Pet Project Revived (Writers Wanted)

[LVUER]

Again, lots of reply while I was away, again blaming the time zone differences.

Well, I see Fawn's point. OK then, if it's alright with everyone, I want to go with Iguana-tan setting. It's already established, it's usable, it's pretty nice... so why not use it and appreciate Thee Forsaken One's hard work (he already made all that from the first pet project while everyone was still on designing phase).

BTW, you don't have to worry about prologue and explanation for background story. Since your path begins from the day 1 (the pet arrives) not day 0 (MC choose the pet). One person will make the day 0 and everyone could use it, just like the default bad ending.

Confirming once again:
- The MC is about 24 years or older.
- He works online and have a decent amount of money.
- He lives in a house. But I don't want to change to BG amount. So it's still 1 bed room, 1 living room (with kitchen), 1 bath room. Perhaps there can be other rooms in the house but there will be no BG for them.
- In case you can make him go away at morning and back at night to do something (online works may still have something that needed to taken care directly, like visiting the hosting company or actually examining your server physically), you can do that... no problem.
- I will stick to one female friend.

- Just in case Mugenjohncel couldn't deliver the BG in time, we will use filtered photo
- Just in case there's people here (artist/writer) couldn't meet the deadline, the pet won't be included into the final game (this works for me too, so to be fair).

@Thee Forsaken One & Fawn:
Could you please change the friend's gender to female. Even if your best friend is a female, you don't have to romantically engaged with her, right?

[Fawn]

Why don't we make the friend his sister that works at the cafe? :O Then (most) people won't be disappointed that she's not romance-able. And we could make her a moe imouto~

[LVUER]

LOL

I'm afraid it will add too many character and make things more complicated.

Well, it's up to you to make her as romance-able character or not (just like I rolling on the ground, crying when I realized Aya is not romance-able in Yume Miru Kusuri).

I will make the friend as romance-able character ^_^ since it's one of the 3 endings.

[Fawn]

Nono, I don't mean to add a character, I mean just have the female friend you want be his sister so she's not romancable at all.

I don't think that's a good idea to have that route It'd be imbalanced, since not everyone will want to add that complication to the story. A player will play your route, then they'll go to another route and say "Hey, why can't I romance (insert name here)?"

The only way it would work is if everyone added her in like that, and that would throw everyone off (including the player). There's going to already by 5 or more pet-tans, there's no need for an extra girl. On top of that, every time you play a route her route would always be the same (there's not much wiggle room for her route to be different, even if it was slightly different it'd be silly and boring to the player to have 5 or so versions of her route)

It could be acceptable if this was your own game, but since this is a compilation of one game, having one story have different gameplay than the other wouldn't be fair and could make players feel that the game is unorganized.

The 3 endings for each pet-tan only will be best. A romantic ending, a neutral "good" ending and the bad ending is balanced and gives writers room to explore without having to account for another romantic interest.

[Sapphi]

I was going to suggest the same thing since in the event that another writer also wants to write a path for the female friend, they're going to have to make sure she acts like the same character as the way you've written her, which adds to the already high count of things we need to keep similar between our stories. I mean, we're already having a hard enough time deciding the player character...

[Fawn]

It shouldn't be too hard to pick a generic main character... Since you have choices that go towards different endings, the player basically decides what kind of guy he is anyways- Is he just a nice guy, Is he romantic and caring, or is he a jerk?

We should make sure the player and side characters don't have, well, too much character! They should be character tropes that all the writers are familiar with and know how to write.

[LVUER]

Hmmm... ok then. No prob, no childhood friend romance-able character ^_^ Then let's go with Fawn's idea, make that friend character as the MC little sister (cough... I mean the moe imotou).

But if we make this little sister WORKS at a cafe, the MC couldn't ask for free food, right? Since if I'm not mistaken, in Iguana-tan path, that friend offer free food to the MC and the pet. But if we make the little sister as the cafe owner... it would strange, wouldn't it.

[Fawn]

She could be a naughty imouto and lie to her boss haha. That could be part of the problem, though... In Ferret-tan's case, she eats so much food that she makes the mc almost go broke (ferrets eat a TON of food). So in turn he can't pay for her.

Though, what do you all think of the "paying" for the pet? Should they be free or should the mc still have to pay for them?

[LVUER]

Is that possible? To lie about that, I mean? Almost impossible especially if the cafe owner is the one who prepare the food. Or perhaps the MC could order something with a discount (employee discount), the little sister buy the food and give it to the big bro, hehehe... I hate it if my employee do that to me...

We don't really have to mention about that in the game... I believe when one week is up, the ending will kick in, and it's not like we have to mention whether the MC have to pay for the pet or not in the ending scene.

But for inside-story purpose (not to be told to audience), let's just say the professor pay a visit after that one week and tell the MC the whole truth, that pet-tan is his creation and how he passed the test and have to raise the pet-tan carefully, as her master or her lover (or anything).

[Fawn]

Haha, who knows.

Sounds good Also, I had a suggestion for this thread- Since we have more designs than writers, maybe you should briefly change the title of this thread so it says "(Writers wanted)" instead of "(Recruitment opened)". There's plenty of artists on this forum but the writers are harder to find, so we should focus on them more.

[LVUER]

I want to know who still haven't story for their pet or which writer who still haven't secured an artist. Could you post or PM me? I don't want to wait too long or we could risk lose the motivation (I want we to start ASAP).

[Fawn]

Where did everyone gooo~ ;A;

While we wait, here's a doodle-y concept of the the MC's waitress Imouto ~~

If she's acceptable, it'd be nice to have her mentioned in the introduction (something as simple as "my sister lives near by and works at a cafe") so it's not a total surprise that the MC's little sister shows up.

[LVUER]

For moe Imouto lover, dump your sketches now >_< We will pick it later by... like usual... the power of democracy. I will dump my sketches this night, now I'm too tired...

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UPDATE
Just got PM from Mugenjohncel. He's willing to make BG for the project, yay ^_^

[TsukiShima]

Oh, that big news, no need to worry about the BG now! I'm pretty much fine with how the story will go. I don't have anything to complain either.

So yes, go on! I'm a loyal follower and I follow the updates here. Since right now I'm out of idea to help much..

[SilverxBlue]

So yes, go on! I'm a loyal follower and I follow the updates here. Since right now I'm out of idea to help much..

Same here...
Though Mocha07734 and I have already made our plans for Horse-tan. ^_^