/monster/ - The Last Bastion of Romance★

Also I have some experience coding in java 7, learning C#, some art skills and have lead a few unsuccessful or on hold projects in the past.

>>323559 (OP)

HDoom with KC characters. Replace Doomguy with a Paladin and make new backgrounds of forrests, beaches and junk. Also animate sex scenes for different monsters, such as raping an Alice, getting raped by Ushi-Oni and consensual sex with Inari and much more. Updates for every girl in MGE making this a huge project.

>>323561

>Java

Minecraft with monster girls? Monstercraft?

>>323564

That already exists Anon.

I guess I'll submit my own idea. A 2d action platformer, you play as a few monster girls or a human boy with different kinds of jumps in order to traverse a level based around different mythologies. You gotta avoid being captured by each land's version of the inquisition before reaching the end which will most likely be a portal to the monster world which will end the game. Art style will heavily depend on drawfags available and it should be relativity easy to make.

>>323565

I'm up for a text adventure rpg.

>>323566

Sounds good. Though it would be nice if we kept to one or two drawfags. One of my biggest gripes with MGQ is the conflicting art styles that make it all seem out of place. It's a good idea. Though it would be interesting if there's anyone that can do 3D.

>>323565

This is a good idea. I would be best to start with something simple and easily extensible. The VN engine could be acquired or made relatively easily and anons could focus on making bite sized modules of content to add.

>>323565

If a bunch of people on 4chan were able to some together and make Katawa Shoujo then we can make a good VN too

>>323569

>>323570

Agreed. A VN is more within the realm of possibility. Get a few dedicated drawfags and come up with original designs for the usual monster girls.

>>323570

>>323572

I was gonna say, a VN game is the easiest to make, even if it is probably the most obvious kind of game to come out of a board like this.

All you really need are some good writefags and drawfags, which we have, and some coding to bind it all together, which we also probably have.

You don't have to worry so much about 2D/3D animation, game mechanics, game/difficulty balance, etc. etc. You just tell a story.

I'm not saying it has to be a VN, but that's a good genre to go for if you want to produce a quality product with limited resources.

On the other hand, take Cave Story as an example. Excellent 2D Metroidvania style shooter/platformer, and it was made entirely by one guy over the course of something like 5 years.

>>323576

There's a game Plague inc where we can make our own disease. Why not start there with a virus that monsterizes girls?

>>323575

Coming up with original designs rather than just using KC might be the interesting part. Imagine a Sphinx with added wings or a three headed hellhound. Drawfags can do concept art to see which one is good or not based on reception.

>>323578

Well they've already released scenario creators where you can make your own virus and scenario for it. I think a text based adventure would be a good first go for the board. We have plenty of writefag who could help and it's not as difficult to code. This gives us some better motivation for when we inevitably try again as we'all have a track record for success.

>>323576

>>323581

>>323583

A good thing to keep in mind is that this is a launching point, /monster/ is not restricted to making one single game ever so we should start simple and expand.

>>323581

This is something I'd like to see more of in general, and I think doing something like that in a patriotic /monster/ project might get even more creative juices flowing for the rest of the board.

>>323586

It would be nice to start with smaller projects and have the VN as the big project. It's good to that there are anons for the idea of original designs for the VN. Imagine a busty milf Baph with a tail pussy, black bird wings, and black hair/goat fur as an example. Though I can imagine artists coming up with their own interpretations of Baph and it will be fun in and of itself.

>>323590

The siths will benefit from the redesigns.

If we go the VN route, remember that a VN is only as good as its story, characters, and artwork, and the first two will determine a lot about the last one.

Whatever happens, I hope anything that is actually released is a least as good as Katawa Shoujo

Also, if the tooling that we use is good enough, we could always keep it around for the future if anons on this board want to make another game of the same style later.

>>323593

A VN is a good idea, it can stand as a testament to /monster/. Hell, we all still remember Katawa Shoujo years later. A VN is something a board can do and is something that can be memorable.

>>323593

>>323594

If we're doing a VN, we should start spitballing some ideas for a setting, because that will determine a lot about the characters and story. If we choose a generic high school etc etc, we're going to need some real high grade characters and designs in order to create interest and uniqueness. Otherwise an interesting story can support some more generic characters, like say a famous gladiator who begins to fall for one of his rivals in the colisseum, or a captured soldier in a monstergirl POW camp.

>>323595

>Paladin High

>An all boy school that was originally made to educate young knights to slay monsters

>It became a co-ed school last year and many monster girls have enrolled

Or something original like what you said. A highschool setting is the easiest route though.

Let me just say this here and now:

There are plenty of writefags here who would want to write for this, HOWEVER we already tried to make a VN once and it flopped very, very hard.

Main reason? The guy in charge didn't have a firm grip on the writers for deadlines and such and the actual plot wasn't communicated well. So one, it made the lead writer, Bromont, leave and two, left it without much direction and no one ever submitted anything, leaving it to peter out into nothing.

So basically, if you want a VN or any project, you need a firm project lead who will expect their writers to hit deadlines/ work with them. I basically was waiting for anything from the leader of the last project and never received anything, so I left my story as a rough, though completed, draft.

My two cents.

>>323603

The writefags do their thing first, the drawfags interpret it and the programmers to bring it to life. You're spot on in having different groups.

>>323604

Katawa Shoujo had better resources and communication than /monster/. It's seems difficult for a small board to do projects due to limited resources and low communication between devs.

>>323603

Sure, but once again this was more of a managerial thing. Actually I have no idea if anyone else even write their shit either

>>323604

Ehhh a few months actually, but it was obvious early on it was going to fail.

A fighting game where you play as your waifu that you create before the game starts.

>>323609

That's more work than a VN.

So you figgits actually making something this time or talking about it?

>>323608

I'm not all that opportunistic. This board is really slow and gathering the talent of this board won't be easy. Means of managing and communication are important.

>>323612

At this point, we might as well just be talking.

The only reason I have suggested a VN is because it seems to be the kind of game with the fewest moving parts, but if people have the tools and skills to handle more game aspects, so be it.

