VN Ren'Py Completed SWe1: The Warrior's Heart [v1.1] [Mortze]

[Den187]

Bad news from Mortze...

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I have some bad news to tell you. I’ve been working on the sequel to The Warrior’s Heart for over a year now, and I’ve only finished about a third of the images so far. At the rate I’ve been going, it’s not going to be done for a very long time.

I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last year. I’ve learned that I don’t work well when I’m alone. I need my partner to inspire my creativity, to give me images to create, and to drive me to work hard at creating them. Especially that last part. It's also been particularly frustrating for me to not be able to progress the way I should. In the last months I've been asking myself what to do; either continuing struggling in a sort of creative limbo or just move on to something that my creativity asks for. I've looked into other creators perspectives on the matter, what they do when they get creative blockage, either because ideas don't come or because they lack the proper discipline. Not only 3D content creators but also painters, writers, musicians. Most advice given points towards one direction: follow your creativity wherever it leads. Forcing yourself to create something that doesn't easily come only results in bad work and self-frustration. I know that this is a personal flaw of mine and I'm taking a stand: I don't want to stall and I want to move forward.

I’m putting this game on hold. I have no idea when I’ll get back to it. I’ve asked Tlaero to send me the script for the first few scenes of Chasing Beth, and I’ve started rendering those images. The flow has been totally different and I've been progressing in just a few weeks almost the same amount I've done for SW this whole time.

I know this is disappointing, and I’m sorry to have let you all down.

Mortze

 

[n0cn1l]

Bad news from Mortze...

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I have some bad news to tell you. I’ve been working on the sequel to The Warrior’s Heart for over a year now, and I’ve only finished about a third of the images so far. At the rate I’ve been going, it’s not going to be done for a very long time.

I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last year. I’ve learned that I don’t work well when I’m alone. I need my partner to inspire my creativity, to give me images to create, and to drive me to work hard at creating them. Especially that last part. It's also been particularly frustrating for me to not be able to progress the way I should. In the last months I've been asking myself what to do; either continuing struggling in a sort of creative limbo or just move on to something that my creativity asks for. I've looked into other creators perspectives on the matter, what they do when they get creative blockage, either because ideas don't come or because they lack the proper discipline. Not only 3D content creators but also painters, writers, musicians. Most advice given points towards one direction: follow your creativity wherever it leads. Forcing yourself to create something that doesn't easily come only results in bad work and self-frustration. I know that this is a personal flaw of mine and I'm taking a stand: I don't want to stall and I want to move forward.

I’m putting this game on hold. I have no idea when I’ll get back to it. I’ve asked Tlaero to send me the script for the first few scenes of Chasing Beth, and I’ve started rendering those images. The flow has been totally different and I've been progressing in just a few weeks almost the same amount I've done for SW this whole time.

I know this is disappointing, and I’m sorry to have let you all down.

Mortze

It was a good jorney while it last. It will be missed, Best regards to all parts involved

 

[cxx]

damn, another one bites the dust.

so remaining SWsy games are tftuv and bof.

 

[Duke Leo]

damn, another one bites the dust.

so remaining SWsy games are tftuv and bof.

I hope that you're wrong, and he comes back to this game. Because playing this game made me really feel like I was in another Star Wars story.

 

[cxx]

I hope that you're wrong, and he comes back to this game. Because playing this game made me really feel like I was in another Star Wars story.

yea i hope that too.

 

[lipe2410]

Bad news from Mortze...

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I have some bad news to tell you. I’ve been working on the sequel to The Warrior’s Heart for over a year now, and I’ve only finished about a third of the images so far. At the rate I’ve been going, it’s not going to be done for a very long time.

I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last year. I’ve learned that I don’t work well when I’m alone. I need my partner to inspire my creativity, to give me images to create, and to drive me to work hard at creating them. Especially that last part. It's also been particularly frustrating for me to not be able to progress the way I should. In the last months I've been asking myself what to do; either continuing struggling in a sort of creative limbo or just move on to something that my creativity asks for. I've looked into other creators perspectives on the matter, what they do when they get creative blockage, either because ideas don't come or because they lack the proper discipline. Not only 3D content creators but also painters, writers, musicians. Most advice given points towards one direction: follow your creativity wherever it leads. Forcing yourself to create something that doesn't easily come only results in bad work and self-frustration. I know that this is a personal flaw of mine and I'm taking a stand: I don't want to stall and I want to move forward.

