Roses and Thorns

Studio Tired House

Jimmy Weishaus, Blossom Abel, Chris Marroquin, Amy Tian, Ab Bandaru, & Brynne Reilly

Genre, High Concept, & Market

Genre: (Sub)urban/Modern Fantasy / Romantic Comedy / Fantasy Sports/ Dating Simulator (Similar to Hatoful Boyfriend or Dream Daddy)

High Concept: You’ve been invited into a sorority of magical girls. Beautiful, single, magical girls. Find out how far your power extends, and with whom your heart lies. Flirt! Fight! And discover your true love!

Market: LBGTQ+ people, young adults, and women

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Gameplay & Features

Gameplay: Team-based sports game, characters can be recruited by either beating them or by increasing affection with them. Pass the ball between your teammates to create sigils that boost your score and give you magical effects, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same.

Features:

• Move up through the ranks and eventually take on the champion of the game.
• Teammates join you based off of affection, and the plot branches depending on who you choose to put on your team and who you choose to date.
• Strategy based off of planning your team’s movements to not only grant you the highest score, but to give you the most beneficial effects for future plays.

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Setting & Story

Setting: A college specifically for those magically inclined where they can further their magical knowledge. Sororities are ubiquitous, and enthusiasm for the school’s main sport even moreso. Popularity is almost wholly dependant on a team’s ranking, and anybody who’s anybody plays it.

Story: The protagonist is a new student at this college who just got accepted into a sorority and picks up the sport in an effort to meet many new cute girls. Her goal is to eventually take on the champion and establish herself as the most popular girl in school.

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Reference Games

Dating Sim References:

• Dream Daddy
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• Monster Prom

Sports Segment References:

• Pyre
• (American) Football
• Mario + Rabbids

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Softwares and Tools

•Unity Engine

•Maya

•Substance Painter

•Photoshop

•ZBrush

•Blender

•Microsoft Office

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Moodboards

Dating Sim Art & Style Moodboard

Sports Art & Style Moodboard

Character Sprites Moodboard

Character Models Moodboard

Backgrounds Moodboard

Gameplay Moodboard (Dating Aspect)

Gameplay Moodboard (Sports Aspect)

Interface Moodboard

Interface Moodboard

Concepts and Unused Art

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Art and models by Brynne Reilly

Illustrations by Brynne Reilly

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Particles by Ab Bandaru

Fireball/Flame/Sparks

Particles by Ab Bandaru

Particles and UI by Ab Bandaru

Grid editor by Jimmy Weishaus, Illustrations by Amy Tian and Blossom Abel

Illustration by Amy Tian

Characters

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustration by Amy Tian

Illustration by Amy Tian

Illustration by Brynne Reilly

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Models and Textures by Brynne Reilly

Models and Textures by Brynne Reilly

Models and Textures by Brynne Reilly

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Models and textures by Brynne Reilly

Models and textures by Brynne Reilly

Models & animations by Brynne Reilly

Animation by Brynne Reilly

Environment

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Models by Chris Marroquin

Illustrations by Brynne Reilly

Lighting by Ab Bandaru

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Models by Chris Marroquin, textures and character models by Brynne Reilly

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Models by Chris Marroquin

Illustrations and textures by Brynne Reilly

Models by Chris Marroquin, textures by Brynne Reilly

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Models by Chris Marroquin, textures by Brynne Reilly

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Models by Chris Marroquin, textures by Brynne Reilly

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Models by Blossom Abel, textures by Brynne Reilly

Models by Blossom Abel, textures by Brynne Reilly

Water Shaders

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Shaders by Amy Tian

Shaders by Amy Tian

Illustration by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Models by Chris Marroquin and Blossom Abel, textures by Brynne Reilly, water shader by Amy Tian

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Water Shader

by

Amy Tian

WIP

Illustration by Blossom Abel

Illustration by Blossom Abel

Characters by Amy Tian, background by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustration by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Backgrounds by Blossom Abel

Characters by Amy Tian

Map layout by Chris Marroquin

Map layout by Chris Marroquin

Map layout by Chris Marroquin, set dressing by Chris Marroquin and Brynne Reilly

Models and textures by Brynne Reilly, palm tree model by Chris Marroquin

Map layout by Chris Marroquin, models by Chris Marroquin, Blossom Abel, & Brynne Reilly, set dressing by Brynne Reilly, water shader by Amy Tian

UI and Particles

Illustrations by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Amy Tian

UI by Amy Tian

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

Illustrations by Blossom Abel

UI by Brynne Reilly, Character by Amy Tian

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Illustrations by Amy Tian, frame by Brynne Reilly

Illustrations by Blossom Abel, Amy Tian, and Brynne Reilly

Menu Layout and character icons by Amy Tian

Particles by Chris Marroquin

Shield Shader by Ab Bandaru

Shader by Ab Bandaru, Particle By Jimmy

Particle by Ab Bandaru

Particle by Ab Bandaru,

Animation Sheet by Brynne

Animation by Brynne Reilly

Particles by Chris Marroquin

Scripts

Line Renderer and Loop Check

Audio Manager

Ab Bandaru

Pause and Settings Menu

Ab Bandaru

Tile prefab factory

Saving map data

Jimmy Weishaus

Combined Dijkstra’s and Breadth First Search Pathfinding algorithms for circular tile radius

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Jimmy Weishaus

Grid Map initializing tiles the make it up

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Jimmy Weishaus

Dialogue written by Blossom Abel, script by Brynne Reilly

Singleton Script

Scene Loading Script: Implementation of Singleton and async loading

Ab Bandaru

AB _ Multiplayer Combined

Node Map Controller and Node Path

by Jimmy Weishaus

Beautiful Corners

Storyboards

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Amy Tian

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Updated Storyboard

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Storyboard by Amy Tian

Storyboard by Brynne Reilly

Website and Trailer

Site mockup by Chris Marroquin

Site by Chris Marroquin

https://tiredthorns.wixsite.com/website

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GNZYvG5QFd0vZKASyERWLVY_VooQfvBI?usp=sharing

Final Screenshots