One other idea I had was to make a some setting where NPCs go about a daily schedule (like in Majora's Mask, Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, or the latter Persona games), and the player character has freedom to go about and choose who to interact with and when, learning and paying attention to their schedules. That's the kind of thing that could be done either as a VN or RPGmaker style game. The location could be all kinds of places. A school, a resort, an entire town, etc.

>>323595

This. Story, Characters, and Gameplay, if applicable. At least one of those needs to be strong for it to be any good.

Can anyone remember something like a JRPG that had a terrible, bland plot, but you still loved it because the battle system was so good or the character interactions were so fun to watch? Or maybe the battle system was boring or janky, but the plot was so good you powered through it anyway.

It's like that. If you go with some generic setting that's been done to death a thousand times before, you'll need really well written characters and dialog to pull it off, and maybe even some interesting twist on the scenario. If you have a really well written plot or fun gameplay, you can get by with lesser characters.

(That said, I would think characterization would be the heart and soul of a board like this, so I would really hope that part would come out strong and polished.)

>>323614

>As long as there is someone to make the art

I might be up to do it. Kinda depends on what's going need to be done. I've actually done some work on a /monster/ game that got finished and like to fag up the drawthreads regularly.

>>323616

>Game that got finished.

Eh?

>>323618

I know, right? I was the one drawing shit for it and I was surprised too. It was Lizardry, that Wizardry clone that got made a little ways back.

>>323619

Ahhhh, that one.

I didn't follow it much so I didn't know it got finished. That's good to hear, was it any good?

Oh and back to the topic, if someone wants to take lead on this that's the first step. Once we have that, then gather people who want to participate and in what capacity, then figure out what exactly we want/ have the ability to make.

First thing's first though.

>>323621

>was it any good?

It seemed to be fairly decent considering. I honestly never made it very far myself though. Keep getting the ever living shit kicked out of me at every possible turn. The game is not for the faint of heart of the low on autism.

I want to see a /monster/ game and I don't want to see this project fizzle out and fail. Don't underestimate how much work it would be to "just get some drawfag to do XYZ". If it's a real game like an RPG or platformer then you'd need say a spritesheet for the main character, assorted mobs, and all the backgrounds and foreground tiles, etc. and each of these could be broken up into multiple sets of graphics, and each set could take many hours, not to mention discarding or redrawing assets. Multiple drawfags mean overhead in coordinating their drawing styles to make the game look unified.

Let's do a text adventure or a visual novel, use that as practice for our userbase to develop something collaboratively.

The main problem that /monster/ seemed to run into with it's last few attempts at games is accountability. People bring ideas to the table, volunteer their time into development, then for whatever reason it doesn't pan out and the entire project slows to a halt. Lizardry seems to be the only project that succeeded, and if I remember correctly that's because one anon just sat down and powered through all the gameplay and stuff by himself. Drawfags and writefags contributed here and there, but the majority of the work was done by the guy who proposed it.

My solution is maybe getting together on a (((Discord))) server or a Steam group. We take development one leg at a time, maybe every week we take submissions for first girl's route act 1 or second girl's route act 3 or so on and so forth. The writing may be spotty, but if we have well-defined, brainstormed characters that we all collaborated to create, then it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Save the drawfagging for the end when we know we need 3 copies of X character with X, Y, Z facial expressions, and one CG showing copious handholding. If we get too ambitious we'll build too high without a foundation and crumble.

Don't forget about BluX, he's the guy that made Lizardry for us, and the local artfags here helped him with the art. Thankfully he made a small itch site for the game.

https://blux.itch.io/lizardry

>>323670

It's best to make assets from scratch instead of using someone else's assets.

>>323671

I know anon. I just am not much of an artist so I can't make the more fantastical things.

>>323672

It doesn't have to be fantastical, just decent. Plus the other drawfags may help.

>>323664

I like the idea of an SRPG too.

I was planning on making kind-of-sequel for Lizardry but more in style or overhead SSI-style RPG rather than dungeon crawler but I have enough free time now to help with whatever. I still have prototypes of the text adventures and MUD, MUD actually just needs some writers if someone wants to pick it up. Someone had the unfinished parts of the VN, too.

>>323678

So instead of Wizardry with monster girls, you plan on making an Ultima with monster girls?

>>323679

More like Exiles/Nethergate but yeah, that was the plan it's still in early engine development stage anyway.

>>323681

Try to find Bromont or Tacomelt for the scraps of the failed VN project, there were parts that could be salvaged I still have the semi-finished RenPy theme, bunch of minigame scripts and some cartoonish backdrops I made.

>voice

Let's not go there. Ever.

>>323681

If you do draw, I would like to see your creativity in original design of the monster girls. Like a tall busty baph, a kobold that's a horned reptilian loli imp and the siths actually looking favorable. Let your imagination soar.

>>323668

>discord alternative

There's always Wire that we could try. Though I'm not sure that it has voice chat for groups.

>>323689

Or you could just use IRC like a normal autist.

>>323689

Never heard of Wire, but after a cursory glance it looks pretty good for what we want. Any kind of Discord-like system where you have one group and multiple "rooms" is perfect for this kind of development. We could have one general tab, an ideaguy tab, and a tab for each of the characters so we can decide what direction to bring them in.

>>323692

Tox is probably the Discord alternative you're thinking of but it's also sorta shitty. You'll need git repo or FTP to organise the shit either way so file upload isn't high concer for communication. I don't even think voice comms is needed for this kind of shit. As a matter of fact start by making repo in gitgud or something.

I'm making the engine in Lua again using LOVE as base framework, shit just werks.

>>323692

>Even if it ends up looking kind of shitty, I'd much rather a comfy homemade game than a towercuck-like with "borrowed" assets.

Exactly.

>Mango eating baph because memes.

A tall mango eating Egyptian baph with thick thighs, wide hips, brown skin and black hime style hair.

>>323692

>that one Discord alternative I can't remember the name

Riot?

>>323700

>Just give her small breasts and I'm both in and in.

Perfect.

>>323702

Then be creative on whatever chupacabra design. Vampire girls should have cute bat ears and bat wings.

Ya'll are getting ahead of yourselves again.

Really, who is taking charge as project lead? They should probably have a name.

