Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

Finished games are posted here, once they've been tested and are ready for wide release.
Forum rules
Adult content should not be posted in this forum.
Message
Author
User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#1 Post by Ekamu »

PAPER GUITAR
title.png
Paper Guitar is a romance about a fret-boy named Freddy Fretstop and his love, Watts, together they find love and adventure in the small hamlet town of Paper Guitarra, home to few from Lectro and Cithara. With characters inspired from the most obscure of everyday things like light switches and guitar necks, their is a talking pick too who is out to rock the world!
The music is original and made from an old small guitar I had made for me when I was about 7-8 years old, it only has 4 strings now that are very decayed, I tuned her by ear to C#-G#-Eb-G# and jammed for a day straight which resulted in a home-brew mix-tape I made entitled 4 Strings and Scratching Nostalgia. The entire mixtape is intuitive, raw and experimental. I can not re-create the music exactly as I did because it was unrehearsed and created from pure scratching nostalgia.
menu.png
All Desktop Platforms 39 MB
DOWNLOAD
paper guitar signature.png
paper guitar signature.png (65.39 KiB) Viewed 13315 times
Oh and Everything Rhymes!
Last edited by Ekamu on Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:51 am, edited 13 times in total.
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [4-Strings-Broken-Guitar Childhood-Art VN]

#2 Post by Ekamu »

Characters

Freddy Fretstop
A wondering fret boy, out to woo the girl of his dreams.
fret_sweat.png
Watts
A lectro-lady, watts always sees the light in all situations.
watts_happy.png
Volt
Terrifying, frying, electrifying Volt! He's a hot-shot macho man
volt_strong.png
Gui pronounced Gwee
Baby Gui-winks, a little baby girl not a peanut but a guitar body.
gui_yay.png
Tar later known as Tonic
A lost kid and Gui's best friend
tonic_major.png
Tonics Mother (Pickey)
Out to rock the paper-world in star(king)dom!
picky_yay.png
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [4-Strings-Broken-Guitar Childhood-Art VN]

#3 Post by Ekamu »

sSSSsssSSScreenies!
2.png
Meet Fret-boy Freddy Fretstop.
3.png
The Moment of Truth, will Freddy make his move?
4.png
Love and Rommance...
5.png
AND STRING_SOUP PASTA!!!
6.png
Gui and Tar, GUITAR.

--------------------------------------------------------
I Hope you will enjoy the nostalgic and semi-de-tuned (raw & home-brew) experience as much as I did in making it!

It is only about 10-15 minutes. Its a short visual novel but it was made
With Love from the Lucid Moon
Last edited by Ekamu on Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Armee
Veteran
Posts: 320
Joined: Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:34 am
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN]

#4 Post by Armee »

Sound like a lovely story ^^ Look very cute. I will check this out later

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN]

#5 Post by Ekamu »

Nice my first player!

Thanks, I hope you enjoy it (^_^)
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN]

#6 Post by Ekamu »

(^_^) Great, so far I made 10 downloads.

Please don't forget to leave any comments.
this is my first game so I would appreciate any advice/feedback.

Thanks for playing.
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN]

#7 Post by Ekamu »

You can listen to a sample of the mixtape-album 4 Strings and Scratching Nostalgia on Sound Cload:

Here are a few songs off the album:

Star(king)Dom And String Soup Pasta

Nostalgia Part 1

Stradus and Pencella

They are some exclusive songs that never made it to the game and they are some songs that are un-cut with interesting improvisations towards the middle and end like Stradus and Pencella and Nostalgia Part 1. My personal favourite song off the album is Star(king)Dom and String Soup Pasta.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Download has been changed. I replaced the wav format sound with mp3 so the file is much smaller and easy to download. the VN is still exactly the same for those who already downloaded it but for those who did not it is a much smaller file now.

All Desktop Platforms - 39 MB
DOWNLOAD

Hey all you lurkers, don't be afraid to comment!(^_^)
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
Starshine
Veteran
Posts: 247
Joined: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:50 am
Completed: http://berry-melon.blogspot.co.uk/2016/ ... -2016.html
Projects: Pancake Surprise (2016)
Tumblr: http://bettybooplover.tumblr.com
Deviantart: berry-melon
Soundcloud: sweepea-1
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#8 Post by Starshine »

This game has really caught my eye. I'll download this game right now, and tell you what i think. (Reminds me of that Paper Child craze that hit the internet somewhere around 08-09)
http://berry-melon.blogspot.com
I'm not resting until I find
What would make your eyes
Glisten like mine
With loves divine!

