"Greetings Stranger!
You've Reached the End of the Road."
You've Reached the End of the Road."
Title: Destination: Nowhere, USA (D: N,USA)
Format: VN [Short, Friendship, Writers Angst, Cat Loving Flower Child vs. Nihilist Hipster Writer Ahoy]
Tagline: “Greetings Stranger! You've Reached the End of the Road."
Setting: A small mid-western town called Little Rome's train station and two whack jobs vivid imaginations.
Plot: Greetings stranger and how do you do? Not well I assume seeing as your magnum opus, your manuscript to be exact, has been rejected for the twelfth time… in a row. There’s nothing to fret about though, after all, you can always go back home to raise the cattle and just ignore the four years and thousands of dollars you sunk into your schooling, hoping to come out the next big thing when it comes to literature.
Just great!
Now you're sitting at the local train station, wondering if it’d be poetic to throw yourself over the railing under the fluttering fall leaves, when some chick by the name of Gemini “Bubblegum” Zodak comes up to you and decides to be your friend.
Wonderful! Exactly what you expected.
If that’s not bad enough, she’s brought along her cat (which, quite frankly, doesn't belong at a train station). And you hate cats with a undying passion.
Suddenly this freak is trying to tell you that your writing is suffering from a case of bland try-hards, caricatures, trying not to do much of anything over the course of 400+ pages.
Doesn't she understand that your characters are not only clever but the most original creations ever!? I mean, surely she gets that by spending two hundred pages staring at chipped paint, they’re actually viewing the decay of our corrupt society and the total pointlessness that is life and creation in an imperfect world…
Right?
Oh well, some people just can’t seem to see true greatness before them. Now you’re stuck with her and it’s not much you can do about it till the train pulls up. Might as well pretend to like her till then. You might actually learn a thing or two from it!
A short, whimsical and all at once grounded reality check of a visual novel about a small town writer realizing they might not be the next Cormac McCarthy after all, and one strange flower child and her black cat from the pits of Hell, brought to you by Hazel-Bun of Cherubim Scribes.
Format: VN [Short, Friendship, Writers Angst, Cat Loving Flower Child vs. Nihilist Hipster Writer Ahoy]
Tagline: “Greetings Stranger! You've Reached the End of the Road."
Setting: A small mid-western town called Little Rome's train station and two whack jobs vivid imaginations.
Plot: Greetings stranger and how do you do? Not well I assume seeing as your magnum opus, your manuscript to be exact, has been rejected for the twelfth time… in a row. There’s nothing to fret about though, after all, you can always go back home to raise the cattle and just ignore the four years and thousands of dollars you sunk into your schooling, hoping to come out the next big thing when it comes to literature.
Just great!
Now you're sitting at the local train station, wondering if it’d be poetic to throw yourself over the railing under the fluttering fall leaves, when some chick by the name of Gemini “Bubblegum” Zodak comes up to you and decides to be your friend.
Wonderful! Exactly what you expected.
If that’s not bad enough, she’s brought along her cat (which, quite frankly, doesn't belong at a train station). And you hate cats with a undying passion.
Suddenly this freak is trying to tell you that your writing is suffering from a case of bland try-hards, caricatures, trying not to do much of anything over the course of 400+ pages.
Doesn't she understand that your characters are not only clever but the most original creations ever!? I mean, surely she gets that by spending two hundred pages staring at chipped paint, they’re actually viewing the decay of our corrupt society and the total pointlessness that is life and creation in an imperfect world…
Right?
Oh well, some people just can’t seem to see true greatness before them. Now you’re stuck with her and it’s not much you can do about it till the train pulls up. Might as well pretend to like her till then. You might actually learn a thing or two from it!
A short, whimsical and all at once grounded reality check of a visual novel about a small town writer realizing they might not be the next Cormac McCarthy after all, and one strange flower child and her black cat from the pits of Hell, brought to you by Hazel-Bun of Cherubim Scribes.
Characters +More:
"How about no?"
(Side Sprites shall go here if I decide to make them)
You
"You or more like the player. A small town writer who's never tasted rejection up until now. You're a bit of a prick when it comes to reassessing your own greatness. But never fret, you're a sarcastic one at that!*"
* Default names Gavin or Gabrielle.
"Don't be such a Debby downer man~""
Gemini "Bubblegum" Zodak
"A woman stuck in the wrong era, she decided you're going to become friends after you had the misfortune of making eye contact with her... and her familiar."
"Meow!"
Mittens
(Sprite shall go here)
"The above witches familiar- I mean black cat who's out to get you. And maybe some tuna. Emmmh, tuna..."
Screenshots+ More:"How about no?"
(Side Sprites shall go here if I decide to make them)
You
"You or more like the player. A small town writer who's never tasted rejection up until now. You're a bit of a prick when it comes to reassessing your own greatness. But never fret, you're a sarcastic one at that!*"
* Default names Gavin or Gabrielle.
"Don't be such a Debby downer man~""
Gemini "Bubblegum" Zodak
"A woman stuck in the wrong era, she decided you're going to become friends after you had the misfortune of making eye contact with her... and her familiar."
"Meow!"
Mittens
(Sprite shall go here)
"The above witches familiar- I mean black cat who's out to get you. And maybe some tuna. Emmmh, tuna..."
TBA
Resolution: 1350x950
Endings: Two in total
Progress:
Story: Count (4,491) (Done) (Un-Edited)
Outline: 100% (Done)
Proofreading: -1% (Sweet Jesus this needs an editor ahahha) (Now in this stage)
Programming: ??% (The framework is already in place aside from the text input stuffs.)
Script: ??%
GUI: 0% (Haven't decided if I'll try to customize it a bit yet.)
Sprites:
Concepts: 50% (Sketching Mittens now. Might make side sprites for the player character too.)
Completed: 1/2(or 4?) (Gemini Done)
SFX Collect: 2/? (Collected)
Logo: 1/1 (Done) (Thanks khnachi!)
Icon: 1/1 (Collected)
Backgrounds: 1/1 (Collected)
Music: 3/? (Collected)
CGs: 0/? (If at all possible)
Credits:
khnachi for the wonderful logo~
xavimat for the text-input code
TBA
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1/19/14
1/21/14
Added some screenshots. Is the font I choose too hard to read?
1/24/14
More screenshots of Gemini's sprite.
1/25/14
Logo and script is complete. Editing is underway. Changed the in-game menus to text-input choices and might let the credits overlap with the BG image.
1/26/14
Getting over this cold yahh~ I'm out of school for two days do to the weather, so I'm hoping to finish editing the script by then. Gemini's sprite set is complete
Added her to the main post under her description. Now to sketch Mittens and edit away.3/1/14
Lots popped up so was unable to get this jam now not-a-jam-but-still-short VN out in time. Seeing as the script is done (just not edited properly) and everything else is in place aside from some sprites (Mittens and maybe a side image but properly not), I think I'll just go on and submit it after NaNoRenO is done ^^
Also look at this cute request of Gemnini asdfghjkl;!! Till next month!
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 27#p312727
