Noir in Hong Kong - Chapter ONE

Devlog

• More Downtime!
  July 27, 2024 by NOIR

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  #Manga, #detective, #visual

  Dear friends, Just a note to say that the game will be offline again until my next bigger update. I've been squirreling away on the game (and learned to draw my own art?) I'm gaining momentum to launc... Continue reading

  
• Crashes fixed!
  July 31, 2023 by NOIR

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  Hey All, I'm sure those of you that have played Noir understand that it isn't a straight forward sort of visual novel; There's a lot of stuff going on which can often lead to crashes and bugs etc. Tod... Continue reading
• Less-broken update
  July 07, 2023 by NOIR

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  Hey all, Yesterday's upload was broken and rubbish but I have un-rubbished it a little. There is still a lot to do, some very obvious improvements, but the game it as least playable once again. -NOIR... Continue reading
• Broken update!
  July 06, 2023 by NOIR

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  Hey all, I've just re-uploaded the game in a very unpolished state just to show some new friends the current state of things. I don't really consider it to be worthy of human consumption yet. I feel v... Continue reading
• WE MADE A SONG
  May 17, 2023 by NOIR

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  So yeah, we produced a song? Perhaps for the final credits? Recently I fell in love with the song "Bare" By Paul Looney @PaulL00ney It had such a vibe to it that I wanted to see if we could hire a Hon... Continue reading
• non-update
  April 02, 2023 by NOIR

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  Hey all, Just a note to say that the current update is pretty un-exciting and contains numerous tweaks and general improvements but nothing particularly impressive or notable. Next week I'll have some... Continue reading

  
• Cheater's Mahjong!
  March 10, 2023 by NOIR

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  #mahjong

  Hello all, Just wanted to check in and show you what I'm working on - Now, I know that many of you may have never played Mahjong and are perhaps completely disinterested in it - But what I'm developin... Continue reading

  
• "Judas" and the larger campaign
  January 22, 2023 by NOIR

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  Although I'm planning NOIR as an anthology, I also have plans in place for an over-arching campaign that focuses on working out which of your close contacts will betray you (Which will be randomly gen... Continue reading

  
• Me, Myself and A.I.
  January 04, 2023 by NOIR

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  #art, #artists

  Happy New Year, dear subscribers! Recently, I've started working six days a week and so I've sadly had very little time to sit down and work on game-related things - Although I've been thinking about... Continue reading

  
• A break from rigidity
  November 21, 2022 by NOIR

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  #renpy, #detective

  I treat these little posts as a little diary of my thoughts and process - So please be aware that what I'm talking about here isn't fully implemented into the actual build yet. I'm always trying to th... Continue reading

  
• Added Android Version!
  November 14, 2022 by NOIR

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  #detective, #visual novel, #android, #mobile, #free

  Not much to add! Android version has been added and might become my main focus in the future... Continue reading
• The Chapter Two Pipeline and future direction
  October 26, 2022 by NOIR

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  #detective, #renpy, #visual, #novel, #visualnovel, #hong kong

  Just another rambling post from me to express my current excitement going in to Chapter Two of the game. As I mentioned last week, Novel AI has suddenly made my life a whole lot easier and has opened... Continue reading

  
• "Major update"
  October 22, 2022 by NOIR#AI, #Novel, #detective, #renpy, #visual

  Hey folks, I'm not sure what counts as a 'major update', but this is essentially an overhaul of my self-drawn placeholder graphics, thanks to Novel AI (and a lot of manual tweaking.) The flexibility a... Continue reading

  
• Updates!
  October 08, 2022 by NOIR

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  #renpy, #ren'py, #detective, #visual

  Hello all! I've been busily squirreling away on things and I've recently made some changes that I feel drastically improve the feel of the game as well as some feats of programming that I'm rather pro... Continue reading

  
• "Launching"
  August 14, 2022 by NOIR

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  Well, today I pressed the button. Big moment. I've never really done anything like this before, so perhaps I should do a little introduction to myself and the project. My name is Liam. I'm a writer ba... Continue reading