How to promote an unusual visual novel?
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:45 am
**New to posting here so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place.**
I'm still in the scripting phase but this is question that has been bothering me.
My idea that could be a problem for promoting:
The VN would be about 3 different types of love the MC can develop (fatherly, romantic and friendship), with 3 different people. There's only a possibility of being in a romantic relationship with one character.
The main characters gay but its not really a bl game. It's about relationships but it takes mostly place on fantasy adventure missions. It also has strong horror themes.
How can you promote/tell people about a game like that without straight up sending a short novel as a summary.
I don't want to mislead anybody who wants to play the game. Its my first visual novel that I will bring to completion, so it's based on what I would like to play, rather than what would appeal to people.
"Quick" summary: MC is a young half orc, left to raise his little half brother after his father walked out on them. Father left a ton of debt so he has to find a better paying job. MC gets an opportunity to work with a team of higher ranking adventurers after a member dies.
The rest of the story takes place on missions and the short space in between missions.
Each mission is based on a horror trope (paranormal, body horror, horror comedy, etc) and has multiple ways you can complete them depending of information gathered before the mission and past missions.
You can choose a member of the team to get closest to, each one representing a different aspect of love (the team leader/human = fatherly, the elf/healer = romance, the dwarf/fighter = friendship).
I'm still in the scripting phase but this is question that has been bothering me.
My idea that could be a problem for promoting:
The VN would be about 3 different types of love the MC can develop (fatherly, romantic and friendship), with 3 different people. There's only a possibility of being in a romantic relationship with one character.
The main characters gay but its not really a bl game. It's about relationships but it takes mostly place on fantasy adventure missions. It also has strong horror themes.
How can you promote/tell people about a game like that without straight up sending a short novel as a summary.
I don't want to mislead anybody who wants to play the game. Its my first visual novel that I will bring to completion, so it's based on what I would like to play, rather than what would appeal to people.
"Quick" summary: MC is a young half orc, left to raise his little half brother after his father walked out on them. Father left a ton of debt so he has to find a better paying job. MC gets an opportunity to work with a team of higher ranking adventurers after a member dies.
The rest of the story takes place on missions and the short space in between missions.
Each mission is based on a horror trope (paranormal, body horror, horror comedy, etc) and has multiple ways you can complete them depending of information gathered before the mission and past missions.
You can choose a member of the team to get closest to, each one representing a different aspect of love (the team leader/human = fatherly, the elf/healer = romance, the dwarf/fighter = friendship).