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This page is for discussion of the artistic side of content creation, such as writing and characterization, as well as for the posting of incomplete content for the purpose of receiving feedback from each other.

Feel free to discuss characters and stories you are working on.
The old Custom Content thread can be found here. The first archived artistic discussion thread can be found here.

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Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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It's been a while, but, off the top of my head, use <player>'s mental narration as a tool to describe what's happening that the tachie/background can't otherwise show. He thinks a lot to himself about the characters he meets that is left unspoken, either because he doesn't want to come off as a perv, or what-have-you. Though, now that I think on it, I swear Dozen make a more enlightened post regarding his character some time ago?

Also, the most important piece of advise is to just have fun with your content! Whither it's making a silly scene, or being a little off-the-wall.

*Edit: I might have been thinking about this post.
No you were not<

You were thinking of this post!
Notoh
*Deeply Thinking*
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If it's any consolation, both of those links were very helpful! Also, I think I mostly have the help file down! (I've been keeping it open while writing.)

So, is Marrend's custom content the only content that can be used with clean mode on? And is there any tropes I should avoid in my stories? That's all for now. Thanks guys~
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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It would be nice to see other custom content period that uses Clean Mode.

Anyway, I dunno about tropes you should outright avoid. I figure that, as long as you're creative with the tropes that you do use, you're probably fine?
Hello! It's good to see new people creating content. Unfortunately, I don't think I will be able to finish mine. For the IDs I have already claimed and there is no content, feel free to erase those.

I may try to finish Megumi, as I do have a story outlined for her. Nothing is set in stone at this point though.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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Do we remove characters from the list? We can definitely slate them as cancelled and leave 'em on the ID-list. That's what happened to Fran, at any rate. Then again, Fran had content to play at one point.

Hrm.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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There's an idea floating in my head to add a download of all the custom content that I've got backed up. It would essentially be a ZIP file of ZIP files that include the following characters (in approximate ID-listing order):

Nekochi's Junko
  • Watanabe Junko
  • Watanabe Aoi
Tsukino Emi
Mistuya Masako
Marrend's Uchioniko
  • Momotami Ruri
  • Nemoto Mayu
  • Terakado Shoko
  • Shirazu Izumi
Lambaria Yuu
Umehara Joruri
Kuwabara Emiko
Tanaka Yoko
Katanashi Seira
triad2's Meada
  • Maeda Eriko
  • ? Genji
Murakami Megumi
Momohana Nami
LordNight's Megumi
  • Konohana Midori
  • Natsume Rika
  • Hasegawa Kanon
  • Kirihara Kana
Yoshimura Noriko
Shiraki Kotone
Kevincalanor's Wolfpack
  • Yamisaki Eliza
  • Yamisaki Alessa
  • Nakamura Yuriko
Robin Clark
? Takuya

Reminder: This is content that has been published in some way, shape, or form. If your content is not listed here, it's because there has been no publication of it, or I goofed up on my backups (Hi, Robin!)!
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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Wait a sec, do I not have a copy of...

...okay, I do, in fact, have a copy of 21 Ways! Sorry about that!
I think this would be a very cool resource to have. Thanks in advance, Marrend.
That's a good idea, not only handy but also helps all chars get their exposure thingy.
In the end it all boils down to name and looks on the downloads page*, so it's not hard for the average downloader to overlook someone, for not being his "look type" at first. ^^

*Note: If it had a prologue/description for each char, the page most likely would get huge, impractical and annoying, so I don't really think there's something to change there.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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I don't think a prologue/description would be a thing, but, I could see some kind "external requirements" thing going down. Like, most characters need to have Clean Mode disabled. Then there's Joruri with her three external requirements (Clean Mode disabled, Masako's content enabled, Junko's content enabled).

Not quite sure how to denote all this on the blog yet without things looking ugly (I tried list-tags and code-tags, but, I can't seem to get rid of the automatic spacing they create), but, I'll figure something out!
If there was some sort of way to jury-rig hide or list tags while avoiding the auto-spacing, it would certainly be a thing. :3

Maybe merging info and preview on a wider image could work, not sure on how make the download link get along with it well though.
(I would sure click the blue name thinking that it was the download button.)


Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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A table? Maybe. Might fool around with that later eventually.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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I dunno about having an image for each content that exists, but, I've got...

Content Name
Author
Content Included
Requirements/Notes
21 Ways
dude797 (Caretaker: Dozen)
Story, profile, tachie, music
Disable Clean Mode (somewhat incomplete?)


Content Name
Author
Content Included
Requirements/Notes
Mitsuya Masako
Marrend
Story, profile, tachie, music
None!


...this rough draft based on 21 Ways and Masako.
author=Marrend
I dunno about having an image for each content that exists, but, I've got...

-image and table-

...this rough draft based on 21 Ways and Masako.


Just checked the Official custom content page, this style also looks better than the 'all-on-image' thing actually :3
There's also a few contents there I hadn't found a copy until now too, time to get my downloads sorted.

Not sure if the takuya tachies really fit there though, it's more of an asset for people that want to create their custom contents than one itself. :p
(And some people will probably mislead that as a BL route.)

On a side off topic note, having some problems with my connection, delays are to be expected. Although I always take long to reply.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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To be fair, the entry for Takuya doesn't have "story" among it's included content types, but, I can update the Requirements/Notes section to say that it's an asset for content creators. I guess the best comparison to make would be flowerthief's pre-made tachie?

*Edit: Except those were, literally, just tachie. No profile or music were attached.
OK - here is my first shot.

It's not too finished yet ... but somehow playable.

Basically I wanted to try out the possibility to have an "ENDING" Story with more then one girl ...

The combinations I implemented are follow-up stories on Tsubasa+Shihoko, Riho+Tsubasa and Riho+Shihoko.

For reaching the ENDING you first need to follow their individual stories and sidestories in the built-in content ...

And - there is a stupid playing-around ending with Miki, Keika, Riho and Shihoko ... more stupid even then the rest ...

Story\multiending.zip - since it's just new stories and endings for existing (built-in) characters, the content here just needs to go under the Story folder.
Here is my current version of my "multiending" additions to the Builtin storylines.

multiending-v0.2.zip

I really would appreciate any kind of comment on these. And I really liked to have some "external" beta testing ...

To make reaching the starting points of the storylines a little easier I created a "cheatbot":

Story\cheatbot.txt
Profile\cheat_profile.txt

You'll need a tachie for the profile ... I just used flowerthief's "generic girl #21" (her "neutral" mode to be precice).

Those of you missing the 4-girl-ending: you can fetch it here - I no longer consider it part of my "multiending" storylines.

Please, do tell me what you think these sidestories.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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Hrm. I'm interested in getting a route involving Shihoko, mostly because I've run into her, like, once ever. I mean, I didn't play the built-in stuff all that much to begin with (I mostly make/made routes), but, I vaguely recall a comment along the lines of "How did you NOT run across Shikoko?"

Anyway, with the small bit of research I've done in regards to her route, I largely suspect that it had something to do with continuously ignoring Miki on general encounters. Though, using the in-game cheat to reduce Miki's affection probably didn't help things either!
author=Marrend
Hrm. I'm interested in getting a route involving Shihoko, mostly because I've run into her, like, once ever. I mean, I didn't play the built-in stuff all that much to begin with (I mostly make/made routes), but, I vaguely recall a comment along the lines of "How did you NOT run across Shikoko?"

Anyway, with the small bit of research I've done in regards to her route, I largely suspect that it had something to do with continuously ignoring Miki on general encounters. Though, using the in-game cheat to reduce Miki's affection probably didn't help things either!

Well ... my cheatbot lets you meet her basically on day one ... (in a phone call to be precise).

But that would spoil her normal route somehow. Or even drastically.

In a normal non-clean-mode game you should run into her eventually in a FRONT B STORY well, maybe you should avoid meeting Riho thru Miki to speed things up... or you can help Miki with her date-Misashi-problem.