’s Video Converter, but in terms of functionality, it’s on similarly thin ice.
August 17th, 2018
Corrected some Malachy clips.
Added Dr. Laurent’s voice clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
I hate common events.
Removed a rather-dick-ish “clear all on-screen pictures upon map setup for no real reason” line in MOG’s Picture EX script. Now some maps lag a bit, probably because of lighting images (which MOG’s script didn’t affect anyway). I don’t really care right now.
Now there’s an opening credit sequence thing. After various issues (including the event duplicating itself after every map transition and the aforementioned issue with MOG’s script moving all pictures upon map setup), setting it up as a global common event in such a way that it basically runs exactly the way a normal common event does, it suddenly works. Have I mentioned I hate common events?
Made a whole bunch of adjustments to the Credits scene.
It can now load images and change fonts.
Cast Elissa Park as Renee Favreau.
August 16th, 2018
Added two tracks by Jack Jun: “The Shadows That Follow” and “Hold ‘Em Close”.
August 15th, 2018
Remuxed already-received audio.
August 14th, 2018
Moved general car interactions to a common event for easier editing.
Added Charlotte’s voice clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Added the first batch of Malachy’s clips for “The Disappearing Act”.
Added the first batch of Elliot’s clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Updated some character profiles on the Project Eclipse Wiki.
New remuxing method for received audio.
August 13th, 2018
Wrote more dialogue for “The Royal Flush”.
Wrote more dialogue for “The Disappearing Act”.
Began writing dialogue for “The Garden of Angels”.
Alphabetized choices in the dialogue database (EN).
Booted game’s rating up to M on GameJolt due to what’s planned for Part Four.
August 11th, 2018
Wrote more dialogue for “The Royal Flush”.
August 10th, 2018
Remuxed received audio.
Removed zoom out from Picture Gallery.
Images in Picture Gallery are now the size used by the game, not the originals.
August 9th, 2018
Added Maci’s “The Poisoned Diner” clips.
Added the remaining Emilie clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Added the remaining Simon clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Added the rest of the “The Poisoned Diner” dialogue to the dialogue file.
Wrote/added some more “The Royal Flush” dialogue to the dialogue file.
Added to Cheshire Estate.
Added to Catshill.
Began a rough playable outline for Part Two.
August 8th, 2018
Cast James Bryce as Det. Elliot Mortensen.
Cast Abigail Wahl as Dr. K. Laurent.
Cast Cari Scholtens as Charlotte Callahan.
Cast Goldlight as Gaelle Callahan.
Cast kiwiTee as Maci Leblonne.
Added four new cutscene graphics for “The Disappearing Act”.
August 7th, 2018
Added two new cutscene graphics for the prologue.
Added a three new cutscene graphics for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Added a new cutscene graphic for “The Disappearing Act”.
Swapped the Police Nationale HQ music to “Detective Noire” by Jack Jun.
Added some Simon clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
Added some Bellamy clips for “The Poisoned Diner”.
August 6th, 2018
Added two tracks made for the game by Jack Jun.
Swapped the Peaches & Cream Cafe music to “Upbeat Justice” by Jack Jun.
Removed folders Battleback1, Battleback2, and Battlers from the Graphics folder (as well as any calls to them, so they won’t be remade).
Wrote some more dialogue for “The Royal Flush”.
Added a new cutscene graphic for “The Obsessive Valentine”.
Updated character profiles.
Game now starts with context.
August 5th, 2018
Added Part One’s background.
Began working on a background for Part Two.
Added Part Two’s background.
Began working on a background for Part Three.
Added Part Three’s background.
Began working on a background for Part Four.
Added Part Four’s background.
Began working on a background for Part Five.
Added Part Five’s background.
August 4th, 2018
Wrote more dialogue for “The Royal Flush”.
Added to “Cheshire Estate”.
Moved Dark dialogue at beginning of game to end of prologue.
Each game part now has its own title.
Added part intros.
Began working on a background for Part One.
August 3rd, 2018
Added some more “The Royal Flush” dialogue to the dialogue database and script.
Added some NPC bases to the Fantome d’Or Casino maps.
New suspect added to “The Royal Flush” depending on player choices.
