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So recently, I've been browsing trough incompetech.com and soundimage.org to search for the game's music. I've found a bunch of tracks that I really like and I've planned on how to use them very carefully to express the situation. I might need to download more and arrange them carefully and I will try not to make it sound crappy. So far, I have three tracks to feature on the start screen. I really like all three of them but I don't know which one is suitable.
The first soundtrack that I've chosen is called 'Icicles'. I've got it from soundimage.org and the volume is not really high, so you have to use your earphone if you want to hear it. The twinkling sound really reminds me of the ice glistening silently in the morning sunlight. I've been listening to it repeatedly until my ears grew numb of the track, but I still think it would be great if I placed it in the start screen.
The second one is 'On The Shore'. It started with nostalgic/sad/sorrow-ish sound accompanied with the twinkling sound after, then it started to slowly 'grow?' darker, louder and gives the dramatic/anxious/strong feeling, and then after that the sound of the flute or whatever it is gives you the calm and safe feeling. It really fits Syres's character, but I wanted it to portray everyone too. I don't want to let go of this track but I still want it to be featured on the start screen.
The last one is called 'There Is Romance'. It portrays the romantic and sweet feelings. If I use this, people might thought that this is just a plain/cliche game about romance at first and I believe they wouldn't suspect the plot twists, drama and character death. And when they've reached the climax, they might not think about those plot twists. And I want to use it as the start screen's background song. But I also like the other two.
Kai Reynard Personality : This warm hearted, shy and sensitive 17 years old boy loves to spend his time in the library, reading books about dragons, mermaids and lost kingdoms. Kai is a very imaginative person and loves adventures. But due to some reasons, he was not allowed to step outside the manor until he is 18 years old. But he managed to make a few playmates which is Charlotte, the farmer’s daughter and Charley, the gardener’s youngest son. Aside from reading books and playing with his playmates, Kai also loves to spend his time with his favorite brother, Landis.
The Winter Prince Syres Torvill Personality : Syres is a gentle, soft-spoken and loving person. He spent years of isolation in his cold and lonely ice castle. Sometimes, he would travel around in other lands by winter, because he didn’t want to bring a snow storm in the middle of summer. He finds mortals who interest him and he takes them back to his palace to entertain him and keep him company. Hunters, who glory in the challenge of the deep snows; princes, who set out on quests to the distant north; sorcerers and scholars, who marvel at the beauty and power of Winter. It never works out. Some try and escape, try to steal his magic or his treasures, and he casts them out into the snowy wastes of the far north. Few survive to reach human civilization again.
Landis Reynard Personality : Due to his father had given him a lot of responsibilities placed on him when he was very young, Landis is a disciplined, mature and sometimes impatient person. Landis mostly spent his free time outside, helping the villagers or playing with his brother along with his other playmates. All those years of growing up together with Kai, he secretly developed a crush on him. When Kai ran away from home, Landis was determined to find him, confess his feelings and bring him home.
Charlotte Swan Personality : Bubbly. That could be one way to describe Charlotte. She can very happy and she is almost always wearing a smile on her face. She can be very curious and will stop at nothing until her curiosity is sated. She can have quite an attitude and will not hesitate to tell you what she thinks of someone. She can also be very sarcastic and cheeky. She tends annoy people with her cheerful attitude and blunt behavior but she is a really kind and easy-going person. Nothing seems to bother her but if it does she covers it will smiles. She is hyper on occasion and she can get jealous quite easily. She is also very intelligent. She has a big fear of heights and she is not very good at cooking, sewing, or painting things.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Charley Wolfram Personality : Charley is a simple, carefree, easy going and laid back kind of person. He never took anything seriously and he likes to joke around a bit.
So recently, I've been browsing trough incompetech.com and soundimage.org to search for the game's music. I've found a bunch of tracks that I really like and I've planned on how to use them very carefully to express the situation. I might need to download more and arrange them carefully and I will try not to make it sound crappy. So far, I have three tracks to feature on the start screen. I really like all three of them but I don't know which one is suitable.
The first soundtrack that I've chosen is called 'Icicles'. I've got it from soundimage.org and the volume is not really high, so you have to use your earphone if you want to hear it. The twinkling sound really reminds me of the ice glistening silently in the morning sunlight. I've been listening to it repeatedly until my ears grew numb of the track, but I still think it would be great if I placed it in the start screen.
The second one is 'On The Shore'. It started with nostalgic/sad/sorrow-ish sound accompanied with the twinkling sound after, then it started to slowly 'grow?' darker, louder and gives the dramatic/anxious/strong feeling, and then after that the sound of the flute or whatever it is gives you the calm and safe feeling. It really fits Syres's character, but I wanted it to portray everyone too. I don't want to let go of this track but I still want it to be featured on the start screen.
The last one is called 'There Is Romance'. It portrays the romantic and sweet feelings. If I use this, people might thought that this is just a plain/cliche game about romance at first and I believe they wouldn't suspect the plot twists, drama and character death. And when they've reached the climax, they might not think about those plot twists. And I want to use it as the start screen's background song. But I also like the other two.
Kai Reynard Personality : This warm hearted, shy and sensitive 17 years old boy loves to spend his time in the library, reading books about dragons, mermaids and lost kingdoms. Kai is a very imaginative person and loves adventures. But due to some reasons, he was not allowed to step outside the manor until he is 18 years old. But he managed to make a few playmates which is Charlotte, the farmer’s daughter and Charley, the gardener’s youngest son. Aside from reading books and playing with his playmates, Kai also loves to spend his time with his favorite brother, Landis.
The Winter Prince Syres Torvill Personality : Syres is a gentle, soft-spoken and loving person. He spent years of isolation in his cold and lonely ice castle. Sometimes, he would travel around in other lands by winter, because he didn’t want to bring a snow storm in the middle of summer. He finds mortals who interest him and he takes them back to his palace to entertain him and keep him company. Hunters, who glory in the challenge of the deep snows; princes, who set out on quests to the distant north; sorcerers and scholars, who marvel at the beauty and power of Winter. It never works out. Some try and escape, try to steal his magic or his treasures, and he casts them out into the snowy wastes of the far north. Few survive to reach human civilization again.
Landis Reynard Personality : Due to his father had given him a lot of responsibilities placed on him when he was very young, Landis is a disciplined, mature and sometimes impatient person. Landis mostly spent his free time outside, helping the villagers or playing with his brother along with his other playmates. All those years of growing up together with Kai, he secretly developed a crush on him. When Kai ran away from home, Landis was determined to find him, confess his feelings and bring him home.
Charlotte Swan Personality : Bubbly. That could be one way to describe Charlotte. She can very happy and she is almost always wearing a smile on her face. She can be very curious and will stop at nothing until her curiosity is sated. She can have quite an attitude and will not hesitate to tell you what she thinks of someone. She can also be very sarcastic and cheeky. She tends annoy people with her cheerful attitude and blunt behavior but she is a really kind and easy-going person. Nothing seems to bother her but if it does she covers it will smiles. She is hyper on occasion and she can get jealous quite easily. She is also very intelligent. She has a big fear of heights and she is not very good at cooking, sewing, or painting things.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Charley Wolfram Personality : Charley is a simple, carefree, easy going and laid back kind of person. He never took anything seriously and he likes to joke around a bit.
{ TTFH is a game heavily influenced by Hans Christian Handerson's popular tale, 'The Snow Queen' coughandfrozencough. A long time ago, an evil witch has made a magic mirror that distorts the appearance of everything it reflects. It fails to reflect the good and beautiful aspects of people and things, while magnifying their bad and ugly aspects. The evil witch takes the mirror and his minions throughout the world, delighting in using it to distort everyone and everything; the mirror makes the loveliest landscapes look like "boiled spinach."
They try to carry the mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the angels and God, but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror shakes with their laughter, and it slips from their grasp and falls back to earth, shattering into billions of pieces, some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown by the wind all over the Earth and got into people's hearts and eyes, freezing their hearts like blocks of ice and making their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, seeing only the bad and ugly in people and things. To cure this, many people went on a journey to search the Winter Prince to thaw their frozen heart. But nobody ever comes back alive.
}
Meet the protagonist. Kai Reynard, a shy, sensitive, imaginative orphan boy who was adopted by the noble family of Count Reynard. Along with four other characters, Syres Torvill, Landis Reynard, Charlotte Swan and Charley Wolfram. Kai is very close with Landis, which is is brother and befriends Charlotte and Charley. On a one fine sunny day, Kai became cruel and heartless, and he no longer cares about Landis, Charlotte, Charley and his family. Because Kai has a splinter in his eyes, but fortunately not his heart. He now spent most of his time in his room and refuses to leave the room or meet anyone.
The following winter, Kai goes out on a journey to find the Winter Prince. He fell asleep under the old oak tree one night. Cold, lonely and starving. But he didn't care. The next day, much to his surprise, he woke up only to find himself in the Ice Castle. The Prince then reveals himself to Kai and kisses him twice: once to numb him from the cold, and a second time to make him forget about Landis and his family. Kai agreed to live with the King and be his man servant, not knowing that the third kiss would kill him.
Landis on the other hand, secretly has a feeling towards Kai. All those years of growing up together with Kai, he secretly developed a crush on him. When he found out that Kai ran away from home, Landis was determined to find him, confess his feelings and bring him home. But along the way, he became possesive, impatient, short-tempered and selfish. He found Kai and forced him to go home. But Kai refuses and noticed that Landis has changed.
Should he run away once again and live happily ever after with the Winter Prince?
Should he just stay with Landis and deal with his wreckless, short tempered and possesive behaviour?
Determine Kai's fate by staying tuned to the game development!
