Animation Bust (Thanks, Tyrano!)


Danni (our team's blue bear) went above and beyond animating characters for the game. Thankfully, she didn’t get too far with the rivals—phew!—because getting them to work in the outdated Tyrano engine felt like doing backflips.

On the bright side, we managed to get the animations working. The downside? Tyrano couldn’t handle it. The engine nearly killed our project with a huge Live2D glitch that made the game unopenable after saving. That's when we decided to ditch Live2D—at least for this program.

The long loading time is likely due to Tyrano’s Live2D system. Despite my efforts to remove it, the folder and files kept regenerating, with mostly empty .js files containing leftover character data. Tyrano’s Live2D still haunts this upload.

For the final project, we plan to use the animated versions once I update the characters arts since the live 2d setup is already done we can swap out the body parts.

We used Tyrano mainly because it was quick and available. I was able to push it beyond its default, but it lacks basic VN features like 'quit' or 'config' functions for the title screen. I got the quit function to work and a partially functional config menu, but I scrapped the config for the quit button since it was less broken. Of course, in a browser, a Tyrano quit button doesn’t matter anyway. The concept could of been this - what a waste.

Allen the Reaper Cat
-Art by Green
-Animated by Blue
-Personality by Red

Get A Date With Death

Download NowName your own price

Comments

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Hello everyone! I'm DanniBear, the team's Blue in RGB. ^^

Animating the characters was a fun challenge, though Tyrano gave us some serious headaches with Live2D.

But I think despite the hiccups along the way, we did some great work with the limited resources and time.

Excited to see how everything shapes up with the final project. Great job, team! 💙

(+1)

I'm glad you had fun—you always turn stills into something amazing! But seriously, stop overworking! I can’t wait to dive back in and use the rest of the assets to finish what Tyrano could not handle - at least the Tyrano test/review is out of the way.

I know this month was supposed to be dedicated to Light.vn, but dissecting it during a jam wouldn’t give me the time to fully explore its perks and quirks (plus, I can’t let you all down by missing the upload or not having enough time to fix the bugs). I am a bit down that I had to ditch Light vn. ten days into the Jam...

It wasn’t a total failure, and I know we’ll always do better. I have faith in all of you, and I wouldn't have attempted this jam until my class was done. Taking this detour was worth it, even just for a trailer-game!

Thanks for encouraging me to try a jam! It even got me to step out of my shell and share my terrible flat mono voice acting - pretty sure it’s going to curse anyone who plays through it! xD

Lol. I'll try but no promises.  But much love to ya. ❤️

I'm glad we did this as well. :)

Well it's good to know the breaking of Live2d is NOT causing the loading issue, that is just another one of Tyranos beautiful exporting glitch or something - since you can simply click past it. This does not happen in the program, only on exported files.