>>323701

LOVE is great if you're basically doing your own stuff from scratch, it's barebones engine. Think of it as of Pygame for Lua. Disclaimer: Lizardry was the first time I used Lua and I didn't know shit about Lua and I still don't know shit about Lua, I just use reference manual and throw shit on wall until it sticks using generic programming logic.

I made things easier for you nogs, there's the gitgud group, just request access when logged into Gitgud and I'll pull you in by tomorrow:

https://gitgud.io/monster

Now go ahead and pick project lead.

>>323559 (OP)

I may be able to do music.

Imagine a Hellhound as a shadowy specter doggo. She's shy and gloomy and always avoids eye contact. Hellhound gets flustered if you stare at her eyes.

>>323710

Can you post examples of music you've made?

>>323702

>>323711

I mean, I was thinking more actual original mishmash monsters than different takes on existing ones. If someone not affiliated with the project sees X monster girl, they're going to expect the typical X as opposed to what we present, and their expectations aren't being met.

I'm trying to get an example down on paper, but I'm an awful drawfag and I don't think I could put the concept accurately into words, if anyone wants to take a shot then I can try.

>>323643

>headpats as a game mechanic

Well, obviously.

>>323668

>I really liked the art for that

Ah good ol' emotional validation. Part of an "artist's" massive ego's diet.

>so we have an artfag at least

Just as long as I'm not expected to draw any cuckshit.

>Do you do normal drawings or only pixel art?

Normal drawfagging usually. Lizardy was the first time I've ever given that sort of thing a try.

>>323713

>>323720

I'll have some stuff made in milkytracker in few days/week that I'm making for a game.

I'll see if I have anything handy on my computer. I haven't recorded much. I play several instruments, and am a theory nut, but I've only started messing with electronic stuff in the past few years.

>>323729

That's a raiju.

>>323731

I'm not talking about Kobold redesign, I'm talking about a Cu Sith redesign using the kobolds as an inspiration. If we do an actual Kobold, we can have it be a horned imp loli lizard. Anyway, the all of the design decisions is up to the drawfags, so be confident in your creativity.

>>323732

So it is. Her tail looked kind of fox-like in that image, even though she's a weasel.

>>323733

Sorry my mistake, Cu sith redesign, my point still stands. Also don't say it's all up to the drawfags, this is a group effort after all and Insight is useful.

>>323727

>seems like we could find out where you live, enslave you and build a full CG game with it.

That sounds like it'd cut too much into my vidya time so I'm going to have to decline being a slave. If you're looking to lock some dude up in your basement I figure the faggots on /cuteboy/ would be up for it though. Careful not to catch the AIDS.

On a slightly more serious and far less gay note is the plan to set up a server on discord or something similar to coordinate efforts if there's enough people/interest to actually do something? I'm a lazy cunt and I'm doing something so I'm not going to search the thread right now.

>>323736

You're right, it is a group effort. Anyway, let's not forget to have fun.

Anyway I'll keep an eye on this and will offer writefag services, but again, not until we have a project lead. We have all the talent present, but without someone to whip our sorry asses into shape and solidify something this is as good as dead in the water.

>>323739

It's funny, we have the talent here but what we need now is leadership. Be funny if Aux takes charge or something.

>>323740

As per Aux:

"Nah, I'm playing PSO2"

>>323745

Okay, one of you mother fuckers should suck it up and take the lead. Aux is stuck playing addictive MMOs right now apparently. I nominate the guy that did Lizardry.

If this gets off the ground would it be open or closed source? I would say open in the event the game falls apart before completion so someone else can take up the reigns.

>>323761

According to thread, a VN.

>>323762

Is this a VN using characters from KC's monsterpedia or are you making OC's?

What is the setting? What is the point of the story beyond "I want to fuck a monster girl"?

>>323763

If you read through the thread, Anons agreed to do original monsters and original designs of existing monsters instead of just copying KC's designs. The writefags are going to come up with a setting, however we need a guy to take the lead of the project.

>>323764

the thing about a vn is the tone of the story, if its allover the place its going to fail and lose sight of what it was supposed to be. Each route could have differences but overall has to abide to what happens in the place where it takes place in.

Like a bunch of mg's coming from another world will be equally clueless, while a story where the monstergirls and society adapted to eachother would be more varied, but is a landmine for writers who want to take their routes into their personal directions since one route can contradict what happens in another one when it comes to backstory and explanations on how shit works back in their world.

I dont want to sound like a dick, but you must first work on how the scenario happened in the first place, then you can sperg out about species later on. If you do the species first then agreeing on backstory will be an uphill battle.

anyways, make an outline, practice K.I.S.S, do not begin a project with a serious tone for a first project. and if you want to make routes memorable, you must have a proper mix of bittersweetness rather than have it all be overly saccharine, keep it grounded because if you overdo the character flaws then it can either be a slog or read like a parody of something.

>>323765

I agree, scenario should come first. Also, you, Bromont or the Lizardry anon should take charge of the project. Anyway, I guess nobody would be for the idea of Paladin High.

>Paladin Academy

>An all boy school originally to train young knights to slay monsters

>Monsters had intergrated into society in modern times

>Barely anyone enrolls into the old school

>To survive, the school became Co-Ed and allowed the admission of monster girls to enroll

>The protagonist is from a long line of paladins that had a legacy in that school

>Romance the monsters

This is just a crappy suggestion as an example.

>>323769

Yeah, something like that. See Aux, I knew you could be the leader.

>>323768

It's a start.

>>323769

>Have a story where different guys meet different monstergirls, it will flex the creative muscles because the MC wont have to constantly change behaviors and lose consistency with each individual girl like what happened in kawata shoto.

That was tried that last time, Aux. Means the writers have to come up with the scenario from start to finish, ends up with a world lacking cohesion and tone.

>>323771

we could retool that, fewer characters with monstergirls tied to one guy on their routes, it will pit one route against the other and temper it to have more cohesiveness.

>>323771

>>323773

Last attempt failed because of lack of lead from what I've heard. As you guys said, it has to be a setting writefags can work with. The coders, drawfags and writefags agreed to do this, but one of you guys need to take charge. I can't stress this enough.

>>323773

Why not just make each main character related and have it be about the brothers taking care of one monster girl each?

