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hello i'm new here!

i've been coming to this site a few times before i registered and I have to say that there are a lot of nice information that I can use to make my ideas a little stronger. Though it's too early for me to post or to make anything VN related. But theres this idea that I wanted to show before I really think I should keep this idea.It's an otome game with a mix of RPG. Feel free to drop your opinion.

Summary:
Some where in the near future, there's a device that allows you to explore the mind of an individual, literally. It is called the PD and it transfers you into a person's psyche, which will let you understand the person better because of the imagry shown represents the person in their daily life. Due to the usefulness of this device, people have to pay a fee each time they use it, mostly for medical purposes. Currently, it's being tested for playability for the gaming industry, but has yet been confirmed....
The protagonist just came back from the city to her hometown of 5 years ago. This has been decided because of her father's work. She also transfers to a school that is on the same county where she lived in. She is excited but worries that the friends she had before would not care enough to remember her. Fortunately, she was able to reconnect with old friends as well as make new ones. One of the new friends, Natalie, is a piano prodigy and she seems to have a perfect life or is she?
As time passes, she is doing well with school and friends. One day, she met a strange boy who asks if she can play an arcade game with him. What we find out about our heroine is that she has a phobia of electronics that has flashing lights, because she had an epileptic seizure she once had. The boy forces her to play and shows her that videogames aren't that bad, but the heroine still refuses to associate herself with electronics.
Lately, Natalie has been acting strangly and was suddenly found unconscious. She was taken to a hospital and she is considered to be in a coma. The doctors can't find what caused her to be in this state, until one of them suggested that there was a psychological cause. There find this more likely to happen and they suggest in using this device called the PD, but it costs a lot of money to use it. Natalie's parents couldn't afford to do this because are in a tight budget right now......
That is until a young man came to the heroine and offers her to use his version of the PD, with enhancements. He lets her use it for free in one condition, she has to be the one that tests it.

Might be worth putting this in the Ideas forum, although I'm a bit unfamiliar with how this board works. Maybe it doesn't go in there. But maybe it does? Bah.

Anyway, it sounds like a nice idea. When you say RPG, how much are you going into that? Like, 90% Visual Novel, but with a battle here and there? Will stats do anything outside of combat? Autolevel-up or choose your own stats? Yadda, yadda, yaddda.

well its like 70% plot and 30% gameplay.
I guess stats will have something to do with the game and i'm glad that you responded.
but i just came up with this idea so more will be in to it

Out of curiosity, what's the heroine's name?

the name can be changed but i call her Anne;)

The plot sounds really similar to .Hack with some elements of Psychonauts in it. I mean it's a combination that works together, however the coma element is very reminiscent of .Hack. The main plot of .Hack is players of The World MMORPG ending up in comas because of virulent AI programs in the game. Psychonauts is entirely about going through the minds of people and fighting their mental issues. You seem to have some interesting ideas going, but don't commit to anything yet. Revision is your friend.

raegun wrote:The plot sounds really similar to .Hack with some elements of Psychonauts in it. I mean it's a combination that works together, however the coma element is very reminiscent of .Hack. The main plot of .Hack is players of The World MMORPG ending up in comas because of virulent AI programs in the game. Psychonauts is entirely about going through the minds of people and fighting their mental issues. You seem to have some interesting ideas going, but don't commit to anything yet. Revision is your friend.

Thanks raegun for the headup. I'm really afraid when I come up with the ideas that I really like, it turns out that the idea was taken by something else. I used the idea of Natalie being in a coma because it motivate the heroine to save her friend and to explore the cause of her coma. However, the way the coma is caused in this story is because of certain entities appearing in the victim's mind. I'll explain it more in this thread.

I think a bit of similarity isn't that bad, or at least not condemn-worthy. The important thing is when it's all finished and done and dusted, it doesn't feel like a carbon copy of either of the two and has unique things of its own.

Plus, Psychonauts was awesome.

Well actually I was thinking of producing this in the future, after all i'm still a highschooler so I have plenty of time to refine it.

Since this is also an otome game, I'll introduce you the interests.

Lucas Watterson:
He is a boy who usually hangs out at the arcade. Anne first meet him there and she was asked to play an arcade game with him. He forced her to play, while unaware of her phobia of electronics that flash. When he heard that Anne is trying to save her friend and the the new PD has videogame-like elements, he wants in.

Gregory "Gigs" Dorscy:
He is responsible for enhancing the PD, which allowed more freedom and movement. He finds that Anne is perfect for testing out his device because of her situation. Later in the story, it turns out that he's the some of the inventor of the PD, but some turd took credit of it and made a huge profi from it. So Gigs, enhanced it hoping it would outmatch the previous version and make the turd look stupid

Aaron Ellis:
An old friend of Anne and the stepbrother of Natalie. He's the type who you can depend on, but from Anne's perspective he's a stalker. Natalie's dad and his mother pays more attention to him because he demontrated more talent than Natalie. In short, he caused Natalie to have lower self-esteem. Though he's didn't intend make Natalie that way, but ever since Anne became friends with her, he became jealous and he started to belittle her secretly.
*More to come*

Just a tip: If you add additional infos, it's better if you edit the first post and dump all the information there (and post a new post telling people that you add info on first post). That way, the infos won't scattered all around your thread and makes it easier in the future when you need to re-read all the infos.

sorry and thanks