Mark Cooke’s G-Mixer

I’ve been working with a local Tokyo-based artist, the awesome Kayo Hamada, on a secret Flash-based interactive project for a few months. It has been moving slowly but we recently hit a progress milestone and I wanted to share a tiny bit of teaser art work with you all.

The girl staring at you above is our main character. Her name is Violet.

I don’t want to reveal too much more at this point. Although we have plans drafted up for the theme and general layout of the story we’re taking a very creative and experimental approach to the development of the project. This is a labor of love – there is no money involved – which of course grants us that freedom.

This isn’t a videogame so I’m also taking this opportunity to use a different approach to fleshing out Violet’s story and world. My background in game development gives me the knowledge of how to produce a schedule of building out assets an code to finish the project on a specific time frame but I’m avoiding that in this early stage in the name of unlimited creative freedom.

Hamada-san and I just had a brainstorming meeting inside an Internet cafe in Shinjuku where we settled on a number of issues for the opening of the scenario.

I look forward to when we can share some more!

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