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Hi! So, I really liked your writing style. I almost never find myself drawn to a purely text-based game. I don't know if you only wanted to keep it to text for a particular reason, but thought to share this website if not. It has completely free use facial pictures and I've noticed some other text heavy games use images from it to represent characters. Anyway, if you haven't heard of it, it might be worth scoping out for options for players to pick from for a character or just set images for each character: https://generated.photos

Also, apologies if it's presumptuous to suggest and link this, but just thought it could help to have a visual of your characters.

onionlover2 years ago(+1)

Thanks! Never apologize for being helpful. :D

I am aware of AI generated photo and such like the one you linked and artbreeder.

For the "you" character, personally, I try to keep the descriptions as minimal as possible so players can actually put themselves in the story. What do you think?

For other characters, yes it would be amazing to have some visuals. Resources are not particularly overflowing here and I can't draw for shit, so gotta make do with just texts for now.

With all that being said, I'm honestly a bit lazy, especially with my plate full of writing and coding.

Finally, there is another version on my twitter with some media but they are copyrighted so I don't want to post it here.

Ridley2222 years ago(+1)

Whoa! I just looked into artbreeder and that's really cool. I'm definitely having fun browsing it now lol.

I totally agree with that for the "you" character of this kind of game. Definitely feels nice not to have any dissonance between the player and the main character.

And good to know about the other characters. I totally get the drawing struggle. I've been wanting to try to put a game together one day, and have been playing with the idea of Renpy, but making the commitment and leap of time and resources it would all take to learn is a bit daunting for me so I totally getcha on resources x_x;

And good to know! I'll check that version out. Looking forward to seeing more of your writing!

onionlover2 years ago(+1)

Funny enough, I did try Ren'py to do a half-assed google translated (+ my imperfect English) remake for a Moritake game but quitted 1/3 way through from boredom. It's not super complicated (at least to me) but yea, unless you can draw or know someone who can, it's not a wise idea to jump into the VN scene.

Enjoy!

Ridley2222 years ago(+1)

Interesting. Yeah, I can't draw and was disputing taking a stab at learning Daz3d (as if learning both together wouldn't be a feat of time and effort) I just wanna use my writing degree for a similar kinda thing, I think, but the only idea I have for a game would be maybe too intensive for a first stab at things.

Anywho, thanks! I will haha.

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