Aching Dreams

Hi! I'm the artist for Aching Dreams. Thank you for playing our game.

Production

The game took me about 6-8 months to draw. For the game to finish however, it was pushed back a year about just to get the programming done. The most dissapointing thing for me about the game is the hentai... It's so bad! I've gotten a lot better, I threw out a lot of the bad pics, see them below. I'm glad that it's behind me, and I really want Aching Dreams 2 to be a hit, so I'll work extra hard.

Characters

Taiyo

During production, an anime came out by the name of Code Geass, which has a character that looks a LOT like Taiyo. I didn't copy from Code Geass! Hell, I've never even seen the anime!... As a matter of fact, I started work on the game about a year before Code Geass was ever out. Taiyo was my favorite character. A lot of people said she was their favorite too.

I'd say Selene(middle) would have been inspired visually by Jill Valentine from Resident Evil and Whip from King of Fighters. Svetlana(left) looks a bit...slutty huh? Well, I thought that since it was a hentai game, there would be some guys favoring girls not wearing anything. I'm actually a clothes fetishist. I love girls clothing... but I think Svetlana would attract a lot of the audience as well. I really like Shopgirl's clothing.

Backgrounds

Three of the backgrounds were done in Gouache water colors. These backgrounds took way too long to do... Most especially pain in the butt was the Town. Detailed huh? I even put the Jedi Council temple and the Back to the Future Clock tower in there because I ran out of ideas. Oh yeah, I put a car in there too. I'm pretty sure the town took me like one and a half to two full days. I know that's not a lot, but I get really bored doing backgrounds. Hentai's where it's at. That said, I know I can do backgrounds, I know I'm not excellent, but I can do it if the duty calls. Hell I'm making more for the next game...

Story

I didn't have that much to do with the story, something that I'd like to make sure I do more of in the next game. I made the scene with Selene finding the bear, as well as Selene and her boyfriend... My favorite scene in the game is definitely the part where the Player finds Selene flowers, or when the Player finds Selene her dog.

Rejected Works

Before release, I asked John to take out a bunch of scenes I kinda didn't like when I made them, and a year later I really hated them. They're here for us to see...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and one more that was so bad I decided not to even post it here to save face.

Well, thanks for playing our game. I hope that you stick around to see the next game, I promise to train hard and make the art much better. If you'd like to be notified of completed projects, just email me and I'll only email you whenever something good comes out. It won't be a weekly email or anything, just a yearly sort of thing.

Reception

Aching Dreams was very well received. We've released it only on funny-games.biz and newgrounds. On newgrounds it took place in the top 40th place of all flashes on the site. We've received a lot of fans that we decided to make a sequel, that would be a product. It's testing the waters on whether or not we can sell it. A lot of people (maybe kids that surfed on) are complaining that we shouldn't be charging for it, that's fine. It's really just a two man team, we want to see where this can take us, and money would be a way to let me do this instead of my dayjob.

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