>>323777

Good idea, it can show some dynamics between each brother. aside from just monstergirls, it will give an audience a breather during a story break and possibly some humorous scenes. we can also use it to show the status of the relationship flags each brother is currently on but not have it be too blatant.

Just a word of caution: watch out for scope creep.

I wouldn't want to see the game/VN fizzle due to ever increasing demands or goals.

Clear production goals and good leadership are two things that almost always guarantee a finished game.

>>323781

Alright, that's a starting place.

So we have a finite set of brothers. Even if we had a lot of writefags want in on this, should limit the scope at first, especially based on the number of drawfags present and what they could handle.Is five a good number?

Again, still missing that key element of a project lead, however it's something to kind of solidify what we'd want.

>>323559 (OP)

Uh, dating sim perchance?

what would be the responsibilities of being lead?

im the guy that made the new "how to draw thread" so i might be able to take on the role of directing everyone

just give me a bulleted list of what you need in a lead and ill see if i fit

>>323788

>Managing writefags and drawfags, enforcing coherency of the product.

>Deciding and enforcing deadlines.

>Being the hardass who rejects submitted work if it's not up to par, or scraps assets if there's a change of plans.

>Telling dramatic faggots to fuck off.

At this stage you might as well be the guy who decides what the setting is going to be and which characters will be present too. I like the band of brothers idea. Hope there's a shota for recieving ara ara.

Regarding coherency of the art style, I think a production line setup would make that easier. That is, have a guy drawing roughs, then a guy drawing clean linework, and then a guy doing the colouring.

>>323791

oh yeah i can do that i think

one issue

i got perabanned on my home pc so thats going to need to be fixxed

i got the ban for posting a faggot cat for cheep lols and it was only moderately worth it so Aux id you could unban me that be great,

othet then that yeah i can do all that pretty easily, ill set. up a discord or other service depending on what is needed,

and i should be able to keep people on track and drama to a reasonable shitposting level

all and all yeah i think i can do all that pretty easily

>>323793

You type like a faggot, I wouldn't work with you.

>>323796

that's because im typing from a phone in-between doing work at work bud,

i promise im actually pretty easy to get along with

>>323795

it was in the dead shark cyoa, really i was just adding onto a previously posted gotcha meme in the thread… i thought it was pretty funny but i guess Aux didn't agree

but no yeah, i think i can do it, get everyone on the same page and working on decent deadlines but really its up to you guys if you want me to take on that roll, if you do ill do my best°!

btw

how many draw fags, writers, and programmers are available/committed to this project?

Just tuned into this thread

I'm a programmer so I basically just lurk 24/7 on this board, and I would love to contribute back. I also happen to be a lua wizard. Might not have much time with finals coming up, but I think I can pump ~5h a week into something.

>>323799

it took 15 mins to get all the stuff i needed done to get done

my job is litrally just stand around and check ids

as you can imagine it leaves me with lots of free time

>>323799

>>323803

but really though its up to the guys in the thread, they asked for a lead and i said id do it if they wanted, if you have someone else in mind go ahead and nominate them if you think they're any better than me

>>323803

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean, Juan. Get back to work.

Again - https://gitgud.io/monster for the git group

And https://chat.gitgud.io/monster for the not-Discord shit. Request access in Git group and I'll pull you in, also jesus fuck cut down on idea faggotry for a second and stop thinking about fleshing out world before you even have the world.

Decide setting and basic plot devices in very rough outlines - like fantasy world, MC is literally Hitler, there's magic artifact that makes your dick glow, etc.; decide number of girls - remember that routes will have to branch or interconnect somehow, just saying "make as many as there's writefags" will lead to complete trainwreck, get maximum of two nogs to work on single route.

Worry about art, music, programming etc. AFTER you have basic idea of what you're making.

>>323808

this, thats why i was trying to find out what assets we have in terms of people to see what we can expect, i also agree that we need more of a setting, im liking the 6 brothers idea, and based off the poll results i think people want a VN and CoC hybrid, so for setting it can be something like

"fallin world/ portals opening in feudal era Europe( at least in stile of civilization) and monster girls being slowly introduced to the mc(s) as the game progresses

>>323810

so a highschool romance vn?

but with monster girls?

>>323811

No, a holocaust memoir.

But with Jumanji.

>>323812

how can you have a memoir for an event that didn't happen?

>>323814

If you've got time to deny the holocaust, you've got time to get the counter glossed, Juan.

Get back to work.

>>323818

why ya bustin my balls Jerry?

>>323810

I'll see your shota/ara ara dragon, and raise you a shota/ara ara creepy ghost girl janitor.

https://chat.gitgud.io/signup_user_complete/?id=ebyax5tn3ibmjkmcgdziui67ma

Invite link for the Mattermost on gitgud, get there and start throwing shit on wall to see what sticks.

>>323810

I thought the Bogdanoffs were too busy ruling France to be in charge of anything with a focus on monogamous relationships. Plus, as much as I shamefully admit I actually like the Bogdanoff meme, it has little to do with /monster/.

>>323810

how about

5 different MCs working in shitty low paying jobs get an influx of new monster girl employees because of

>The monsters are from the lost continent of Mu, which recently reemerged following the 2016 presidential elections, almost as if an act of god took place. Modern fantasy. Omnibus format.

you need to waifu your coworkers and teach them how to live in the human world

i'm sure there are a lot of people from here that have or had those kind of job, so its kind of related to everyone

>security anon gets a werewolf coworker and they have to stop hellhounds form breaking and entering

>programmer anon gets a new monster coworker (diversity amirite??) and he has to teach them from 0 how to even use a computer (they create a /human/ board?)

>cleaning anon anon and slime girl

>spider in house building for the new monsters ?

>>323831

>interspecies

*Extraspecies

>>323831

Imagine: post-apocalyptic vehicular adventure.

Year is 2027. Last year, Anita Sarkeesian held a public speech before the UN that was broadcasted worldwide. The sheer idiocy of the SJW bullshit she spewed made brains of all males unfortunate enough to listen to the broadcast melt on spot and every female spontaneously evolved into monstergirl as their very being forced them into evolution in attempt to reject the very notion that they could be same species as Anita. 80% of male population and 70% of human female population was instantly erradicated. Anita was then revealed to be an alien sent to destroy human race all along and she left in flying saucer.

