#Project JPDE

[smmrofrwby]

JPDE [A RWBY Visual Novel] Story and Future of an AU [In collaboration with SMMR of RWBY]

JPDE is a RWBY visual novel set in an alternate universe. This is the story and future of an AU. In collaboration with  @SMMRofRWBY  SMMR of RWBY is a community-driven celebration for the fans! A salutation to CRWBY and a showcase of the incredible talent in the FNDM! During the hiatus, we wanted to come together and shine a spotlight on all these passion projects and labors of love, with the end goal of inspiring, you, the fandom, to create even more! Instead of a one-off event like RTX, SMMR of RWBY unfolded over an entire month featuring a diverse array of creative endeavours! From video essays, animation collabs, Tabletop Role-playing games to live panels about fangames, fan dubs, fanart and more! There’s something for everyone!

Play JPDE1 and JPDE2 here for free!

Support the Team here and play new episodes sooner!: Pateon, Ko-Fi

[team-jpde]

JPDE - Sonata of Fire (v4.4)

Disclaimer - This is not endorsed by Rooster Teeth in any way.   Views, opinions, thoughts are all my own. Rooster Teeth and RWBY are   trade names or registered trademarks of Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC.  ©  Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC.

This is a freely distributed fan-made game. If you are being charged by anyone anywhere to play JPDE, you're being scammed.

TRIGGER WARNING - Blake's Ending contains some very slight gore.

Hello thar, Meinos Kaen here... And it's been a WHILE!

I had stopped updating this blog years ago, back when the then-owners of Tumblr had decided to come down hard on... Certain things. Now it seems that things are taking a turn for the better again, and Twitter is going down in flames so... Here we are again! JPDE - Sonata of Fire never left, though! And Team JPDE has only grown!

We have a website! A Discord Community (we recently passed 4000 members)! And an itch.io page where you can find all the things we’re working on. For example, we recently started releasing the sprites we’ve used for JPDE - Sonata of Fire for free use! If you’ve ever wanted to make your own RWBY Fan Game, this is a good place to start!

But of course, the main draw remains the game. Sonata of Fire has gone through a lot of changes and added so much stuff, and with this latest release: each member of Team RWBY now has their own custom ending. Blake rounds up the team and we can say that the way her arc ends is quite different from canon RWBY...

As always, the game is completely free. Get it here (you can play it on PC, Linux, Mac and Android)!

Let me know what you think of the story and, as always, you can come to the Discord Community if you need any help with tech issues! Enjoy!

- Meinos Kaen

[hikaru-shirogane]

I see Ikki decided to get into Visual Novels...

[typical-novice]

Day 12 of the RWBY Art Challenge

A Deceased Character: Penny Polendina

Good Evening Folks, the design I used for this entry comes from Project JPDE which can be found @project-jpde 

It’s a pretty fun RWBY Fan Game from my experience.

[plottwiststudios]

$25 Music Commission Sketches Available Here!

Greetings! 

Did you enjoy my music in “Women of Xal”? Haven’t played it? Then how about my mashup album Personatale?! Never heard of it? Okay, then how about Brilliant Shadows/Pale Spectrum?! Been too long? Fair enough. Then surely you enjoyed my works with JPDE! Just get to the point? Okay!

I am currently taking commissions for original orchestrated music. They’re 15 second sketches that will loosely follow your directions. Perfect for people who want an inexpensive test to see how well my music would vibe with their productions/projects/hobbies.

All cash will be used to fund my gluttonous eating habits and art for the upcoming Kickstarter.

[kob131]

Would JPDE fall into the description of what you've been discussing for the past few posts? Or is it fairly "harmless" as far as you're concerned? (Things on the creator side have gotten SO much worse on that front.)

Oh JPDE. I actually read this visual novel back before it entirely completed it’s first part. 

As much as I’ve been bitching about RWBY: Scars, I have to give it a few things:

A. My issues are almost entirely my own. Meaning that all I’ve been saying can be dumbed down to ‘This is not for me and I disagree’.

B. I don’t think RWBY: Scars is a rewrite. It’s an AU. It’s not meant to supplement the original or replace it. Hence why I categorize my issues as ‘personal opinions’.

C. The fic would be very respectable it seems if you just made it fully not RWBY. It’s changes do make it so that it’d be easy to transition this into an original work. I may not like it but making it original would eliminate my biggest issue with it.

All in all: What I’m saying is not criticisms but rather thoughts on it after looking through a Tv Tropes page. To any fans of RWBY: Scars and especially the creator: Ignore me.

