Any idea for my project?

[Picez]

Okay, this is my... 2nd post (yeah i'm new here XP)
I want to discuss something...
I love writing so much (u can tell that i'm an author), and currently writing a cell phone novel now (u can read here http://bit.ly/1luvcpt or via mobile site at http://bit.ly/1luvcp)

Those who doesn't know about cell phone novel, you can read the article at wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel

The plot is:
This is a school life, love, and teenage story. About first love. A story about a girl who changes her school. This school full of bullying and stuff like that. And she meets someone who she most hated since childhood and come to her life again in this school. This girl also have a problem with her confidence because she always protected by her protective twin-big-brother (she has no parents anymore), so she must get new friends here with so much efforts beside gain a high rank in her class. And someday she meets someone (a senior in her school) who has two personalities, and can threaten her because this person knew about her secret. This is about friendship, love, and school life.

Nah, the problem is:
I want to make a visual novel version from this novel. But I'm afraid that this is only would be a kinetic novel (a VN without menu). But I really want to make this as a VN. But I'm afraid there would be no challenge here (since it's a novel from the first).
So... any idea? Something like challenge or mission or so forth? Or should I make this as a simulated date game? I want to make this as VN but still followed the novel's plot.

So far I've collected the char art for female, BGs, and stuff.
Could you tell me the links where I can get the character art for male's body?
I've not found it yet XP

Thanks b4 xD

[Picez]

oh for the char art for male's body, I mean I need just an example for male's body, so I can took that as a reference (you know that male has muscles in some part of their body and so forth, nah i can't draw it perfectly without an example) xP

[azureXtwilight]

Male references are so many, you can flip through google (I know,bad! Bad!) or try this OELVN wiki http://wiki.renai.us/wiki/Character_Art which has so many references... or just search through DA...

You can even ask for someone to draw your characters, there are plenty in this forum. Just get them to like your story.

[Doggy Nino]

Your story is really cool. I love the summary of it! He~he. Anyway there so many references out there like Azure said. good luck!

[Picez]

azure: eh u r from indo too? nice to meet u xD yeah i checked the link n only found body for female char xP

Doggy Nino: hey u read it? xD thanks!

should i make it as simulate date game or not? seems it wud more match for my novel xD but i dunno wt mission that wud be perfect for school life story like this xD
n then i downloaded engine for simulate date game from ren'py, but i dunno wt shud i do after downloaded it. any suggest?

[winternight119]

Sounds like you'll just need to rewrite elements from your story to suit multiple dating events. Myself, I'm a fan of kinetic novels...

^^;;

[azureXtwilight]

Only females?

I'm going to search some more...

Oooh! Found this thread! http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=4&t=6767

Hope I was helpful (Ayo maju VN maker Indonesia~)

[LVUER]

Wah semakin banyak aja yang datang dari Indonesia.

Yeah, ayo maju, terbang kalau perlu \(^_^)/

[Picez]

azurextwilight: yay azure! u helped me so much xD i found so many male character that i can download from that thread! thank you xDD

LVUER: ya, ya, maju indonesia! xD nice to meet u all! xD

winternight119: yeah, maybe I'll try to make the kinetic version first, because it's easier to follow the story's plot first xD But I'll also try to make VN version n begin to think different ending...

Ah, I'm confused! Which one better actually?
Actually I made this game version because some of my friends like my novel, but they don't like if they have to read the book or so much words. It can make them dizzy, they said. Actually they don't like reading xP n prefer to play game. So VN version idea come to my mind for my readers who don't like to read or just want to read if the novel has images or pictures like VN...

[CaesMRaenes]

How you should make the novel is truthfully up to you since you're the creator. Some people will like it while it won't suit the taste of others. :D Natural way of things.

But if you're worried, there's always the course of the sound novel, VNs that work through sound. A good example would be anything done by Ryukishi 07 (07th Expansion). He's done some amazing novels that really catch people's attention despite it being non-branching. Sound novels rely on sound and music to stimulate the atmosphere more than visuals. They still use visuals though.

Also, plot. If your plot is amazing and really catches your audience, what are you going to lose? I have preference over being able to control the plot but kinetic novels have that sort of power and charm that branching can lack because it's a concentrated and nicely-woven story.

Plus, do your friends love manga? If they do, they'll definitely read something in visual novel form. ^_~

[Picez]

CaesMRaenes: ah yeah, i'll think about kinetic or visual later. for now i'll make the prologue first xD maybe it'll becomes combination for kinetic/visual, hahaha xD

for now on, here's the screenshot first xP i dunno it'll be good or not.



as u can see, i'm using khmix (yes i can't draw, lol! im planning to draw the characters by myself when i managed to get wacom xP) n a little bit help from photoshop cs3.

r they cute or maybe asymmetric? lol xD

[azureXtwilight]

Just thinking... Is the mini girl on the right on purpose?

[Picez]

oh, that's a child, bahaha xD she is 3 years old. i am writing about the past in its prologue. xD she is the main character in the next xP
maybe i should upload the characters first so it would not make u confused, lol xD

[azureXtwilight]

Ah yes, that would be very nice to post character art!
Sorry about that

[Picez]

azurextwilight: yes i'll post it asap xD... my internet connection is really sucks rite now, it takes me a long time to upload those characters, lol xD