Now, our hero, the daring watermelon delivery boy, was lucky enough to not have paid his electricity bill so he was spared of horrible death by SJW bullshit on the fated day. Today he and his trusty Lada 1200 with dual .50 cal machineguns and fried chicken launcher has to deliver a shiny, delicious watermelon to Mr. Jamal Noga accross half the continent. While facing the dangers of ruined cities, roads and fields he will meet many curious fellows: gang of male hunting scavengers (heroine 1 goes here), an orphan who lost her relatives to the horrible broadcast (heroine 2), a scientist interested in this unforeseen evolution of species (heroine 3), car mechanic (heroine 4) and a member of newly formed phallus worship cult (heroine 5). On his travels he'll get chance to interact and romance those wonderful and diverse (TM) cast of characters. Will he survive? Will his Lada run out of gas in middle of nowhere? Will he find true love? Will Mr. Noga pay him if he's late with the delivery? Where will the road take him? And where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Coming to cinemas near you this winter.

>>323833

That top part is really fucking gay and cancerous

The bottom part is top kek however. I still think Bromont's is more accessible and easier for multiple writefags however.

>>323837

I literally took 1 minute to come with that plot, there could be better premise or better yet there doesn't need to be premise outside of guy on adventure, keep it simple. Either way we're still just throwing shit at wall to see what sticks here.

>>323831

What about something where monster girls aren't in our world yet, but each brother is working to bring monster girls into our world in their own way and thus each ends up with their own love interest depending on their method?

>>323833

>Anita Sarkeesian

Ewwwwwwww. That's some heinous shit, mang. I pity the poor son-of-a-bitch expected to spend time and effort putting that to paper.

>Will Mr. Noga pay him if he's late with the delivery?

A better question is if Mr. Noga will pay him at all.

>>323843

Mr. Noga will pay him alright in crack and hip hop CDs

Whatever we decide on, I can try helping with faggot cat. This sounds more entertaining than writing my own obscure story.

>>323844

Would Mr. Noga be willing to part with his crack?

>>323845

I say make vote and throw the settings ideas in there, once something is decided that's it, no more ideafaggotry. Otherwise we'll get nowhere.

>>323843

I thought alternative to Anita scenario would be ancient aliens landing on Earth and kidnapping 90% of male population as test subjects for their new penis enlargement pills. The radiation from the saucers mutated women into monstergirls. But I'm not entirely sober.

>>323847

I'll hop onto the Git once I get home, I have high hopes for this. I'll mold whatever I have in mind around what the majority seems interested in however.

>>323848

Again, for people who're signed into git - https://chat.gitgud.io/signup_user_complete/?id=ebyax5tn3ibmjkmcgdziui67ma discussion group for this.

>>323833

I'd rather we not reference Anita. She doesn't deserve to be mentioned in vidya. Though I'm up for Paladin Academy or Bromont's idea. Bromont should be the lead.

>>323851

I already made it more sanity friendly >>323847

Perhaps a fork of Free Cities?

>>323861

Act 1: Brothers go to highschool, each one has one-two scenes where they meet the monster girl that clicks with them.

Act 2: Player chooses which brother to play as, then it turns into a normal visual novel where the brother woos the monster, or the monster woos the brother, depending on the writer/character. Brothers can criss cross into each other's stories if need be. End with graduation and epilogue.

(Optional Act 3: Raising a daughter and giving headpats or just married life with monster girl)

It doesn't seem that complex to me, but if it's too hard to comprehend I guess it doesn't work.

>>323861

Too splintered of poll. Let's not complicate it, we're doing this in RenPy. It's modular and easy to use. It's fucking Python.

Since we're doing a VN are we planning on bad ends? Because I have thoughts about that: Human women. I know, but let me explain before you wretch in disgust. Have them act like 3DPD and all. If you choose badly and end up with one the usual crap happens. Divorce, alimony, false rape charges etc.

>>323861

>There's the gitgud chat.

Never used something like that before. Not that I'm going to have shit all to do until the rest of you figs figure out what needs to be drawn though.

>>323866

Register on gitgud, join through this link https://chat.gitgud.io/signup_user_complete/?id=ebyax5tn3ibmjkmcgdziui67ma

Then request member in the gitgud group to have access to repos and shit.

>>323867

Eight's too many. I guarantee you'll have trouble writing two brothers, let alone five.

>>323871

2 codefags, 3 writefags, and a drawfag. We might actually have something here. Though having a single drawfag for the entire project seems a bit too much for one guy

>>323868

>The invite link was invalid. Please speak with your Administrator to receive an invitation.

No dice.

>>323874

It worked for Lizardry but take in account that took 6 months to make and there was less work to do. I can do backgrounds.

>>323875

Gotta be on gitgud group first, just request member when you have gitgud account setup.

>>323877

Why not just use IRC or something anybody can join and not have to make an account

That just seems needless.

>>323878

Mainly because having git repo that's combined with chatroom with media support is gonna help in cooperative dev. I mean, even if the shit fails the group will stay there for other anons to use for their projects. At least it's not Dickcord.

>>323866

>Because I have thoughts about that: Human women. I know, but let me explain before you wretch in disgust. Have them act like 3DPD and all. If you choose badly and end up with one the usual crap happens. Divorce, alimony, false rape charges etc.

So it's like Unteralterbach where sleeping with nonlolis gets you a game over?

>>323876

>>323879

>join the gitgud group

>got to make an email account

Goddammit. Well, I refuse to give google my soul, so gmail is out. I'm off to fine something that will work.

>>323883

I guess? Never played it or really paid much attention to it so I'll have to take your word for it.

>>323884

Use temporary mail like nada or shit, wew lad.

Either way once we decide on setting let's draw a big fat line. No changing of setting once we start working.

>>323892

With all due respect to you faggots - I had to explain to people how to upload shit to FTP, open 7zip archive and join IRC channel all on imageboard. You niggas just dumb.

>>323892

Nah it's good, it'll prevent retards from joining the project and screwing things up.

