Everyone here probably knows Katawa Shoujo, the VN made by 4chan. Hypothetically speaking, if the members of denpachan decided to make a visual novel together what do you think it would be like? Would it be a simple slice of life eroge with a twist (katawa shoujo had disabled girls, maybe a denpachan VN would have neet girls or something (though that's maybe not the most appropriate topic, denpachan has neets but I don't know if that's its main draw))? Or would it be more story focused? Or is a visual novel not the most appropriate medium for this place?

Again this is just a hypothetical, I don't expect us to actually do it, I'm just curious what other denpas would find interesting.

it would be all about autist neet girls installing linux on their thinkpads and watching shitty moe anime

>>2 i feel like this site is being a less informative, slower version of g

i don't know if we could pull it off but i'd give it a read. and yes, one of the characters (if not multiple) would be neet. really, i feel neetdom, anime, isolation from ''societal norms'', and being online would be important to a story we'd create. at least that's my guess if this was to happen.

On technical side it would most likely use Ren'Py. Given the fact anonymity is important, messages are likely to be sent through Denpa-Chan (saging replies, of course).

When it comes to characters, we already have a mascot, so not Denpa Usagi would be silly. We already have a lot of assets to choose from, courtesy of the artists: cybersavior.dev/media/usagi-chan.zip

I am unsure whether Denpa Usagi is otokonoko. All questions can be resolved if we stick together.


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We could use an art style based on the stuff n0 drew on his phone for his albums (look up Shadow People, くぁwセdrftgy, noise-tan for example)

Here are all the music covers by N0THANY0U: files.catbox.moe/zlnvey.gz

Mixing in OsakaSyndrome and Andou's Dream Diary style could create an authentic look. Something remenicent to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Okay I made this quick demo for what a Denpa-chan visual novel could be like. You'll need to install Ren'Py. Just extract and move the folder to the same parent folder as the Ren'Py engine folder. It should see it. Change the code, pictures and see how the base material can be improved. Please send your alterations via archives.

https://files.catbox.moe/dlbg93.7z

>>8
is this viruse

it is (unsuprisingly) not a virus (at least in the traditional sense of the term). it's just an archived ren'py project. but i don't know ren'py syntax for doing anything beyond adding lines, and i'm too busy to learn, and ignoring that, the mystery of the block of cheese in shape of a pill is too odd for me to even have any jazz to riff on. Am I supposed to take an alice in wonderland motif? why is it cheese? is it even cheese or just cheddar colored. who is that mysterious discordian running god.exe to make their chat messages? there might be some runway to develop from here. but it'd take me more effort than i can be willing to give it atm.

also if people do start making modifications and this is how it's going to be passed around, running into the merge tree problem will soon follow. this is literally why version control was invented.

>>8
only of the mind

>>10
Read only the capitalized letters in the schizo's dialogue.
"TAKE THE PILL UNDER THE PILLOW"

>>12
i guess i would have died ;-; altho my impulse was "throw block of cheese pill out the window"

ah fuck i meant >>9

>>10

Am I supposed to take an alice in wonderland motif?

My first intention was to have a digital, Digimon-esque, isekai. I believe, isekai genre is most fitting the denpa vibe.

who is that mysterious discordian running god.exe to make their chat messages?

That would be revealed in the course of the game.

running into the merge tree problem will soon follow.

I thought about publishing the files on git, but it comes at the cost of anonymity. Creating throwaway accounts seems to be reasonable. How about going to codeberg.org and creating an account called 'denpaXXX', where XXX is just random letters. We can use throw-away emails for creating them.

Alternative option would be to create few accounts and give people the passwords, so they log-in and change them. This would be far more convenient.

>>15
Git is not Github. Also I'm all for using Codeberg but I'm not sure if anyone else feels the personal need such high-effort anonymity.
Also here's a chill git server you could use: git dot coom dot tech

The git project had been created: gitDOTcoomDOTtechSLASHDenpaREXSLASHDenpa-Usagi

It would be good to discuss how the story should be extended. The story so far has Denpa Usagi come home, to find strange messages. Under the pillow there is a pill-shaped cheese.

Since this is a community project, vote out of 3 plots which one you would like to see the most. If needed say what you would change. The beginning stays the same in all.

1. Denpa Usagi eats the pill shaped cheese and feels fatigue. He rests on the CRT and its screen has interference. As if a magnet were on his hands. He passes out and feels himself floating in a vacuum. Through his entire body run electromagnetic waves. He is transported to a fantasy JRPG. His role is glitched and he is able to use weapons and armor of any class. (Could have JRPG gameplay elements inside the visual novel) Venturing the lands he meets a hermit mage, who tells him about barbarian tribe Normoons. They are pillaging cities and villages, if not defeated the entire land is going to become their domain. Their ultimate goal is to free a terrible demon Ell. Denpa Usagi has a choice to fight against Normoons or join their side, betraying the wizard.

