Alright so as I mentioned this in the parlour thread earlier, I am offering to make Visual Novels out of people's Touhou fanfiction works, although other kinds of stories are fine too. Basically you people will supply me with stories and media and I'll put it all together.
This thread will be for requests. When you make a request, include the title of your story in your post.
Once you've made a request, there are some things you will need to do first before I can make your story into a VN.
What I need- A story or script: You can use your existing stories or make a new one, doesn't really matter to me. To make things easier for everyone, save your story with notepad++ because it keeps track of line count on the side margin. Also give the file the same name as your story.
- Images: Basically you'll need two kinds of images, backgrounds and cutins of characters. You'll also need a title screen image. The number of images you use is entirely up to you. If you want nothing but a single image in the background, that's fine with me. (although that would kinda defeat the purpose...)
Backgrounds should all be the same size. 800x600 is ideal, but you can have different resolutions if you want. Cutins should also be consistent in size, and fit in the background (don't make them too small or too big, unless you want them to for whatever reason)
You can either team up with an artist, draw them yourself, or just use images from the internet. Nothing is going to be sold for money, so there shouldn't be much of an issue of using other people's stuff.
- Music: This is more or less optional, but a VN without any sound is pretty boring. It would be best to look through your story and think of fitting music to use.
- Sound effects: Also optional. If you can't find all of the sound effects you need, just make a note of it in the storyboard I can see if I can make do with what I have.
- A storyboard: This is to outline how everything will happen. The basic format should be something like this:
Start
Fade in
Play musicZUN
Show background1
Show lines 1 to 10 (in the notepad++ document with your story)
Transition to background2
Show line 11
Show Happy chen
Play CHEEEEEN sound effect
etc
(funny enough this is basically how Ren'Py code works)
Now this might be kinda time consuming, so you don't have to outline every little thing. You can shorten it up a bit an generalize at some parts. For instance you can say stuff like, "generally use Chen!happy except whenever she is sad use Chen!sad" "whenever Ran chengasms play CHEEEN sound effect" etc, and then leave all the hard work to me :V.
You can also specify things like transitions, text color, fonts, screen effects (like all the flashy stuff in Umineko), whatever else you can think of, and I'll do my best to incorporate it into the VN.
Oh yeah another note, you can also specify the text to either be at the bottom of the screen, or cover the whole screen.
- An overall outline: This is only necessary if you want to make a multipath story where the reader makes choices and stuff. Basically I need a flowchart of what choices lead to what paths and so on.
I think that's about everything. If you really want to be fancy you can add things like custom buttons or menus, otherwise I'm going with the Ren'Py defaults.
Once you've accumulated everything on the list, zip it up in a .rar or .zip file, upload it onto the internet (preferably mediafire), and PM me the link.
Now get crackin'!
Current ProjectsDown On The Corner by Tengukami - DONE!
Get it hereGuest of the Moon Princess by Tengukami - Writing complete, waiting for storyboard&outline
Ran - In progress, currently image searching