>inb4 no one joins

>>323889

Look nigga, im at work most of the day and i aint doin that via mobile until ive looked it over.

IRC is super easy if you really give a shit about discord. Yer fucked anyway so whatever.

>>323891

>Slime

>Dragon

>Demon

Perfect! those are iconic staple monsters, the lamia and arachne addition is a nice touch. Better luck next time, harpy.

Granted group access to everyone who sent request.

>>323891

>Lamia, slime, dragon, demon and spider

I thought we were going we less common or Original the Character Doughnut Steels.

>>323909

That's just the race, what they actually look like can be changed drastically.

>>323909

It was originally proposed that the designs of these monsters should be original rather than copying KCs designs. Original doughnut steels are welcomed, but aren't the only thing necessary. Anyway, I would personally prefer a harpy over a lamia. Also, Spider should be a glasses wearing nerd. Dragon girl should be blue and an occult loving chuuni. Demon should be a bully. Slime should be the harmless smiling ditz.

>>323911

Exactly. The demon might look more like a satyr/baph for all we know. This is when things get interesting.

>>323911

>>323912

>It was originally proposed that the designs of these monsters should be original rather than copying KCs designs.

Oh.

As far as girls go what about putting up a poll with a bunch of ideas for girls and seeing which five are the most popular?

>>323913

>demon that looks like a satyr/baphomet

Wouldn't that just be a baphomet?

>>323909

But anon, lots of different mythologies have wildly differing types of snek, slime, dragon, demon, and spider monsters that can be used to make more original mamonos. Well, maybe this isn't the case for slime, but you get the idea.

>>323915

Lamia or naga as they're also called

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga

>>323917

>lamias or naga as i like to call them

>>323918

>We were talking about it in the gitgud chat

Should I even bother joining in yet? I was volunteering to do some drawfagging, but don't really know how much I can contribute to the conversation. I requested access a while ago, but it hasn't been accepted yet.

>You don't need to make a shit girl

That's what human women are for.

>>323918

A shapeshifter would probably require a lot of different character images unless she is only changing into the other girls or something.

>>323919

You're not shitting up the thread, the purpose of this thread is to talk about a game that can be made. complicated shit can be handled on gitgud like coding and other stuff, hosting pictures can be fine here, just make sure to not spoil the story here.

katawa shoujo was in Ren'Py I believe which is open source and free to use for commercial and non commercial shit. I am not really familiar with game engines designed for VNs besides that. could use regular game engines too but it seems a bit like using a tractor pick up your dog's shit.

There, I signed up for the git.

Meh.

>>323933

So, everything to suggestions will go to gitgud? Or do we still use this thread?

>>323933

>>323936

Well, have fun with that. Hope you guys finish what you make, and if you don't, learn from it.

>>323929

>It's quicker to get a reply in there

Not that I can get in. Well whatever. While I'm waiting I guess I'll dick around with some sketching or something.

By the way did anyone get picked as the retard wrangler?

>>323940

You can post your concept art and get responses both here and gitgud rather than just on one site. Well, have fun sketching.

>>323942

I just wanted confirmation on what girls were going to be in the game before I started.

>>323944

So far >>323891

You can use as reference

>>323925

>>323927

>>323928

>>323931

Just an idea for the spider-girl to throw out. You know how they usually make a lot of things like cloths with their silk? There never really seems to be anything done with that though. So make her an assistant to some fashion designer or working in some clothing store. Perhaps have her being taken advantage of for her skill or silk or something.

Accepted all member requests on git. Empty repo for project is initialised.

>>323987

Made a member request. I might chip in with drawings.

>>323989

You're in.

>>323990

Thanks.

>>323953

>>323947

>ideaguyfags

A little is welcome, but keep in mind that drawfags and writefags want to see their own ideas realised as much as you do.

>>323933

This chat seems to redirect to a channel called MomcestTrainer which is deprecated, has 45 members, and has none of these rooms in the list.

>>323992

Just login into chat.gitgud.io/monster

>>323994

I followed the instructions at >>323889 including the bit where you have to sign into the gitgud chat with gitlab. It still redirects.

>>323995

https://chat.gitgud.io/signup_user_complete/?id=ebyax5tn3ibmjkmcgdziui67ma try this link

So can we get some more ideas and concepts for the girls we have. Looking for either personality/situation

Dragon

>delinquent

>chuuni

spider

>fashionista

>nerd

Demon

>bully

slime

lamia

>ditz

>>324033

meant slime to have the ditz

>>324034

Slime is such a harmless ditz.

>>324037

Should be done the concepts by the end of the day

some polls on the characters:

http://poal.me/1e0wkf lamia

http://poal.me/p7ks0 slime

http://poal.me/jdz1vm demon

http://poal.me/3y3v0e spider

http://poal.me/2qmggl dragon

>>324039

>exotic change student option for snek

That gives her the option to be a naga from India, among other things.

>>324043

Belly dancing out of a large jar.

Wouldn't it be better to come up with the ins and outs of each character before assigning any species to them, rather than just taking a set species and applying a bunch of stereotypes and cookie-cutter characteristics and hoping they stick? It would help to flesh out the girls and make them more interesting and fun to read and write for that matter rather than simply having something like Tsundere Dragon #8982 with no depth or personality otherwise.

>>324052

whoever writes them has the final say this is more just to get an idea

>>324057

Hex is really cute.

>>324075

Oh yeah damn I forgot to ask if you guys like these or not.

>>324078

I'd prefer the Hex Slime actually. There needs to be a creepy-cute in there. Other than that, the rest is good.

>>323797

Hey phoneposting nigger, are you the leader or not?

>>324075

>>324078

It looks good. But I think the hex maniac would have been a more interesting and unique choice. A ditz would just be a Suu 2.0. A hex slime may bring something new to the table.

>>324087

>Hex Slime

>She sells potions

>"I made these myself"

There's a lot of potential in that hex slime.

>>324089

the mc could just be roped in into being her guide at school. it would be an easy introduction and give a reason for her to get attached or something.

>>324089

I'm fine with whatever makes a better VN.

>>324087

If you're doing the hex slime. You can have her be a lonely stalker yandere.

>>324104

Why can't I open the snake concept picture?

