Game ideas!

[fullofjoy]

As advertised, this is an outreach to any writer, artist, gamer, or anyone with ideas in general for this project. It'll probably be best to start off small, and start with the ideas first.

We need:
Face art
Sprites
A general storyline
Other things

Ideas for anything, from the story to art direction to gameplay, would be most appreciated.

Maybe this should start out with a demo first, an example of how it would work.

Edit: Also, if you have an idea don't be afraid to say it because we'll consider anything, and if all goes well we might do some side projects while working on a big main game, to flex our game-making muscles.

Comments

[freeandjoy]

That's not quite as romantic, though.

lies, if there's anything fanfic has taught me it's that fighting zombies is totally romantic.

In all seriousness though, I probably could have made it a 1000 times more clearer but option 2 was what I was trying to aim for too, I can be terrible at explaining myself sometimes. I think your idea of starting off with Rin coming back and going off from there would be a better way to go though.

[fullofjoy]

Okay then! So what should be the plot as Rin returns? Both are of course aiming for the Olympics still, but how does their relationship develop from his return? How long should it be from Rin's departure until he comes back?

Making Rin Haru's roommate would also would out pretty well for a lot of things.

[freeandjoy]

I think Olympics/romance would be enough for the plotline. I also think you could do something with the fact that this will the first time they will on the same team since they were 12 I'm just not sure what (celebration dinner? renting a movie? something else?).

How long should it be from Rin's departure until he comes back?

2 years maybe. I don't really know shit about how this works, but I think that would be enough time for Rin to do everything that he wants to do in Australia.

[fullofjoy]

Hmm, sounds good... so, what places should I make the locations for? Haru's apartment or dorm or something, the pool they train at...

It makes sense! I don't know much either, I can revise that kind of info later.

[freeandjoy]

Other than those two places the only place I can think of is the airport for the reunion scene. If you do go for the celebration dinner idea it might be a good idea to make one for a restaurant too.

[fullofjoy]

Making them look like convincing locations is... hard... but they are fun to make.

I need to make up some scenarios too that happen in the middle. They'll have some day to day stuff but there's going to be some extraordinary stuff that happens between the beginning and the end. Any ideas for that?