For my industry event I attended one day of the AnimeNYC at the Javits Convention Center in New York City that ran from November 15th to the 17th. The event took up half of the convention center as the other half was a chocolate convention. It was split up into three parts, panel rooms, artist… Continue reading Aaron’s Industry Event
For this prototype, I decided to create the prologue in Ren’py to gauge how the actual visual novel will play out and feel. Although I have already brought in the script for the second prototype previously, I hoped to learn how the text would feel when the actual visual novel is being played with… Continue reading Aaron’s Prototype Sprint #3
For this prototype I decided to make the prologue in Ren’py to see how it would work/flow. The feedback I’m looking for is if the the font and text color fits the written text and the background. Currently, I’m working on the character sprites on the tablet I got recently so I don’t have them… Continue reading Aaron’s Prototype 3
For this prototype I made the script for the prologue of the visual novel. I hoped to learn about the quality of writing and whether or not a reader could grasp what is happening from the text without being given a synopsis. The way I collected information about this was by asking if they… Continue reading Aaron’s Prototype Sprint #2
For this prototype, I made a synopsis of the plot for the visual novel as well as brief character bios. What I hoped to learn from this was if the basis for the story made sense as well as if the characters and their motivations made sense as well. Overall, the feedback I received was… Continue reading Aaron’s Prototype Sprint #1
For the first prototype, I plan on providing the manuscript of the prologue as well as a short synopsis of the rest of the visual novel. Although there will not be any visuals, the plot is what the bulk of the visual novel will be. From this I plan on asking questions to determine… Continue reading Aaron’s Prototype Plan
This week I chose to go back to focusing on the creative aspect of creating a visual novel, mainly the visuals part. Since I don’t have a tablet I went through various YouTube tutorials on cleaning hand-drawn sketches and line work in Photoshop. From what I gathered, it seems that the most common ways of… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #3
This week I decided to focus on researching the technical side of creating a visual novel. I read through the Ren’py tutorial on their website and tried out most of the basic commands to get a feel for what actually programming a visual novel will be like. For the most part, the commands are… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #2
This week I decided to mostly focus on researching other visual novels by playing through them and observing how dialog is structured and what kinds of choices they give you. This week I played through Rewrite by Key. It takes place in Kazamatsuri, a city with lots of plants and greenery. The protagonist is… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #1
For my thesis, I will be making a visual novel with two branches. There are many things I need to do in order to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for this project. The first thing is to play more visual novels and take notes. Although I have played various ones including Rewrite and Doki… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Plan