2. Denpa Usagi bites the pill shaped cheese and feels something soft inside. It is a paper. On there are written coordinates and an hour to a place where he must go. He goes to the mentioned location and discovers a hooded individual. Denpa Usagi learns that one of his school classmates ended up in a dark cult. Prophecy says this person is going to create a cult encompassing the entire world. Bringing the entire world into millennia spanning dark age when an another hero is going to be born and fight against the eternal evil. This millennia's prophesied hero is Denpa Usagi. He has to go back to the past, to school, to save his friend from the dark cult. That can be done only by not allowing his classmate to end up with a girl. Denpa Usagi can choose to break the relationship to save the world to let his friend have a romantic life, but doom the world.

3. Denpa Usagi takes the pill and shrinks. On his CRT there is a village. He is told the Cyberons, lilliputian who live in wires, are going insane. They grow fangs and turn monsters devouring everything in sight. When these corrupted creatures take over a computer, it stops working. To stop the calamity of all electronics. Denpa Usagi has to find the source of the problem and defeat it. He can choose to destroy the source or live out his without interfering, leading to full Cyberon corruption.

three sounds the most enjoyable to actually read

Any updates on this?

>>20
OP here, I have a base plate game. Due to a single response, I do not see a reason to work on the game. If Denpas can't collaborate leading to a single person making the game, then it won't be a DenpaChan game.

The game needs:
1 artist (CG, music)
1 writer
1 programmer

There is no pressure to work on the game 8 hours a day. Just register to gitDOTcoomDOTtech and star the project. I am going to coordinate the work, since I have started it. If you desire the game to move along, star the project.

>>21
I can write.. kinda.. I will have a lot of free time ahead of me too but I can’t promise anything I write will be sane. >>21

>>22
Just start the project and install Ren'Py. It is more convenient to write that way. The story chose in 3 from >>18
Write a comment detailing some of the lore, brief main character descriptions in game/script.rpy.

star*

ive been looking for something to contribute music to and i suppose i could probably provide some visual art, but im a bit self conscious on the visual end so idk.

drawing cyberscape borrowers does sounds really fun though...

>>25
For inspiration you can look at Digimon.

>>25
Okay 5, please star the project so I could add you as a collaborator. gitDOTcoomDOTtech/DenpaREX/Denpa-Usagi

>>23
I have no idea how to use Ren'Py orz I'll get thinking about plot and story. Can I make it NSFW?

>>28
You don't need to know anything major about Ren'Py. Just remember the comment is # and dialogue is written this way:
"Internal monologue" (e.g. "I enjoy walking during the night.")
"Character Name" "Speech"
Shortened_Character_Name "Speech" (e.g. mys "Take, Hammer, Emerge.")
Do not worry about adding effects and such, just leave comments "# TODO: add whistle SFX").

Whether it can be NSFW? Absolutely, since this is a game aimed at people who flock to Denpachan. If anything the posts revealed, they would love that aspect of the game. Still, the visual novel is foremost an adventure. Pornographic element should not overpower the adventure.

Just install Ren'Py and download the repository by clicking the blue "Code" button.
Once done, open game/script.rpy file and write an outline of the most Denpa story based upon 3 in >>18

Feel free to ignore this advice, but to me it kind of seems like you're not approaching making a VN in a smart way. If you've read a decent number of VN's you pick up on the way that they are often built off of 1 or 2 motifs that are approached in a variety of ways for different characters and aspects of the game.

fx. Kinkoi's motif is gold and that maps onto the heroines' hair, but also the idea of "golden days", golden objects, etc. This tends to help foster continuity and satisfaction over the course of the VN, and I think spending some time to find an interesting motif and ideas for working with it will probably manifest much better results than a kind of exquisite corpse process. It would also probably provide a more robust foundation for others to build from.

When I imagine a pipeline for VN creation it would probably go something like motif(s) -> setting -> characters -> plot -> everything else. I've never looked into making a VN so I could be mistaken, but this is the impression I have.

>>30
I have worked on a Visual Novel 5 years ago. I have not played that many, maybe around 15 in the past 5 years. Playing games does not mean one is going to understanding them. The way one would approach a VN should be about same as a book. Indeed, books do have motifs and underlying themes. I assume everyone is on board the theme is electricity.

We also need a mood board, to nail the visual style of the game. The lead artist could make art as he goes and call that a style. It would be more inline with the story to have the visuals echo the plot.

I do not believe there is a need to rigid with the creation of the plot. The integration of the theme can occur later.
"Let no one however demand from me a rigid code of rules such as most authors of textbooks have laid down, or ask me to impose on students of rhetoric a system of laws immutable as fate, a system in which injunctions as to the exordium and its nature lead the way;" - Quintilian, "Institutio Oratoria" book II, 13

I'll start on the logo

Overthinking the way we are going at. I believe it would be best if y'all just uploaded directly to gitDOTcoomDOTtech, using the GUI. As was done by Five. If anyone wants to work on the project, just star it!