STONES AND BIRDS: A Lobotomy Corporation Fanproject

Stones and Birds is an in-development Lobotomy Corporation Fanproject set in District 10 of The City, primarily in a branch facility of Lobotomy Corporation separate from the main facility. There are two branches featured in the comic to some degree.

Currently the plan is to create a series of free-to-play kinetic visual novels to tell the various stories in this project.

The main story follows Justin Valenciano, a new hire in the Information Team of Lobotomy Corporation Branch J-02, located in District 10's backstreets. As he adjusts to his new job, he makes friends and discoveries that turn his life on its head.

Stones and Birds is not affiliated with Project Moon in any way.

It's just a passion project focused on original characters that happen to live in the world Project Moon has developed.

THERE ARE INHERENT SPOILERS TO PROJECT MOON'S GAMES AND MEDIA IN THIS PROJECT. Please tread carefully if you are avoiding spoilers for any of their released games or media!

CURRENT PROGRESS STATUS:

Working on Extended Summary and Script

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i forgot abt these two. more designs getting down

getting some designs down! not official refs/character sheets as things are still being worked on and developed. the things most likely to change are just clothes tho

(yeong-ja was designed by redcrowz i just tweaked her a teeny bit and also i havent. decided on what ego she wears yet so none of that just casual wear) ALSO KLEIBER'S NAME IS SPELLED WRONG ON THE REF and was in the tags but i fixed that

title screen mockups! still learning how to adjust the GUI in renpy, but thankfully there's no shortage of tutorials out there so i should be getting a working version of this eventually :]

Finished planning chapter 3 and got a good ways into planning chapter 4! Things are going well, at this rate you can probably expect a playable chapter 1 by January-Feburary? Giving myself a lot of time since I work but I'm making a lot of progress lately!

As a refresher, SaB's main VN will be released in chapters, free-to-play, on itchio. There should be maybe 11-12 chapters in total as a very loose estimate, so I may release 2 chapters at a time? We'll see.

- Kieran

Chapters 1 and 2 are fully planned! I hope to get a few more chapters in, if not fully plan the whole thing, before I start work on coding the VN.

-Kieran

I've decided that Stones and Birds will be a series of kinetic visual novels - One for the main story, and a couple smaller ones to explore side character plots.

The VNs will likely be posted on either my itch.io or a joint itch.io account between me and Oracle. Currently they haven't begun proper development as I'm still planning and writing out the extended summary of each chapter, but expect progress updates and sneak-peeks as things go on!

-Kieran

some justin pixel art!

there are pros and cons for both, comics allow for me to get more creative and accurate to the scenes in my head, but would release in small amounts and take longer to produce overall, while a vn would be a lot easier for me to produce but would likely have larger chunks of time in between releases, but the releases would be larger (whole chapters, likely)

i would include large cgs for important scenes in the vn version, where for the comic version it would be largely monochrome in color, sketchy, with color only for important scenes.

personally leaning toward the kinetic vn route as i am not super faithful in my ability to get a comic out in a reasonable amount of time what with my disability and job. a vn seems much more doable to me personally :'D