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Welcome to AGDG, have you ever made a game?
See also: /ideaguy/ | /vm/

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f2c921 No.26017

A anthro VN.

I'm looking on forming a team to get this project of mine off the ground. The brief outline is done. The detailed outlines are not. We've already got a code person. Art will be acquired later. If you can write, have free time and are interested. We could use the help. The more the merrier.

Thank you.

be774d No.26019

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>another VN


175c74 No.26020

>we've already got a coder

>art will be acquired later

>looking for a writer

And what are you doing in this project, OP?


be774d No.26021

>the art will be acquired later

>VN

Hahahaha.


f2c921 No.26028

>>26020

I'm project manager. I do editing work and follow up with other team members. I also ideaguy and handle the resources.

I'm close to publishing a book and I wrote a webcomic. I tried to do a crowdfund for a game concept last year but it didn't work out because there's no fanbase. This VN should be feasible, as long as volunteers don't flake out.


f368b3 No.26031

>>26028

You mind providing links for the webcomic and the crowdfund?


175c74 No.26032

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>>26028

This better not be twoshits webcomic


33ec32 No.26033

In my experience if the leader is not one of the main guys behind the project, in this case, coder, writer or artist, the project won't work. The writers for a VN particurally are the ones that have to handle most of the work, so having an idea guy talking shit to hurry his ass to write a story that comes from someone else idea is just frustating. Learn to write, code or draw anon, and then do the VN, if not you should just try to join another project to gain experience and some background so people can trust you before talking about yourself as a "project manager", that for an indie game or in this case visual novel is just a code word for "lazy leecher".


f2c921 No.26037

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More details: It's a romance set in summer art camp. There will be five girls to pursue. MC likes video games.

>>26031

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tails-of-tactics#/

It used to have a thread here but gone now. I didn't think things through and put all my eggs in one basket: the engine-maker. When my ace in the hole dropped out, he realized this was too big for him to do alone, the ship sank. I learned something from it. Plus, that's how I met my current codefriend.

>>26033

I'm more comfortable fixing another writer's words to suit the story than typing prose myself. Even in RPs, my style isn't wordy.


d12b0f No.26040

>>26037

> custom engine

> 85K for what looks like a pixelshit game

I see what the problem was.

You need to think like a businessman, not a dreamer. Look up Marble Syrup, they started out stealing art and using royalty free packs. Now they receive thousands in Patreon and can afford to hire the best Japanese artists.


175c74 No.26041

>>26040

I think it's failed because it was a high risk noname dev team asking for 85k without even a gameplay video. I think we had a thread on this already.

>Marble Syrup

This is outright wank material, kind of a bad thing to aim for. If you want to think like a businessman and looking for quick cash, then don't bother with games at all, just draw porn.


f2c921 No.26050

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Please email me or add me on Steam if you're interested in helping out. Next month, I should be able to get on Skype more often.

Steam: dragunityfox

I'm having some character sketches made to better visualize them.


be774d No.26053

>>26041

>in the business of VN

>criticizes VN for being porn

You don't into Japanese material very much outside of Adult Swim do you?


b3c97e No.26067

>making pr0n

Why not go all out and make a furshit fetish crap heap?


796da6 No.26070

>Making a virtual novel

>We need an author

I hate to ask this, but did you have an idea for a story before you decided to make a story?


f2c921 No.26079

>>26070

The story's key events have been decided and plotted chronologically in our outline for all routes. A character list is made. All that's left to do is fleshing it out more so the whole thing can be produced properly. It's best explained thru IRC than posts ofc. The actual concept has been stewing for a while, you'll have to take my word for it.

>>26067

This isn't a fetish crap heap. If anyone thinks it is, then I'm afraid they'll have to go get their jollies somewhere else.


b65ce1 No.26081

>>26079

>This isn't a fetish crap heap. If anyone thinks it is, then I'm afraid they'll have to go get their jollies somewhere else.

annnnnd I have completely lost interest


1b69a9 No.26086

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>>26079

>This isn't a fetish crap heap. If anyone thinks it is, then I'm afraid they'll have to go get their jollies somewhere else.

