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只有她知曉光輝的名字遊戲場景
​The Name Only She Knew - Hong Kong Indie Game

【Meaning】Hong Kong Indie Game

The Name Only She Knew | Hong Kong Original Visual Novel | Fantasy Adventure Game

This is her journey of self-discovery.

An original game from Hong Kong — a one-person-made visual novel / fantasy adventure, packed with gorgeous hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation! (Audio by Shek.) Full Cantonese script supported!

Title: The Name Only She Knew

Genre: Visual Novel / Fantasy Adventure
Production Location: Hong Kong
Production: Independent Development

Language: Cantonese, Chinese, English
Features: Frame-by-frame Animation, Fairy-Tale Storybook Style
Developer: Gentleman Hat Animation Production

Prologue

In a land far, far away, there was a living sacrifice that had been 216 years in the making. And yet the one who was to be that sacrifice — she who had lived since birth under the name of 'the Last Sinner' — discovered, for the very first time, something far more intriguing than going to her death. And so, she walked out of her cell.

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On the Subject of How to Make Game Animation

On the Subject of How to Make Game Animation

I draw it frame by frame.

Really — I animate the whole thing once as line art, frame by frame. Then I take that line art into Photoshop and, frame by frame, composite my own photographed material back into it. That way the character animation keeps its flexibility while holding onto the paper-craft look of a storybook. When I need fake 3D, I split it into layers, export to After Effects, and add the effects there.

One frame takes 1–2 hours. And each frame is only on screen for about 0.125 seconds.

The aim is to make it a pop-up fairytale book full of moving mechanisms, without sacrificing how it looks. Honestly, if you tried to build these pop-up mechanisms for real they wouldn't work — but this is computer animation in the end, and I'm not the one making actual storybooks, so let's just not worry about it lol

Character Introduction

Hong Kong Indie Game - ​The Name Only She Knew - Zero - Character Illustration

Zero

MBTI | INFP

Age | 216

Height | 165cm

"I want to step out of that impossible possibility."


Zero's character settings are the ones I've changed the most. Basically, Zero's name, gender, personality, hairstyle, clothing, abilities, goals, etc., have all been changed at least once.
The original setting wasn't this... "tragic." It was more about her hunting others than being hunted. (You can check out "Those Strange Abandoned Concepts" if you're interested.)
Without comparison, there is no harm; Rei-chan has never known the lives of ordinary people. Those who have never known happiness will never know that they are unhappy.
But! At the same time! Zero-chan finds everything in this world even more novel and interesting! These 30 days will be the most beautiful days Zero-chan will see in this world.


Zero is not "evil" at all. As for why Zero is the ultimate sinner, the relationship between Zero and the Egg Goddess, etc... we'll have to wait for the next chapter.

Hong Kong Indie Game - ​The Name Only She Knew - Egg - Character Illustration

Egg

MBTI | ESFJ

Age | 216

Height | 164cm

"More like a doll without her own opinions than a goddess."

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Although I don't seem to be that enthusiastic about eggs, I really like omelet!

Isn't Eggsy a very Mary Sue-like character? She wears pretty dresses, is beautiful, lives in a glittering castle, and everyone likes her.

Her character development is minimal at the beginning, as she lacks assertiveness. As Zero describes, for now, let's treat her as a cute, thoughtless doll.

In the cutscene, Omega is in the shadows within the pure white, bright "Space of Solution." She should be described as the "only darkness" in that world.

But nobody cares, right? After all, everyone just wants to take advantage of her "100% correct" answering ability; nobody cares about the doll. Haha.

 

The egg will be described and grow even more in later chapters!

Hong Kong Indie Game - ​The Name Only She Knew - Pi - Character Illustration

Pi

MBTI | INTJ

Age | ~250

Height | 180cm

"Pie, that girl who created her own paradise, her own hell."


Just as her name suggests, the mathematical constant pi (π) has no end. No matter how you calculate it, you will only get an infinitely close number, and her pursuit is destined to only approach it infinitely rather than truly obtain it.
Although it's impossible, Pi is a madwoman with a heart of stone! She'll gamble everything to achieve her goals, regardless of the cost. It's precisely this madness that makes her beautiful.
The conspicuous circles on her head were three quarter-inch plates plus 0.14. The plates emerged from her head, and three lines extended from them, drawing a prison around her. She was imprisoned in her own thoughts, forever unable to escape her own obsessions.
Her identity is that of a Grand Mage, a high-ranking government official. Besides the Perfect World Project, her other position is █████, thus wielding considerable power.


As for her goals, why high-ranking government officials are in charge of guarding prisoners... what her abilities are, what her thoughts are about Zero... to be continued?

Character States

Illustration of Zero Chibi

Main Character

Zero

I want to find out who I am! So first things first — let's go see "what does a meteor see"!

Monstrous strength, inexplicably good at hand-to-hand combat. Can conjure any weapon out of thin air.

Illustration of Egg Chibi

Main Character

Egg

Zero-chan said she wanted me to come with her, so I came with her.

Answers any question about someone whose name she knows, with 100% accuracy.

Illustration of Pi Chibi

Boss

Pi

Kill Zero to complete the Perfect World Plan.

Abilities: ???

Glossary

Yeah, I know my writing gets a bit messy... so I put together a glossary, hopefully that makes things easier to follow.

The Name Only She Knew - The Perfect World

Plan

The Perfect World

"Sacrifice the Last Sinner, and the world is absolved of all sin." This is the single most important step in creating the Perfect World.

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Race

​Concept Humanoids

A whole population of artificial dolls with supernatural abilities. They don't age.
Apart from that, they're no different from ordinary humans.

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Location

River

A space that belongs to the Archmage.
Darkness — but the ground is covered in rivers of every size, winding and twisting, glowing an eerie fluorescent mint green.

Game Development and Production Highlights

Those Weird Scrapped Concepts

As mentioned in Zero's character analysis, the characters went through a lot of revisions. Looking back now, some of the scrapped ideas are actually kind of... interesting.
Sharing a few of them here.

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