Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
Ens Causa Sui
"It exists, because it claims to exist."
Names, appearances and details are not final. Everything is subject to final adjustments before the month is up.
Plot
"What if God was one of us?", sings Joan Osborne. It's not something John has given much thought. However, when a girl appears before him, he has to consider the question: The girl outrageously claims to be "God", descended from the heavens at whim. What's more, if John will not accept her as being God after seven days, she will end the world as John knows it! Even though John wants to pass her off as just some eccentric loon, things take a turn for the mysterious when he finds out a girl with a perfect likeness to "God" died in a traffic accident a few days prior. Just who is "God", and what is her relation to the deceased Jane?
Genre
'Ens Causa Sui' is a bildungs story. It's as much about fantasy as it is about reality; About distinguishing between what's real and what's not, between what you want and what you've got.
Goal
Well, it's a collaboration between chocojax and I. We're looking to bring you a story that's interesting and a good read. It'll have an underlying theme of "fantasy", but it's not a fantasy story. The greatest challenge will be to curtail my need to be pretentious deep (as Anna can surely attest ), and then to deliver it complete by the end of March. Also, we want to have the main character featured on screen. Let's see if we can pull that off proper!
Characters
John (name not final)
The protagonist of the story. John's crazy about gadgets and machinery. He's a down-to-earth person who doesn't really like lofty things like religion, or the deeper meaning of life, or something complex as the human psyche. Lately he's been feeling like something's off, but he can't put his finger on it. When he meets a girl claiming to be "God", he's really not sure how to deal with it. Especially not when he finds out she's supposedly dead!
"God" (name not final)
The antagonist of the story. "God" appears before John, declaring boldly that she is "God", come from heaven to visit John, and give a threat: If he won't accept her as "God", she'll destroy reality as he knows it. Her perfect resemblance to a girl who died a few days ago lends her an air of mystery. She's very adamant in pushing John to accept her as real.
We'll talk more about the other characters once we've completely settled on them.
Progress
We'll keep you up to date on our progress. So far, choco's drawn some sketches for the main character designs. It may be that we go through more or that we declare them final; We'll see.
As for me, I've worked out the number of scenes and a general idea of what's happening in each scene and the story entire. Writing starts for real now.
There's no music, backgrounds or coding yet. We'll probably lift some free public domain music, snap a few pictures and throw it all together best as we can. If there's someone who'd like to be on board with us, let us know!
"It exists, because it claims to exist."
Names, appearances and details are not final. Everything is subject to final adjustments before the month is up.
Plot
"What if God was one of us?", sings Joan Osborne. It's not something John has given much thought. However, when a girl appears before him, he has to consider the question: The girl outrageously claims to be "God", descended from the heavens at whim. What's more, if John will not accept her as being God after seven days, she will end the world as John knows it! Even though John wants to pass her off as just some eccentric loon, things take a turn for the mysterious when he finds out a girl with a perfect likeness to "God" died in a traffic accident a few days prior. Just who is "God", and what is her relation to the deceased Jane?
Genre
'Ens Causa Sui' is a bildungs story. It's as much about fantasy as it is about reality; About distinguishing between what's real and what's not, between what you want and what you've got.
Goal
Well, it's a collaboration between chocojax and I. We're looking to bring you a story that's interesting and a good read. It'll have an underlying theme of "fantasy", but it's not a fantasy story. The greatest challenge will be to curtail my need to be pretentious deep (as Anna can surely attest ), and then to deliver it complete by the end of March. Also, we want to have the main character featured on screen. Let's see if we can pull that off proper!
Characters
John (name not final)
The protagonist of the story. John's crazy about gadgets and machinery. He's a down-to-earth person who doesn't really like lofty things like religion, or the deeper meaning of life, or something complex as the human psyche. Lately he's been feeling like something's off, but he can't put his finger on it. When he meets a girl claiming to be "God", he's really not sure how to deal with it. Especially not when he finds out she's supposedly dead!
