Team Newb.
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:14 am
Okay, Everyone!
We've discussed that our VN will be a Kinetic one.
We've also discussed that we'll have facebook-group page to smoothen communication, together with an eventual website.
Taleweaver also told us that we should further discuss our game in this thread, so I expect everyone to listen and continue his/her post in this thread!
Those who want to change our Team name, no problem, we'll vote on it:
Those who want to keep the name: Scorpio,
Those want to change the name: Shad12ow (The name must have a word that show that we are new. Something like Dawn or Morning), Itwasneveradream (Maybe "Bleu", Scorpio explains: French for Blue, often used to refer to newbies.), Luminar (Likes the name Dawn), FluffyFox (Likes a name something with Dawn or Morning in it aswell)
Appearently nobody cares that our current name is Team Newb. so I figured that it's okay we stay under this name until the end of the project.
Now here's a list of who wants to do what for the project, there are 6 people working on this project:
I wanna do coloring in digital~! I can do traditional line art too if you want. If you guys need any help with ideas and lineart I'm free to help as well!
- Luminar (Queen-position)
I can draw a bit (just not digitaly, and not entirely like a profesional would I guess ><'), I can write a story (I learned English at school, please forgive any grammar/spelling mistakes) for the VN and I can code a bit in ren'py.
- Scorpio (Joker-position)
Wants to help with sprites and BG's - Itwasneveradream (Queen)
Wants to help with the story + coding - LucRSV (A King Bard with Joker tendencies.)
Wants to help with everything, besides Digital Art, unless it's advice you seek or a bit of help - FluffyFox (Q.A.Joker.)
Wants to help with Story + Coding maybe even Digital Art - Shad12ow(Joker)
Explaining positions and lvl's:
Group positions: Joker's, Ace's, Queen's, King's and Bard's.
A Joker in the group is a person who wants to try out everything and is willing to give his/her best to learn from his/her teammates, and help them out as much they can.
An Ace in the group, is an expert in a certain domain;
(An Ace Joker for example, is an expert in all 5 -Writing,Digital Art, Coding, Music/Sound and Assertivity= meaning the person isn't afraid to let his/her idea known to the other teammembers without hurting people's feelings- domains, and is the status we all hope to achieve one day).
A Queen is a Digital Artist/Artist.
A King is a Coder, his/her task is to help give the images received from the queen's a meaning.
A Bard is the storyteller, he/she wanders around in search to find a suiting story for the King and Queen to assimilate in the future Visual Novel.
The positions (Joker etc.) is just a way for me to see who wants to concentrate mostly on what.
Lvl's:
You gain a lvl after each succesfully completed small project :
Small projects :
Traditional art
Lineart
Colouring
Brainstorming
Writing
Proofreading
Adding text
Adding images
Adding music
Synchronising
Seeking Sounds
Composing
Making sounds
The lvl's is purely based on the idea to encourage us x3. I'll be giving a lvl for each task completed succesfully,you can never lose lvl's!You can only gain lvl's.
Why I added lvl's is also my way of me saying: Reach lvl 100!'Cos when you once reached that lvl you will have progressed a lot !
It's is also a way for me to see who is overworking him/herself and who isn't, so I can remind that person that it's a practise team and not a fulltime job or education needed for future life, OR to ask the person who can't complete enough tasks and has trouble keeping up, whether he/she prefers to leave the time for a certain amount of time, in order to avoid that person from overloading her/himself, don't worry, I won't kick anyone out of the team.
The team disbands from the moment one Visual Novel has been succesfully completed, regardless of the quality. As long as it proves that it has been made by people who worked with their heart (and everyone will be credited accordingly of course).
A new group will be made after the first group succesfully completed their Novel.
If you want to leave the group for a while, no problem, just tell us and your spot will be kept free in case you comeback before the VN has been finished.
If you never returned before it's completion, you lose your spot, due to the group disbanding in order for a new group to start.
The work you did invest will always be credited accordingly.
Like that those who have an empty deviantart, will have a VN to add x3.
Here are the details of the members of the group:
Scorpio:
Joker
lvl 0
http://nyxsilentguard.deviantart.com/gallery/
Skype: TaoRaito, Adelina (will only accept requests from members in this group)
Availibility: Only in evenings, sometimes in the morning, Belgium-time.
