The Wayward Hospital [Survival] (CANCELLED!)

[Morhighan]

This game is now officially cancelled/in development hell.


After a year Hiatus, the decision to revive this project has been made. Currently recruiting artist(s). I'm making this topic to track progress and see if I can snag an artist's interest.

Title: The Wayward Hospital
Style: Visual Novel (NVL)
Genre: Dark, Horror, Survival
Playtime: Unknown at the moment

Plot:
You play as Dr. Harding. You are writing a book that you hope will make people more aware about mental health and the importance of awareness and care for the mentally ill. Part of your research requires that you go to the village of Van Mort, and spend time at their sanitarium. While you withhold information from the hospital staff, you learn that they too are keeping secrets. Soon you realize that you have to escape the hospital, but at what price? Do you sacrifice your sanity or the real reason you came to Van Mort in the first place?

Characters:


Dr. Harding - The protagonist, aka you.


Dr. Klause - The lead doctor of the asylum.


Melissa - Your assistant.


Mrs. Amelia - The head matron.

Credits:

Story: Morhighan
GUI: Morhighan
Sprites: lineart - wanijam, color - Morhighan
Background images: Morhighan
Music: Morhighan
Beta testers: ???

Progress: 23%

Writing and Plot - 100%
Programming - 40%
GUI - 0%
Background Images - 0%
Sprites - 0%
Music - 0%

Status:

November 11, 2011:
The game contains 107 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 2,904 words,
for an average of 27.1 words per screen.

October 14, 2012:
The game contains 130 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 3,594 words,
for an average of 27.6 words per screen.
The game contains 1 menus.

(Wow, so much in a year. >.>; )

October 15, 2012:
The game contains 148 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 4,069 words,
for an average of 27.5 words per screen.
The game contains 2 menus.

October 16, 2012:
The game contains 248 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 6,572 words,
for an average of 26.5 words per screen.
The game contains 7 menus.

(Almost done!)

Completed Script:

The game contains 253 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 6,822 words,
for an average of 27.0 words per screen.
The game contains 7 menus.
0 errors.

[azureXtwilight]

I am watching this! I love the survival genre and the medical background into it sounds extremely awesome~

[Asuka Shinota-chi]

Wew...the story make me curious...Oh,have you drawn the chars and BG?

[Morhighan]

I have the characters designed, but I would prefer to have another person be the artist. I don't think my art skills are up to par.

[Morhighan]

Alright, got an artist and am now done with the script!
Finished script:

The game contains 253 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 6,822 words,
for an average of 27.0 words per screen.
The game contains 7 menus.
0 errors.

[ShojiAmasawa]

I love psychological horror! I look forward to seeing some screenshots. This sounds amazing in premise and I am sure it will live up to my expectations. If you need help with logo design, then let me know. Either way, I will keeping an eye on this!

[thedarkdefender]

Oh my glob! A survival game!

Please finish this for the love of God. I am so looking forward for this.

[Onomatopoeia]

Survival games, always such fun!

Can't wait to see more, I wish you luck on your project.

[Morhighan]

Ok! It's been a while, and I thought the project was dead or lost since my computer died and I lost a lot of files.
Turns out I had a backup online. And the script was all there, all finished, much to my surprise! So it looks like I'll be working to get this done. In the meantime, I'm going to post a demo of the script to get people's impressions.

[Morhighan]

This game is now officially cancelled/in development hell.


The reason behind the cancellation of this project is thus:
I never managed to get much input on the game, and no artists responded to my recruitment threads. The game has sat at a standstill since the last time I posted in this thread back in 2013. I mean, I started the game in 2011, finished it in 2012, and it's done nothing but rotted the entire time.

I am proud that I managed to get a script done--it was my first branching script that I finished, which is a lot more than I can say for recent works.

So I suppose I'll keep the files online as a testament to my youth. Or something.

You check it out what progress I made on Gamejolt here.

My apologies if you expressed interest in this project, I feel pretty let down myself. Luckily, there wasn't much interest from what I could tell, so it's not too big of a loss.