It doesn't look like anyone's stepping up to lead this thing before we run out of steam, so I (rapedaniel) will do so unless I receive a strong objection.

>>324143

I'm beginning to think I should do it, since I have the most experience writing here.

>>324143

I'm going to be maintaining a design document on the git. Currently it lists staff roles, but will contain setting and gameplay details later. Go to https://gitgud.io/monster/VN and download designDoc.pdf.

What does the project need now?

We have people willing to writefag and drawfag. I'm looking for someone to be the main writefag and for someone to be the main drawfag. Step up on https://chat.gitgud.io/monster/

As for the nitty-gritty tasks, I'd like a main writefag to:

>Come up with world details especially the backstory of how monstergirls came to be. Decide on what kind of school the game will be set at.

>Finalise the characterisation of the monstergirls.

>Begin the characterisation of the protagonists.

Drawfags can:

>Produce rough sketches of the monstergirls so we can decide what they'll look like.

>>324151

In that case, how about you be the main writefag?

>>324153

What's your experience with delegation, music making, story composition, and character design?

>>324154

>music making

>story composition

None.

>delegation

>character design

Barely any.

I see my role as a lead not so much as about providing the writing and art content, and more as being the guy who says, enough discussion, we're going with XYZ because it's good enough and we need to get a move on. That is why I decided to lead despite not having the skills you mention---I saw that the lack of a lead was stalling the project, I figured that I could do an adequate job at the role, and I want to see this game made.

>>324156

Well okay, you're enthusiastic about the role, and that's the right attitude. However, by what metric do you measure how XYZ is good enough when you have no frame of reference in XYZ or XYZ related accessories?

>>324157

>However, by what metric do you measure how XYZ is good enough when you have no frame of reference in XYZ or XYZ related accessories?

By my artistic taste. My ability to judge good work does not depend on my ability to produce work of that quality, so I disagree that I have no frame of reference.

>>324158

Hitler thought as you do, his artistic taste was that having the bigger tanks would mean surefire victory. So he had super tanks built. Problem was, the Maus and the Ratte were damn near useless despite their enormous size. So all that money and effort was essentially flushed down the drain because of it.

But I'll throw you a bone, what's your plan for getting this project finished?

>>324161

And if the gaps are too big and there's not enough guys?

>>324163

Then it won't get finished.

>>324163

If it fails again I'll just take the scraps and make something out of them this time.

>>324164

Don't post a picture of bane if you're not going to banepost.

>>324165

What's stopping you from taking the scraps from the previous project and making something out of it?

>>324163

>>324164

>>324165

Let's get more opportunistic at least. Though I think Bromont has better qualifications, at least if there's someone at the lead then it should go more smoothly than the last VN attempt. I'll do my best as an editfag.

>>324089

Once again, wouldn't it be far better to come up with a bunch of personalities we'd like to see and then choose monster girls that would fit them?

What time is the group most active?

>>324201

Around the clock but mostly US it seems.

>>324107

Because it was kinda generic shit. I'm going to start on something that's hopefully less shit here in a minute.

>>324152

>someone to be the main drawfag

I was under the impression that was going to be me.

>>324226

Check out the references at the snek channel.

>>324226

<someone to be the main drawfag

>I was under the impression that was going to be me.

You are the anti-condom drawfag? I did have you in mind for that role. I put you on the list as main drawfag.

>>324228

>You are the anti-condom drawfag?

DOWN WITH CONDOMS! THE BREEDERS WILL RULE THE EARTH!

Yeah, that's me.

Dragon:

Worked her ass off to become student council president and so has become insanely protective and paranoid about her position. This has led her into maybe not quite blackmail but twisting the arms of people around her to continue to support her. Is actually a chuuni but hides is as she thinks it will hurt her ability to win reelection. This is due to her dragon nature of protecting everything she considers hers which in this case is the position of president. Her secret chuuni nature conflicts with her stoic president image she has created. The romance will be about getting her to relax around the brother and letting her chuuniness out a little bit and mostly just learning to trust others.

As an idea about the plot the first thing that comes to mind could be that the election is happening. The brother gets roped into helping out. As she starts to trust her group that is helping reelect her with her chuuni nature they use that as a way to boost her into winning.

Spider:

A new? Member of the book club. A bit shy but nothing really debilitating. Is a big push over and really does not want to impose as she will not really fight back over anything as she wants to show that her species is not scary. People as a whole are fairly accepting of her but she scared a few kids before so she does not like to be in their presence. Since she is so submissive it is hard to tell what she wants mabye leading to the brother to misinterpret and do things she really does not want or something. Her route can be about getting her to stand up for herself. A bit generic but I think it would be nice.

Lamia:

Foreign exchange student who is really proud of her culture. Acts a bit like one of those rude tourist. Is the object of curiosity in the school and always likes being asked about her home so she can talk about it, just another fictional place maybe based on India or something. Is actually supposed to be husband hunting but is reluctant to do it as she is afraid of the culture clash if she has to live in the town or bring her husband back to her home. Quite clingy and makes the brother who first showed her around school continue showing her around the town.

Demon:

Relentlessly teases people and not the more playful way. Still would not be a big deal but does this constantly day in and day out to people. Was not as bad in the past but since she was a demon so everyone considered even really small things really bad. Eventually she just decided that if she was going to be given the bully role she would embrace it. This is only at school though and her family is ironically quite religious and volunteers at church all the time. Does not have much friends at school as she is stuck in the evil bully role. Still likes to tease people. The plot could be about showing the school that she is really just a good girl who likes to tease people a bit.

>>324233

The shy potion making somewhat yan slime is great. Could use some creepy cute. The goofy snek will appear to be a lot of fun.

>>324233

>>324236

Good shit.

>>324246

The twin route might be harder for the writefags, though if you want the ending to for the MC to have to spider GFs. However, this will be a lot of legs for the drawfags. We already settled with the spider being a nerd.

>>324246

>pajeet lamia

DESIGNATED

>>324246

Why would you want conjoined twins? Are you making Katawa Shoujo?

>>324246

less kawata shojo more monstergirls. dont make this into an overcomplicated mess.

