MELLYTAN'S PROFILE

oh my godddd

the memories

Thanks again, guys...so grateful for the opposing views, you're really making me think about this...stop it, it hurts...me no like thinky aaaauughh

Anyway, what you all brought up basically capture the biggest concerns I have with each media.

About the novel route...

author=m4uesviecr
the nuances you have created through your story may very well end up lost and discarded if you pursue the videogame. Yet, there are characteristics and interactive capabilities that you can only get from a game that you can't get from a novel. And vice versa.
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If the meat and bones of interaction is stale, turn-based action with a story, you might as well have stuck with the story.

author=Dyhalto
Writing for a novel is completely different from writing for a comic or a video game. You can't get away with just the plotline + dialogue. You have to describe the direction grass is blowing and the curl on Joe's lip. It takes a completely different skillset to write a novel and it's very simplistic to just say "A novel will be faster".

author=Neok
Then I thought about making it a novel. Even worse. The reason is because when I envisioned it, it was as a game. Trying to move it to other mediums made it vastly different from what I'd envisioned, and that killed my motivation to work on it.

Also, a plot that works for fantasy games with a lot of anime-inspired fighting tends not to work for novels without major revisions, and vice versa, at least that's what I've found to be the case.

This this this. All of this basically sums up why I've always had trouble going either way.

(I guess I should point out at this point that I actually wrote a chapter of the OG novel--based on the game prologue--several months ago. And like I mentioned, a few years ago I wrote a rambling 70+ pages that went nowhere and has almost nothing to do with the current story. Not to mention Oathguard started out as worldbuilding for a novel. So the novel vs game thing has been something I've been wrestling with pretty much since the beginning.)

(i think ghibli-produced anime series broadcasted on nickelodeon is the solution)

((12 years later) miyazaki-sensei please reply. pl ease)

Going with a novel: uh yeah despite my endless word documents trying in vain to make sense of the OG world, I am not looking forward to writing descriptions and metaphysical justifications about all the anime daemon bullshit that I have incorporated into the world. You guys are right, and it's totally been a big reason for my hesitation to try a novel.

Going with a game: Oathguard was always mostly about the story/characters/world and as I made the RM2k3 game I always felt like I was shoehorning gameplay in, or otherwise twisting the story so that I could fit in another battle just so I could feel justified calling the whole experience a "game".

author=Dyhalto
Honestly, I think a game would be faster than a novel. You can break it into individual piecemeal and work on different parts as your attention span and/or motivation allow, whereas a novel is a straight-up forward roll with virtually zero room for corrective action once you get too far. You can plan in advance, sure, but if down the road you want to adjust a character's manner to make them more/less a characteristic (eg. more assertive), the interconnectivity of a novel will require the whoel thing to be scrapped. With a game, simply tweak the sprite graphics and re-adjust their dialogue (I've done it in my game >.>;;).

Mmm...I agree about dividing up the little parts that make a game; it was always fun to jump around and work on different parts of the game and bring them all together.

And you basically described what happened to those 70 pages of OG novel I wrote: the story was going nowhere and it was to late to put that train on a different track. I stopped writing it and couldn't salvage much from it.

However, a game can go in the wrong direction like that, too...and if you consider all the elements that go into the game, if you want to redo things, you end up having to scrap graphics, maps, dialogue, music, etc...

If I'm gonna screw up, I think I'd rather be able to just press backspace and move some paragraphs around instead! So I think a novel still wins in that arena, for me, anyway.

also

author=m4uesviecr
(*cough*seirienomoribio*cough*)

dude you are now my best friend...i just started watching Kemono no Souja Erin (book series by the same author) and it's another awesome, subtle series with a rich world and great female main characters. erin and her mom are basically like a less martial version of myunh and gela~

author=Tau
Haha... Seriously never seen my game before? Yeah I really will try, believe it or not, still no pc. I rented one for a week not too long ago but with my dad being sick & me having to take care of him, my life's a mess.

He's getting better though, stupid fucking cancer. It's been so long since I last opened up Rm2k3 O_o

I do all my internets from my phone still.

Take care bro

author=epoch
When this game is finish

lol

i love you man


but god damn it stop making me want to make games again

if it makes you feel any better, I'm still actively working on oathguard...right now the outline of the entire story is almost finished, but I have no idea what I'll do with it. Novel? comic? A..game?

im definitely done with making a game on my own, but anything else is not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe I'll even try to con people out of money on kickstarter someday. Anyway I'll try to make a post sometime about what I've been doing lately. I know I say that a lot but for realz this time since I'm almost done with the outline.

Thanks again man, honestly I don't mind that og was never widely popular, I will always be happy even if just a few people like you really liked it with their whole heart. That's what makes all those thousands of hours of work worth it (besides the whole realization of something that's been in my mind, that's p cool to look back on, too)

in retrospect, despite joking i sounded like a complete asshole

apologies to tau, my rm2k bro, and to ultima for polluting his blog post

v sorry