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over 8 years

Character reveal thread: https://epicmafia.com/topic/80510

Greetings everyone!

It's time to give new announcements about this project.

Admitedlly I haven't been working much on it yet, but I have been planning it.

For starters, I'm sure some people will disagree, but the decision I have made (and surprisingly, majorly approved in the poll I made) is to make SandboxRonpa a Videogame.

Now, I have mentioned that the videogame won't be exactly like Danganronpa, since that would take a lot more work and time, and even programming skills I don't have, but I'll try to make it similar enough.

To make the game a bit more complete since there are things that I will have to take out, I will be adding some other kind of puzzles. Think of Corpse Party or Yume Nikki, which are horror games made with Rpg Maker, which were basically games in which you had to walk around and open your way to go on. Don't really know how to explain it. Look up a playthrough of Corpse Party if you never seen it.

Obviously, the Trials will happen. The main part of the trials are easy to do, and I'll just have to get my way around some of the secondary minigames, or come up with my own. Shouldn't be that hard.

Basically, what I want to say is that main focus of the game will be the plot and the trials. But since the trials probably won't come out as neat as the actual Danganronpa games, I will be adding some other stuff to complete it.

The game will be made with Rpg Maker MV. And it will be released in an episodic way, think of TellTale games, except the time we'll take between episodes will probably be longer since I'm not a professional, nor I can spend a damn lot of time on it, my priority is still my real life.

Moving on. I mentioned that I might need people helping me out to make the project.

The first person that step up to this was em user Fred, basically when I /just/ had made the post. He will be helping me out with some things of the plot, specially the murder mystery parts.

For now, he is the only person on the team other than me. Here are other things that I may need.

-Artists. Specially willing to draw some gore, but even if you don't draw gore, it helps. I'd love for the game to include CGs.

-People that know how to use Rpg Maker and have access to RPG Maker MV specifically. Specially people that can do good maps, since that's my worst part when making RPG maker projects. Even if you aren't a good mapper, you can still help out, tho.

-People that help me out with the plot. Must be people that have played the Danganronpa games, both of the main ones if possible. Most of the plot will be on my account, but it'd be good to have people to discuss it with and help me out in some things as well.

English Corrector. As a lot of you know by now, English is not my primary language, and as such I make some (maybe a lot) of mistakes here and there. It would be nice if someone could help me out and correct my mistakes.

-Music Composer/Remixer. Not really that needed, since I have a good amount of free-to-use songs, but it would still be cool to have some original.

-Testers. Eventually, when the game is in an almost ready to release status, I will need people to test it out. Be warned, testing is /NOT/ the same as playing the game. When you are a tester you have to try to /break/ the game and /exploit/ bugs, glitches, etc so that we can try to solve them before releasing the game.

That's it for the OP. I'll be posting polls and other stuff soon.

Which character design do you like the best? (Link in the OP)
4
Male/Female Protagonist
3
Li Yuan/Izzy
2
Piichi/Isky
2
NB Protagonist/Sammy
1
Kira/Saika
1
Bruno/Rain
0
Agustin/Miranda
0
Fred/Morgan
0
Emma/Managi
0
Winnie/Billy
over 8 years
i like that theres a chance i could date myself
over 8 years
i like it.
over 8 years
So, there isn't much of an update yet. Last days of october + November are a hell month in college for me so if i work on this at all it'll be slow af.



The poll for the main protagonist is resulting on a NB/GN character, which is the one i wanted the most anyways, so chances are that I'll go for it (If I don't make it so that you can pick any).


I'm still looking for other people that would like to help out with the project. At the moment I haven't really contacted any of the people that offered, but I'll get around it soon enough.



Now I'll just rant about some ideas I have for the game that I will implement if I can.



-Dating: You'll be able to date most of the cast. Other than the first few deaths (Because there won't be enough time for them), every main character will be dateable. You won't be able to date more than one character, so pick wisely!


-Free time: The dating will happen on the Free time obviously. Basically, you'll have the option to follow a friendship or a romance route with the characters. I'd like for this events, both friendships and romantics, to have a slight impact on the main plot. But to be honest that's a lot of work for something that may not be worth it, so it's not a priority, but it'd be cool.

-Pseudo Dungeon Crawling: Like I said in the OP, you also will be solving puzzles and stuff. You'll investigate places even before a death occurs, and have to solve riddles and stuff in order to continue with the story.

-Bad endings: I love them. There will be some, at least 1 in each ending other than failing a trial. Most of them will be fairly obvious though, and you'll realize you're heading towards them soon enough.



etc etc ill write more stuff later
over 8 years
i could probably help with plot and english if you'd want! (i would probably be a little better at english, though) <3
deletedover 8 years
i can help correct english mistakes!!
over 8 years
I could be a tester, help with the plot and correct English mistakes (although I don't believe you'll make that many)
over 8 years
The field I'm best at is probably English Corrector since I have a bachelor's degree in communication. I'm pretty sure I have RPG Maker MV. Don't know how to use it, but yeah. I'm not a good artist, but I do kinda wanna dabble in that since it looks fun.
over 8 years
Alright here is something else I wanted to show you guys.

Let's be clear, I made this in about two hours so the content is lacking a lot of details, and the actual game will look better.

This was mostly a test for myself to see if I could pull out something similar to Non-Stop Debates, which are a big thing in the Danganronpa games and 100% couldn't be left off.

And I just decided to record it and show it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXcbDUXCow


In the actual game the text will move towards different directions, will have a background, characters will be transparent, you will lose HP for wrong answers, etc, it is missing a lot of work, like I said above it's just a test to see if i could pull it out.

Pretty happy with the results personally.
deletedover 8 years
Sure, I can help in english correction, but you don't really need any tbh

just a bit of capitals, punctuation and stuff
over 8 years
Thanks a lot to everyone offering to help out! for those offering help in more than one field, which position do you guys think you'd be the best at? i'd like to see in a more specific way where we stand
over 8 years
I can do testing , plot and I suppose english from time to time. But the epitome of my writting was long ago...now i am too rsty
over 8 years
I'm willing to help with anything on my spare time. I've never composed music, but I'll see what I can do about that lol
over 8 years
O rip I have VX Ace but I can help with most of the stuff :^)
over 8 years
NotWalter will rise again.
deletedover 8 years
I can draw gore.
over 8 years
i can help with all of these except music
over 8 years
first
over 8 years
Bump, but also first poll I'll need.

Refer to the designs on https://epicmafia.com/topic/80510?page=1

http://www.strawpoll.me/11516989



While I may try to include all genders to be selected based on the player's choice, if it turns out it's a lot of job, I'll just probably go for the most voted one.