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- 2023/02/18 -

This week, I refreshed my memory on the story and the lore of Sunrise Doll that I came up with back in 2020. The image files have provided me with plenty of context for the characters and the world of this game.

One notable thing that I've forgotten about is the the cosmology of Sunrise Doll. The information about it was not in a text file, not in an image file, and not even on a piece of paper. Instead it was used as flavor for the sound channels in my Fruity Loops Studio template project for when I tried making music for the game.

("Drums" is not a part of the game's cosmology)

From this I could reconstruct what I had in mind for the world, and expand on it with new ideas that would not contradict what little there was in the original game, and perhaps support it.

When it came to characters, their spritesheets were the only documents I had on them. Luckily, the entire game only has at most six notable characters, so getting lost in trying to remember all the details was unlikely, and thankfully it didn't happen.

In the case of the girls, the red one in particular never left my head ever since the original development process. The sequence of sprites that shows her laughing has been a very specific element of her planned in-game appearance since the character's inception, and as a bonus it also acts as a glimpse into her personality. Rediscovering and extending her and other characters' natures was a simple enough task.

I have to say that I am a little bit concerned that the world of Sunrise Doll is now an amalgamation of its original 2020 vision and my 2023 attempts at measuring it. I sincerely hope that I can measure up to my old self and not squander the pillars of this otherworldly setting.