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[Lordie]

Ok. I've spoken to the core members of the team and they agreed on going for route 2!
We also decided to have a working title for the game: True Love Alternative
If anyone have a suggestion for a name they think will be better, I'd love to hear them.

Again, thanks for your replies and guidings! <3

[mikey]

I'd say TL Alternative sounds like an "alternative to true love" (cheap love, perhaps), not like an "alternative to the game True Love".

My random ideas would be Truest Love, Pure Love, First Love, or the wonderfully inventive True Loves. Maybe among the thousands of Japanese games some of these titles are taken, it would need some research.

[PyTom]

True Love Alternative

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The last thing you want is a name that brings you in line with X-Change Alternative.

I'd also like the float the suggestion that you might be able to benefit by building a relatively shallow dating-sim layer on top of Ren'Py, as opposed to writing a new engine from scratch in C++.

[Lordie]

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The last thing you want is a name that brings you in line with X-Change Alternative.

Even as a working title? O.o

I'd also like the float the suggestion that you might be able to benefit by building a relatively shallow dating-sim layer on top of Ren'Py, as opposed to writing a new engine from scratch in C++.

Can you give a link to Ren'Py? I'll have my developer look at it and see what he says.

[PyTom]

Even as a working title? O.o

I was, of course, kidding. But wouldn't Truer Love be a good title?

(no.)

Can you give a link to Ren'Py? I'll have my developer look at it and see what he says.

Well, http://www.renpy.org/ , and you might also want to look at the dating sim engine you can grab from
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Frameworks . The latter is not so much for use as for getting an idea of what can be done.

[Lordie]

Thanks

[Threevenge]

I'm gonna start off somewhat off-topic:

[quote="MorphineSoldier]Lordie: No, the cliche is that "All publicity is good publicity." and everyone with a brain knows that isn't true. Especially since it contradicts "No news is good news."[/quote]


"No news is good news" isn't completely right. First off, no news means nothing is progressing and things are standing still. Second, no news means that I won't have a job after getting my journalism major

Now to the topic. I really hope you'll be able to complete this game and it's good to see you're going with an original work. Any remake of a video game is trying a balancing act over shark-infested waters; too many changes and fans will feel like it ruined what made the original special, too few changes and fans will complain that it's a rip off. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly a lot of attempts of remakes even by professionals fail to keep that balance.

[Lordie]

I feel pretty confident that my group can finish this.
However, there are some key positions open, such as character design and CG artists.
We are also looking for graphic and sound programmer, depending on if we're going to use Ren'Py as core or making our own from scractch.
If anyone is interested in being a project leader for the group it will help me tremendiously.
Already got the rest (so far) covered, and I also got a musician to make the music.
I would also really like the game to have voices, but I'm not even sure if that's possible to get the right people for it.

[MorphineSoldier]

I feel pretty confident that my group can finish this.
However, there are some key positions open, such as character design and CG artists.
We are also looking for graphic and sound programmer, depending on if we're going to use Ren'Py as core or making our own from scractch.
If anyone is interested in being a project leader for the group it will help me tremendiously.
Already got the rest (so far) covered, and I also got a musician to make the music.
I would also really like the game to have voices, but I'm not even sure if that's possible to get the right people for it.

It's possible, and you may even be able to get some of those people here.

I know I have some of the proper equipment and software to record, I am however very much a male, and you probably aren't very interested in male voices.

I could stretch for female though =O -puts on a falsetto and talks about shoes-

[bloodywyvern]

I feel pretty confident that my group can finish this.
However, there are some key positions open, such as character design and CG artists.
We are also looking for graphic and sound programmer, depending on if we're going to use Ren'Py as core or making our own from scractch.
If anyone is interested in being a project leader for the group it will help me tremendiously.
Already got the rest (so far) covered, and I also got a musician to make the music.
I would also really like the game to have voices, but I'm not even sure if that's possible to get the right people for it.

Well there is a difference in being ABLE to finish something, and actually doing it but I believe you guys will pull through nicely. Just remember to pick a very good project leader, since well organization is a really big deal in keeping everyone together. I would volunteer, since I have the time, but I have no prior experience on the matter.

Voices can be difficult to hit "on the money" to the original idea. So you'll want to take in lots of different samples, rather then just taking the first person to "sound close enough". Or so I think.

[Lordie]

It's possible, and you may even be able to get some of those people here.

I know I have some of the proper equipment and software to record, I am however very much a male, and you probably aren't very interested in male voices.

I could stretch for female though =O -puts on a falsetto and talks about shoes-

Hehe. Well, if we decide to have voices on the extra characters maybe

Well there is a difference in being ABLE to finish something, and actually doing it but I believe you guys will pull through nicely. Just remember to pick a very good project leader, since well organization is a really big deal in keeping everyone together. I would volunteer, since I have the time, but I have no prior experience on the matter.

That's true. I kind of want people with the expertise here, so I can feel that the project is in safe hands....*shrugs*

[Counter Arts]

True Love Alternative

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The last thing you want is a name that brings you in line with X-Change Alternative.

Well there is another probably more well known one called Futakoi Alternative. The moral of the story of Futakoi is probably the exact opposite of Futakoi Alternative in the animes. I happen to have Futakoi Alternative.

[bloodywyvern]

I could stretch for female though =O -puts on a falsetto and talks about shoes-

That is scary...truly, truly scary...

The worst part being if you could pull it off well.

That's true. I kind of want people with the expertise here, so I can feel that the project is in safe hands....*shrugs*

Not a problem I already said I wouldn't volunteer for that very reason, and gave tips instead.

[Mirielle]

I would also really like the game to have voices, but I'm not even sure if that's possible to get the right people for it.

If you look in the right places, you'll find dozens, even hundreds, of amateur female (and male, although female VA is more often needed for VN's/Dating Sims) voice actors, myself included. If you're looking for free voice talent, then it's relatively simple to get a good deal of varied and incredibly professional sounding voice actors at no expense at all. We do it for the publicity, experience and the chance to add to our resumes and hopefully help our chances of breaking into the industry.

Ahem, that was my voice acting rant for the day. Needless to say, when you hold auditions, I will definitely be there.

[Lordie]

If you look in the right places, you'll find dozens, even hundreds, of amateur female (and male, although female VA is more often needed for VN's/Dating Sims) voice actors, myself included. If you're looking for free voice talent, then it's relatively simple to get a good deal of varied and incredibly professional sounding voice actors at no expense at all. We do it for the publicity, experience and the chance to add to our resumes and hopefully help our chances of breaking into the industry.

Ahem, that was my voice acting rant for the day. Needless to say, when you hold auditions, I will definitely be there.

Nice! Thanks for the info