ERASERS: History

An Old Friend Reminded me about the History of ERASERS, this visual novel I'm making  now.

ERASERS used to be called "Elemental Academy"
and it was about... well, the Elemental Academy, the school where every student
special enough  to have at least one super power of an element was to study...

And so, there went my Elemental students, Breeze, Flair, Wattson, Aera, Geo, Aquos, Brass, Winfred, Bern, Coby, Eve, Claudia and so much more...(ditched half of them; too many to make)
I thought to myself... "If everybody had powers, then the Academy would be a chaotic place."
so I canceled the Idea. But that was just one of the factors, There's more..

Back Then...
Elemental Academy, or EA was meant to be a Comic/Manga..
    And the second reason why it didn't continue would be that...
Making Manga is Tiring.
well, at least, that's what I thought back then..
and I still think so, actually.

The Characters sucked. It was so hard to draw them again and again without a definite style and refined talent. I gave up. I was... 12 years old (2008) when I started EA. Grade 6.
and my only loyal readers were my batchmates.. and some people younger than me..
I guess only kids appreciate kids' works..

There were some Crazy Ideas back there..
like the Aliens called Selenians or creatures of the moon.
These selenians were the source of their Elemental powers..
I thought that so it would be more Sci-Fi than Fantasy... fiction, nonetheless...
because of that, I thought of naming it Seleneon Instead....
but that was stupid. so I thought of a plot concerning the basis of Fantasy itself.. Magic and Mana.

here are examples of Selenians, Blaze, and Terra.

but then again., I cancelled them out.

the first Ideals were too tiring to finish, so I took a different path: Visual Novel.
I said to myself: "just using one sprite for each character is more efficient than making several manga poses each page... right?"
So I met Ren'py and its free Visual Novel Engine..
That was one of my first tastes of simple programming.
It was very Beneficial. more beneficial than just sticking to something I'm not That good at.


Yeah. I guess that's that.