This would be my first try on making a videogame. I have some experience on programming but never tried on making videogames but always wanted to try. This is something that I do as a hobby, so it may take me allot of time to progress it. I would apologize in advance. This is the details of my idea game.
Name: Big Cruise Vacation
Details: You live a normal life, work a normal job and are single. Until one day you met someone who will change your life (this will be the prologue) by giving you a ticket for a cruise. This cruise is not an ordinary one, once you enter this cruise you will meet different type of people that might have a secret about themselves or what they are. Did I tell you that this cruise is supernatural? Didn’t I? Oh well.
The game would be a visual novel run by Renpy.
The game would have a day time limit. That means you have a time limit to date any girl you want and have different endings. It could be possibly 30 days or 15 days.
As for the progress, I manage to write the prologue, just need to finish fix the grammar. I would apologize if my grammar is bad since English is not my strong suit or being a writer.
I think the games that inspired me on doing this would be Big Aspiration, D.I.E.T, Fattening Career, 2 days to fat, Gain of Life and many more.
My main concern is the design, I don’t have the tools of making art so maybe use AI to make the images. I tried adding Stable Diffusion local with Automatic1111 but my graphic card is old in my computer it doesn’t let me. I accept any suggestion that any one have. My visual of the game it would be anime type.
As soon as I have everything set up, I’ll try to post the prologue to see what everyone thinks. Thanks for reading.
I know that computer is very old. I have it maybe like for 8 years back. But it served me good all this time. My processor is Intel(R) Core™ i7-3740QM with 16GB RAM with Windows 10. Can’t upgrade to 11 though.
My main idea it’s for the MC to be male but, if people want to be female and can gain weight, I think we can do that. It would be a good idea to make in the future.
so you will include a gender selection system right? and yeah, it will be great to make the MC gain weight, as you said you got inspiration of other games that do that it will be good to make that in you game too
At the moment I only have the writing on the prologue. I think it would be a good to add the selection of the gender so it doesn’t affect later on. I could add weight gain since I don’t have images yet. Thanks for the idea.
Stable Diffusion graphics neural networks work on video cards. You won’t be able to run them on a video card without a graphics processor with RTX cores. So you won’t be able to run a neural network for drawing on your configuration.
I don’t think you’re going to find a workable local solution with your computer.
Working within limitations is a great way to add distinctness to your style, so maybe that’s an alright thing! Something I’m toying with, now that I’ve proven to myself that I can do a (for me) satisfactory job with AI images in a RenPy game, is minimalist sketch work. Gen up a few dozen potential images (you could use an online service for that) and instead of inpainting and redrafting it into exactly what I want, trace out the most pertinent lines on trace paper, then use that trace as the foundation for a series of escalating / variable images.
Maybe check out stuffer dot AI if you want to outsource the AI image generation? At a minimum, it lets you peruse other people’s generations and learn a little about various approaches to prompt drafting.
Might as well try that since my computer can’t have local solution. So it will take me a while till I make the prologue complete because of all the images I’m going to draw. But I’ll try my best to get something to show you guys. thanks for the advice.
Sorry for being radio silent. I had problems with my laptop since March but I finally got it fixed this week. I lost some progress that I had but I will keep doing the game. I’ll let you guys how is the progress.
I know it has been a while that I posted here. I want to apologize for it. There where more complication that I thought there would be. I can explain all the reason of why I haven’t but these are the main reason.
Little time for a big project: After my laptop got damaged, I continued doing the game but every time I try to do it I get frequent interruptions that it made me need to stop using the laptop. This really frustrated me since I want to make this game so bad.
My lack of being a narrator: Every time I type a sentence that I think it is good but then after I returned to continue I read the sentence then I think it is bad so I have to re-write every single time. And I only have been doing the prologue. My idea is to have the prologue long with decisions that can affect the main story because of the choices you made in there.
Images redone, at the beginning I had good images that I thought it would be good but then the site I was using to make the images crash down and then I had to find another way to make this images. So I had to try and redone it again.
Because of this reason it made me frustrated and made me stop continue the game. I want to return and continue it because I don’t want to let down my dream of doing a game and also don’t want to disappoint you guys waiting to see the game.
What I had on this game at the moment is the prologue which I think I have a 75% narration done. I had started the images but still missing allot. For the main game, I only had some choices that helps you help gain weight to the first person that I had images of with different stages.
That’s why I think of a better solution. Since I want to make this game a big project and I don’t have allot of time, what about first making a short game? That can help me to get better on getting better to know how I want to narrate the game and how to make images the way I want. I already my next project which is called Slaughterweight. I put allot of details in it so I hope you all can view what its about. After I try to make this short game, I want to continue do this game. I want to apologize again and hope you can forgive with the sudden change of game.
in that site. Thanks for the suggestion.