After a few weeks here on the forums, I decided to make my first ever visual novel.
Just wanted to have a go so that I could try using renpy.
PlotWhen we were children, they never drew me towards depraved or extreme situations. But now it feels like it is too much, I'm confused, I don't know who is right or who is wrong, I cannot take a side because I can't stand seeing one of them hurt. Why can't they just be friends again? Why do they have to make me pick? What happened to the boys I used to know?
The title of the game is Caught in between. You'll be playing the role of a girl named Tanaka Shione she has two childhood friends named Masaru and Kenji. All three of them were inseparable, they went to the the same grade school, the same middle school, and now the three of them went to the same high school. But, when High school came they went to different clubs. Masaru the smart guy joined the book club and the Science club while Kenji became more athletic by joining the Basketball team. Shione, being a great singer, decided to join her school choir. There she met Misaki and instantly became her friend. Misaki was a great friend, and Shione is so grateful that she met her, besides the fact she has OCD and that she constantly reprimands Shione for being lazy. So, Shione lived her High School with Misaki, Masaru and Kenji as her best friends. However, during those two years in High School Masaru and Kenji started to grow apart, Masaru spent more time with his "geek" friends and Kenji spent more time with the jocks. But, they still occasionally go together with Misaki and Shione during lunch and during their walks to and from school. Then came senior year Masaru and Kenji finally grew apart they started to throw offensive insults towards each other and they never spoke to each other again. Shione is still friends with both of them, and her friendship with them is giving her a very big problem because when Masaru and Kenji asks her to choose a side, she cannot answer and since she cannot pick a side yet. She decided to be with Misaki all the time even though she really misses the company of both of the guys .
You will be guiding Shione on her senior-year. It is up to you which guy she would choose. You will determine what her fate would be on her final year in high school. Will you finally pick a side or will you be able to make Masaru and Kenji friends again?
Character Bio
I've changed their names to Japanese names
Main Character
* Age:17
*long brown layered hair.
*brown eyes
*height around 169 cm
* She can sing and dance
* Best Trait- She can give great advice and she is a great tutor.
* Worst Trait- She easily gets annoyed and when she's annoyed she tends to be really sarcastic.
*Likes- music
*Dislikes- Chores and Having to organize her things.
The guys in the game.
*Age:17
*Height around 181 cm
* Dark-green eyes (He wears glasses.)
* Short brown hair.
* Shy around other people but talks a lot when with friends.
* MC is his only female friend
* A very smart guy. (He is actually in the running for school Valedictorian)
* A bit of a schizoid.
* likes- Books and studying.
*dislikes- people who bully his friends and girls who try to charm him into letting them copy his quizzes or homework.
*Age:18
*Height around 183 cm
* Blonde spiky hair
* Playful-looking blue eyes
* Likes to play pranks
* A very sweet guy
* He loves chocolate (When he doesn't get to consume chocolate he gets really cranky.)
*likes- Chocolate(Obviously.) and Sports.
*dislikes- anything that involves computation (such as Physics and Math) and being called stupid.
Side Character
* Age:16
* Short red hair
* Gray eyes
* Height around 163 cm
* Has OCD
* The one who organizes Shione's very unorganized things
* likes- Cleanliness, Music (She is in the school choir together with Shione.)
*dislikes- Dirty things and Math (Even if she studies hard for this subject she always ends up with a C or C+ as her grade, as a result she always asks Shione to tutor her.)
Sorry, if you guys think my story is a bit too cliche. This is my first VN so I decided to make a simple story. (If I put the usual stories I write this whole VN would be a lot more complicated)
There would be 6+ endings.
Progress.
Story-100%
Script- 75%
Sprite- 0%
Art(CGs)-0%
Sorry I had to break my promise. I couldn't post the character portraits. I have to bug my friend again into letting me have them.
Writer/Programmer- Me
CG artist- juryia
Sprite artist- Elze
CAUGHT IN BETWEEN: A CHILDHOOD PROLOGUE = DONE!
If anyone is still interested please volunteer so that this project could make progress at a faster rate and anyway, the more the merrier..!