Full Development

Memories

Full Development

Memories

Memories is an otome platform that features a large collection of interactive romantic stories. Each story is tailored to follow the player’s choices, and each decision will shape their whole adventure. Full of thrilling adventure, romance, and intrigue – all enhanced with our beautiful hand-drawn, anime-inspired art style – Memories will bring each and every choice to life.

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Objective

Due to the positive response to Love Spice, an experimental project to test a game that caters to the female demographics, Agate decides to scale up the quality in the next game that caters to the same target market.

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Challenge & Solution

Challenge
Creating a compelling story that engage user.

Solution

Learn and use LOCK (Lead worth following, Objective, Confrontation, Knock out Ending) framework for the foundation of the story.
Divide the writing progress into smaller checkpoints to minimize error.
Gather alpha reader group to validate market preference.
Train talents to master basic cinematography and scene design.
Improve the basic visual novel quality until it’s similar to a basic animatic cutscene.
Create high benchmark on selecting and creating immersive audio.
Keeping up the quality of the story’s premium cliffhanger moments.

Team Composition

Game Designers – or Scene Editors as they are commonly referred to in Visual Novel games development – holds a crucial role in realizing or converting a story into Visual Novel format. In order to do so, they use internally-developed tools (which are similar in function to the Visual Novel Maker tool) that is directly linked to the game’s back-end programming. They then make use of tools such as Adobe Photoshop for Editing to Audacity to create and edit the sounds that appears in the game.

The character designs in Memories are inspired by the art styles of anime, which when combined with elements of Indonesian culture, creates a unique look and feel in each of the story. Our artists – be it the 2D Artists or the UI/UX Designers – use Adobe Photoshop & Clip Studio Paint to facilitate their workflow on a anime-styled game such as Memories.

Memories uses Unity as the main engine for every front-end development and game client needs. On the other hand, the team relies on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Front, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Command Line Interface, as well as MongoDB Atlas Database for the Memories’ team back-end and server needs. The team also uses GitLab for bug fixing and versioning.

The Memories team uses Trello as tool to track every progress during development and to help align the development process according to a pre-determined timeline. The use of Trello also makes it easier for the team because of how image-heavy the game is, with multiple-stories in development at the same time.

Workflow

Ideation

Ideations for stories are initiated by the Product Managers, Producers, or Game Designers in a pitch session. The Story Writers will then explore a theme that will fit into the story. Story Writers need to create at least 50 to 100 different story premises.

Pre-Production

Researching competitor’s products, conducting FGDs that consists of our target demographic to decide the art style that will works best in Indonesian market (the team’s focus at the time), studying best storytelling approach to create a memorable narrative.

Production

Design the game based on the desired direction, which is a Visual Novel platform with multiple stories, as opposed to just a one-off VN story.

Ensuring that Memories’ developmental system can support a weekly release for each chapter.

Post-Production

More features and content were released to keep existing users engaged. One of said features was “Keyless reading” which lets users binge-read stories on certain days without fears of running out of key.

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