I’m putting this game on hold. I have no idea when I’ll get back to it. I’ve asked Tlaero to send me the script for the first few scenes of Chasing Beth, and I’ve started rendering those images. The flow has been totally different and I've been progressing in just a few weeks almost the same amount I've done for SW this whole time.

I know this is disappointing, and I’m sorry to have let you all down.

Mortze

Well, rest in peace Drea. Your beautiful was short.

 

[darlic]

This is a bummer.
I don't want to sound mean or anything but I liked this saga way more than the Elsaverse's one. Elsa's stories are mostly boring, but this one really showed Mortze is very well capable of working on his own, without external influences. Turns out I was wrong, I guess.

 

[yandex]

Bad news from Mortze...

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I have some bad news to tell you. I’ve been working on the sequel to The Warrior’s Heart for over a year now, and I’ve only finished about a third of the images so far. At the rate I’ve been going, it’s not going to be done for a very long time.

I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last year. I’ve learned that I don’t work well when I’m alone. I need my partner to inspire my creativity, to give me images to create, and to drive me to work hard at creating them. Especially that last part. It's also been particularly frustrating for me to not be able to progress the way I should. In the last months I've been asking myself what to do; either continuing struggling in a sort of creative limbo or just move on to something that my creativity asks for. I've looked into other creators perspectives on the matter, what they do when they get creative blockage, either because ideas don't come or because they lack the proper discipline. Not only 3D content creators but also painters, writers, musicians. Most advice given points towards one direction: follow your creativity wherever it leads. Forcing yourself to create something that doesn't easily come only results in bad work and self-frustration. I know that this is a personal flaw of mine and I'm taking a stand: I don't want to stall and I want to move forward.

I’m putting this game on hold. I have no idea when I’ll get back to it. I’ve asked Tlaero to send me the script for the first few scenes of Chasing Beth, and I’ve started rendering those images. The flow has been totally different and I've been progressing in just a few weeks almost the same amount I've done for SW this whole time.

I know this is disappointing, and I’m sorry to have let you all down.

Mortze

Ohhhhhhhh.......
This is probably the most depressing/disappointing thing I have read in a long while regarding a game I was eagerly looking forward to. I didnt know the situation was this bad. This is the first that I hear regarding only 1/3 images done and its way worse, all this time for quite some time I had been thinking and hyping myself up that episode 2 is just about done, would be releasing any day now especially considering the time since last release and usual time taken for a game to come out from said dev(s). I guess it may very well be funeral for this series and any foreseeable future hope. Pandora was so long ago yet no 2nd part ever got developed, this one shares the same sad fate, a sad fate to the games that least deserve it. I do wonder though whats the process here ? Is everything else done and only images remaining ? Story done and only images remaining or overall only 1/3 done and everything remaining.

This is a bummer.
I don't want to sound mean or anything but I liked this saga way more than the Elsaverse's one. Elsa's stories are mostly boring, but this one really showed Mortze is very well capable of working on his own, without external influences. Turns out I was wrong, I guess.

Strongly agreed, This along with Pandora are proof of Mortze's capabilities. This one especially with the most amazing visuals yet, a gigantic sprawling universe, excellent characters (I'll forever mourn the Jedi with whom there was no content in 1st episode), action, story.... I dont know what to say really, it is what it is and if Mortze really cant do this (or thinks/doesnt find the motivation to do it hence leading to stalling) nothing can be done (well except lament) no matter how good is what he already delivered and how good future ones might have been. I myself have been in situations where I had every advantage, necessity to deliver the best possible outcome even if I put in the bare minimum effort yet I failed miserably, Anyone seeing it objectively would remark I just wasted myself there and I myself do think that, those in much more adverse situations came out tons better, but sometimes I conclude that nothing could be done about it regardless of what I could have done yet other times I strongly blame myself. So dont know if continuing is possible for Mortze or not for whatever reason, but a very very sad affair indeed.

 

[papounet]

wow ,I gotta say; im impressed ! thank you

 

[Deleted member 1214]

Strongly agreed, This along with Pandora are proof of Mortze's capabilities. This one especially with the most amazing visuals yet, a gigantic sprawling universe, excellent characters...

I mean, no offense to Mortze, but aren't Pandora and this proof that Mortze doesn't work well alone (i.e. he might not be that capable of doing anything other than the art)? He comes up with some big massive story and can't find the motivation to actually execute on it.

 

[yandex]

I mean, no offense to Mortze, but aren't Pandora and this proof that Mortze doesn't work well alone (i.e. he might not be that capable of doing anything other than the art)? He comes up with some big massive story and can't find the motivation to actually execute on it.

