First of all, seeing as this is the game making corner, im going to say that im creating a VN called
A New Frontier
I know youre probably thinking
"Spaceships!"
"Demon worlds!"
"The Ocean!"
All good guesses, but wrong
.In my experience as a VN enthusiast, i have played many a game where i am a random High School Senior who is just looking to acclamate himself to the new school he has been transferred to, only to find out that every woman and their mother is out for some of his "love".
While these are valid and entertaining games to play (believe me, thats the inspiration) i had begun to see a majority of them all run together in my mind.
So i thought about it and said to myself..
What if i turn the whole situation on its head?
Instead of a Senior, how about..a Freshman?
Instead of the girls chasing you, how about...you do the smooth talking for a change?
Instead of horny, undersexed Seniors, you deal with... Freshmen who dont know what love is?
Now of course, being young, there wont be any H-material; thats against the law (and my sense of morals). However, you have the chance to go back into the first year of High School life and experience it through the eyes of the main character.
His name is Nakagawa
Or "Naka" as i like to call him.
This game gameplay wise will contain quite a large story arc, with tons of characters intersecting in and out of the plot based on how you decide to play the game. A good long term goal of mine is to make it so that if you play the game down a certain path, you might not even get the chance to meet some of the characters within the game, because they reside in a whole other branch that beers off from that of your own.
Another gameplay additiong i plan to bring to A New Frontier is that of a point based system. In most VNs, points merely get you to endings that give you CGs with different women.
However
In A New Frontier these points are picked up through the decisions you make, and will affect the story ultimately as a whole, giving you more options during certain scenes, or a branch that would not have taken place if you had not achieved a certain amount of points.
Example:
Naka has 35 strength, a high number.
Lets say that in one scene, there is a fire in the chemistry lab, and a girl is trapped under a support beam.
Because of his strength count, Naka can lift the beam under much duress and carry the girl to safety, starting a new story arc and bringing a new character into the mix.
However, if Naka had not had the required 35 strength to lift the beam, he would have had to call for help, and the girl might have died, leading down a new branch, and the loss of an opportunity to meet a new character; while bonding closer with the ones that surround him.
Needless to say, the story is huge. I have though, nearly completed all of the arcs and have begun on creating art for the characters.
The first character i decided to whip up, because he's my favorite
, is Matsuzaka, Naka's closest companion.Here is Matsu, almost completed.
This isnt commercial quality art to be sure, but i've only been learning to draw and use CG for about a day and a half now.
Thats where you all come in.
Im looking for Python Coders, and fellow artists to bring this game to completion.
Shoot me a PM if interested, so we can all go into A New Frontier.
P.S. I wanted to call it "A Brave New World", but unfortunately Aldous Huxley already beat me to it.
More abstract can be safer!