Fluffyfox:
A.Q. Joker
lvl 0
http://angelliv.deviantart.com/
ItWasNeverADream:
Queen
lvl 0
Shad12dow:
Joker
lvl 0
LucRSV:
Joker
lvl 0
Luminar:
Queen
lvl 0
Okay!Now that's out of the way, here comes the big stuff!
Time to brainstorm and post our Story's summary with our first part! Suggestions from non-members are always welcome, but no forcing it upon us!
Brainstorming ideas:
(the ideas with a question mark, are the ideas that we haven't discussed together yet.)
- Nakige genre (Discussed)
- Male/Female protagonist (Discussed)
- Transgendered protagonist (Discussed)
- A high school senior (Discussed)
- With selective mutism (for various reasons). She/he will face problems with her mutism (Discussed)
- Underage suitable.(Discussed)
- Adventure or romance (Discussed)
- Mystery-game with slice of romance(Discussed)
- MC's talents: Drawing (?)
- What kind of 'selective mutism'? (?)
To do/What we have decided to do:
- Set a genre first, before starting our story's summary.
- Kinetic VN = no different paths, just 1 story.
-
Links to important places:
Facebook-group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/14081586 ... p_activity
Recruitement thread (old thread): http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 38&t=19820
Website:
Ok guys, dunno if you read the rules for all the the 'working in progress' topics, but they expect us to have a part of the story ready and an actual idea of what the story will be about.
So, since those are the rules, let's hop to it and follow that rule as fast as we can!
Genre of the game, some of us suggested Nagike (crying game or Utsuge: depressing game), the Nagike is the most popular version of VN because the player gets emotionaly attached. Nagike can be romantic, adventure,mystery, highschool etc.
Other genre's who weren't suggested, but can be considered: Science-fiction.
Genres we will not discuss at all: Eroge and Horror (some of our team members are underage!So no, we will not even remotely discuss this. I don't want to traumatize anyone here, we can make an exception on the Horror-genre, because we can limit the horror age appropriately...then again, for a practise team I don't thing it's advisable to start in such a complicated genre.)
(Although I'm pretty sure all of us wants a Nagike KN, I'm still doing this to make sure everyone was informed!)
Votes for Nagike (if you vote for Nagike, pls add what specific genre: Mystery, romance, adventure, a bit of a mix of the three, other etc.): Scorpio (Adventure/Mystery), Shad12ow (Adventure, Romance, Mystery/Detective), Itwasneveradream (Don't like high school settings unless it's fantasy. My vote goes to Adventure/Mystery), Luminar (Mystery and Romance), FluffyFox (Fantasy, Romance, Mystery)
Votes for Science fiction:
Next, gendre of protagonist: Male, female, transgendered or other?
Votes for male: Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream, Luminar
Votes for female: Itwasneveradream, Luminar
Votes for transgendered/Androgynn/Crossdresser/other (Hermaphrodites too have been underage, so as long as it's not mature content, the MC can be special-gendered...k?They're not all a part of someone's perverted mind *casts glare at random perverted people*): Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream (Androgynn, it let's the reader guess MC gendre), Luminar (Androgynn), FluffyFox (Transgender, or Crossedresser).
How old is the protagonist?:
Highschool age junior votes (Between 13-16):
Highschool age senior (Between 17-20) votes: Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream, Luminar,
Kid(Under 13):
Adult(above 20): FluffyFox (Because prefers no highschool genre)
There was a suggestion to give the protagonist a selective mutism, I personally like the idea, what do the others think of this? Shad12ow likes the idea. Luminar likes the idea. FluffyFox likes the idea.
Also what talents and flaws does the protagonist have?
Talents: Drawing - suggested by Luminar.
What has been decided definitly:
This game will be underage suitable!
Team name shall be changed, with the word 'Dawn' in it.
Nagike is the Main genre.
High school setting is undesired.
The KN will mainly be over a mystery that has to be solved, there's a bit of adventure and a bit of romance, but the mystery is the main theme of the KN.
MC = A male Androgynn.
MC's age: 19 year old
MC's flaws: Selective mutism
Once the genre of the game has been set, together with the protagonist, I want to start writing a sumary and elaborate on the main character's looks, personality, his/her friends and ennemies.
I also want everyone to try and make this VN as long as possible (30 min. gameplay is the minimum).
Luminar suggests that the VN is 45min. long.
Shad12ow suggest a max. of 2 hours, not longer, since this is a mainly a practise team and VN.