Can’t say the same about JPDE. For those who don’t know, JPDE is a RWBY visual novel made by a former fan that went from what seemed like a love letter to the series to a less respectful and less effective version of SAO Abridged I.E. try to retell this piece of media.

Issue is, the story and characters aren’t really built as well as the original. Aside from Penny, we have the main character David who, I’ll just spoil here, is a physical manifestation of an ancient power called The Flame and he has the ability to share and take Aura, up to and including mimicry of others’ Semblances (I forget what limitations it has if any.) He also takes the fact that he didn’t exist before the game’s beginning despite being built up by the narrative with a disturbing amount of carelessness, it even being the source of a double take joke. He’s also kind of just a sarcastic generic guy, the sane voice of reason, the generic nice guy. That kind of stuff.

So basically, Jaune if Jaune was a typical light novel protagonist. 

Then we have Evelyn, a rabbit Fanaus with a sort of Mad Hatter design due to her being color blind. She’s basically just the flirty troll who messes with people. It looks like she has a rather tragic backstory but the thing is, from my memory of the game while she was fun Evelyn was also pretty fanservicy. What I mean is that despite the game starting out with a close friendship between the player character David and Penny, Evelyn gets the focus early on, starts a polyamorus relationship with them that barely gets discussed and she’s the first one to screw the player character. If you’re not convinced yet: she’s short and has really big tits and again, rabbit fanaus. (AKA built in Playboy Bunny appeal.)

Then we have Jacqueline, the leader of the team (At least the player character isn’t the leader...even though he’s the focus). She’s...uh...Uh....

... Okay, looking back, it kind of feels like she’s just a more bare bones Yang. Tall, muscly, curvy blonde with a heavy connection to her sister (due to plot reasons, said sister is in a pale skinned black haired body) with mother issues, uses her barefists and her Semblance is all about absorbing energy. Even the two ways their different (Jack’s semblance is related to the cold due to absorbing the energy in the air and she has good relationship with her mom) feels like flipping Yang’s position.

So yeah... I was NOT invested in these characters. I mean, I was at first since there was a passion project charm to it at first...but as things went on, the thing just felt more and more uncomfortable. The game’s original plot swallows the original show’s, no attempts were made to coincide with the original’s lore, the game kept feeling more and more self indulgent in taking over, Ozpin becoming increasingly more of an asshole, the whole polyamorus relationship felt like it was just there to justify having the protag be with multiple girls (at minimum two because you can unlock events with female characters)-

By the time I got to the end of the newest update at the time (the one introducing Penny’s Terminator-esque “Senza_Fili.exe” power): I was just done with it. So I ended up dropping it.

Really, JPDE is actually worse than Scars in a few ways. Scars can be argued as doing something unique and can even one day become it’s own story. JPDE on the other hand is just feeling like every self insert fanfic made and can NEVER be original without a major overhaul. And, it might just be because I have personal experience with JPDE, I can’t just call my issues with it ‘personal’ It’s actual problems with the thing.

Sad really, I really liked how dedicated the creator was to make a RWBY visual novel...until I found out just what motivated him.

[pricklyalpaca]

Character commission batch for @defdefy , @brave-king-shishio, @themusicalbookworm , and @project-jpde

Thank you all for commissioning me!

[lonewolf414]

@project-jpde 

Ray-Ban Sunglasses reduced by 90%

[devinmaking]

https://www.castingcall.club/projects/jpde-fandub for you RWBY and JPDE fans, who wants to join up on fandubbing a visual novel. With acceptance of the original creator of the VN.  Alternative version is to send the lines to en_anonym654@hotmail.com

[knightofbalance-13]

What's your favorite anything RWBY-related so far?

Okay...

That’s a hard question to answer as I do like a lot of things in the RWBY fandom in terms of fan work.

My favorite however has to be the JPDE visual novel. (https://project-jpde.tumblr.com/) It started it as a cute little work about a year ago (in fact, my tumblr was originally created just to follow that) but’s developed quite nicely. It still has issues and it will be awhile before it’s complete but the writing is good, I enjoy the artstyle of the characters and I really admire the dedication of the team to undertake such a hard task.

[smmrofrwby]

SMMR of RWBY - RWBY Fangames Panel 02

What happens when four RWBY fan-game creators come together? MAGIC!!!

