/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hey /jp/. Today is a sad day for me. This is gonna be a tl;dr post, but I figure this is the right place to post it.

I'm a former indie developer for a group of friends that was working on a visual novel/eroge. Today is the second week since the project was cancelled.

I was the lead writer. I can't draw for shit and I'm bad at coding, but I was tasked with writing narration, plot, choices, and character personalities and back stories out of our little four man team.

A year ago, we were inspired by Katawa Shoujo, which was born right here on 4chan. We fell in love with it; beautifully written, developed by an indie group, and with great artwork. We thought if they could do it, so could we.

We stated from the outset that it wouldn't be a nukige; we wanted all four heroines to have dynamic personalities, great back stories, and have their own likeability. We wanted quality over quantity.

The project was soon titled 'Home,' and was to be set in a dark, science fiction-like setting during the peak of a war that threatened to destroy the entire planet. Home was the name of a secret facility that took in war orphans, but in reality, was a lab that attempted to turn children into supersoldier killing machines. It ended up being even darker than we originally intended, with one yandere route, and every route having a very tragic twist, even if it was entirely possible to have good endings with everyone, some of which had every major character surviving.

I won't go into too much detail. The project died recently, as said above; too many people got busy IRL, and everyone drifted away.

Everyone except me. I poured my soul into this. I fell in love with the very characters I was writing.

I'd do anything to see it live.