Thread 718770170

Why are you not making your own visual novel yet anon?

>>718770170 (OP)
Nothing I or anyone else makes can ever top Umineko so it's useless to try

>>718770170 (OP)
I have many projects, but haven't finished any of them.
Currently working on bed sim. It feels good to see stuff come to alive.

>>718770170 (OP)
Why should I? Can I make something interactive like Danganronpa in Ren’Py?

>>718770170 (OP)
I'm an artist so I've thought about it, but my problem is visual novels with only pngs on a background just aren't as interesting as something where you can see the characters move around and interact even if they're basic.

>>718772062
no one says visual novels have to be in the latter style, what matters is how the game works.

>>718770170 (OP)
imagine.

I'm working on some Python projects. Grunt work at Walmart isn't going to be enough to pay the bills.

>>718773054
Le BWC girl! She really is mouthing up that penis!

i'm making a game where much of the game is played as a traditional jrpg but there will be one level where you have the option to solve it via a detective investigation undertaken via VN; of course the player will have the choice to chimp out and trigger combat in the middle of any of the dialogs.

>>718770170 (OP)
I made a bunch of characters but I'm not sure exactly what kind of story I'd like to do with them.
The 4 main ideas are
>magical girls, vaguely resembling Sailor Moon style as opposed to old school or deconstructive, trying to balance the SoL and plot stuff and has a team of good girls fighting stuff basically
>actual dating sim in the Tokimeki Memorial sense, aka with stats et. all, not as VN with branching routes, you will find out one of the characters is an old school magical girl should you choose to pursue her but she isn't the main heroine
>mystery, for the sake of genre conventions there are no magical characters, but also the cases won't involve the police too much, so it's more akin to P4 but without the whole JRPG side
>not a VN but an actual fantasy JRPG, starts off normal but you later find out all the major characters got isekai'd and had no idea up until halfway through, their original world is kinda fucked up, which is to say it's not exactly the wish-fulfillment kind of isekai but closer to upside-down MLA
Listed in order of what I'd personally want to do more

>>718773054
>~110cm
problematic

>>718770170 (OP)
I have several ideas, but I can't draw and I'm too autistic and poor to get an artist.

>>718775692
I always intermix ideas when I'm stumped on how to continue a plot. Make a Romance Sim where every girl is tied to a background Magical Girl plotline happening through the game, and whichever girl you main you get their POV and scenes, helping support them at one or two key thresholds as their totally mundane human boyfriend. If you fail at woo-ing any of them the player won't even know anything magical is happening and will just think the girls are acting flaky and wierd about what they do with their off time. It's like 50/50 mundane dating being spiced up with magical girl elements and scenes. Their magical plotlines are of course reflections of the mundane issues they have with forming a relationahip or something. A brash rush down girl doesn't think ahead with longterm goals. A girl whose hot controlling mom tranforms into a villainess at night needs to cut her off and move out despite how much she cares. The Perfect class prez magical girl needs to be convinced to retire because she just wants to trad-wife but feels like she owes everyone. I exclusively have fun as an ideas guy.

>>718770170 (OP)
I'm fairly good at drawing and making music but I'm pretty sure any story I write will probably be shit, at least comparatively.

>>718776819
>Make a Romance Sim where every girl is tied to a background Magical Girl plotline happening through the game
I thought about this but I don't really want a PoV male character if I commit to go full magical girls instead of the not!Tokimemo.
> If you fail at woo-ing any of them the player won't even know anything magical is happening and will just think the girls are acting flaky and wierd about what they do with their off time.
lmao that sounds a funny premise to make you wonder why the fuck is every girl you just happen to interact with always acting weird. Twice as much hilarious if they don't act in SM-style, but rather they just fight on their own and in every route you find out somehow the MC just keeps attracting magical girls for some huge plot reason.
> Their magical plotlines are of course reflections of the mundane issues they have with forming a relationahip or something
And that part is there because of course it had to be.
> I exclusively have fun as an ideas guy.
I know the feel, but once you fixate on some ideas that sound very attractive to you it feels like you want to really do something with it already. The characters themselves were written in my notes for literal years. Along with some plot outlines for these 4 stories. And while I was at it, I did mess around witih game engines so it's a matter of settling down and putting the actual work in.

>>718778063
Have fun dude o7. I can't ever justify putting in time to share a story, I stop at entertaining myself with them and learning how to be better at it from others. So hope you can do it and get something out of it. Cute girls are cute. I support this.

>>718776551
go to /ic/, pick an art book, and start learning
it doedn't have to be Loomis

>>718778602
Ty anon. I think that once you have finished entertaining yourself with the ideas, it does also feel nice to see taking it form and it creates a feedback loop where it keeps giving you more ideas. I'm in no rush, that's just something on the side.

And with that said, I'm definitely considering doing the thing where a character will just happen to attract multiple magical girls who were acting independently from each other until they eventually find out. Written it from his PoV just for this once so I can pull the funni.

>>718770170 (OP)
Because I am making my own Shmup

>>718779979
Which style of shmup

>>718780020
Vertical shooter inspired by 1942 and warthunder. As in player planes will be ww2 warbirds with accurate armaments, shot patterns and fire rates. but you'll be defending earth from a variety of different alien waves as you slowly upgrade your plane between missions using a rogue lite system of specific period themed upgrades.