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Hey Lemma artists! Heed my call!

I'm hiring ONE

The VN will be a more realistic Slice of Life set in Japan, in the fictional town of Fuyumachi. By "realistic" I mean that you can really end up dead or get someone else killed (although rare) if you aren't careful. It's mainly a dramatic novel, with bits of romance and comedy.

The main difference in our game from most VN's is that you do not need to date some girl to get your Good Ending, but rather really just achieve your happiness or manage to get Tatsuya (The main character) a path to follow in his life. It has some very complicated branchings (E.g: If you meet only two of the main heroines, the two of them will interact with each other along with the main character. If you meet three, the three will interact with themselves and the main character.) and the choices do not involve "follow X girl", but instead, "go to Y place, or do Z activity".
(I'm not going to ask the player to select a phrase to say to a girl because this isn't a dating sim.)

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An insight about the girls:

Three different branches of the family of The Great Grandfather (that's how people adress him!), the richest man in Japan have their daughters, Mai, Ayumi and Nayuki meet in Fuyumachi, and their destinies can be completely changed by a mid low class teenager called Tatsuya.

That man was wise, and knew his sons would fight over the inheritance if he left most of it to his older child, thus he decided to split it equally, but even so, the brothers never really liked each other, and decided to form their own branches, unwillingly to share surnames with each other. (They were upset at his father's decision too, so none of them kept his surname.)

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For every good ending achieved, a Sphere of Light will emerge from the character whose path was completed. Each sphere is colored differently, according to the emotion that "released" it.

For example, in Ayumi's path, all she ever wanted was to feel that someone cared about her, so her sphere is White, meaning "affection".

Mai wanted to find her soul mate, so her sphere is red.

Nayuki's sphere is also white.

The Old Lady's sphere is Orange, meaning "nostalgia" (She deeply misses her husband, and Tatsuya helps her get over it)

A person can "release" a sphere more than once, and they are created when the person's deepest wish is granted. The light orb is the form of reward from the gratefulness of the other person, and they can be used to grant a wish, so long as the wish does not involve any sinful thoughts.
In Tatsuya's story, Mai's Good Ending is only achieveable if he has completed every other path. All the spheres he collected will be used to save Mai's life when she drowns.

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If the player chooses wisely, upon reaching the Good Ending of a girl's path, an item appears in the main menu. It is what Tatsuya gifts them. (It is possible to reach their good endings without gifting them, but then, they won't show in the menu!)

For Mai, he gives her a plushy yellow bird. Birds are Mai's favorite animals.

For Ayumi, Tatsuya gives her a ring. It only appears in the Main Menu if, at the last decision, the player chooses to propose marriage to Ayumi, rather than a relationship.

For Nayuki, he makes a rather big origami heart, cuts it in half and puts a metallic chain on it, creating a necklace. He then, writes Nayuki on one side, and gives it to her. When Tatsuya is recovering in the hospital after being shot by a drug dealer (a guy from Nayuki's past), she asks him where is the other half, and he says that it's already glued on the other side, telling her that she had always carried his whole heart with her all that time.

There is also Maori's Arc (Second unlockable playable character, and a girl! But no, no GxG. She already has a boyfriend ), but that's enough spoilers for now

Viniciuskk wrote:There are plenty of good people here on Lemma that charge between $ 20 to $ 50 for a BG, which would mean even as low as $2 per hour.

Viniciuskk wrote:I found two people a couple months who make high definition 3D backgrounds for $20 and $ 25, but I didn't know that their skill would actually have such value. Every art thread I checked here on Lemma had amazing art for very different prices, ranging between $20 to $ 70, even though they were all equally skilled.

Viniciuskk wrote:I didn't know that their skill would actually have such value.

Auro-Cyanide wrote:
Even then, you can't make them stay if life puts them in a position that they can no longer work, which is the risk with longer projects.

Viniciuskk wrote:There are plenty of good people here on Lemma that charge between $ 20 to $ 50 for a BG, which would mean even as low as $2 per hour. But still, you're right. That's a very low amount of money per hour. I guess the people I found are just hobbyists, but even so, their skill level is the same as yours.



I don't expect this game to be done by at least the beggining of 2014. It's... VERY large ... Not only on art, but also on word count.

EDIT: $100 for a bg...? You're surely the most expensive guy I've found here o.O

...Actually, come to think of it. Even $10/hour isn't really all that much... *throws alway all my current art skills*