This game was started in early January of this year! but then the artist had some serious issues, and was finally able to resume working this last week. He had already drawn the sketches of the main characters, so he only needs to color them, but takes a while since the 3 main one have lots of combinations of clothes and weapons/armors.



This was the original blog post when I announced it. It was last February!! :D

http://www.winterwolves.net/blog/2011/02/announcing-queen-of-thieves-game/



Below you see an image of Joanne, the wizard, in a few of the many possible combinations:

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will post more in my twitter/blog in next months as the game development progresses.

I remember this one. I'm glad to hear the artist is okay now though as I tell people a lot 'life happens' you really can't control everything.



Back tot he game though, I see you have it set under the RPG forum so I suppose you have decided to make it that? Not say a stat/life sim or anything like that or the strategy one you were thinking of?

Well it's a mix of RPG/lifesim/strategy to be honest, but since there will be items, character customization, quests, and combat I think is more close to a RPG than a lifesim

Is it just me, or does the size of her breasts differ between the three pictures (fuller in middle picture)?



Very respectfully,

fleet

Hmm I think is an "optical effect" caused by the black/white line contrast... or maybe the artist simply drew them bigger in that image it's a wizard cloak with incorporated push-ups!

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this is Thalia the thief instead. Love the black cape style

Interesting. Is the outfit going to change depending on the armor you get? Sorta like how Princess Maker is your outfit changes depending on the cloths you set and you get different bonus's for each.

Yes exactly, there is one "standard" outfit to wear in dialogues and 4 other ones to wear during the missions. Those 4 are split into several body parts: head, chest, legs, shoes, weapons.

Ah, so there isn't going to be skills and stuff? Or will the outfit be magical and give you skills? For instance if you wanted to be more sneaky in a mission would the second outfit allow for more stealth and such?



Also even if you get a different part of the outfit, I'm assuming that only the chest will fully change your appearance, correct?

Ah, so there isn't going to be skills and stuff? Or will the outfit be magical and give you skills? For instance if you wanted to be more sneaky in a mission would the second outfit allow for more stealth and such?

yes there are skills, and outfits will give bonuses

Also even if you get a different part of the outfit, I'm assuming that only the chest will fully change your appearance, correct?

No each part is separate appearance. You select different shoes, you see different one, different legs/trousers, you see different one. There are lots of combinations possible, I'm not a mathematician but I think around 125 or so combos!

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and here's Kira, the last of the girls. She's of course a Warrior as you can see from her fierce look (and armor!). Secondary characters will be done soon, then I need to think about the actual gameplay art but I have in mind something already (will use a topdown map, like a boardgame).

Personally I'm probably going to be tank but I got to thinking will the rogue and warrior always be dagger/shield+sword or will they have the ability to be say like a bow rogue or a 2 handed warrior?

No since this is not really a pure RPG, but more a hybrid game the classes/weapon types are fixed: mage=staff, thief=two swords,warrior=sword and shield. Also, you don't have to choose one, but in most missions you'll have to use all the three characters working together to finish it It will work more like a boardgame/RPG mix.

oh well, that's cool. I find games with characters that are allowed to change costumes to be super cool. It makes the game more exciting.

Regarding today's blog that had a picture of Arianna - It might just be me but she kind of looks like a guy in drag - not that there's anything wrong with that but to my way of thinking she seems a bit too masculine to be a queen - Oh maybe I'm missing something LOL



Best Regards

Jim

Haha why? remember in that image she is older, like 45-50 years old. Also she is "the Queen Of Thieves" but not a real queen! (is just a surname)

I'm 53 I understand "older". I think it's because her jaw is very square and the space between her eyes is quite wide. As people age their skin will sag and they will get heavier but their overall skeletal structure won't change. It doesn't really matter, I just think she looks masculine and I could be way off the mark.



Best Regards

Jim

Ah yes, checking her face shape indeed I understand what you mean now. Maybe I should change the title into "the Drag Queen Of Thieves"?

At least her daughters looks like lovely ladies

Hi , I just realized that my comments may have offended the artist - not intended - it just seems that a lot of characters pictures are very feminine, like Lauren the Amazon, and I thought this drawing was more masculine. I believe that a character in the Heileen series has the same look so it might be the artists style or a style that I am just not familiar with. As an apology, if you make the "Queen of Thieves" dateable, I'll chase her first.



I'll stop commenting so I don't dig the hole any deeper. Keep up the good work



Best Regards

Jim

Haha no, don't worry, I don't think the artist is reading the forums and anyway I'm sure he wouldn't be offended! To compensate, he drew a very feminine waitress:

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the game is strictly GxB, so you cannot date any girl, though I might do like for Spirited Heart and add a "girl's love" expansion later...