@NekoMizu
Hmm, right. Well, I guess so long as you're doing it because you want to.
Hmm, right. Well, I guess so long as you're doing it because you want to.
3. Acquired a free Visual Novel Maker (just Google search for "Ren'Py"). Going to work on a very simple horror-mystery story for experimenting purposes. The coding is pretty easy to understand even if you're a beginner in programming.
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Old program, but if you want to make a 2D visual novel, this is the thing to use.
You won't be able to do anything "cool" without learning basic coding, ruby, or copying and editing community codes.
I do have quite a number of story ideas that I had planned for novel (not light novel, because I noticed my writing style has become a little too, uh, sophisticated to be suitable for light novel), but some of them I feel would work better as VN because that would allow me to explore other routes/endings, which help to further expand the lore of my story, and deeper character development when faced with the various choices.
As for the Final Fantasy RP, cheers to you for that! I really like FF for the reason that it's more of a franchise title but each has its own story, world and characters. Of course, all of them would share a few generic similarities, such as the thing about the powers of crystal, and the recurring creatures (chocobo, moogle, the summons, and "everyone's favorite", Gilgamesh, haha). I wish I can find a way to reboot my FF RP ideas without my busy schedule killing them off again because I really want to play around the idea of deconstructing and reconstructing the canon characters for character studies, but oh well. I probably end up writing them as my own fanfic projects, or get only a few people I'm close with/able to work well together to collab instead of RPing with interested (but random) players.
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By no stretch of the imagination would my story be considered unsophisticated. The reason for going to light novel instead of just novel is the problem of length and complexity -- there is no way a single novel - no matter how large - would be able to contain even one of the arcs of my project, so the idea is that I plan to separate the story into what would best be described as 'episodes', and then have a handful of them in each book. I have no intention of going with multiple routes/endings, so my reasons for considering a visual novel format is entirely for the purpose of adding better visuals and even music -- it would still contain the full and heavy-handed narrative that the novels would have.
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In this role-play, I'll actually be using some (not all) of the concepts I've had over the years for Final Fantasy role-play ideas. I suppose keep an eye on the role-play when the time comes. It's using the Dissidia setting, but I expect the ideas I have in mind will make it a lot more complex than that story was.
They've done some major cool upgrades since then, and will soon release ver. 7 (now it's ver. 6.11-something), according to a classmate of mine who had used the program before to make his own VN. Also, when it comes to coding it's largely based on Python, which I'm very familiar with, so no worries about that. XD And yes, I'm going for 2D VN, not 3D. I mean, what for? Might as well make a full action RPG instead of VN, yeah. Sure, looks cool to have the character's mouth move as the dialogues are being read out, and blink/bob their head every few seconds or so, but I find that creepy. /shrugs
I mean that the focus plot is split up. There will be no introduction/rising action/climax/denouement to a single book, which most books in a series do have (though there are exceptions where things end on cliffhangers). But usually those are new complications and twists leading into a new one-book plot in the next installment. Thus, the background plot might span several volumes in a series, but there's a smaller plot in each book, and that is usually the focus. I meant books where there is no real plot arc in each volume, but where, instead, each book is more like one chapter of a story.
So you're saying that light novels do have a complete plot in each volume, in most cases? Welp, definitely wrong on that point, then.
It sounds to me that light novels are more a stylistic designation. Thus, you could have a novel written in light-novel style.
So a book of two hundred pages, dialogue heavy and very light on descriptions, and with no complicated words (though I'd argue the last one, because really, you can be poetic without flowery words, and there's no good lines to separate them) -- this would be a novel and a light novel at the same time, by what you've said.
Anime is not always episodic, in fact a lot of the ones I watch are not. The most obvious example I can think of is DBZ, though I don't watch it. And manga versions of things like InuYasha, Detective Conan, and Rurouni Kenshin have short "chapters" based on the fact that they are released in weekly installments. The actual plot arc spans several of these chapters, and even a collected print volume won't start and finish a single plot, but are instead rather arbitrary in many cases.
But the TV definition says "occurring in installments", which I would interpret as broken into pieces...