Sunday, February 26, 2012

Our Visual Novel Project


So I talked mostly about Script Forge earlier, but no one wants to hear that. The important question is "what kind of horrible OELVN are you guys trying to push out this time?"

The short answer to that is Transversion, and here's the neatest description I could come up with.

"Transversion is a story about Walter, a 23 year old office jockey working for the illustrious AerOpiner Corporation in sunny California. As a man used to disappoint, Walter has long since accepted his fate as a pencil-pusher with only a chance of a promotion in fifteen or twenty years thanks to a healthy amount of alcohol and cynicism.

However, this year the company is hosting one of its well-known office parties, and Walter feels obligated to show up to a party with a date at least once. Unfortunately, as the party begins to end two of the guests getting killed, and circumstances leave Walter as the primary suspect.

From there on, Walter must fight to maintain his sanity, his livelihood, and for the chance to possibly clear his name with whoever’s help he can still get."


I realize this doesn't really tell you anything about the characters so far, which again, is something we're going to work on over the month. All I can say at the moment is "stay tuned for more murderparty waifu madness." In the mean time, here's some FAQ I've been able to compile.


Q: How many routes are there?
Currently there are 4 routes, though we’re working on having five routes total.

Q: Who are the characters besides Walter?
There are five main characters aside from Walter, and we will be updating the blog with character bios, partly since we need to update many of them as some are at least 6 months out of date. All the important character bios should be up with something to look at in about a month or less.

Q: Will there be sex scenes?
We are planning on having sex scenes, but not in every route, and there won't be a lot.

Q: How far are you guys into development?
We’re 7 months into development.

Q: How long is the script so far?
As of now, it’s at a grand total of 19k, but who knows how much that we'll be keeping or what more will need to be added on. And of course, we're only 60-65% done with Act 1.

Q: Will you guys be releasing a demo?
Yes. We also intend to release the first 2 Days in our script within a month or two after going through some editing and quality checks.

Q: Do you need writers, editors, artists, musicians, programmers, etc?
We do not need any more editors, writers, or programmers. We are actively looking for another artist, and we're mostly fine on musicians but if you want to help out that's would be cool. If you want to help out in other ways, we're looking for that too, namely photographers, just talk to us in IRC.

Q: I have another question not answered by this terrible excuse of a FAQ.
Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions about the project.



Introduction to Script Forge



Hello and welcome to the Script Forge Blog!

This was all made in kind of a rush, which will be fixed over the coming weeks as we strive forward to finish our OELVN, which has been in production for about 7 months now.

“7 months and you’re only putting up a blog now?”

Yeah, I know.

“Alright so how far into development are you guys?”

 I would say “Act 1” is more or less 60-65% done. We still need to do a lot of quality checks and editing before we start showing anything serious off, but we do intend to show off the first 2 days of the script pretty soon here, which is currently at about 12k words. (Days 3 and 4 aren’t ready to be put together, if we did just pool everything together it would be about 18-20k words).

“So what is the Visual Novel about?”

I promise we’ll put something out very soon here, we just needed to get this bit out of the way while we’re still doing some housekeeping on our assets, particularly our forum for all 3 of our future fans out there.

I also need to work on an initial Q&A before I start asking things, so expect something in, at most, 2 days.

"Who is Script Forge?"

A bunch of guys who decided in a thread one day during the summer that they could show /v/ could make a VN. It has developed a lot since then, though we do want to try and keep this project within 4chan as much as possible (which means we try and recruit people from 4chan itself to retain as much authenticity as possible, without things getting too horrible).


Thanks for reading our first post, as more stuff develops we’ll do our best to keep everyone informed.

If you have any questions, you can reach me at errorname457@yahoo.com