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Grace's Project Idea/This Thread Doesn't Have a Witty Title
Amazing_Grace:
Everyone else is posting about gameplay. Haha. I don't have gameplay, but I WILL post about how to go about reading the story once it's published.
There are four main components to the story: Communications, Lessons, Auditions, and Story Events.
Communications kinda make up the bulk of the story. Just like how there are tons of different options for promotions in SP, I intend for there to be multiple options for communications in this story. The reader can glance at the title of the communication and decide whether they want to read through that one or skip it.
Communications will be written much like a visual novel, except minus the "visual" part, but not just a "novel" because it's different, but it isn't really a choose-your-own-adventure novel because it's more like a VN even though it isn't visual. What was I talking about again...? Oh, right. Communications.
The producer will think over up to three possible things to say to his idol at various points during the communication. Each option leads to a different communication: Perfect, Normal, or Bad. Example:
"I really like pie!" Idol Name exclaimed.
I thought about how to react to her random statement. She looked like the kind of girl that would like blueberry pie, but her personality screamed peach. Maybe I should just say, "Oh," or something like that.
Reader will then decide what they would say in that situation out of the options given and will scroll around until they find the ending that uses the option they would. Perfect communication is written using the best option, Normal communication the so-so option, and Bad communication the worst option. Example:
I decide to assume she likes blueberry. "Is blueberry your favorite, Idol Name?"
Idol Name gasps. "Producer! How could you possibly think that?! Do I just LOOK like the kind of girl that likes blueberry! It's peach, Producer! Peach is my favorite!"
Whoops. She doesn't seem happy. I guess I should have gone with peach after all...you really shouldn't judge based on appearances.
*BAD COMMUNICATION!*
Obviously, the actual communications won't be that AWFUL, and the idols (most of them) aren't that touchy, but that's basically how it's gonna go. If the reader would have chosen the correct answer (peach in this case) they would read through the Perfect communication example.
Every option will be explored, though not necessarily in every combination. In some cases, it will be up to the reader to decide how they think they did based on the way the idol reacted to what they said.
Did that make any sense? More to come in a minute.
Amazing_Grace:
Lessons time!
Lessons vary from communications in that they are written out only twice: a bad lesson, and a good lesson. Though theoretically your lessons can be bad, normal, good and perfect, that's just a bit too much work for me considering my work ethic and the enormous amount of other stuff I'll be doing.
Due to this, I will also only write out EACH lesson ONCE PER IDOL. For instance, Performance lessons will be written out once for each idol, and each idol will have their good and bad lessons written out. I really hope that makes sense. I'm sorry.
While the producer/reader doesn't have to only give their idols lessons once throughout the whole story, any other time they wish to train their idol, they'll just have to go back and re-read the lesson they choose (or not, if they just want to say they took their idol to lessons and remember how everything went).
Good and Bad lessons obviously can't be decided by actually playing out the lesson. I would leave it reader's choice, but...what kind of person would deliberately CHOOSE a bad lesson? If anyone has any ideas on how to do this, I'd appreciate it.
Hopefully that's not confusing. More in a bit.
liza94:
--- Quote from: Amazing_Grace on March 02, 2014, 07:26:22 pm ---"I really like pie!" Idol Name exclaimed.
I thought about how to react to her random statement. She looked like the kind of girl that would like blueberry pie, but her personality screamed peach. Maybe I should just say, "Oh," or something like that.
Reader will then decide what they would say in that situation out of the options given and will scroll around until they find the ending that uses the option they would. Perfect communication is written using the best option, Normal communication the so-so option, and Bad communication the worst option. Example:
I decide to assume she likes blueberry. "Is blueberry your favorite, Idol Name?"
Idol Name gasps. "Producer! How could you possibly think that?! Do I just LOOK like the kind of girl that likes blueberry! It's peach, Producer! Peach is my favorite!"
Whoops. She doesn't seem happy. I guess I should have gone with peach after all...you really shouldn't judge based on appearances.
*BAD COMMUNICATION!*
--- End quote ---
Is it Uane's communication? I think she would say something like that. :) May I produce this IdolMaster, please? 0:)
--- Quote from: Amazing_Grace on March 02, 2014, 07:32:54 pm ---Lessons time!
Lessons vary from communications in that they are written out only twice: a bad lesson, and a good lesson. Though theoretically your lessons can be bad, normal, good and perfect, that's just a bit too much work for me considering my work ethic and the enormous amount of other stuff I'll be doing.
Due to this, I will also only write out EACH lesson ONCE PER IDOL. For instance, Performance lessons will be written out once for each idol, and each idol will have their good and bad lessons written out. I really hope that makes sense. I'm sorry.
While the producer/reader doesn't have to only give their idols lessons once throughout the whole story, any other time they wish to train their idol, they'll just have to go back and re-read the lesson they choose (or not, if they just want to say they took their idol to lessons and remember how everything went).
Good and Bad lessons obviously can't be decided by actually playing out the lesson. I would leave it reader's choice, but...what kind of person would deliberately CHOOSE a bad lesson? If anyone has any ideas on how to do this, I'd appreciate it.
Hopefully that's not confusing. More in a bit.
--- End quote ---
Why don't you make lessons a part of the story? It's a fanfiction, after all!
Amazing_Grace:
Auditions!
Auditions depend on how your idol is feeling at the moment. If you got lots of bad communications and bad lessons throughout the story leading up to that point, obviously your idol will be in bad shape. Perfect/normal communications and good lessons will leave your idol feeling pretty good. Each audition will be written out as a pass or a fail. If you pass the audition, obviously you move on. If you fail, depending on the audition, you will either just be done right then and there or will re-do it starting a week back.
Auditions are decided based purely on your idols stats as you remember them. Of course, it's a book, so people can always just ignore this and read on as though they pass every time no matter their idol's status, but those who really want to feel like they're playing iDOLM@STER will want to keep track of the lessons and communications they achieved with their idol throughout, and choose which option to take dependent on that.
Stats will be told to readers as soon as they choose which idol to produce. As you get good lessons, stats will increase by a set amount. Bad lessons, contrary to SP, will actually DECREASE your idol's stats (I think in SP, a bad lesson just meant your stats remained the same). If your idol's stats are below ten in every area during an early, easier audition, she will fail. The higher and more difficult the audition, the higher the idol's stats need to be for her(/him) to pass. Stat requirements will be given at the beginning of the audition.
Auditions will be held against various other existing idol groups depending on how difficult it is, which introduces an important part of the story I will talk about later (haha now you're in suspense). These other idol groups (and by groups, I really mean individual idols) include 876 Pro, Jupiter, 765 Pro, and the All-Stars' old agencies 331 Pro and Dreamland Pro. The level of difficulty of the audition determines the agencies taking place (DP and 331 appear during relatively easy auditions, 876 appears during relatively hard auditions, and Jupiter and 765 appear during very difficult auditions).
Well. Next I'll be going over story events and then that special thing I mentioned earlier that I just thought of recently but really liked. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, critiques, let me know.
Still looking for votes on how to write it. I'm leaning towards twenty separate books.
Amazing_Grace:
--- Quote from: liza94 on March 02, 2014, 07:41:40 pm ---Is it Uane's communication? I think she would say something like that. :) May I produce this IdolMaster, please? 0:)
--- End quote ---
Honestly, if that were going to be anyone's communication, it would probably be Uane's. ;D Or maybe Benima's. They're the two most touchy.
But yes! Once everything is published, I'll let everyone know where, and you can get started on "producing" Uane. :3
Also, thanks for your support thus far, it really means a lot. :)
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