Thank you for bringing this demo to us. I spend three hours with it. I like the graphics and the character's mimi ... everything really. I look forward to enjoy the full novel when available. I found a single thing early on. The title on the book shown has an error in the title: it says Eangue rather than Sangue. :-)
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We have made an audio book (not visual novel) from the text in an e-book with Google Books Partner Center and their AI voices. The audio book contains 13 voices. You can download the audio, but the e-book must be published on Google Books before you can use it to create the audio book. They are pretty good (but not perfect), and the title would not have been published as an audio book if not for those. There is an audio sample when you follow the link.
https://www.erikistrup.dk/eip6_dreamwalker_en.html
First, it is called a VISUAL novel, so voices are ‘just’ a bonus to the overall experience.
Voices are good IF there are talented actors, otherwise it will ‘pull down’ in the experience and people will turn them off.
It can be a challenge to pick the right voice, as it needs to match the character and be clear in its expression… just like written text.
If there is much speech, it will be expensive to add voices which includes workload. If there is only a little speech, will it add much to the VN?
In my VNs I do not use voices because I have many characters and much dialogue.
All the best!
My first play-through is 25 hours and 72%. I took my time to enjoy this wonderful story. Great work, so thanks to all involved. I really like the water-colour like graphics. My favorite character is Juliet.
I'm glad I picked the Aspen path first, because I feel the Julia path is the most fulfilling. I have now finished 95% and been in the novel for 39 hours!
The Soul of the White Dragon as VN was released yesterday. It contains the whole text, so my initial concern of the large word count, made me do it in one release anyway.
Even with the 1920x1080 size, the zipped size is well under 100 MB. There is a little over 120 images. I have added a 'normal' size font file, and a large font file to show Chinese characters/glyphs.
Please download, "play" and comment, so I have some feedback to work with.
Thanks for the comment, dear.
I had only discovered this format recently, and found it appealing. I had my concern of turning 59,000 words into a VN, I was also concerned about the amount of the MB of graphics it would hold. Initially I decided to turn it into five parts, Now that I know the approx. amount, I will put it all in one novel.
I am still learning this programming stuff, and even how to work with images. I play/read NV on a 1920x1080 monitor, and "all" of them seems to be made for 1280x720. When in full screen the characters get blurred and that 'irritates' me. That is why I chose the larger resolution. I don't know how this resolution works on a smartphone/tablet, I have some problems generating the files for android.
I expect to price the NVs as the e-books.
All the best to you, and again, thanks for taking the time to comment!