The absence and lack of updates to both these games due to whatever reason maybe considered as proof that Mortze cant keep going steady on his own. But what he has already produced and pumped out (ie this one and Pandora, and both games aren't lacking in the least in any part of story,plot or characters as far as they go, atleast for me) are proof of his capabilities of doing very well on his own. Its just like a student passing the first semesters with flying colors and miserably failing the later ones (due to whatever reason), you'd very well say that the student was more than capable but couldn't deliver.

 

[jtc]

I really don't understand: Elsaverse is rubbish compared to this story.
I am disappointed, I was waiting for the second chapter every day!

Nah, that's not it.

Tlaero is undoubtedly the better writer between the two of them. It's not even close.

 

[Tor7]

Just downloaded this yesterday, finished it today. Great story and visuals. It felt really good. Felt very much like a SW story, something lacking in the Disney Star Wars era.

Unfortunately, I thought, when I downloaded it, that this was a completed game and now after reading the latest messages, I see the next chapter of the story is a long ways off, and doubtful the game will ever be completed.

I wish Mortze the best in dealing with his personal struggles and thank you for the enjoyable piece of the SW universe you gave us.

 

[TheimmortalP]

Here's my questions What's stopping them from finding another partner?
Also, by any chance does this by any chance have a Star Wars 4: A New Hope type ending, where there's some sequel bait, but it very much tells a complete story?

 

[cxx]

this version ends on scene leading to sequel which might not happen.

 

[Mortze]

Here's my questions What's stopping them from finding another partner?

If you're asking the question to me then the answer is simple. Nothing stops me. I just don't want to. I like working with Tlaero immensely, I think we complement each other well and together we make great storytelling. Odds are far better for the case Tlaero and I will work on some Star Wars story than me looking for a new partner to proceed with Star Wars. Tlaero has said to me that if I want she'll write something Star Warsy to keep going with the story and I've declined her offer several times because I'm super difficult to please when it comes to Star Wars and I'd constantly be clashing against Tlaero's writting which would not be good for any of us or the game. That's because of my fanatical view of SW. That (bad) feature of mine also impossibilitates any other partnership when it comes to SW. It is what it is.

 

[Poser_Voyeur]

If you're asking the question to me then the answer is simple. Nothing stops me. I just don't want to. I like working with Tlaero immensely, I think we complement each other well and together we make great storytelling. Odds are far better for the case Tlaero and I will work on some Star Wars story than me looking for a new partner to proceed with Star Wars. Tlaero has said to me that if I want she'll write something Star Warsy to keep going with the story and I've declined her offer several times because I'm super difficult to please when it comes to Star Wars and I'd constantly be clashing against Tlaero's writting which would not be good for any of us or the game. That's because of my fanatical view of SW. That (bad) feature of mine also impossibilitates any other partnership when it comes to SW. It is what it is.

Understandable but still a shame. Your vision of Star Wars fitted so well with mine that I absolutely adored reading that story for chapter One.

Is it ok if I (quietly) hope that at some point in the future, that you find the spark to at least finish Chapter Two to give us a self contained storyline?

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

If you're asking the question to me then the answer is simple. Nothing stops me. I just don't want to. I like working with Tlaero immensely, I think we complement each other well and together we make great storytelling. Odds are far better for the case Tlaero and I will work on some Star Wars story than me looking for a new partner to proceed with Star Wars. Tlaero has said to me that if I want she'll write something Star Warsy to keep going with the story and I've declined her offer several times because I'm super difficult to please when it comes to Star Wars and I'd constantly be clashing against Tlaero's writting which would not be good for any of us or the game. That's because of my fanatical view of SW. That (bad) feature of mine also impossibilitates any other partnership when it comes to SW. It is what it is.

I am not a developer nor indeed an artist, I just know what I like & I REALLY like this story. However, I also love your honesty & self-awareness. Thank you for both. Follow your creativity, hopefully it will set your creativity free & maybe, one day, you and your teammate will come back to this. All the best mate, wherever your creativity leads you.
Cheers, BSR

 

[Arcticus12]

damn, another one bites the dust.

so remaining SWsy games are tftuv and bof.

I'm familiar with TFTUV but what is BOF? If you're mentioning it in the same sentence as TFTUV and this game then it must be good...

 

[cxx]

I'm familiar with TFTUV but what is BOF? If you're mentioning it in the same sentence as TFTUV and this game then it must be good...

balance of the force, it has very nice graphs (better than this not that this has bad graphs) but STILL at early stages and not even dev can tell when there'll be next update.