So, hello once again, I don't know if anyone is reading this, but here's another update on this project.

Life hasn't really been the best for me, it's not like I've been going through some very traumatic stuff, but I don't get that much time to work on stuff I want to make like this which really bothers me and I feel like I'm pushing myself a bit too much to work on this and other things in my life, but anyways here's what I've been working on.

The Crystalline Monstrosity

This is a placeholder sprite for now, may change later on.

The Crystalline Monstrosity is a boss for one of the areas of this game, the Rose Grove. This boss is a heart-shaped giant crystal that pretends to be nothing but a giant crystal in the dark, but then it wakes up and opens its jaws to capture its victims to use as its energy source to function.

First of all, I have wanted to talk to this girl at my school, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I've been trying to become more social and confident about myself, but I still can't do it and these terrible thoughts of overthinking, thoughts of "you aren't good enough for her" or "that will probably never happen" have come upon me. And this boss is supposed to represent that, you see something beautiful, but just as you want to take the next step a monster of dreadful feelings comes out to try and take over you.

Here's some concept art of this boss and boss attacks/mechanics (sorry If the images aren't the most high quality, I don't have the best equipment for taking pictures)

Also [WARNING: If you're afraid of sharp objects then proceed at your own risk there is some spiky artwork]

Corazlia (Coh-ras-lee-ah)

Corazlia is a character I've come up with, so far I feel like her design seems like a generic girl character(at least that's how I see it), so I want to give her at least one thing that can help her stand out and be unique.

Her name is a combination of the word "Corazón" which means "heart" in Spanish and the name "Lia" which means calm or delicate.

She is the princess of the Rose Grove, she has been captured by the Crystalline Monstrosity and is using her as fuel until she inevitably dies so it can move on to fend on other victims. So far she doesn't have any lore other than being the sister of another character/boss in this game. Also I made some concept art for her, but I made a mistake in trying to improve her face and ruined it, so I'm not gonna show it.

Also here are some facial expressions I made:

The Rose Grove & the Deep Chasm

The Rose Grove is a snowy area with these Oak/Cherry blossom like trees that have this color like from evergreen trees with roses blooming from them. There are also high and low mountains with lukewarm waterfalls and pools of warm water.

Also I came up with this idea of berries that look like roses that you can eat and heal in this game. I don't know if it's very creative, but i kinda like this little idea. I also wrote a bit of dialogue when using the item.

Concept art:

The Deep Chasm is a Chasm located somewhere in the rose grove that is where the Crystalline Monstrosity is located (I really have to give this crystal monster a shorter name, it's getting annoying to say).

Some more concept art (sorry it's tilted):

Here's a different angle, hope this helps see this better.

Music

Music is something I really love and I have come up with some ideas for character themes.

For the Crystalline Monstrosity I haven't gotten a lot of time to work on it, but I want its theme sound like "Left Alone", "Cosmic Disgust", and "Feral Amalgamation" by DM DOKURO, one of my favorite music artists.

Corazlia's theme is practically finished, but I want to fix some little things to make it sound right.

The tracks that have already been fully finished are "Faint Reminiscence (Full Version)" and another track which I didn't originally plan "A Journey's End" which was originally going to be made just for the sake of making something after I finally bought FL Studio, and it gave me this feeling of "it's the end of a big journey, and you're about to face the biggest obstacle this adventure has given you". I don't know if this will be used in the game, but I'll add it to the soundtrack to enhance the experience.

Also I made a cover for the soundtrack

And that's pretty much it, I'm sorry if this is a lot to read, but i felt like I had to give as much information for these things to not leave a ton of questions (I hope I did that right). But that's it, I'll come back and post another update on the 1st of November, bye!