This isn't anything at all until it's at least written, and you had best keep that in mind, "manager." Right now you are an Idea Guy with a self-appointed and inflated title, and that's the worst kind of person to have in a leadership position on any kind of collaboration.

If you aren't going to be doing a particular kind of work for your project, you better be willing to either pay for that work to be done, or to give up a significant amount of creative control over the content. I highly doubt you're made of money (you'd have advertised that the positions were paid right away if that were the case), so all a writer sees in this is "I don't want to do the work, and I don't want to pay you, so just make the thing that I want, the way I want it, and if I don't like it, I'll toss it out and tell you to do it again." This is a really great way to turn off any writer with enough skill to know that he can do better, leaving you with greentext "writefags" and fanfic authors at your disposal. Having started firmly at the bottom of the barrel, you can only imagine how attractive your project will be to illustrators and composers once they see how it's written and what contributions the "manager" has made (visual novels have sounds and music too, in case you forgot).

I don't think you learned your lesson from the last project at all, frankly. If you still think you can contribute to a project by simple telling other people what to do, you've still got the most important lesson left to learn, and every project you start will fail until you do.


9d57cf No.26089

>>26037

>https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tails-of-tactics#/

holy shit there is so much wrong with this; that pitch video is textbook wrong, being "project manager" on a team of three, don't know how you fucked up marketing to furries. and it says you have a degree in business? some of the stuff you messed up is entrepreneurship 101.


1b69a9 No.26090

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>>26089

Speaking of which, I just realized that the $85K is meant to "support the creators for a year."

Dischan much? People are wising up to this shit at an increasing rate. Kickstarter funding is meant to be used for the commission of production, not to provide fucking living wages for project members. I can't believe this shit has to be explained.

It's a fucking Final Fantasy Tactics mod with furry sprites. How could anyone possibly need $85K to produce that?


f2c921 No.26100

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>>26086

Actually, it's more like if I don't like it, then I will do the corrections myself. At this stage, we just want to get an extended outline done. Can't start writing without it perfected. Afterwards, it will make more sense to consider paid tasks. The heavy lifting so to speak. I'm simply looking for volunteers right now, that's it.

>>26089

If I wanted to, I could've concept'd a R-18 game. Is that what you meant by "marketing to furries"? I'm just not interested in producing that type of content.


9d57cf No.26101

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>>26100

I mean seeing as you have zero backers I'm assuming you didn't even bother with market validation, which should be extra easy since anything with animal people is an already concentrated niche of people on the internet, with or without porn.

the other anon is right, asking someone to work for free while keeping creative control is a slap in the face. everyone in this board is here because they have their own ideas, you're asking them to work on yours instead while not even bothering to indulge us in why you think it's so great. do you actually think the opportunity to work for you is worth the time of day?


175c74 No.26103

>>26100

>Actually, it's more like if I don't like it, then I will do the corrections myself

>I'm simply looking for volunteers right now, that's it.

So wait, you expect people to work for you for free and there is a chance that their ideas won't make it into a final product?


821896 No.26109

>>26017

>kind of wanna get into writing professionally

>used to be super into anthro

>not sure how I'll do with romance

On the one hand, could be my big break. On the other hand, it'd be risky...but what isn't risky in life?

What's the upside? Would I get a percentage of profits, a certain amount upfront, my name in the credits, some combo of all 3? Gotta know what I'm in for before I quit my day job.


821896 No.26110

>>26100

Oh, you want free shit that you'll overwrite anyway.

Gee, thanks. I'll just go now.


f2c921 No.26111

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>>26109

Who knows. I haven't done romance before either. I'm more of an action type of storyteller. I can't really promise this getting big whenever it comes out though, so don't bet on quitting your day job. We'll work something out I'm sure. Have a char concept prototype.


821896 No.26119

>>26111

Let me refer you to this post:

>>26110




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