I'm Rin, I'm a girl who likes visual novels. More BxG games than vice versa, mainly because I like the stories in those a bit better. (I really love the nakige genre.) I also love horror visual novels, but I'd probably be bad at making some.
I love Ren'Py and I'd really like to make a visual novel one day. Or multiple visual novels. Four Leaf Studios are my idols. As is Key and Ryukishi07, the big guys. <3
It's too bad I can't supply any good art for a visual novel, and I can't program as well as I'd like. I'd like to compose music for it one day, but I don't have any software for that. (This computer is a school computer, so I can't install software either; thank goodness I installed Ren'Py before they decided to ban installation. Which is also why I can't install the driver for my printer/scanner to be able to scan pictures. How flawed!)
I also just think a team would be more fun and just better!! So I would love to just create a fun and easy-going, unpaid team to make some visual novels. We can start off small and grow from there. It's my dream. <3
About the team I'd like to make:
It'll be a free team, I'm sorry I don't have money to give... x.x Maybe one day. <3
I'd like to specialize in the nakige/eroge BxG genre, but we can spread out eventually if you prefer.
The size of the team really doesn't matter to me-- for a person to fill in multiple jobs would be cool, and also if there's more than one person on one job, the more the merrier. But here are some spots that probably need to be filled:
First, I will be a writer and scripter. I'd also like to design the documented 'instructions' for the rest of the team that kind of guides them where they are going overall (without restricting their creativity). Plus I like making sure everything is in check and on schedule. Are scripters also the coders? Because I'm not very good at coding, but I'm decent, and I can fill that role if we have no one else... I am not good at coding to customize things like menus and text boxes, however. Thus:
It'd probably be good to have another programmer in the team. Someone who can make everything pretty. <3
It's not primary, but I'd also like multiple writers in the team eventually. It'd be good for different people to work on different routes, like the pros do.
An artist would of course be good. I love giving the artist creative freedom to do whatever they want; of course if they like having guidelines I could do that too. All I ask is that I have an artist that at least knows how to make the moe kind of girls that will most likely be most of the sprites drawn in our visual novels. And that the sprites are colorful with cool hair and eye colors~
A background artist would be nice, though not mandatory. There's tons of resources for backgrounds, anyway, but it would be awesome if we had one.
A composer as well. I like computer-made music a little better than instruments, but whatever sounds nice. <3
And I think those are the fundamentals that should be in the group. ^^ Again, we don't need just one person to fill each category. It'd be so fun!
To conclude, I made a very short, 10-minute or so visual novel to portray my writing and coding skills. It's really simple and I didn't do anything fancy with it, but please ignore my inability to make things pretty. That's not what I specialize in lol. x.x
This is a very surreal and imaginative story I came up with a few days ago, and spent the last two days putting to life. I'll also have to mention the sprites are from Google Images and I poorly edited them to change expressions and stuff, ahihi. (One of them I had to draw the top of her head in too because she didn't have one. x.x) The music is from my playlist too lol-- I wouldn't do this kind of stuff for a "real" game. Of course I'm not planning on selling or even promoting this visual novel; I made it merely for the purpose of this thread in this forum, so I really hope no one goes into a fit about it or anything, like it matters. uwu; I don't own anything except the story. The rest of the resources were from free-resource sites. I'll have to apologize for my poor editing skills though; I can't install Photoshop as I've mentioned why before, so I'm stuck with pixlr. (You should just be focusing on my writing and coding anyway! ;w;)
Anyway, enjoy! Let's make a great team together! <3 (Also, I'm pretty sure I built the distribution wrong. If any experts want to help me with it, feel free, I'm a newbie. It'll save me from mistakes in the future. Thanks~ xwx)