We've discussed that our VN will be a Kinetic one.
We've also discussed that we'll have facebook-group page to smoothen communication, together with an eventual website.
Taleweaver also told us that we should further discuss our game in this thread, so I expect everyone to listen and continue his/her post in this thread!
Those who want to change our Team name, no problem, we'll vote on it:
Those who want to keep the name: Scorpio,
Those want to change the name: Shad12ow (The name must have a word that show that we are new. Something like Dawn or Morning), Itwasneveradream (Maybe "Bleu", Scorpio explains: French for Blue, often used to refer to newbies.), Luminar (Likes the name Dawn), FluffyFox (Likes a name something with Dawn or Morning in it aswell)
Appearently nobody cares that our current name is Team Newb. so I figured that it's okay we stay under this name until the end of the project.
Now here's a list of who wants to do what for the project, there are 6 people working on this project:
I wanna do coloring in digital~! I can do traditional line art too if you want. If you guys need any help with ideas and lineart I'm free to help as well!
- Luminar (Queen-position)
I can draw a bit (just not digitaly, and not entirely like a profesional would I guess ><'), I can write a story (I learned English at school, please forgive any grammar/spelling mistakes) for the VN and I can code a bit in ren'py.
- Scorpio (Joker-position)
Wants to help with sprites and BG's - Itwasneveradream (Queen)
Wants to help with the story + coding - LucRSV (A King Bard with Joker tendencies.)
Wants to help with everything, besides Digital Art, unless it's advice you seek or a bit of help - FluffyFox (Q.A.Joker.)
Wants to help with Story + Coding maybe even Digital Art - Shad12ow(Joker)
Explaining positions and lvl's:
Group positions: Joker's, Ace's, Queen's, King's and Bard's.
A Joker in the group is a person who wants to try out everything and is willing to give his/her best to learn from his/her teammates, and help them out as much they can.
An Ace in the group, is an expert in a certain domain;
(An Ace Joker for example, is an expert in all 5 -Writing,Digital Art, Coding, Music/Sound and Assertivity= meaning the person isn't afraid to let his/her idea known to the other teammembers without hurting people's feelings- domains, and is the status we all hope to achieve one day).
A Queen is a Digital Artist/Artist.
A King is a Coder, his/her task is to help give the images received from the queen's a meaning.
A Bard is the storyteller, he/she wanders around in search to find a suiting story for the King and Queen to assimilate in the future Visual Novel.
The positions (Joker etc.) is just a way for me to see who wants to concentrate mostly on what.
Lvl's:
You gain a lvl after each succesfully completed small project :
Small projects :
Traditional art
Lineart
Colouring
Brainstorming
Writing
Proofreading
Adding text
Adding images
Adding music
Synchronising
Seeking Sounds
Composing
Making sounds
The lvl's is purely based on the idea to encourage us x3. I'll be giving a lvl for each task completed succesfully,you can never lose lvl's!You can only gain lvl's.
Why I added lvl's is also my way of me saying: Reach lvl 100!'Cos when you once reached that lvl you will have progressed a lot !
It's is also a way for me to see who is overworking him/herself and who isn't, so I can remind that person that it's a practise team and not a fulltime job or education needed for future life, OR to ask the person who can't complete enough tasks and has trouble keeping up, whether he/she prefers to leave the time for a certain amount of time, in order to avoid that person from overloading her/himself, don't worry, I won't kick anyone out of the team.
The team disbands from the moment one Visual Novel has been succesfully completed, regardless of the quality. As long as it proves that it has been made by people who worked with their heart (and everyone will be credited accordingly of course).
A new group will be made after the first group succesfully completed their Novel.
If you want to leave the group for a while, no problem, just tell us and your spot will be kept free in case you comeback before the VN has been finished.
If you never returned before it's completion, you lose your spot, due to the group disbanding in order for a new group to start.
The work you did invest will always be credited accordingly.
Like that those who have an empty deviantart, will have a VN to add x3.
Here are the details of the members of the group:
Scorpio:
Joker
lvl 0
http://nyxsilentguard.deviantart.com/gallery/
Skype: TaoRaito, Adelina (will only accept requests from members in this group)
Availibility: Only in evenings, sometimes in the morning, Belgium-time.
