A blog outlining the creation of a fan-made strategy guide for Ar Tonelico 2.

IPD Page Design

Another mock up of a page design; this one took me most of the day to do, and was easily the most fun so far.  I have a soft spot for the IPDs — there is a wealth of personality and quirks inside each of the 100 IPDs, and I think most of it gets glanced over by players, especially when the info is split up in different screens.  Hopefully a design like this will get people to read about each individual IPD and recognize the unique personality she has, instead of just which ones have Guard++++.

The Dive Therapy topics are blank for IPD number 2, because I didn’t manage to catch her and didn’t want to spend house stalking her in-game.

I am also going to have a lot of fun with Hymmnos deciphering in the game; it was great finding out things about the IPDs names that I didn’t know….the Hymmnos spelling mimics the Japanese pronunciation of the name, and apparently all names in Hymmnos are capitalized!

IPD Mock Up

IPD Mock Up

Also, the other two mock-ups if you didn’t see them (I like the IPD one best though):

Guide Mock Up

Guide Mock Up

Bestiary Mock Up

Bestiary Mock Up

5 comments to IPD Page Design

  • Well, I can always assist you with the Hymmnos transliterations for the IPD names, if you wish.

  • Saru

    Thanks aquagon! I can do the pretty simple name translations, but I will be utterly lost on the larger translations for hymns and statements through the game, so if you’re still interested in helping with those things, that would be really cool :) Thanks!

  • Well, in weezy’s forum I’m already posting translations for everything written in Hymmnos that appears on game (that’s actually translatable and not just random letter strings), and we have also hymn translations we posted there, too, so feel free to use them.

  • Saru

    Oh, wow — thank you! Once I get to that stage I will see what I need and then contact you, to make sure you know what I am using and how you would like me to give you proper credit. :-) Thanks again, that helps tons!

  • RPGholic

    hey how did you change the page design? mine is so damn plain.

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