Y'know what, I could be persuaded...

A PPC visual novel? by DisguisedBacterium on 2021-06-09 05:28:13 UTC Reply

Recently I've had an idea to make a way to quickly introduce newbies to the PPC using a visual novel engine(specifically Kocho). It could cover the basics such as how missions work, navigating HQ, identifying Sues and OOC canon characters in the form of interactions with guides(or agents), and also double as a good writing/plotting challenge.

It's just an idea though, and being a newbie myself, I still have a lot of things to learn before I could write anything for the organization.

Now I kinda wanna do a CPP Visual Novel adds to list of ideas (nm) by Kittyauthor on 2021-06-10 14:18:41 UTC Reply
Might be a good idea to include voice acting by Ki no Shirayuki on 2021-06-10 01:02:32 UTC Reply

Hearing how, say, HQ personnel sounds like would be really amusing.

That's a great idea. by DisguisedBacterium on 2021-06-10 06:30:55 UTC Reply

(I'm personally curious how the Flowers might sound.)

Like General Grievous perhaps? (nm) by Ki no Shirayuki on 2021-06-10 08:03:56 UTC Reply

o.O (nm) by Huinesoron on 2021-06-10 08:14:02 UTC Reply

Raspy and robotic, perhaps without the cough by Ki no Shirayuki on 2021-06-10 10:57:03 UTC Reply

Sounds awesome and intimidating to me.

Seconding hS's O.o by Neshomeh on 2021-06-10 14:22:06 UTC Reply

They're psychic, not to mention organic. Nothing to rasp with. Anyway, they're meant to be endlessly exasperated managers, not warlords. "I can give you worse jobs than you already have" is intimidating, sure, but requires a different flavor than one used to convey "I can kill you and everyone you love."

~Neshomeh

Y'know what, I could be persuaded... by Huinesoron on 2021-06-11 09:25:47 UTC Reply
... but only if everyone talks like robots. Flowers. Agents. Canons. Suvians. They're all robots now.

In fact they're specifically all Separatist Battle Droids in bad costumes. Let's see now, for my main rabble:
- Dafydd is a Firefighter Battle Droid. He doesn't fight many fires.
- Constance is a BX-series droid commando.
- Selene is a Vulture droid starfighter. Sure, she's a lot bigger than her partner; what of it?
- Kaitlyn is a C-8 saboteur droid. She's sneaky. She'd be sneakier if she didn't have a brightly-coloured waistcoat painted on.
- The Bonsai Mallorn is a T-series tactical droid. With a branch on its head.
Yep, I'm sold on this. Obviously Grievous himself plays the SO (he's a huge fan of the PPC; in fact he's the driving force behind this whole thing), with most of the other Flowers being either Tactical or Super Tactical droids. Agents get to be anything up to and including 10-meter long tanks.

All Suvians, Wraiths etc are played by baseline B1 battle droids. In wigs. They are very bad at it. But that's okay, because they get killed off in job lots on every mission.

hS

PS: Legolas - Boromir - Gandalf - Gimli - Aragorn - Sam - Pippin - Frodo - Merry

I'm sold if O'Ryan is a robot goldfish /hj (nm) by Kittyauthor on 2021-06-11 14:38:01 UTC Reply

Perhaps more snooty sounding with a heavy dose of sarcasm, and a hint of exhaustion? by Midnight on 2021-06-10 18:01:27 UTC Reply

Today in Midnight can over-describe voices.

I keep hearing Phelous from that description by Ki no Shirayuki on 2021-06-11 04:30:25 UTC Reply

Or maybe Cinema Snob if the voice is less drawn out.

Sounds interesting... by Midnight on 2021-06-09 18:28:08 UTC Reply

I don’t know the program personally, but I’d be willing to help if it happens
Hmm... by Thoth on 2021-06-09 18:07:12 UTC Reply

That's a sort of an interesting idea! I don't know if it will ever get off the ground, just on account of it being a ton of work and historically the PPC not being Amazing at collaboration, but it's certainly a neat concept. Of course, I'll rep for Ren'py over Kocho, personally...

I think the last PPC game was made by hS, although there have been discussions about making a visual novel in the past, mostly as a sorta "wouldn't it be funny?" kinda thing about the possibility of doing the traditional Inevitable Dating Sim Spin-Off game (we don't take ourselves too seriously around here, can you tell? :-P)
How would this visual novel work? by ClaireBook1 on 2021-06-09 15:43:35 UTC Reply

This sounds interesting. If someone starts doing this, I would like to help.

I'm not sure yet. by DisguisedBacterium on 2021-06-11 07:45:19 UTC Reply

I was thinking about a dating si...err, interactive fiction-style story where there is a defined ending, but certain elements change according to the player's choices(reactions from characters, Department recommendations, PPC equipment malfunctioning, etc).