I need some advice.I'm struggling to find a middle ground between making an interactive novel, literature, some bits of comic books and videogames.I just can't find a proper middle ground.Do people play and read games that are mostly text and som

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Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:16:22 4142a1 No.15857883

I need some advice.

I'm struggling to find a middle ground between making an interactive novel, literature, some bits of comic books and videogames.

I just can't find a proper middle ground.

Do people play and read games that are mostly text and some drawings?

Homestuck comes to mind but I want also to have some minigames between the story sections, maybe add some roguelike part (with sprites), dunno.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:17:43 a11bec No.15857886

>>15857883

>Do people play and read games that are mostly text and some drawings?

You mean visual novels? There are VNs with gameplay sections, so it's not like what you want is impossible.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:19:18 4142a1 No.15857893

>>15857886

yeah, VN sounds like a good fit, but I want something more literary, since I want people to start to read my game like a novel.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:20:38 c1442d No.15857900

>>15857893

Maybe like a puzzle adventure VN thing? I know the DS had a handful of games that had the system held vertically open like a book.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:21:15 66a711 No.15857906

>>15857883

get rid of the game part if it's not your main focus or gimmick (lol)

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:22:45 b96dc0 No.15857914

>>15857883

Hyperlink fiction is a thing, not that I condone it. But seriously just write.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:23:44 4142a1 No.15857916

>>15857906

>>15857900

yeah, I want more like an interactive novel.

Maybe I should drop the game part, but I would love to make some segments play like a basic jrpg.

>>15857914

I'm just starting to read.

It's hyperlink fiction popular?

(I don't browse such forums).

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:27:13 e671c8 No.15857934

>>15857883

>Do people play and read games that are mostly text and some drawings?

A western visual novel then? i can't say i would tbh, the only western VN that had any kind of redeeming quality was katawa shoujo and even that was lackluster.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:30:18 4142a1 No.15857964

>>15857934

I don't like VN because is mostly dialog centric as fuck and I would like to make it more like a traditional novel.

I guess what I have in mind is more akin to an interactive novel (text descriptions) + roguelike (gameplay) + jrpg (non dungeons) + VN (dialogs).

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:39:06 786ddb No.15858039

>>15857883

>Homestuck

get the fuck out of here, toby. tumblrtale is shit, so is buttermall.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:40:29 4142a1 No.15858047

>>15858039

is one example I was looking for inspiration, I don't even like it so much.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 02:48:50 db9730 No.15858076

>>15857883

I personally really like what Silver Case and 25th Ward do. They call it like Film Window or something. There are some first-person walk-around bits that are rendered in 3D, but most scenes are 2D illustrations with the characters in the frame. Instead of the VN standard of cut-outs of the talking characters fading in and out with each line of dialogue, the game would instead put a box or some othe rkind of indicator over the face of who was saying a certain line. It also did mixed media type stuff, like a 3D scene would be moving on-screen, like a car driving down the road, then 2D illustrations of the car's interior would come up to show the characters speaking, or straight-up FMVs in a few rare bits.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 03:43:27 bae1ea No.15858509

>>15857964

Sounds like you want to make a point and click adventure.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 03:55:56 7519d9 No.15858589

>>15857883

>I'm struggling to find a middle ground between making an interactive novel, literature, some bits of comic books and videogames.

Traditional game? They have books, text, and rules for the players.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 18:19:59 e1666e No.15860541

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As >>15857886 says, VN with other genres sprinkled in would be the most straightforward, if your story has at least minimal levels of branching potential.

But you know what would be pretty cool if you felt like going over some long-fallow ground? A parser-based text adventure game with graphics.

Probably my favorite genre as a kid, but it slipped through the cracks of history for gamers in general, between the better remembered point & click genre beloved by hipsters, and the evergreen pure text IF genre that's continued as its own subculture since the 80s.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 19:04:30 cbff5b No.15860750

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So, about what will be your game?