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Genre : Drama RPG VN (CMIIW, I'm not good at genre-ing)
Engine : Renpy
Rating : Approximately equivalent to PG-13 - which is quite fortunate since our country has just recently issued a strict law against pornography
Team : PaintBox VN team (we're looking for new members!)
Website : http://vnproject.org/scelta
Forum : http://vnproject.freeforums.org/index.php - VNProject is an Indonesian visual novel discussion and development forum greatly inspired by this Lemmasoft forum
Amateur/Commercial : Currently mostly amateur (we had to hire a pro chara designer since ours went AWOL just when we needed him most), but we're discussing about commercializing the project if the result is decent enough
Working Demo (size approx. 29 MB) is available here: http://vnproject.org/data/sceltademo.zip
Your feedback on the working demo will be very appreciated, feel free to post it here or in our website/forum.
Story Prologue:
Mao have just lost his mother, whom had been living in a small town on the small island of Aviano. Returning home, he found that he inherited an old mansion, a white siamese kitty that according to his late mother would prove 'most invaluable', and her final message to always be kind and helpful to everyone. But, with the bitterness from his recent past, could Mao follow his mother's wishes?
Living alone and unemployed in a small, foreign town, haunted by his past, and burdened by his mother's legacy, how will Mao survive? Should he follow his bitter past, his mother's legacy, or his own choice into the future?
Main Characters:
(Note: these are only what's present in the working demo, others are still being planned and worked on. Their images and profile could be seen at our website)
1. Mao (protagonist)
Male, 25 yrs, black hair, Height 180-ish cm, Weight 70-ish kg
A young man who had a promising career in a construction company in town - until his best friend ran away with his money and girlfriend, leaving him deep in debt that exhausted nearly his entire savings. Fired from his job and with everything he had impounded by debt collectors, he had nothing holding him back when he heard that his mother passed away in her home at the small island.
2. Anna Wilhemina Von Krant
Female, 16 yrs, blond hair, height 170-ish cm, weight 55-ish kg.
Silent but not shy, Anna is daughter of a local magnate. She is strictly educated and well-mannered, and is greatly adored by the girls at her all-female school but is treated coldly by her own father. Her mother disappeared just a few years after Anna was born - nobody ever knew why she went away or where she is now, or even if she's still alive...
3. Rocco
Male, 30 yrs, dark hair, height 185-ish cm, weight 60-ish kg
Von Krant's driver. Very proud of his status and due to it often regards others condescendingly.
4. Shoko
Female siamese cat, age unknown
Mao's cat, inherited as part of his mother's legacy. Usually playful but sometimes exhibited intelligence and perception far beyond what's expected from a house cat - or perhaps it's all just one coincidence after another?
Current Status:
We of PaintBox team have just recently (barely!) made it past Cycle I of our project plan - obviously not perfectly since as you can see the images aren't even colored yet (we failed to find a good amateur colorist) - the working demo is the landmark of that cycle. Currently we are evaluating the results and preparing to move on into Cycle II, where we hope we can address all the shortcomings in the previous cycle and complete a full story path (Anna's) and all the characters present in the path. We currently plan to have the full game finished by the end of next year (2009) at the latest.
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The full game is (too ambitiously?) planned to contain five interconnected story arcs with a different leading lady and multiple possible endings in each arc, with a total of at least seventy game days of story and events. Which arc and ending the player will end up with will largely depend on his choice during certain events as the game progresses. The working demo itself contains two days worth of Anna's story arc.
We are Recruiting!
As for now the team is short of talented background and character illustrators, colorists, and English-language voice artists - feel free to let me know or post here or directly in the VNProject forum if you are interested to fill any of those positions. We also could use input and advices from someone who knows Italian/mediterranean culture well since Scelta's fictional Aviano island is located off the eastern coast of Italy (near the actual town of Aviano).
Regards,
Novinha
VNProject Forum Creator/Admin
Scelta Project Leader
P.S: Be advised that VNProject forum mainly uses Bahasa Indonesia, but we are capable of switching to English should a non-Indonesian join our team.