Hi Bimbos
So a bit more news on the storyline then a debate.
We are working hard on it now and have found a few good London based artists who will help us illustrate it.
We have provisionally planned the story line for series 1 but we need to flesh out the bits and gove it some detail.
Writing a virtual novel or story is a new skills to me and so I am going to go underground and off the radar for a few weeks now to try and get on top of it.
Personally its exciting but daunting as well because when I am writing i want to do a good job by you.
We owe it to you guys to do something as cool as we possibly can and so I dont want to rush too much. You have been remarkably patient and loyal and so we must try and reward that in any way we can.
So the story will be a novel based around you and life in general. It will set in various places and I wont share them all but a coffee shop and a University is involved. It will be set as if you are a female fresher at uni primarily with no mention of exact age. It will have some twists, shocks and surprises.
My goal when writing is to move you in one way or another whether that be to laugh out load or jump up in surprise or shout at the computer screen wherever your ass maybe.
Please be rest assured I will try my best to entertain. It would be cool to move someone so much that they wet themselves actually. hehehe
Thats my new goal then!
You will meet many characters along the way and will have to complete missions and choose your own path.
One key task we face is to make sure that everyone can play without spending money but ALSO to try and be so bloody good and entertaining that you cant resist and chose to spend your hard earned money to read it quicker and go through the episode.
We are going to be very strict on this and some of you will be annoyed I am sure as you will want to read quicker without spending money. But we must be strict and have a clear business model in place with it. We will do our best to be as entertaining as possible but also we will be unashamed in asking you to pay if you want to fly through the episode without waiting to the next day to read more. Everyone will be able to read enough daily to be entertained. Thats our goal eg the people who dont pay can still enjoy their daily fix/part of the story and they can be content. (just like people read a few pages of a book everyday)
I feel we have a great team now in the office and online and so we have a chance to do something special and new. So instead of feeling you are logging in to a site that is past its best I hope you will feel you have stumbled on something that is new, fresh and that will grow to be amazing.
You will be one of the first to discover and know about something exciting I hope. If what we do is good we will grow and then less important stuff eg money, numbers etc will take care of itself.
I dont want to get ahead of myself because its a new skill for me and us all. So we will make mistakes but I am quietly optimistic.
I suspect series 2 will be better than series 1 as we will know more about what we can and cannot do. But for sure we will try our best to do new stuff thats never ever been done before. We have got a few cool ideas that will surprise even the most creative minded of you ;-)
If the beaver* surprised you then there is much more where that came from.
At the moment how we work is this - first we have a meeting and thrash around some ideas. Then - I am writing the story, after that Nico and Peter check it and we have a debate and change about what we can and cannot do coding wise. Then Nico adds some missions into it and finally Peter codes. The last piece is the artist who puts in the graphics.
And then voila - hopefully it entertains you the user/reader.
The most important part for me personally is the story and I am less interested in what we can do mission wise or coding wise but it works well because Nico and Peter care about that more than the story.
Story wise I have prepared something long term and some characters that i think are fun. Whether you will agree remains to be seen! But lets try.
Its quite difficult because we have to plan different endings and possibilities based on what you the player choose as your path through the story/episode.
I have purchased lots of books and advice on how to write a novel, virtual novel, screen play, visual novels etc so I am enjoying learning and throwing myself into it. Its very difficult actually to write and comprehend all the factors we need to take into account.
So its head down for me and we are pushing to get the first 5 episodes done by the end of August. I will let you know about some dates but I am going underground and into writers mode now so that I can shut off and concentrate on fleshing out stories and characters. So you will be glad to know I am going to be quiet for a while!
About vibrators etc.
What do you think the line should be with regards to content on here in shops etc? Please remember we have 13 years old that we must respect, take care of and not subject to anything that may damage them (or anyone!) but also equally we have adults who we must respect and entertain at the same time.
Vibrators are ok? Discuss.
So a bit more news on the storyline then a debate.
We are working hard on it now and have found a few good London based artists who will help us illustrate it.
We have provisionally planned the story line for series 1 but we need to flesh out the bits and gove it some detail.
Writing a virtual novel or story is a new skills to me and so I am going to go underground and off the radar for a few weeks now to try and get on top of it.
Personally its exciting but daunting as well because when I am writing i want to do a good job by you.
We owe it to you guys to do something as cool as we possibly can and so I dont want to rush too much. You have been remarkably patient and loyal and so we must try and reward that in any way we can.
So the story will be a novel based around you and life in general. It will set in various places and I wont share them all but a coffee shop and a University is involved. It will be set as if you are a female fresher at uni primarily with no mention of exact age. It will have some twists, shocks and surprises.
My goal when writing is to move you in one way or another whether that be to laugh out load or jump up in surprise or shout at the computer screen wherever your ass maybe.
Please be rest assured I will try my best to entertain. It would be cool to move someone so much that they wet themselves actually. hehehe
Thats my new goal then!
You will meet many characters along the way and will have to complete missions and choose your own path.
One key task we face is to make sure that everyone can play without spending money but ALSO to try and be so bloody good and entertaining that you cant resist and chose to spend your hard earned money to read it quicker and go through the episode.
We are going to be very strict on this and some of you will be annoyed I am sure as you will want to read quicker without spending money. But we must be strict and have a clear business model in place with it. We will do our best to be as entertaining as possible but also we will be unashamed in asking you to pay if you want to fly through the episode without waiting to the next day to read more. Everyone will be able to read enough daily to be entertained. Thats our goal eg the people who dont pay can still enjoy their daily fix/part of the story and they can be content. (just like people read a few pages of a book everyday)
I feel we have a great team now in the office and online and so we have a chance to do something special and new. So instead of feeling you are logging in to a site that is past its best I hope you will feel you have stumbled on something that is new, fresh and that will grow to be amazing.
You will be one of the first to discover and know about something exciting I hope. If what we do is good we will grow and then less important stuff eg money, numbers etc will take care of itself.
I dont want to get ahead of myself because its a new skill for me and us all. So we will make mistakes but I am quietly optimistic.
I suspect series 2 will be better than series 1 as we will know more about what we can and cannot do. But for sure we will try our best to do new stuff thats never ever been done before. We have got a few cool ideas that will surprise even the most creative minded of you ;-)
If the beaver* surprised you then there is much more where that came from.
At the moment how we work is this - first we have a meeting and thrash around some ideas. Then - I am writing the story, after that Nico and Peter check it and we have a debate and change about what we can and cannot do coding wise. Then Nico adds some missions into it and finally Peter codes. The last piece is the artist who puts in the graphics.
And then voila - hopefully it entertains you the user/reader.
The most important part for me personally is the story and I am less interested in what we can do mission wise or coding wise but it works well because Nico and Peter care about that more than the story.
Story wise I have prepared something long term and some characters that i think are fun. Whether you will agree remains to be seen! But lets try.
Its quite difficult because we have to plan different endings and possibilities based on what you the player choose as your path through the story/episode.
I have purchased lots of books and advice on how to write a novel, virtual novel, screen play, visual novels etc so I am enjoying learning and throwing myself into it. Its very difficult actually to write and comprehend all the factors we need to take into account.
So its head down for me and we are pushing to get the first 5 episodes done by the end of August. I will let you know about some dates but I am going underground and into writers mode now so that I can shut off and concentrate on fleshing out stories and characters. So you will be glad to know I am going to be quiet for a while!
About vibrators etc.
What do you think the line should be with regards to content on here in shops etc? Please remember we have 13 years old that we must respect, take care of and not subject to anything that may damage them (or anyone!) but also equally we have adults who we must respect and entertain at the same time.
Vibrators are ok? Discuss.