Could this kind of project work as a VN?
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:55 am
I couldn't figure out where I could ask about this, hopefully this is the right place.
Basically, I'm pondering whether my game concept would work as a Visual Novel / appeal to VN audience. I know the story I want to tell, I have the music I need, I can draw & render some of the graphics I need and am able to purchase the rest. The possible ways to tell the interactive story in game format would be the following:
Basically, I'm pondering whether my game concept would work as a Visual Novel / appeal to VN audience. I know the story I want to tell, I have the music I need, I can draw & render some of the graphics I need and am able to purchase the rest. The possible ways to tell the interactive story in game format would be the following:
- Graphic adventure à la Telltale Games productions / Life Is Strange. BUT: This would require more resources than I can muster.
- Text only game, created with the ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. BUT: I want to supplement the story with music and graphics.
- Visual novel. BUT: See below.
- Sci-fi themed story, but one that could actually happen (all concepts based on real science).
- Characters that act realistically, not as mere tools to drive the story or puppets to cater to the needs of the protagonist, but following their own agendas.
- Intertextuality (optional, not obligatory).
- Choices that really affect the way story unfolds.
- Multiple endings.
- Anime influences (although I could purchase some of the graphics from an anime style artist).
- Dating (albeit there would be at least one "romance option", but it definitely would not be the beef of the game).
- Nudity.