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I've decided to go in a different direction with this project this time around.
I'm to all of those whom have place any interest in this and I apologize if I might be dashing anyone's hopes. (I have a dreadful habit of doing that...)

If no one else can see any use for this thread than I request that the mods lock indefinitely.
I'd rather not delete it; as there is some very helpful stuff here to others who may be aspiring to make games as well.

I'd love to give it a shot! I also am in contact with the guy behind overwhored so I can ask him for some advice!

You had me interested until you said it had to be a hypno game. I have a stupidly huge project planned and custom art would probably help a lot instead of RTP stuff lol

Thanks, I'd love to work with you, PenKen. It'd also be good to have someone to discuss the project with for any additional help.



Sorry, I just really wanted to make a game like this for the longest time. I do wish you the best of luck in your personal project.

Then what's the mature part of the game?

Plot points, humor, themes, subtle phallic imagery, etc.

I just recently got RPG Maker MV, so, I was going to offer, until the requirement was a Hypno-Game. Sorry, I have ideas in my own head I wish to work on. Good luck though.

(I hate people who start posts with as an XXX. It's like whoo yeah sure that means you know your talking about)

As a professional games developer I feel you need to be bit more concrete about what you want the project to be. Asking for suggestions is great but I've seen a lot of projects never get past that stage. Plus constraints can help with ideas. Asking for ideas to do with X gets more results then "Any ideas". Also you really need someone with the authority to make final decisions. I've worked on a 5 man project with one designer who we all listened to that got more done in a month then the 100 man project with 20 odd designers did in a year. Mostly because in the latter decisions never got made and never stuck. The UI was scrapped once for being "Too sci-fi" and once for being "Not sci-fi enough" etc

Also as a programmer (there's that bloody phrase again) I'd suggest you try and make some prototypes on your own. Try Twine or Game maker or Ren'py. Some basic programming will help A LOT. If the programmers are the only ones actually implementing stuff they become a huge bottleneck. You want a situation where your writers at least know how to edit the text and your designers can edit the levels etc. Why I'm a big unity fanboy. I made a custom editor in a day then gave it a designer and she implemented the whole story without me leaving me to tinker with other stuff

Wow this became a wall of text. But I still think game dev is the coolest thing the world and get really excited when I see people trying it ^^. I'm kinda of an adviser for Trails Of Lust ATM and I'd be happy to give you any more advice if there's anything in particular you want to know. I am however busy with my own games so will be unable to join. I wish you the best of luck though!

You have my gratitude, Edge. This will help me outline the project nicely if I can get enough people on board. I want to wait until a team is established before narrowing anything down. I'm not sure if that'll be for the best or not. I'm personally leaning towards a pure fantasy type of game but others might want something else. So I'm willing to be flexible. I'm basically just hoping for anyone interested to join up with the same mind set. That's why the only thing I've set in stone is that it's a hypnosis/MC game with no sexually explicit content.

I guess it's no surprise that people don't quite care for that but I'm still hoping for others to take an interest, however small.
As the initiator I naturally want to make the final decisions but I'm still planning to work with others as equals.

i am willing to help

i am a hypnotist you know lol

I would LOVE to, but I'm currently in the middle of too many projects. I can help as a creative advisor if you need it, though.

As a gauge of my skills, in reading your blurb, I have an instant idea for something to make. I might even make it myself once my project lineup clears up.

You're in highschool, and your crush doesn't even acknowledge your existence. You gain an ability, for one week, to invade her dreams at night and rearrange her mind so at the end, you can ask her to prom. My first instinct is to make this adventure game style. Inspirations from Psychonauts (think the psyche ward).

The second idea is that you're a charming, witty young man who has everything going for him - a hot girlfriend, great friends - but your best friend is a loser. You subsequently get hit by a car and die. You then posess your best friend, who you know is in love with your girlfriend, and try to influence his actions (posession, casual guiding, complete control) into picking up your woman - because you want to see them both happy. Constant control will make him think he's lost it, and seek therapy. Not enough control will wind up with him remaining forever alone. I think this would make a wonderful visual novel.

Let me know if either of these catch your fancy, or if you'd like a little help perfecting another idea. I'd love to see it get off the ground, and am great at character design and writing. Even if I am a mad procrastinator.

I'm gad to see that there are more people interested in beginning this endeavor with me. I want to wait at least a week for others to join before the actual project begins its developmental phase. (Although, I'll probably continue to allow others to join after it begins.)

For now, if anyone is interested, in addition to posting here, do you think you might be able to dmail me? I want us to be able to communicate both publicly on this thread and exclusively through some medium.

So far I can see that PenKen, sasss, and myrmidon are interested in collaborating on this project. I'm grateful for your help and look forward working with should you continue to be willing.


Regarding your idea, myrmidon, I think they're both very creative, so I would consider your help to be a valued asset. The ideas have a lot of potential, though neither lends itself to the direction that I'm particularly leaning towards. However, in about a week we can attempt to narrow things down.

Making an MC game has been an idea I've toyed with a lot lately, and looking at this thread, it seems I'm not the only one. I'd love to be a part of such a project. =)

I recommend skype! mine is penkenarts. I'd like a summary of what you want to do and what the story will be. plus blah blah how do you plan to pay the artists n stuff