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Overview of OCG
OverClock Gear is a Romantic Adventure Kinetic Novel about Time Travel/Technology, Fate, Growth, and Justice.
Details:
There is only 1 Route (With several slight changes in text depending on character interactions). The game will be split up into 11 Chapters, 2 arcs, a prologue and an epilogue. It is set in a future where mankind is defending against monster attacks (Dimensional beasts) as well as trying to manage their own politics between zones.
Setting: The world takes place roughly 20 years in the future. There are beings called Dimensional Beasts that suddenly showed up and started ravaging everything in their paths. The core of the story will be told in the Capital of Telexxia, a new country that was founded after a world peace agreement a 10 years prior to the events of OCG. The country is run by a monarch system with various branches of sub-governments for each zone. The protagonist comes from a zone that is well-protected from the DBs as it is far away from the combat location as well as decently isolated via the ruins of a past battle beyond city borders.
Investigators are a group of people that attempt to gather information about anything related to DBs. They carry out direct orders from the King. The main party of the story is a group of such Investigators.
The plan is to get Arc 1 out and to the public by 2019!
Arc 1: The story follows Karin, a terminally ill girl who is suddenly saved from her fate by a mysterious cloaked person. Karin is caught in a series of strange events until one day, her friend Cecilia falls ill due to overworking herself. She decides to join The Troupe in their investigation on the Dimensional Beasts in order to get money to help her friend.
**Brief summary but the story begins to shape into something that is hopefully unexpected and epic.
Dimensional Beasts (DBs): These are unknown life forms that began to show up and terrorize humanity. There is very little knowledge of them other than Qazite, a newly discovered mineral, is the only thing effective against them. However, Qazite is a relatively rare material.
Main Characters:
http://imgur.com/a/RLbBl
Karin: The protagonist of arc 1. She is a caring girl who tends to jump to conclusions, but also naive to the world around her. She is initially in despair over her condition and position in The Troupe but eventually hardens her resolve to help her friend and partake unknowingly in a job that changes her life. She is driven by her desire to be a useful member of society.
Lionel: He is the head honcho of The Troupe, a task force that is following the disappearance of a well known DB researcher. He has lost parts of his memories which he uses this opportunity to search for.
Lafiel Telexxia: Lafiel is the Princess of Terra. She is a bit of an airhead and foreign to the ways of normal people but she is kind and wise and provides emotional support to those who need it. She strives to protect her citizens from the DB onslaught.
Cecilia: Karin's childhood friend. She is a headstrong and caring woman who is the owner of the Orange Store. She tends to go overboard on taking on duties and ends up collapsing on her way back from one of her side jobs.
Buddy: Karin and Cecilia's childhood friend. He provides a foil to Karin's typically level headed and calm demeanor but he is surprisingly mature when it matters. He's a bona fide geek as well as an airsoft enthusiast. He joins The Troupe as a favor to Cecilia as well as to keep an eye on Karin.
Hammer: He is the weapons guy. He provides weapons for the Troupe and is very protective of them.
Ana - A carefree gunslinger girl who wants to fight the DBs. She is a survivor of an attack on her hometown and travels with The Troupe as a way of getting revenge.
The Professor - A mysterious genius whose goals are unknown.
Yuki - An edgy character. She's a master of swordplay and martial arts.
Some Concept Art:
http://imgur.com/a/noYJO
No idea how to get images on forums soo XP
Progress:
Story:
Premise (Done)
Outline (Done)
First Draft (Underway)
Arc 1
- Prologue (100% scripted)
- Ch. 1 (100% Scripted Second draft)
- Ch. 2 (100% Scripted Second draft)
- Ch. 3 (100% Scripted Second Draft)
- Ch. 4 ( 50% Scripted First Draft )
- Ch. 5 ( )
- Ch. 6 ( )
- Epilogue ( )
editing first draft ( )
Final Draft ( )
editing final draft ( )
Finalized story ( )
Gameplay/Coding:
Insert all story text ( )
Insert all effects ( )
Character Design: ()
Visuals:
Logo (drafting)
Backgrounds (5% )
potential animated cutscenes (pending)
Custom HUD design (pending)
Music/sound effects:
Music Planning (in progress)
write music (4/10)
Sound effects (heartbeats,and footsteps ripped. clock ticks are still placeholder)
Voice acting ( )
Staff:
ArcDawn - Director, Writer, Music, concept art, Programming, PV editing/production, Title Design
OutOfChars - Editor
Josh - Editor
JECW - Music contributor
ASR - GUI and Title Design Assistance
Orangela - Monster Design
Rasel - BG Art
Yoshi K - CG/Sprites
Winnetou - Character Design (?)
Bella - DB Sprite Artist
***Still in need of a lot of help! If interested please let me know!
Features:
Hopefully it will be an enjoyable read. I am planning on a 10-15 hour script for arc 1.
There will be some nice visuals as well as at least 10 tracks of music.
One big thing will be choreography with Renpy's 3D camera in order to make the visual experience more appealing.
soo...yeah that's my thing. It's been an idea I've been playing around with for about 5 years (Only recently tossing about 90% of it away and starting fresh to come up with a compelling story) I've been inspired by a few of the visual novels I read recently so I would like to make a work that, if I read it, I would be like wow...this is incredible!
So my question to you guys are:
-What are your thoughts on the plot?
-What would you like to see?
Also finally, here's a concept video:
