The main idea about our game was about playing a vampire who creates a legacy by biting people in a village, without being caught by guards. But early in the process, we thought about our teenagers years and laught about the idea of villagers becoming emo-kids by becoming vampires. So it is how this first sketch come to life :

Soon, Ikowa, our 2D animation artist made some walk cycle to define everybody's behaviour :

But our GameDesigner created a new character, the priest ! So we ask him if the priest could be bitten. He said yes so we created a Emo version of the priest :

Our gamedesigner also said in the GDD that the hero could go to a tavern to hide himself. So, with Ikowa, we figured out the idea that emo could be hidden in a Tokyo Hotel concert, so we chose to replace the Tavern by a Concert. Here is the first rough animation :

If you want to see the final version ingame, please play it here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-endless-night