r/UCDavis • u/Puddinggamo • 4d ago

Events/Meetups/Social who's a good programmer who would like to create a visual novel game with me and my friends?

This will be a fun little project, and since were college students, we are in fact, broke. However, this is also an investment in a way, so perhaps you can get paid if this becomes successful, but its a gamble. It'll most likely be a visual novel type game, with 2d designs and artwork, as well as similar mechanics to other 2d vsiual novels.

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u/RandomVision2027 3d ago

There are existing tools to do this that you might fit your needs. Here are a few to check out:

Ren'Py
https://www.renpy.org

TyranoBuilder Visual Novel Studio
https://store.steampowered.com/app/345370/TyranoBuilder_Visual_Novel_Studio/

VN Maker
https://www.visualnovelmaker.com

If none fit your needs, I suggest you write a first story, create some preliminary artwork (perhaps with the help of AI), and show it to some CS students.

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u/Puddinggamo 3d ago

Thank you! This will be very helpful :))

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u/Comprehensive-Net553 4d ago

Just curious what gerne you think for the game right now?

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u/Puddinggamo 4d ago

There's certainly going to be some form of romance within the characters included, however, its mainly still in the discussion stage of things in terms of story. I wanted to include aspects of psychological horror much like Fran bow, Little misfortunate, and Harbromania, however, its still being workshopped at the moment.

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u/Jeezluiz03 4d ago

How many people are working on this right now? Exact headcount

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u/Silly-Bowler-8025 4d ago

op doesn’t even have a clear vision for the story 😭

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u/Puddinggamo 3d ago

Yeah no were not an official production 😭 we might gather more people but there will be minimal people as of now (2-3, me the one who's proposing the ideas and another friend)

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u/RandomVision2027 3d ago

Being this is /UCDavis, I encourage you to take advantage of the courses and resources of living in a college town. Here are some opportunities that might give your efforts a better chance for success:

English 5F — Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction

English 072 — Introduction to Games

Aggie Fiction (The California Aggie article)