Need A team to make a Mystery VN

[zankizuna]

Alright, I admit it I can't make a VN by myself.
I need help.
Alright, so I've been planning to make a Visual Novel just like Ace Attorney, a Mystery VN.
and i've got some characters in it now,too. I need a story.. a really good story.
I wanna call this project "DMD" or "Double-mind Detective"
The protagonist is some kind of detective who can talk to his subconscious mind
as if it were another person.
His subconscious mind remembers things he usually forgets, like plate numbers, colors of things,
names of people, and whatnot.
The protagonist's name would be Drystan.
I'm planning to use Ai also, an original character of mine as a character in this project.
Ai is Drystan's friend and is never the culprit, Drystan as well.
Please reply if you wanna be part of this
I'll be in charge of the character designs. And I will be director of this, u can help for free.

I need:

-a story; a writer(Full)
-backgrounds; a BG artist
-game; programmer
-interface; another designer
-music;musician
-SFX
-voice?(optional)
-whatever u can help

u can message me here or at deviantart, or my fb. just ask. if every member has facebook, we can chat there. and brainstorm.

[Applegate]

How much free reign are you giving a writer? How much do you expect them to do? Will you give them a scenario and a case, and write out an outline for the story, or is the writer meant to run with the concept provided and think up his own stuff? What length are you aiming for?

And I will be director of this, u can help for free.

I'm sure you don't mean to come off that way, but "you can help for free" is like saying, "you can buy this car for $5,000", and it sounds like a deal. Can you offer writers anything in return for their services? It doesn't need to be money, but you're basically asking people to donate their free time to bring to life characters and a story/concept you are passionate about.

[zankizuna]

I think I'll ask for one Case only, for now.. The story should be short and hard to solve as a mystery..
hahaha, I guess I can't give them anything, but they can add characters they want to make alive and make a name for being writer of this.
They should just follow the first plot. and make a good and bad ending, of course. since it's a VN..
If we finish one game of DMD with one awesome case, we can do another episode as a team, maybe.

[pickle131]

If you need any short voices for catchphrases (like the objections in Ace Attorney), I'd love to help 8D I'm a massive fan of the series.

[Juneberry]

I'm still a bit confused, but depending on what kind of writing you need (do you want a different writer for each case? wait, are there multiple cases? etc), I might be up to helping a bit. I can try to help with other things too, but I'm just doing it because it seems randomly fun o.o;

[Laiska]

I wanna call this project "DMD" or "Double-mind Detective".

I would be careful with that abbreviation. 'DMMd' is an oft-used abbreviation of "DRAMAtical Murder," which is a popular BL visual novel xD

[Sayashiro]

Whoo~ This sounds really neat. I can definitely help out with voice-acting if you should choose to incorporate voices into the game.

[Applegate]

I think I'll ask for one Case only, for now.. The story should be short and hard to solve as a mystery..
hahaha, I guess I can't give them anything, but they can add characters they want to make alive and make a name for being writer of this.
They should just follow the first plot. and make a good and bad ending, of course. since it's a VN..
If we finish one game of DMD with one awesome case, we can do another episode as a team, maybe.

So do you have a case in mind, or is that one of the areas the writer should think about? Are there any gameplay segments? You say you're inspired by Phoenix Wright, does that mean we get "debates" à la Ace Investigator: Miles Edgeworth, or will there not be much gameplay? I know that's something to think about when you have a programmer, but if ideally everything came together, what would this project look like? What is the absolute minimum?

I'm asking because I think this is an interesting idea. (Being a student of law, I nerd over PW a lot, too.)

[zankizuna]

wow, so many people replying

If you need any short voices for catchphrases (like the objections in Ace Attorney), I'd love to help 8D I'm a massive fan of the series.

Whoo~ This sounds really neat. I can definitely help out with voice-acting if you should choose to incorporate voices into the game.

Sure, you can dub, but I don't think we should get to that until the final script is given.
I'm sorry for last time, I didn't finish the script, and I finally discontinued. on Erasers.
I want to finish this project this time, and make it successful, coz I'm really jealous of Jisei.
speaking of, regarding the pointing pose, what do you think should replace "Objection"?

I wanna call this project "DMD" or "Double-mind Detective".

I would be careful with that abbreviation. 'DMMd' is an oft-used abbreviation of "DRAMAtical Murder," which is a popular BL visual novel xD

Creepy.. I jus hope players don't get mixed up..

[zankizuna]

I think I'll ask for one Case only, for now.. The story should be short and hard to solve as a mystery..
hahaha, I guess I can't give them anything, but they can add characters they want to make alive and make a name for being writer of this.
They should just follow the first plot. and make a good and bad ending, of course. since it's a VN..
If we finish one game of DMD with one awesome case, we can do another episode as a team, maybe.

So do you have a case in mind, or is that one of the areas the writer should think about? Are there any gameplay segments? You say you're inspired by Phoenix Wright, does that mean we get "debates" à la Ace Investigator: Miles Edgeworth, or will there not be much gameplay? I know that's something to think about when you have a programmer, but if ideally everything came together, what would this project look like? What is the absolute minimum?

I'm asking because I think this is an interesting idea. (Being a student of law, I nerd over PW a lot, too.)

mr. Applegate, sir, I think the Gameplay should definitely be like Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.
I'm really fond of that game.

[zankizuna]

I'm still a bit confused, but depending on what kind of writing you need (do you want a different writer for each case? wait, are there multiple cases? etc), I might be up to helping a bit. I can try to help with other things too, but I'm just doing it because it seems randomly fun o.o;

There'll only be 1 case. Sure, please help

[Phersu]

Well, I wouldn't mind helping with the writing. If you do voices, I can assist with that as well. You can check some of my work through the website on my profile if you're interested.

[zankizuna]

I've made some new coloring on my protagonist, Drystan. what do you guys think?

[Ferdokki]

Drystan looks like Ash Ketchum!
But in all seriousness, this is really cool.

Omfg, I wish I read about this earlier or something. I LOVE the mystery genre, and I'd LOVE to make a mystery game; that has been my dream since high school, as I feel there aren't enough mystery games out there.

Unfortunately, I'm super busy with school and other VN project scripts for other people. Otherwise, I'd TOTALLY work with you!

[zankizuna]

Drystan looks like Ash Ketchum!
But in all seriousness, this is really cool.

lol!! I get that a lot!

I agree with you, there should be more mystery!! for free.
Please support anyway, the only people who offered help were writers.
I wish i could get other help!