Artifact 1 - Elora Part 1 (Visual Novel)

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Elora Part 1 is the first part of a larger project currently titled "Elora." The whole project will be a mixture of Visual Novel and top-down RPG. This is a demo of the first Visual Novel sequence (Part 2 is contained in Artifact 4.) I selected this artifact because I am highly interested in Visual Novel design, and would like to pursue a eventual career creating the medium. I feel this artifact displays some of my basic writing skills when it comes to basic storytelling, dialogue, and pacing. The biggest challenges I faced when creating this artifact was selecting different free assets that gave it the "feel" I wanted to, specifically the character sprites and the music. The biggest thing I learned from this creation was writing dialogue that feels realistic to the medium, creating suspension based on the user advancing the dialogue, rather than just writing it in novel format. There is a certain nuance to this, and with more experience I will feel very confident in my ability to capture it.