) and I've been wanting to do a GxB visual novel with the help of my best friend, who writes really wonderful stories. So I do all the programming and artwork.General
+ Genre: Mystery, Surreal, Detective, Everyday routine.
+ Rating: PG-16, I think.
+ Characters: Protagonist (Nao), 4 boys datable (three in general and one secret-chara), 2 very important side characters, 5-7 side characters.
+Gameplay: pure (no simulation elements) GxB visual novel, with branching plot.
Story and protagonist
The protagonist of the story is Nao Watts.
Sarcastic, energetic adventurer, who moves into N. city.
She's a young beginning writer (failure in that). Loves strange dreams, spiders, ice-cream, she's totally in love with books and old town's bridges. Although she's very lively, she has a strange disease, which is considered being incurable. (Childhood traumas pack included
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The N. city is really old town, with lots of bridges, channels, small streets and wonders. (Ghost stories, anyone?)
This is the city of mechanics, researchers and inventors, so the town is full of mechanical dolls, robots and all this steampunk atmosphere.
I can understand Nao in her wish to live there. <3
A man without a face appears in her dreams to warn her, that she's in danger, and she should never open hidden doors.
At this time she has a great writer's block and can't think up a new story. So, to overcome this she wanders through the old town to see something new and inspiring.
She finds a big abandoned mansion not far from the town and being true adventurer ("hey, I've got the idea for my story!") begins exploring it. Since then she becomes just obsessed with that mansion, she opens the countless doors, that should never be opened and meets with the blind young lady (who's just crazy sociopath) of this house...
Nao will have to wander through the memories of the lady (Deyal) to close all the doors, to put everything together.
Excuses
Well I know, the scenario sounds really like corny story, but I promise, it IS interesting. It's just, that it's difficult to me to explain this story in English, since it's not my native language.
Yeah, the worst is, that the game will be in Russian. (now, I think, noone will be interested in it at all) But we just don't have good dojin VN in Russian, so I want "Thousand doors" to be the first one. T_T
However, some my friends in UK got interested in the idea and promised me to help with translations. It sounds really like daydreaming now, but I honestly want it to be translated, so that anyone can play.
I'll update this post soon with details of the story and characters descriptions. Also I have many sketches of the datable personages.
Characters
Datable personages:
Marko
Marko is such damn sweet and kind guy.. True adventurer, traveler and storyteller. He has such a vivid imagination, that you can never tell if his story is true or false. He works as a postman in eastern district (where Nao lives), the pay is not so good, but enough for him to live as he wants. He lives at his aunts place with his little genius brother. His aunt runs her own business , so you can tell, he just doesn't need money for living. No goal for living either.
Sometimes he acts kind of strange. By the way, his personality is darker, than it seems from the first sight.
He also has this "I'm nothing special, really" complex and feels that he's a failure compared to his genius bro.
(the information about other personages will be added later)
Other sketches
Well, Nao's outfit is really cute, isn't it?
... *and crosses fingers for a translation when it's done*
. I plan to update the theme as far as I get new images for characters 
Feel free to tell me your opinion about the story, characters and so on.
Good to hear that you're interested in doing a translation! (I wonder if machine translation of Russian is any better than it is with Japanese? Hmm.) Probably best to focus on getting the game done first, though, and worry about translating it after that.