Fluffyfox:
A.Q. Joker
lvl 0
http://angelliv.deviantart.com/
ItWasNeverADream:
Queen
lvl 0
Shad12dow:
Joker
lvl 0
LucRSV:
Joker
lvl 0
Luminar:
Queen
lvl 0
Okay!Now that's out of the way, here comes the big stuff!
Time to brainstorm and post our Story's summary with our first part! Suggestions from non-members are always welcome, but no forcing it upon us!
Brainstorming ideas:
(the ideas with a question mark, are the ideas that we haven't discussed together yet.)
- Nakige genre (Discussed)
- Male/Female protagonist (Discussed)
- Transgendered protagonist (Discussed)
- A high school senior (Discussed)
- With selective mutism (for various reasons). She/he will face problems with her mutism (Discussed)
- Underage suitable.(Discussed)
- Adventure or romance (Discussed)
- Mystery-game with slice of romance(Discussed)
- MC's talents: Drawing (?)
- What kind of 'selective mutism'? (?)
To do/What we have decided to do:
- Set a genre first, before starting our story's summary.
- Kinetic VN = no different paths, just 1 story.
-
Links to important places:
Facebook-group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/14081586 ... p_activity
Recruitement thread (old thread): http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 38&t=19820
Website:
Ok guys, dunno if you read the rules for all the the 'working in progress' topics, but they expect us to have a part of the story ready and an actual idea of what the story will be about.
So, since those are the rules, let's hop to it and follow that rule as fast as we can!
Genre of the game, some of us suggested Nagike (crying game or Utsuge: depressing game), the Nagike is the most popular version of VN because the player gets emotionaly attached. Nagike can be romantic, adventure,mystery, highschool etc.
Other genre's who weren't suggested, but can be considered: Science-fiction.
Genres we will not discuss at all: Eroge and Horror (some of our team members are underage!So no, we will not even remotely discuss this. I don't want to traumatize anyone here, we can make an exception on the Horror-genre, because we can limit the horror age appropriately...then again, for a practise team I don't thing it's advisable to start in such a complicated genre.)
(Although I'm pretty sure all of us wants a Nagike KN, I'm still doing this to make sure everyone was informed!)
Votes for Nagike (if you vote for Nagike, pls add what specific genre: Mystery, romance, adventure, a bit of a mix of the three, other etc.): Scorpio (Adventure/Mystery), Shad12ow (Adventure, Romance, Mystery/Detective), Itwasneveradream (Don't like high school settings unless it's fantasy. My vote goes to Adventure/Mystery), Luminar (Mystery and Romance), FluffyFox (Fantasy, Romance, Mystery)
Votes for Science fiction:
Next, gendre of protagonist: Male, female, transgendered or other?
Votes for male: Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream, Luminar
Votes for female: Itwasneveradream, Luminar
Votes for transgendered/Androgynn/Crossdresser/other (Hermaphrodites too have been underage, so as long as it's not mature content, the MC can be special-gendered...k?They're not all a part of someone's perverted mind *casts glare at random perverted people*): Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream (Androgynn, it let's the reader guess MC gendre), Luminar (Androgynn), FluffyFox (Transgender, or Crossedresser).
How old is the protagonist?:
Highschool age junior votes (Between 13-16):
Highschool age senior (Between 17-20) votes: Shad12ow, Itwasneveradream, Luminar,
Kid(Under 13):
Adult(above 20): FluffyFox (Because prefers no highschool genre)
There was a suggestion to give the protagonist a selective mutism, I personally like the idea, what do the others think of this? Shad12ow likes the idea. Luminar likes the idea. FluffyFox likes the idea.
Also what talents and flaws does the protagonist have?
Talents: Drawing - suggested by Luminar.
What has been decided definitly:
This game will be underage suitable!
Team name shall be changed, with the word 'Dawn' in it.
Nagike is the Main genre.
High school setting is undesired.
The KN will mainly be over a mystery that has to be solved, there's a bit of adventure and a bit of romance, but the mystery is the main theme of the KN.
MC = A male Androgynn.
MC's age: 19 year old
MC's flaws: Selective mutism
Once the genre of the game has been set, together with the protagonist, I want to start writing a sumary and elaborate on the main character's looks, personality, his/her friends and ennemies.
I also want everyone to try and make this VN as long as possible (30 min. gameplay is the minimum).
Luminar suggests that the VN is 45min. long.
Shad12ow suggest a max. of 2 hours, not longer, since this is a mainly a practise team and VN.