MEINOS KAEN FOR THE JPDE SERIES - ‪@JPDEOfficial‬

DINOMAN FOR CBLT - ‪@teamcblt‬

PYROPE FOR PARADIGM RWBY TTRPG - UPDATE: This link is now a permanent invite to the server! https://discord.gg/4rEsCPTMSf

DEVINDOING FOR DVRK - @DVRK_Team [TWITTER]

Background Music from ‪@spengalitamale‬

WHAT IS SMMRofRWBY? To the surprise of no one, the RWBY FNDM has some incredible talent! In RWBY's current hiatus, we wanted to come together to shine a light on these labours of love, and inspire even more! Since the fans are many, the love is a lot and timezones are plenty: instead of a one-off event like RTX, the many events for SMMR of RWBY will take place over a month-long period of time! We’re planning many different kinds of events with the community! Live panels about creative projects, games, video essays, and more! There’s something for everyone!

[teamrsbd]

110: Coda (1/3)

(Original concept art by Kristina Nguyen of Rooster Teeth)

Most of teams RSBD, MERA, and REDD head to dinner together following the explosive tussle at the docks. Adrian suggests the local ramen shop, A Simple Wok, upon seeing good reviews in the Beacon student forums.

Epiros, Duklja, and Dalmatea of REDD are still smarting from Raguso’s sudden betrayal. Stein commiserates with them.

Adrian tries to cheer everyone up by casting the whole incident as just another test in their quest to become Hunters and Huntresses, but he eventually admits that it’s been “a really shitty day.” Marche tries to bolster his spirits.

Epiros asks Rani about the challenges of being a team leader, but the discussion soon strays to Epiros’ resemblance to the hero of the hit movie, 300: FutureSpartans VS ZombiePersians.

Marche, Adrian, and Eissen discuss the pros and cons of Atlesian intervention in the docks incident and the White Fang problem in general. Marche disagrees with Atlas operating in Vale territory, but Adrian and Eissen cite the shortcomings of Vale’s defenses and their right to defend Atlesian assets.

Madeleine, Dalmatea’s doll, befriends Raphtalia.

Upon arrival at A Simple Wok, everyone places their orders. Marche buys a round of milk for everyone. Two customers — a blond, monkey-tailed Faunus and a boy with blue hair and goggles — scoot over to make room.

Rani bestows nicknames upon Epiros (“Leo”), Dalmatea (“Dallie”) and Madeline (“Maddie”), and Duklja (“(S)Lavly”). She bonds with the latter over Counterattack: Worldwide Warfare and guns. Marche interrupts to scoff, in his best Gruff Dad tone, at how such games trivialize the horrors of war.

Marche, as usual, puts milk in his food and takes care to pass on Raphtalia’s orders for her. Adrian treats Team MERA to dinner.

Eissen, bored of the small talk, checks the news on her Scroll. The VNN reports of the dock incident are all over the web.

Upon recognizing the new arrivals as the kids from the news, the old man running the store is overjoyed at hosting the local heroes, and the blond and blue-haired boys chat them up.

Eissen preens a bit, pleased at the widespread impact of her actions.

Adrian introduces himself to the two boys, Sun and Neptune, students from Haven who are in Vale for the Vytal Festival Tournament.

Sun mentions that he’s also dealt with the White Fang before; this piques Eissen’s interest, and she asks him for more details. It turns out Sun helped Blake stop an attempted Dust supply robbery in the shipment areas near the Commercial District just the night before.

Adrian takes Sun’s and Neptune’s numbers, ostensibly for better coordination in the future.

Rani’s discomfited by all the talk of the White Fang, though she brushes Marche off when he asks her what’s wrong.

The other students bond over lighter subjects.

Stein and Neptune’s conversation gets…flirty, though the effect is ruined somewhat by the spring onion stuck in Neptune’s teeth. Stein feels an unexpected attraction the guy.

Raphtalia shows Madeline the inside of her armor, where the doll sees Raphtalia’s true form: a small, ragged girl piloting what seems to be a highly advanced piece of tech.

Madeline eventually reveals that she’s simply an aspect of Dalmatea’s personality.

Duklja has been sneaking swigs of liquor from a flash that she apparently carries with her everywhere. Rani helps Epiros carry his drunk teammate back to Beacon.

Meanwhile, in Beacon, Bianca has skipped the team dinner on account of the sunset and her annoyance at her teammate’s actions. Drake arrives at the dorms a short time later.

Drake is troubled by issues with his Semblance.

Bianca offers her partner a whole batch of the brownies she’s been anger-baking since the sunset tremors passed. Drake starts wolfing them down.

Using the distribution of brownies for the other teams as an excuse, Bianca heads out, asking her partner not to mention to the others that she’s roaming about. Preoccupied with his own issues, Drake shrugs and agrees.

