[R>Writer] Share Looking for a writer for a 2D medieval fantasy game

KakapoCreations

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May 12, 2022
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Project:
The project has no name yet. I do have the outline/setting of what I think could be an interesting game.

"You have always been a lone wolf. Moving from village to village, helping people for the coin they are able to spare. The emptiness doesn't seem to bother you, for you are used to it.

But that changes when you meet a young Elven woman in the woods. Being attacked by multiple monsters, you grab your blade to save the Elf.

After saving her, you are unable to communicate with her. Until she breaks her necklace in half, and gives one of them to you. This seems to connect the both of you.

You now seem to understand and talk Elvish fluently, and discover a world that needs a new Hero. You sharpen your blade to go on an adventure you will never forget."

There is more than enough wiggle room to make this an interesting story.

Developer:
Kakapo Creations

Looking for:
A writer who is interested in medieval fantasy.

Employment Type:
The plan is to put the game on Steam. We will split 50/50. I know a talented artist with a realistic art style, so finding someone who can bring the story to life will be my task.

Work commitment:
I don't expect you to work on it full time. I have a job too, and life gets busy sometimes. However, it would be great if there is weekly/biweekly progress.

Preferred method of contact:
Initially via here.

Job Description:
I am looking for someone with an interest in medieval fantasy setting. What I like about the outline I have written is that the male character and female Elf don't know each other and they can grow closer. How they manage to do that and what problem they have to solve is something we can think of together.

My role will be programming the story into RenPy (we will keep it a visual novel for now). I will also provide the artist, composer (but that's for later) and will put the game on Steam.

When it's on Steam, payment will be done via crypto to ensure our privacy.

Additional comments:
The outline is not set in stone, I am always open for ideas that are better than mine. However, I don't want the story to contain illegal content, or gay characters (lesbian is okay).
 

kane331

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Aug 22, 2019
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Hello, I am interested in this project. I would like to be involved, where could I contact you further?
 

MonckeyMan

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Jul 8, 2017
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It would be good that you define what kind of game you want to create, it is different to write a visual novel, an rpg or a sandbox, since the writing must be done according to what you want the player to do. As you are the programmer it would be good to define those points from the beginning.
 

The Orchid

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Apr 28, 2022
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Good afternoon, or evening, if it's time for my message to be read. I would be interested in filling the position of writer for the game, as in itself the premise has piqued my eye; as someone who has handled fantasy in the past - as well as it being one of my favorite genres -.

Since my account is new and you don't currently have Discord from what I've read, I apologize in advance if I send extra messages here; I'll try my best to at least give you some more information.
 

The Orchid

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Apr 28, 2022
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So, let's start with some information about what it would be like to work with me.

Creativity and Narrative Style:
First of all I want to comment on my narrative style and creativity in writing, since after all, it's the writing position I'm looking for, not a programmer or something like that, hahaha

1). In several of my story outlines I've worked with the elements of both the character's feeling, character's past - and everything that can bring that to their present - and "The Uncertainty of the Future"; that translates to developing the characters in a way that it's actually normal to see them change during the course of the story to the point where you don't recognize them from the character in the beginning to the same character in the present/future but you can see the character's path to these changes without them feeling strange or out of place. I don't usually work with the "Development by Trauma" trope but if it comes to me being asked, I'll gladly do so.
2). As for worldbuilding - if asked, of course - I'm someone who likes to work with strange concepts or concepts that aren't normally used much, whether it's changing the way elves act compared to other elves in fiction and going into full detail on those changes. I clarify that this is only a mild example of what I am trying to explain. If there is a need for worldbuilding or if there is any idea - that is related to this - that you want to implement to the story, I want it to be known that I am capable of it.
3). If requested I can use more "complicated" plot conflicts as opposed to the archetypal story where there is an evil overlord who wants to conquer the world and our protagonist and the elf girl are the ones who are going to stop him. I still want to comment that this - in my opinion - depends on the type of game you want to make. For example, for an RPG the archetype I just mentioned is fine, but for a visual novel, well, it feels like it doesn't take advantage of much of the literary potential that VNs have. To clarify, I'm not even saying it should be a textual masterpiece, I'm just saying that it feels regular to use the archetype where VNs - and even the fantasy genre - can use waaaay more storylines than just adventure.

I have the conviction to say that I am capable of working on both a totally serious story even though it's just a porn game to the lighter and more normal aspects that are common within this market which are the NSFW games.
 

The Orchid

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Apr 28, 2022
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Well, I'll do the "fifth message", since the other half of the info about me... Well, it's quite long.
 

Sneak Monkey

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If you're still looking feel free to DM me, I'm a writer, not got lots of experience but I am good, I have a couple of my own stories I'm working on. My main project is fantasy, coincidentally about a guy and his wolf off on adventures. It wouldn't be fitting to use that but I'm quite comfortable with a nice medieval fantasy setting, I have experience with various things including blacksmithing and like a good fact check with medieval tech so already know a fair bit about creating a believable world.