"God" (name not final)
The antagonist of the story. "God" appears before John, declaring boldly that she is "God", come from heaven to visit John, and give a threat: If he won't accept her as "God", she'll destroy reality as he knows it. Her perfect resemblance to a girl who died a few days ago lends her an air of mystery. She's very adamant in pushing John to accept her as real.
We'll talk more about the other characters once we've completely settled on them.
Progress
We'll keep you up to date on our progress. So far, choco's drawn some sketches for the main character designs. It may be that we go through more or that we declare them final; We'll see.
As for me, I've worked out the number of scenes and a general idea of what's happening in each scene and the story entire. Writing starts for real now.
There's no music, backgrounds or coding yet. We'll probably lift some free public domain music, snap a few pictures and throw it all together best as we can. If there's someone who'd like to be on board with us, let us know!
Re: Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
Sounds very interesting! Good luck with it, I'm looking forward to playing the finished product!
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I've been waiting for you to post your NaNo thread. I was really curious, back when I first heard about it. Can't wait the read the finished story.
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Glad to hear it, on both counts. Here's to not disappointing.Veniae wrote:Sounds very interesting! Good luck with it, I'm looking forward to playing the finished product!
Wait, how did you hear about it?Maelstrom-Fenrir wrote:I've been waiting for you to post your NaNo thread. I was really curious, back when I first heard about it. Can't wait the read the finished story.
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Your twitter, you tweeted about it Feb 24th.Applegate wrote:Wait, how did you hear about it?
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Re: Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
If "John" isn't the final name of the protagonist, you should make it "Tom", with at least someone in the story insisting to call him "Thomas". That would fit perfectly.
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Well, it'll add to the pretentious deep... But then we can't call him Jounochi Okayamizayamaki from Shinohoburogoma City at Makkenkousoukeiki Koukou with his girlfriend Ayamehanayo Shuzuhirusaya!Taleweaver wrote:If "John" isn't the final name of the protagonist, you should make it "Tom", with at least someone in the story insisting to call him "Thomas". That would fit perfectly.
I'll discuss it with choco. Characters we do have planned include John's father and a classmate friend, so perhaps his father could call him Thomas if it comes down to it.
I'm always amazed people follow my tweets.Maelstrom-Fenrir wrote:Your twitter, you tweeted about it Feb 24th.
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The concept art looks awesome and I'm really curious about the characters now; the synopsis you provided is really interesting !
Good luck to you guys and have fun~
Good luck to you guys and have fun~
Hahaha, you'll be fine with this one~ Don't worry .Applegate wrote: The greatest challenge will be to curtail my need to be pretentious deep (as Anna can surely attest ),
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I was quite intrigued by this premise when I first started reading. Once I saw chocojax was doing the art, I was sold! xD Best of luck with this project!
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Thanks for all of the comments, everyone! I'll try my best to keep up with Applegate's amazin' writing skills. :P
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That's not going to be very difficult, I'm average. :V You flatter me unduly.chocojax wrote:I'll try my best to keep up with Applegate's amazin' writing skills.
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Re: Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
Uhh, here's one of the (future) many sprites of Jane (the black'd part is supposed to be what's not shown if the window height is 600px).
Applegate is writin's and stuff, and'll probably update sometime this weekend. Wishin' good luck on writing. :P
(And excuse the derpiness of her hand and bottom half. If I have time at the end of this month, I'll revamp this one!!)
Applegate is writin's and stuff, and'll probably update sometime this weekend. Wishin' good luck on writing. :P
(And excuse the derpiness of her hand and bottom half. If I have time at the end of this month, I'll revamp this one!!)
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love the shading. Cant wait to see more!
Re: Ens Causa Sui [Nano2013]
I have a weird feeling that this story will turn out to be pretty sad. I like the character design, though. It looks like you've a pretty unique way to stylize faces - they look cute!
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Just dropping by to say I really love the premise of this game. One of the NaNo's I'm most looking forward to! All the best!!
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