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Jokes aside, I really am considering it, the more I work on TLGoTH, the more I really like the idea of pointing and clicking in character's rooms and getting new banter. I think for a character driven setting/storyworld like Tovera, getting to know the characters in an interactive way will enhance the stories they're in a ton more, even if the VN is kinetic.

Though I will say, Kamikakushi has a lot of potential for choices and routes-so I'm open to choice based VNs for sure, but TLGoTH is such a monster that it's best I tell the "canon" story before I modify any plot beats for routes and endings.

making BIIIG eyes emoji at this👀👀

Makes sense, it would give you a chance to tell the story with written and visual parts without the stress of drawing out every. single. scene. It would also make the story more flexible if you want multiple endings plot twists etc. I'd say go for it! Would you host a link to it on your site?

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what’ll the vn be made with? i’m taking video game writing courses rn so maybe if i learn something useful it could help?

Oh, I'm using Ren'Py! A hood classic. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear them :]

Yeah-I was thinking my dialogue is my strongest writing point, and I'm a stronger visual storyteller than anything else, so why not try it? I am worried about funding music, but I can easily save up for that and use royalty free stuff to make the prologue.

Last reply was deleted by a network blip-the plan for music for now is doujin artists for stronger/music cohesion, and royalty free stuff to round out more unimportant scenes. This being said, if anyone following me is a world/jazz/VGM musician, feel free to email me your portfolios and prices @ sidhedustillust@gmail.com! I'd love to support all kinds of artists on neo, not just writers lol.

since tc is long form you could also release a vn for each major part of the story to further gain support along the way, like make it a whole series until you have the equivalent to a final fantasy’s worth of games XD

That's a great idea actually-I'd like to merge a bunch of arcs into each game, but honestly the slowburn nature of the story might make it an exhausting play if I did that. For now, the plan is to make the prologue in VN form separate from the rest, and see if that alone is ridiculous in length before I make it one big monster VN or cut it up. It's looking like it has to be cut up going by my drafts lol

Chaptered releases are also a great idea. The way I see it when it comes to VNs, you can be very intentional about what scenes you want to illustrate out in full. A comic forces you to draw out loads of minutiate since you have to panel out every single little thought and action. For a single-person project that's a huge ask.

That's exactly it-I found that while I was FINALLY getting the hang of how I wanted the comic to look, it took so much brainpower and time and composition knowledge that I burnt out. FAST. With a VN, all you gotta do is draw a few pretty bgs, a few pretty cgs, and do character sprites-which IS a lot of work, especially if all sprites are different (ex. Kid Icarus Uprising), but that's still less work than a comic.