

【Meaning】Hong Kong Indie Game
The Name Only She Knew
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!
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.


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

Zero
MBTI | INFP
Age | 216
Height | 165cm
「我想走出那個不可能的可能性。」
零醬設定是我改最多次的。基本上零的名字、性別、性格、髮型、服裝、能力、目標等等全都改至少一次了。
本來的背景設定沒有這麼……「悲劇」的。就她追殺其他人多於被其他人追殺什麼的。(有興趣可以看《那些奇怪的廢案設定》。)
沒對比沒有傷害,零醬從沒知曉普通人的生活。沒知曉過快樂的人不會知道自己是不幸的。
但!同時!零醬就對這世界的一切覺得更新奇更有趣了!這30天會是零醬看到這世界最美好的一面。
零醬完全不「邪惡」。至於為什麼最後的罪人是零醬,零醬和蛋之女神的關係等等的……就要等後續章節了。

Egg
MBTI | ESFJ
Age | 216
Height | 164cm
「比起女神,她更像個沒有主見的洋娃娃吧。」
雖然我看起來對蛋沒這麼活躍,但我很喜歡蛋醬的!
蛋醬是一個很瑪麗蘇的角色吧?穿著漂漂裙子長得好看,住在金光閃閃的城堡,每個人也喜歡她。
她的人設在開章不多,畢竟她本人沒有什麼主見。正如零所形容的,大家暫時把她當成一個沒有想法的可愛洋娃娃吧。
過場動畫裡,蛋醬在那個一片純白光明的「解答空間」中是待在陰影中。應該說她是那個世界的「唯一黑暗」。
不過大家都不在乎,對吧?畢竟所有人只想要利用她「100%會說對」的解答能力,沒有人在乎那個娃娃吧。哈哈。
後續章節蛋會有更多更多的描寫和成長!

Pi
MBTI | INTJ
Age | ~250
Height | 180cm
「派,那個為自己創造一個屬於她自己的天堂,她自己的地獄的傢伙。」
正如她名字所代表的,圓周率派 π 是沒有盡頭的。不論怎麼計算也只會得到一個無限接近的數字,她的追逐注定只能無限接近而不是真正得到。
雖然是不可能,但派可是個喪心病狂的瘋子!她會為了達成目標而不計成本的賭上一切。正正是這份瘋狂她才美麗。
派頭上顯眼的圈圈是3個四分之一+0.14的碟子。碟子從她頭上出來,再有3條線延伸畫地為牢。她被囚禁於自己的思想,永遠走不出自己的執著。
派的身份為大法師,是政府高層。除了完美世界計劃外她職務是█████ ,因此權力很大。
至於她的目標是什麼、為什麼政府高層在負責看守囚犯.....她的能力是什麼、她對零的想法是什麼.....下回分解?
Character States

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Those Weird Scrapped Concepts
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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