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.
Continued re-drawing Maci’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Maci’s portraits.
Began re-drawing Malachy’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Malachy’s portraits.
Updated the German translation for “The Prom Queen” based on Melle Teich’s translations.
May 30th, 2019
Began re-drawing Charlotte/Gaelle’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Charlotte/Gaelle’s portraits.
Began re-drawing Maci’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 27th, 2019
Added one (1) track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
May 25th, 2019
Experimenting with removing RTP requirement. (Unable to test on a system without the RTP, however…) Game successfully starts after moving the VL Gothic font into the game’s Fonts folder, and appears to run as normal.
Still can’t get the engine to stop auto-generating the Battleback folders and the Battler folder, though. (However I might have figured out when it does it, so I’ll try to just stop doing it.)
May 24th, 2019
Wrote more dialogue for “The Prom Queen” (EN).
Addressed an issue where Simon wouldn’t be in the right spot during the following cutscene if the player decided to “Do the talking” in Luis’ House.
Adjusted the English dialogue a little.
Added misc. portrait arts (region flags) for NPCs and characters talking over a phone.
May 23rd, 2019
Added animated character art for certain characters in the MOG Music Room.
Carmine
Began re-drawing Bellamy’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Bellamy’s portraits.
May 22nd, 2019
Did a rough playtest run. (Current game length: ~3hr 52min (Dark Pure route))
Addressed some bugs.
Recruited PureChild as an additional French translator.
Added/updated some SFX.
May 21st, 2019
Addressed a strange issue where Case Eight would be revealed during Case One.
Tweaked MOG’s Music Room a bit.
Added animated character art for certain characters in the MOG Music Room.
Elliot
Dark
Emilie
Simon
Bellamy
Gaelle
Maci
Malachy
Oliver
Mikkelsen
May 20th, 2019
Wrote more dialogue for “The Prom Queen” (EN).
Added city locations to the save menu’s translated items.
Updated the credit labels.
Updated the credits.
Updated the part title cards.
Added MOG’s Music Room script (but its functionality seems a little borked, at least when it comes to numbering tracks properly, as for whatever reason, track #3 always seems to wind up being listed as track #36 — track #4 as #7, etc.).
Might remove because the game seems to now always be lagging when not in this menu.
Made a new array to sort the tracks correctly.
Made a new, new array to allow the character artwork to animate at different speeds depending on track BPM.
May 19th, 2019
Added KK20’s NoDeactivate DLL system to prevent the game from pausing if the game window isn’t active.
Swapped “Waltz of the Flowers” back to the original mix.
Tried to convert opening to run in-game instead of as a video. Too much math. Scrapping. Moving on with life.
May 18th, 2019
Added one (1) track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
Added the first and final batch of Marie Lemieux clips for “The Garden of Angels” (EN).
May 16th, 2019
Cast Anjali Kunapaneni as Marie Lemieux (EN).
Continued re-drawing Cheshire’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Cheshire’s portraits.
Updated the credits.
May 15th, 2019
Added one (1) track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
Continued re-drawing Cheshire’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 12th, 2019
Added one (1) track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
Adjusted the French translation for “The Poisoned Diner”.
May 11th, 2019
Updated the French translation for “The Poisoned Diner” based on Julien Jei Lun’s translations.
May 10th, 2019
Added the first portion of the first batch of Simon clips for “The Twins’ Bond” (EN).
Continued re-drawing Cheshire’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 9th, 2019
Continued re-drawing Cheshire’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 8th, 2019
Continued re-drawing Oliver’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Elliot’s portraits.
Updated Simon’s portraits.
Updated Oliver’s portraits.
Began re-drawing Emilie’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Emilie’s portraits.
Began re-drawing Cheshire’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Added one (1) new track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
Added one (1) new track by Charlie Paul.
Added the second batch of Lavoie clips for “The Prom Queen” (EN).
Added some additional Malachy clips for “The Disappearing Act” (EN).
Added some additional Emilie clips for “The Poisoned Diner” (EN).
Updated the Dutch translation for “The Poisoned Diner” based on Ewan Siebum’s translations.
May 7th, 2019
Recruited Julien Jei Lun as a French translator.
Updated some of Elliot’s clips for “The Garden of Angels” (EN).
Added the second batch of Elliot clips for “The Garden of Angels” (EN).
May 6th, 2019
Continued re-drawing Simon’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Simon’s portraits.
Began re-drawing Oliver’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 5th, 2019
Continued re-drawing Simon’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 4th, 2019
Continued re-drawing Elliot’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Elliot’s portraits.
Added three (3) new portraits for Elliot.
Began re-drawing Simon’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
May 3rd, 2019
Began re-drawing Elliot’s portrait arts from scratch in Clip Studio.
Updated Elliot’s portraits.
May 2nd, 2019
Templated some scenes for “The Prom Queen”. “The Prom Queen” is now hypothetically able to be completed.
Updated some maps.
May 1st, 2019
Added one (1) track by Adel “Skull” Almas.
Added the first batch of Lavoie lines for “The Prom Queen” (EN).
