I want to see Qwerty and Swallow play this game

[Gryphos]

I don't think that would work. Maybe for things like establishing shots but for the actual scenes between characters it would be way too fiddly and the results you'd get would not be up to scratch. This is the kind of thing that you need an artist for.

[Qwerty Kun]

Yeah. Like I said, for shots on board ships I can photomanipulate screenshots into some artistic style that we could use for background. I imagine others scenes might be things like hangars, taverns, cities etc.
If we tried to do this I think an artistic minimalisation would be best and easiest to achieve. In a pinch and with a bit of work we COULD use screenshots of characters as a last resort, however that is very limited and should be used as a last resort.

I am kind of keen to actually do this as a little design project I can throw in my portfolio so I guess i'll start taking some names. Who would be interested in working on this a little?

[Keon]

I guess a bit. Never played a vis novel before. Never made one either. So that's helpful, right?

[Piemanlives]

I've played a few, don't know what I can add.

[Squidslinger Gilder]

If we could somehow get our hands on the tech they used to make Aku Hana then you wouldn't even need artists to draw anything. Just live people dressed up as the characters.

If the project picks up steam, I recommend doing an open contest for a script/story. Could generate some neat community participation. Heck I might even throw in for it. I'm more of a fanfic writer in my spare time. Done one 300 page Skies of Arcadia sequel and chunks of stories after that, then a 25 episode series for my old WoW character when I was in the hospital years ago. If its an Icarus based story set in the world, I could see some ideas festering. 

[Gryphos]

I'd be up for helping. Though I have had no experience with vis novels, I do write a lot in my spare time. I do also like Gilder's idea for a sort of competition to come up with a story.

[Qwerty Kun]

Yeah. See at  the moment what is needed is nothing 'VN' specific, just a general idea of how we wants the story/stories to proceed and then the stories themselves.
We can also decide on things like music, tone, whether we want extra details like voice acting etc etc

I guess i'll start a google doc and give you all the power to edit it. Would that be the best way of doing this?

[Gryphos]

Yeah, that sounds like it could work.

[Squidslinger Gilder]

I'd be up for helping. Though I have had no experience with vis novels, I do write a lot in my spare time. I do also like Gilder's idea for a sort of competition to come up with a story.

Only downside of competitions like that is getting people to participate. I ran one in my TOR guild last summer after the steam sale. Sponsored it with almost a dozen steam games that I picked up during the sale. Pulled up a few judges from within the community. Gave them about a full month to submit. In the end...1 person submitted a thing about a few paragraphs long. This after they overwhelmingly voted to have it. In the end, bunch of prizes went to the one guy and the rest to the judges. Heck it wasn't a hard competition either. I even opened it up to art, poems, jokes, and anything creative. Even using ingame screenshots to tell a story.

Not that this community would do similar but you gotta do something to pull some out of the woodwork.

[Qwerty Kun]

Is a competition the best way to do this? I think if we just open up this doc, decide on a few core things then we can start writing the stories. Everyone can have an input and work on them.

Here is the link to the google doc. I am going to type some stuff that I think needs to be decided upon fairly early.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A-FBVsh7XGX0bc7ThTWLiI56VdPw6MNlTq6GAUJIHcQ/edit?usp=sharing

[Piemanlives]

Only downside of competitions like that is getting people to participate. I ran one in my TOR guild last summer after the steam sale. Sponsored it with almost a dozen steam games that I picked up during the sale. Pulled up a few judges from within the community. Gave them about a full month to submit. In the end...1 person submitted a thing about a few paragraphs long. This after they overwhelmingly voted to have it. In the end, bunch of prizes went to the one guy and the rest to the judges. Heck it wasn't a hard competition either. I even opened it up to art, poems, jokes, and anything creative. Even using ingame screenshots to tell a story.

Not that this community would do similar but you gotta do something to pull some out of the woodwork.

I know how that goes, During my time in my middle school newspaper team we ran an art competition every month and barely anyone participated, we had a few good submissions but yeah.

[Sgt. Spoon]

I nominate Sgt. Spoon.

Hehe thanks... but I'm not sure how much help I'd be. Sure drawing funny ships and ponies are one thing. Blind anime girls another.

[Sailorman]

I Want to help.

I can't drawn, but I can photshop and do some vector art, also can help with the history, I'm a better writer when writing in Portuguese, but I can help with ideas, plots ans so on.

[Wazulu]

I nominate Sgt. Spoon.

Hehe thanks... but I'm not sure how much help I'd be. Sure drawing funny ships and ponies are one thing. Blind anime girls another.

Salute.

[Qwerty Kun]

Thread for the creation of this project is up in general discussion.