Thread 718615176

What's stopping you from making your own visual novel?

>>718615176 (OP)
Crippling depression and being retarded on a spiritual level.

i'm alright at art and shit at everything else a vn requires

>>718616205
Then un-shit yourself at those things, nigger

>>718615176 (OP)
I don't got a story

>>718615176 (OP)
no good ideas
+ no talent
+ no time
+ no money
+ western vns are slop

>>718616560
how

>>718615176 (OP)
i don't want to become... HIM...

>EVN garbage
to make a VN you need to be japanese or else you get shit like doki doki

>>718615176 (OP)
I'm lazy and talentless

I already did. Nobody played it.

>>718615176 (OP)
>Have no ideas
>Can't write
>Can't draw
>Can't figure out how to use something as simple as ren'py
>Can't make music (royalty free music would make my already shit vn seem even worse)
>Zero drive to try knowing nobody will give a shit anyway

>have a multiverse kinda set up in my own head
>coming up with different stories that mix together and recontextualize their own journey when they all come together
>start writing some of the arcs
>they sound so bad like really fucking bad like holy fuck I have an image and idea on how things will work and I can picture it in a VN or a movie/game like manner but writing it just sounds so fucking bad.
I think it's my fault, the moment I try to write non-boring and not stiff is the moment I get into cringe territory.

>have great ideas in my head
>can write competently
>can develop overarching storylines and plot hooks that tie into long-term narratives
>not great at art, but know how to generate AI pics to not look like slop
>have absolutely no idea how to start the story, crippling writer's block if I even try to begin writing
Shame.

>>718617737
ngl I've been using AI to kickstart how I should start a story but it doesn't sound right either. Like fuck me man I know like how to do it in a VN setting but I'd rather just write instead since VN setting just feels so unnatural.

I funnel my creativity into a hedonistic feedback loop of tuning specific fetish scenarios with LLM character cards. It is far more entertaining than making art for others, sadly.

>>718617050
>else you get shit like doki doki
You mean one of the most iconic VNs from the past decade? Damn I should get a head start.

>>718617050
Hate DDLC all you like but you can't deny how insanely successful it was. If anything Dan is shooting himself in the foot by not making a followup off that Project Libitina shit or something.

>>718620348
He is just enjoying the money

>>718617847
I have been thinking on trying a LN instead. Wish I learned how to draw
As for you maybe read more books or just do this:
Choose random characters from tv, anime, games etc and put them together to interact how you would think they would interact, fanfic gals learned that shit by constantly fantasizing with hundred of characters (actually many celebrities books are written by some fanfic faggot)

>>718620162
To make Doki Doki, you just need the American superiority complex of thinking you understand 30 years of a Japanese medium and do something subversive against the "shit dating sim weebshit moe genre."
Don’t forget to add some shock value and meta for some alt teenagers, and it’s done.

>>718620453
Can't really fault him there, most of us would do the same I imagine.

>>718616205
> Story.
> Dialogue.
> Characters interacting with each other.
> This becomes the plot.
> Borrow character tropes like fighting games borrow character designs and fight moves.
Literally all you need to have a successful VN. Flashier art/style design will always win a new audience over though.

>>718620671
> Just write an American Denpa horror visual novel.
heh.

>>718615176 (OP)
The coding
I legitimately cant even figure out those VN makers its all fucking gibberish to me no matter how much I look at it

>>718621057
you don't know what denpa means, retarded tourist from X

>>718620697
It's what I would do but desu wageslave sucks too much I would actually use that money to start trying to make more games or even books, don't care if they are crappy as long as I have fun without worrying about money

>>718621097
Maybe ren'py? I might try to make a short one, too bad I can't draw for shit

>>718621171
> Muh tourist from X.
Its literally the og schizo horror shock value visual novel genre from Japan, just because there's no loli rape in it or whatever doesn't make it not a denpa. (Chaos;Head is a Denpa for example.)

>>718620162
>You mean one of the most iconic VNs from the past decade?
Not even top 100 in Japan, only popular with westoids who don’t read VNs and want something le hecking shocking and short to stream for normalfags.

>>718621379
You really think westoids money worth less? LMAO

>>718621543
What does that have to do with anything? Are you retarded?

>>718615176 (OP)
I absolutely can't draw and even if I intend on learning a bit it will never be my strong suit, but most importantly I'm not really interested, I'll do a "J"RPG that is barely above that instead.

I am, it'll be out in like five years at this rate

>>718615176 (OP)
1) I am not good at writing.
2) The only good VN idea I have is to have the story be a murder mystery based around an actual murder that I actually commit. But I don't have the skills to get away with murder nor the desire to commit murder.
Would be a cool VN idea though.

>>718624478
follow your dreams anon

>>718615176 (OP)
I'm not Japanese, so it wouldn't be a real visual novel.

>>718624478
>based around an actual murder that I actually commit
Anon... what the fuck is wrong with you?

>>718628974
He took Danganronpa V3 too seriously

>>718628974
ARGs are cringe but a murder confession disguised as a VN would be fun

>>718615176 (OP)
I don't want to make one. That's holding me back quite a bit

>>718615176 (OP)
Why did you use Higurashi for the thread OP instead of the superior Umineko (rated a perfect 10/10 by esteemed video game story critic Joseph Anderson)?

Holy fuck she's so hot bros...

>>718629431
>Joseph Anderson
I for one can only get my opinions from midwits who nit pick filler content of children's games in excessive detail.

>>718629596
You joke but..

>>718615176 (OP)
the visuals

>>718629685
the chinese version of the anime where they censor the blood coloring it white...

>>718629769
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If I knew any of you faggots we could put a game together with less than 10 people. It will start as barebones shit but it is easy to build off of when you get that much done.

Me.

>>718631114
Okay but it has to have ffm pegging.

>>718615176 (OP)
i cant right or draw

>>718631315
AI can do that you just need to code and be the idea guy

>>718631315
You're obviously a little clever.

>>718615176 (OP)
I can't draw and I want to make a VN with multiple routes and meta stuff but I don't think renpy can do it and I'm too lazy to learn to code. Otherwise I already have a 60 page script outline ready to go.

>>718631381
It can't do that for you.

>>718629431
>shitneko
>superior to anything
You desire...

>>718631114
>If I knew
That wasn't a problem for the Katawa Shoujo anons 15 years ago.