Development Part 1.

The concept started with the creation of the original Stigmata Story. It was first started as a short story I wrote for the school magazine but later was cancelled because of the heavy fantasy setting and gore content. It was also considered too long for publication and because of that, I decided to not submit the work. However, the story is far from dead. I kept the original plotline while continuing to expanding it.

Emotion Notion does not come into my mind until around mid 2008. I was heavily influenced by the game Persona 3 and 4 as well as the visual novel/anime Chaos;Head developed by Nitroplus. At that time, I wanted to change the direction of the original towards a more realistic setting but later on I decided not to and write a re-imagining of the story instead.Thus the initial plot writing begun around the year 2009 whenever I have free time.

The initial title for this work was Stigmata Stories: Re;write, with the title as a homage for Chaos;Head. However, at the beginning of 2010, Key announced the development of their next game Rewrite, and because of that I decided to change the title to Psyche Resonance to avoid any copyright problems. After some time towards the end of 2010, I decided to change the name yet again to Emotion Notion. The new title was adopted because A) there is a significant change in key plot which was reflected in the old title and B) It rhymes.

Initial writing had taken significant changes as well amount of time due to limitation of the time that I can actually spend on the project as well as me rethinking the plot progression. However, starting from September 2010, I have moved to United Kingdom to further my study and this had made me to take a significant turn to my pre-existing materials; I decided to write everything again from the ground up, salvaging the materials from what I had originally planned for the new work.

This new environment had given me new inspiration for the story as well as the opportunity to view the story from a new perspective. And this had materialises into the project that is now in actual development.

More about this in the next entry.