This is how you plan your story

Planning complex and branching storyline isn’t a simple task. Maybe you even wondered how our writers do it. Do they use dedicated tools? Map it in some graph software or maintain a complex spreadsheet?

 

Well…

 

Pro!

 

This is how real professionals work! And before you ask — yes, the calendar with naked male torsos is absolutely mandatory. Or at least that’s what the writers told me. Have you seen all those psycho hideouts in movies? With walls plastered with notes, newspaper scraps, and whatnot? They were designing their VNs too.

 

In other news: after getting some feedback from fellow game developers, I decided to replay the Ace Attorney games. Now I want to commit seppuku. Our VNs have still some way to go before they reach that level of quality and dynamism. Damn you, Phoenix Wright! Aren’t you well made and cleverly designed, leaving this poor indie developer with a strong case of inferiority complex!

 

But just you wait… This week we’re doing a series of meetings on how to raise the bar in our next VN. Just you wait…