The horror, the misery, the ordeal... Of being an Indie Artist!

Who's this freak?

The Freak

I'm Lilian. A lover of Victorian fashion, aesthetics, Gothic books, outdated role-playing games and very old Japanese anime and art. I'm also a very messy artist and writer. 

Mixing that set of mismatched abilities, I created The Voyage Sinister, a Gothic jRPG!

And how did you get there?

The Process

Everything started with my own role-playing campaign. Those who like to play tabletop RPGs, know that you usually play them with friends, but given I don't have any, I did it on my own! 

Spending most of my time alone working on it, the campaign eventually got quite large and detailed. To the point I thought: 'Uhmm... What if I transform this into something someone else than me and the voices in my head could enjoy?' 

So I said 'Why not a video game? Those are easy, right?' Turned out I was wrong. But at that point I didn't care as long as I could do something that wasn't just talking to myself.

Took me a while to figure what kind of tone and art-style I wanted. But since I'm a nostalgia driven person, I leaned over there with a late '90s and early '00s anime-look and proceeded.

What now?

The Progress

Besides usual bugfixes, The Voyage Sinister will get updates with new graphics, portraits, items and even content! My main objective is to adapt the complete story of the Victorian Vampire campaign I described above into a jRPG that YOU can play! Good news are, I have already done much of this. 

Take a look:

These are zones of the next part. Just like many others, they're already made. I will go deeper in what's next in another devlog, probably.

Conclusion

After reading this, I hope you HAND ME ALL YOUR POSESSIONS provide me your support! With it, I could release the complete story in 3 chapters. This one being the 1st of them. Soon™ I will put together a Patreon with some nice rewards for that purpose, meanwhile you can do it on Itch when you download the game or in my Ko-Fi. Please note that you also help me with your comments and suggestions.

Until next time!

- Lilian