Boo-Boo I couldn't aspire....to anything...
Higher...than to fill that one desire to make it
My own....Bop-Bop-a-Dop-Boop-Oop-a-Doop honey?

User avatar
Starshine
Veteran
Posts: 247
Joined: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:50 am
Completed: http://berry-melon.blogspot.co.uk/2016/ ... -2016.html
Projects: Pancake Surprise (2016)
Tumblr: http://bettybooplover.tumblr.com
Deviantart: berry-melon
Soundcloud: sweepea-1
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#9 Post by Starshine »

The game was very cute, the characters were surreal too specially "Tonics Mother",
She was like a hand holding a rock?
(I loved it)
I also got the pun Gui & Tar together makes "Guitar" and most of the songs or song is played by a guitar
.
The quote at the end "Please listen for longer, until this tune will linger in your heart forever, was kinda iconic in a way, it was like they was in their own little world
I love music-type games and ones where characters talk or either just have their own unique music. I've just been playing Harmoknight on the 3DS, so music type games are really quite amusing to me.
http://berry-melon.blogspot.com
I'm not resting until I find
What would make your eyes
Glisten like mine
With loves divine!

Boo-Boo I couldn't aspire....to anything...
Higher...than to fill that one desire to make it
My own....Bop-Bop-a-Dop-Boop-Oop-a-Doop honey?

User avatar
Campbell
Newbie
Posts: 8
Joined: Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:33 am
Location: Vietnam
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#10 Post by Campbell »

My first impresson was the very cute arts, so i've downloaded and played it through :)
And i found it very incredible that you made the musics with a 4-string guitar :shock: it was very great, very lighty, i can listen to them all day long :D
the story was cuter than i thought, short and very very cute, you made it excellent as the first time my friend :D

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#11 Post by Ekamu »

Thanks a lot guys, I'm really encouraged and happy to see that it reached an audience that appreciates it and that you could enjoy the short story. (^_^)
As for the music a lot of it just sort of came out, in other-words I have no idea what I was doing consciously, just playing by ear, and listening for some sort of innocence/simplistic charm.
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
unknown5
Veteran
Posts: 311
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:41 pm
Completed: (see sig)
Projects: slit-mouth girl, purifier, etc.
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#12 Post by unknown5 »

ooh, looks fun! downloading! =)
Image
information wants to be free, yo.

User avatar
Ferdokki
Veteran
Posts: 372
Joined: Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:32 pm
Completed: Before Dream Valley, Chasing, Fear&Love
IRC Nick: Ferdokki
Location: The Land of Ooo
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#13 Post by Ferdokki »

Quick questions: About how long is gameplay? And are there multiple endings?

User avatar
Ekamu
Regular
Posts: 130
Joined: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:13 am
Completed: Paper Guitar
Location: Lucid Moon
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#14 Post by Ekamu »

Its around 25/30 minutes long. Their is also one multiple ending but its mostly a kinetic novel. Enjoy (^_^)
------------Paper Guitar------------
Image
Experimental Nostalgic Romance VN Out Now!
.......made with love from the lucid moon........

User avatar
FonaCall
Regular
Posts: 98
Joined: Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:59 am
Projects: Bahay Kubo, Tower of Saviors Cries of Soul
Organization: Black Eared Games
Tumblr: blackearedgames
Deviantart: fonacall
Skype: fona.call
Soundcloud: fona-call
Location: Philippines
Contact:

Re: Paper Guitar [Childhood-Nostalgia VN] [Indie/Free-Love]

#15 Post by FonaCall »

Hello! =^A^=

It's a bit random, but I would like to tell you that there's a review for this cute game! =^_^=

https://blackearedgames.tumblr.com/post ... per-guitar

- Jin
SO MANY GAMES, SO LITTLE TIME!!!

For those who are freelance VN staff and also for those who are VN team leaders, please read this. Inform yourselves. Thank you.

Status: More or less busy with IRL work and finishing a game in time for Halloween Jam in itch.io

Brainstorming for the following:
My Seven Deadly Friends | the rest of the ideas

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users