Still enraged by Raguso’s manipulation of her team, Bianca intends to break into REDD’s room to search for any insight as to Raguso’s plans and whereabouts.

One problem: she doesn’t know where REDD’s rooms are.

She stops by JNPR’s room to drop off a box of brownies and ask about REDD’s room as well.

Nora and Ren are in, and Nora scarfs up most of the brownies before giving Bianca directions to REDD’s room. It appears a lot of people confuse JNPR for REDD on account of Pyrrha’s and Epiros’ similar-looking armor.

(Art by BunnyVoid for @project-jpde)

Thanks to Nora’s directions, Bianca finds REDD’s room. She teleports in and starts poking around.

At Raguso’s bedside table, she finds a shopping list for the Blind Mice that mentions a contact in Gobline Market. The drawers yield Raguso’s journal and lots of arts and crafts supplies.

Further examination of Dalmatea’s side of the room reveals a group photo of REDD that indicates a close relationship between her and Raguso. The ornate, oriental doll house by her bed is a stark contrast to Madeline’s European look; it seems the item was crafted by Raguso. Inscribed on a section of the doll house is an address: 515-B Goldie Lane, House of Brick Apartments.

(Image from Michelle’s Miniatures)

A student in the neighboring room hears Bianca poking about and starts to complain through the wall. She successfully convinces him that she’s a ghost out on a haunt.

Bianca’s scroll rings: it’s her mom, outraged by the news she’s just seen on the VNN. Beacon’s apparently cavalier attitude towards student safety leaves Dr. Strohmann aghast, but she flat-out shuts down Bianca’s attempts to turn that into a reason to return to Haven instead. She opts to have a serious talk with Headmaster Ozpin.

Bianca tries to do more snooping, but the casual disregard for safety and quality materials displayed in Epiros’ and Duklja’s spear and ammunition storage, respectively, bothers her too much.

Annoyed, she moves to go back to her team’s room and notices that the REDD team’s door has been unlocked this whole time.

Drake, having just finished off his share of the brownies, invites Bianca to join him for meditation on the roof.

He mentions that meditation and his constant stream of music help him keep his Semblance in check.

With a couple of quick demonstrations—including a casual walk onto the side of the dorm building—he reveals that his Semblance is always active, and he needs to focus on it constantly to control its effects.

They sit on the rooftop ledge, sharing Drake’s earphones, and meditate. It brings an unexpected calm that Bianca hasn’t had in months, and she begins to re-evaluate the merits of staying in Beacon on account of her newfound friends.

[typical-novice]

I got about a week left of Winter Break left and I intend to draw as much as I can before then, or try at least.

So here is some fanart of Evelyn from @project-jpde in her latest design. It looks really good.

[smmrofrwby]

SMMR of RWBY - The Dream RWBY Game: A Developers Perspective

Since the early days of RWBY, there been videos, blogs, mockups, and general talk about what a perfect RWBY game should be like.

A pannel of RWBY Fangame devs would take a look at some of these ideas, and give opinions on the mechanics, the implementation, engines used, and more.

Want to make a RWBY based Fangame, or interested in RWBY Games? Check out RWBY Fangames Discord!

Check out our compiled list of released fangames

JPDE, JPDE2, JPDE Twitter

Ruby: Huntress of Vale, DelphaDesign Twitter, DelphaDesign YouTube

RWBY Crystal

RWBY Requiem

WHAT IS SMMRofRWBY? To the surprise of no one, the RWBY FNDM has some incredible talent! In RWBY's current hiatus, we wanted to come together to shine a light on these labours of love, and inspire even more! Since the fans are many, the love is a lot and timezones are plenty: instead of a one-off event like RTX, the many events for SMMR of RWBY will take place over a month-long period of time! We’re planning many different kinds of events with the community! Live panels about creative projects, games, video essays, and more! There’s something for everyone!

[smmrofrwby]

SMMR of RWBY - JPDE - Story and Future of an AU

Play JPDE1 and JPDE2 here for free!

Support the Team here and play new episodes sooner!: Patreon Ko-fi

WHAT IS SMMRofRWBY? To the surprise of no one, the RWBY FNDM has some incredible talent! In RWBY's current hiatus, we wanted to come together to shine a light on these labours of love, and inspire even more! Since the fans are many, the love is a lot and timezones are plenty: instead of a one-off event like RTX, the many events for SMMR of RWBY will take place over a month-long period of time! We’re planning many different kinds of events with the community! Live panels about creative projects, games, video essays, and more! There’s something for everyone!