>>324258

There'd be nothing wrong with a conjoined twin mamono, but it'd have to be one that'd actually make sense, like an Orthrus or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthrus

But of course, people would then just be asking why it wasn't a Cerberus instead.

>>324225

>That's what I suggested earlier, but seems people have already set on the characters. I just hope it doesn't turn into a "you date this perfect girl and nothing went wrong" setting. Some people might like that IRL, but it doesn't make that great of an story.

It seems more like someone suddenly made a poll for five monster girls they wanted and asked what personalities they should have. I think we really need to slow down for a second before deciding on those five. I mean, 3 out of 5 of them are already monster musume mamonos, and I'm not getting any sense of "this is what /monster/ would choose" from the selections either. I mean, there's not even a yeti or red oni in it. Plus, didn't someone already say those were just possible choices to get a feel of things for now?

>>324236

>just another fictional place maybe based on India or something

Once again, if you're gonna do this, best to call her a naga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga

>>324280

Perfect.

>>324280

That actually looks really great. Though if you go for the naga instead:

>>324270

>>324275

then you'd apparently have to base her design on one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cobra

>Nāga (IAST: nāgá; Devanāgarī: नाग) is the Sanskrit and Pali word for a deity or class of entity or being taking the form of a very great snake, specifically the king cobra

some poll on what you don't want in the brothers.

http://poal.me/nv8hki

>>324300

You should give it a break for the time being, I'm not sure it's certain yet that those are really the five specific monster girls that'll be used in the end.

Some suggestions to help keep the anons working on this focused on the project and stop them from devolving into a circlejerk:

>make and stick to a schedule of progress updates on the board

>make any hubs used to coordinate the development progress publicly available to view

>figure out early on how long the routes should be and try not to go over

>>324301

No cuckshit should go without saying. That's like asking someone not to piss in your coffee.

One of the setting ideas:

30 years ago scientist discovered a reaction that released a immense amount of a new form of energy. This energy was able to be easily harvested, stored, and could efficiently turned into other forms of energy like heat or electricity. Eager to capitalize on the new source of energy governments started building huge reactors to power their country. It was not until 20 years ago that it was discovered that the reactors were releasing small amounts of the unconverted energy into the atmosphere which spread with the wind currents throughout the world. This initially was thought harmless but then children starting being born with strange mutations. They are “healthy” but have monstrous traits like having spider legs or being born with blue skin, horns, and wings like a demon.

>>324308

It doesn't effect the Y chromosome. Because of this, human males can still be born from female monsters.

>>324308

Another possible idea I was coming up with.

Prologue: Before the events of the visual novel Mankind underwent a logic-defying transformation. Over the course of a second the laws of nature forever thanks to lab accident. Magic was now feasible thanks to the laws of physics but relatively unknown to humans. This also changed some humans possessing two x chromosomes and thus a fraction of human females, namely 15% became monster girls. Now humanity is trying to integrate these new creatures into their own society while further exploring the possibilities of magic.

Present: During the VN the brothers are taking courses at one of the school’s whose job it is to implement monster girls into modern society. As the visual novel progresses monsters integrate further into society, causing changes in the scenery while mankind further learns about the possibility of magic, eventually causing the main characters to learn about it and even attend class for magic lessons.

Seems our ideas are largely similar but overall I think I prefer yours.

>>324314

> Over the course of a second the laws of nature forever thanks to lab accident.

You forgot to add change betweeen nature and forever.

> This also changed some humans possessing two x chromosomes and thus a fraction of human females, namely 15% became monster girls.

What kind of accident occured for this to happen? Also, what about the exotic one?

>>324318

Yeah my mistake, and I was alluding to the idea that monster girls are now possible thanks to these changes in physics but forgot to add how they turn into monster girls.

>>324319

Mutation sounds more believable as an end result to create monster girls, whether that mutation is the result of magic or not.

>>324309

Ok, so I'm not a biologist, but couldn't anything that mutates the X chromosome also produce mutations in males? In fact, males might be more susceptible to mutation (think about color blindness for an example).

My fridge logic is detecting a faint whiff of unintended heresy.

>>324325

it is going to be a bit weird no matter what but like >>324319 said it is never going to make perfect sense just enough that it gets kinda accepted.

Really, I guess it boils down to which broad type of scenario do you like best for explaining the existence of monster girls:

1) Monsters have always been among us in secret and have only revealed themselves to the public in recent years. (This may also imply male monsters, and is also one of the least plausible imho. It works well enough for MonMusu to hang a story on, but imho it is one of the weaker premise ideas, at least for our purposes here)

2) Monster girls have always existed in some alternate world that has begun to connect to or bleed over into ours in some way. (Just so long as the trigger event doesn't involve a mute protagonist riding a dragon… even if the end result would still be a slow motion extinction of humanity)

3) Monster girls are a fairly recent phenomenon in our world due to (something, something, magic, mutation, mumble, mumble).

I do like >>324308 's idea, but I'm trying to think of a way that the mutation could affect females but not males (unless we just want to handwave the /chaos/ away).

One other thing I like about the "mutation" angle is that it provides the option of dealing with the girls as more like "mutated humans" rather than full on "mamono," if that is how you want to play it. What I mean by that is that, just like in "Interview with Monster Girls", the girls could basically view themselves as humans with unique quirks rather than as something fundamentally different from humanity (as in MGE). I'm not advocating either way, just doing a little ideafagging.

4) Or something else entirely

Finally, depending on which monster types we decide on, we may need to either come up with a brief explanation for how magic is now a thing or tone down any magical aspects associated with the monster types.

>>324334

bully demon you mean

>>324334

>If you stay fateful to your waifu and treat her right, you'll get a good end. If not, you'll get nothing, maybe less.

Part of me really likes the idea that was floated about the "Bad Ending" route being winding up with a 3DPD, with everything that could potentially involve irl.

Actually, if there were brief epilogues to the various routes that show how things turn out several years down the line (marriage, starting a family, etc). we could have a nice payoff for each MG route and room to show just how bad the "Bad Ending" path gets, whatever form that takes.

>>324334

Is there any reason in particular why you're that set on those five monstergirl types? With the polls that have been done in this thread, why not gauge whether people are interested in sticking with those types or having more time to decide on other monster girls?