Van Von Hunter Memorial High School

[Voight-Kampff]

So I was cleaning up my hard drive the other day when I came across an old project: Van Von Hunter Memorial High School.

Unfortunately, the game itself appears to have been deleted. But I still have a video recording of it. Basically, we wanted to produce a "proof of concept" to put in front of Tokyopop to see what they thought of the idea. In this case, it was shortly after the release of the iPhone. Consequently, we wanted to show Tokyopop not only what one of their properties would look like in visual novel format, but also how it'd look on the iPhone - which at the time was a shining beacon of opportunity and promise.

Anyway, it really is just a "quickie" proof of concept. All the BGs are filtered photos, and the music is all lifted from the Shuffle! anime. The sprites are all original, though. Being a video recording of playback, you only get to see one path, and it runs for about 15 minutes.

Since Van Von Hunter has always been an outlet to poke fun at various genres, VVHMHS was intended to lambaste all the generic clichés of the visual novel genre. Although, this POC only runs long enough to establish the viability of using Ren'Py.

In any event, I'm interested to see what others think of the concept.

Thanks to Py'Tom for unearthing a copy of the game itself!

http://www.vanvonhunter.com/uploads/VVH-M_Demo1.zip

[Wright1000]

Is it a game or is it a video?

[Voight-Kampff]

Unfortunately, the game directory got deleted somewhere along the way. All that's left is this recording of it. I just wanted to get a sense of whether or not anyone would be interested in such a project.

EDIT: Thanks to Py'Tom (who appears to have squirreled away a copy long ago), there is in fact a copy of the game now. Much smaller than the video too, ironically.

[LVUER]

Why don't you try installing data-recover software. Who knows the data still could be saved?

[Voight-Kampff]

Why don't you try installing data-recover software. Who knows the data still could be saved?

PyTom found a copy of the game. It's right here:

http://www.vanvonhunter.com/uploads/VVH-M_Demo1.zip

[Wright1000]

Your game looks good but downloading and watching the video is a waste of time.

So, please search for the game. Maybe you can find it.

If you find it, upload it as soon as you can.

[OtomeWeekend]

@Wright1000:

That's a bit rude way. You can't just demand to hurry it up or whatever. What if it would take much more time to find it? You don't really have to say the vid would be a waste of time.

People watch the promotional video first before they think whether to buy a game or not. I think the same goes for here.

[SilverxBlue]

Eh? But the game is already there, it isn't a video anymore.

http://www.vanvonhunter.com/uploads/VVH-M_Demo1.zip

[dott.Piergiorgio]

I don't have understand what is this.... relics ? lost treasure ? vaporvare ? funnelware ??

let's me understand what is this....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[Voight-Kampff]

I don't have understand what is this.... relics ? lost treasure ? vaporvare ? funnelware ??

let's me understand what is this....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

A few years ago, we worked on a comic title for Tokyopop. We wanted to show them what that title would look like if it was in Visual Novel format. This game is the result.

It's just a short "proof of concept", that runs about 15 minutes. We have no intention of making any more - unless of course we get a lot of feedback from people stating that they do in fact want to see more. But, I think it's pretty safe to say we won't have to worry about any such obligation.

[dott.Piergiorgio]

so, it's vaporware ?

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[PyTom]

so, it's vaporware ?

That's not really fair. It was never announced for release, and what was released is all there is. So it's just the release of a proof-of-concept game, like many other people have done in the past.

[@berration]

Unfortunately, the game itself appears to have been deleted.

Hmm, you could have checked with me. I'm pretty sure I still have the files for this, and the two previous P.O.C.s as well.

These things were partially just quick, "does VVH have any potential in visual novel format" demos, and part RenPy-learning (and photo-filtering) exercises…and this was the only one that was even close to being fit for human consumption (though not really intended for the public—think of this as more of a "behind the scenes" extra ).


Really, if you want to see something with a lot more work put into it, and a lot closer to completion (though, on the art and technical side, it still has a long way to go), I'd recommend checking into our WIP, Errant Heart. It's not comedy, and it's still very rough, but the current build has two full story arcs, and we'd love to get feedback on the story thus far...before committing to creating all of the sprites, event images, etc.

[number473]

This is mega-awesome! I'm a huge VVH fan and I know I saw screen shots posted up of this somewhere before and really wanted to see what it was like at the time. Got to download right now.

[kara24601]

Not meaning this in a mean way but - This is obviously not really a completed game so what's it doing in the complete games section of the forums?

I really really hope to see this project truly brought back to life someday and finished....it's interesting and the art is good.