Dev Diary# 3

For the first one, obviously, we are starting with Kelsey.

Kelsey came about because, for one, I really like the name Kelsey, and for two, the original image I used to reference, because I am a visual person, was themagmaman's Amber images/sequence. Kelsey was to be the one and only girl in the game for simplicity sake, but from the past 2 diaries you know that idea did not stay. The way I came up with Kelsey's personality was just like the others: deriving form an image. Again, I used themagmaman's Amber images to derive a personality from, and from the character cards you can see just what kind of girl she is: Intelligent, a little sassy, arrogant/confident, but I also saw something else in her -- pain. I felt as though she is the type of girl to get upset about gaining weight, at least at first, and so I concocted a background story as to how she put on weight, which is she spent her early years working long hours and not eating right in order to secure a high position at a company, and to her credit, it worked, but it costed her quite a bit of weight on her figure.

Later on in the development of the game we found an artist, which itself is its own dev diary of how I found him, and we then decided to have portraits of each girl drawn so that we didn't need to rely on IRL images. Not only that, but having an artist allowed us, mainly me, to portray how each girl looks and to give that image to the players to see what each girl looks like. So, I had to find a model who fit Kelsey's image that was based on a 3D model, and it took some time but we settled on LaceyElle, a curvacious hourglass platinum-blonde with fair skin. Now with a full backstory, personality, full name (last names were added later on), and a portrait card, Kelsey was complete.

In the next diary I think I will share how we got our artist friend to join. Quite a story, that is!