Creating Compelling Characters Through the Lens of Belle Automata @GDoCExpo
Creating Compelling Characters Through the Lens of Belle Automata  @GDoCExpo
Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Jessinia, also known as owl. and head of the indie dev studio Jellyfish Parade, shares her knowledge on the concepts of solid world building and compelling character creation for visual novels and other narrative and interactive fiction games. She primarily uses her visual novel Belle Automata as well as other completed games such as War of Roses and PAIRS to illustrate how this can be done in a natural but structured way.

Jessinia Saunders
Founder of Jellyfish Parade, Game Dev, Writer
Jellyfish Parade
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Creating Compelling Characters Through the Lens of Belle Automata

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