Bigger Than You Think

I have decided that VN is going to have a lot more RPG elements than I initially decided. I blame this song. The intro to the song, right up till the part where he sings is absolutely perfect for a pre battle scene (Enia - Drayden showdown anyone?). Not to mention the theme of the song is so fitting to the game. The more I think about this game, the bigger and badass it gets. Definitely going to need to hire a programmer for this. Especially if I decided to do a little open world exploration later on in the game. I've always been a sucker for an open world platform RPG. I'm so pumped for this game, and even though it's pretty linear in story, it's going to be expansive in the routes you can get to it. This pushes the estimated release date much later though. I hope I'm able to write most of the actual script soon though. At least for up to chapter five. That way I can start seeing if I can get a more diverse team to help me.

Sneak Peak: Writing + Concept Art

This scene keeps sticking in my head for some reason, so here's a snippet of the revised prologue.

Prologue's Change

I finally figured out what I didn't like about the prologue, and that was the narrator speaking about Enia's abandonment. I'm a big proponent of "show, don't tell" and I'm not gonna lie when I say that intro was waaaay too "tell-y" and not enough "showy." But thankfully to some people back at the LSF community, I figured out what to change. Instead of having the narrator give you the basic info of their pasts, I'll have mini flashbacks of Henry raising Enia, and her going into the army to prove herself that she's not useless. It'll also give me a chance to show how much Henry had to go through just to raise Enia (I always imagined her as a super hyper little tyke raising Hell for Henry before growing up to be the chill demon she is now). *Is now thinking about cute brother-sister bonding moments between Henry and Enia*

Anyways, just wanted to give that quick update before going back into the mad throes of writing an excessively long VN.

Not Your Standard VN on the block

You know, the more I delve into the VN/KN community, the more I realize that my game is really, really weird. It's not an otome, stat raising game, it's a GxG game, which is rare in of it's self, technically it has RPG elements, it doesn't fit the shonen action VNs though because the fighting isn't the main point, it doesn't have a lot of choices that affect the ending, and it's really, really long. I'm kinda afraid no one's going to like it. For a long time I've been harboring this story, trying out different mediums to tell it, and I honestly feel that a VN piece is the best way to tell it. It's has the visual aspect that I want, but at the same time, it's very text oriented. Maybe I'm just doubting myself because no one seems very interested even though it's super early in the production phase, so of course no one is going to know about it. I don't know. I'm probably just getting way too ahead of myself. Besides, maybe my super weird, long ass VN is gonna be so different that people may read it just because it's not your standard fare.

Hopefully my oddball of a game is interesting enough that someone other than the friends I forced to play it will like it or at least want to try it out to tell me it's crap.

Sneak Peek: Writing

It's official guys; I have written the Prologue. Granted, a good portion was part of Chapter One, but it's changed a lot in terms of content, so it's not that bad. Here's a little teaser for what happens in the beginning:

1st Person POV Official

*Cries softly in xir hands* I just realized that the flashback arcs for Henry and Drayden are in 1st person but Enia's arcs are all in third person. Not only that, but Enia comes across as a really flat character with no real personality other than her reactions to things. And I hate that. Because Enia is much livelier when I don't write her in script format and she's so fleshed out, but without a first person narrative, it rarely shows, if ever. So now my word count has jumped up at least 150K. Fucking hell, how did I know this was going to happen?

Progress Check: Writing

I finally finished Chapter Two! ;w; Now I just need to hammer out Chapter Three, which is a lot longer than I initially planned out. Orz I honestly don't know how long this whole game is going to be. I'm sorta winging it as I go along. Just watch, I bet this whole thing is going to be much longer than my anticipated 100K word count.