The current idea for my thesis is to create a visual novel. The inspiration for this idea came from my own experience playing various visual novels. I’ve always liked stories and TV, but Visual novels in particular stood out to me. A good plot is good, but the ability to take a story and make it still good through multiple, different endings is even more amazing. Coupled with the ability to make your own choices makes visual novels take the best parts from books and video games. From a creative standpoint, this project takes some of the things I’ve enjoyed doing like writing short stories and drawing and puts them together. As for a professional standpoint, I hope that this can demonstrate my programming and creative skills and the ability to create a final product out of them.

                This visual novel will be different from other ones because of a different story as well as introducing a meter that the player must keep track of throughout the story while they are making choices during the playthrough.

                For this project, knowledge of Python and Ren’py will be needed. I have already had previous experience in other programming languages such as C++ and Java but minimal experience in Python.  As for drawing and story creating, I have had some experience doing each one but not both for the same project. Some additional skills I will need to learn for this visual novel are the ability to draw backgrounds and how to digitally clean up and color paper drawings.

                For the aesthetics and feel of the visual novel, I think an anime-esque art style like other traditional visual novels would fit it well. A couple of interchangeable CGs (character graphics) over a background for a bulk of the story with some more detailed art put in occasionally.