I agree that avoiding obvious similarities like that is good, but you could totally have that happen in a completely different concept as well, which is what made me confused. 
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AdvWall
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Yeah, really should’ve worded it better, sorry for the confusion
If you’re going with this plot, be sure to involve a major plot twist that nobody saw coming. That will make your story unique. There are quite a number of WIPs which already use something like that.
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Anna_B
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I don’t think a plot twist is necessary, but a twist on the concept would make it unique
I’d definitely be curious.
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chazers
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I once had a dream about an IF that I’ve been thinking about more recently.
The IF’s name is “Final Flora.”
Synopsis: After your home, the beautiful Heaven Island, is attacked and stolen from it’s people, you fall into a completely new world with one single desire: Revenge.
Filled with that desire, you and others who were wronged just like you form The Revolutionary Green Regrowth, a community of rebels and survivors joint together by their hatred for The Industrialist, the mastermind behind the takeover of Heaven Island and a megalomaniac with a dream of destroying all green life and replacing it with machines in the name of “progress.”
On this hard, mechanical World, what part will you take in it’s future? Will you be the hahold of it’s regrowth, or will you betray your values and push it over the edge of a new industrial dawn?
You play as Passion, a Heaven Island native with a passion (pun intended) for nature and the power to talk to animals.
The player will be able to customize their gender, personality and sexuality.
I’d love some feedback on these ideas :^0
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Here is the initial demo if my Civil War game for those who are interested. I will post it in its own thread soon.
https://dashingdon.com/go/15660
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So do we not get to choose our names?
You will be able to eventually. This is a very rough demo so a lot of things are not yet added. For reference, I started this project about five days ago.
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Overall the initial demo seem nice and I hope to see more
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Also could we able to choose that state we start out with or are we stuck with Michigan due to historical reasons?
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I will probably make that customizable, too. Thanks for playing!
So will you only be covering bull run because that’s the name of the demo, or are going to go through other battles?
This is probably a very stupid idea, but I’ll give it a shot.
After playing the demo for Falrika the Alchemist (I decided against buying the full game), I think (despite comments that I’ve seen) that the basic premise is possibly quite workable for a choicescript IF, but I’d like to try plenty of changes in executing this idea.
I’m thinking of creating a female gender-locked story with anime vibes. You’ll play as a sorceress in a high-fantasy world, with a cat familiar. There will be some gameplay elements, and I’m thinking of adapting the city management system in Dragon of Steelthorne to create a simple day-to-day stat management system in the game. I’ll also add ROs (male and female) to the game with some emphasis on romance.
If I’m not getting mocked to oblivion for this suggestion, I’ll probably dig out some otome VNs to reread over the weekend and try to put together a demo. I’ll probably not put this up on HG (since this would likely be a really hard sell commercially), but I’ll probably submit this to IntroComp or IFcomp (so it’ll have to be closed beta testing again).
I’m not planning to create a WIP thread for Dragon of Steelthorne 2 until the first game is out for at least two weeks, and we’d be lucky to see the HG release before June. Thus, I’m thinking of a small project to distract myself in the meantime. If you folks are done laughing, does anyone have any thoughts?
Tentative cover art (using my awful art skills):
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I have some feedback, but I’ll post it once you make a thread, if that’s OK with you.
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If we get enough renown could we become the general of the army?
honestly, if you go through with it i’d read it. i do love my “cringe” animu stuff. i knew of otome vns before text ifs, so if you get that nostalgic vibe down i’ll be all over it. the transition from vn to if style of writing will prove an interesting hurdle to jump, i’ll say.
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I have an idea for a post-apocalyptic interactive fiction game where the action takes place in underground states and cities.
Idea:
- Tell about life in post-apocalyptic states / cities 5 years after the apocalypse as well as about interaction between the underground states
- A fighting competition between cities where main character participates for sake of their family
- A main character who unwillingly becomes caught up in political games
I don’t know if anyone will be interested in this idea, but I started working on it today.
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It’ll be tough to create the anime vibe without visuals and sound, so it might just end up being a bubbly IF, but I’ll see how this experiment plays out.
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AdvWall
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Of course, thank you for the input.
