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Yo! I'd love to partner on our project if you're interested. I'm doing the writing and programming, and have a great character and bg artist, but we need a maestro! I'll reach out to you on discord and see if the project interests you, same name as here :)

Eta: hey, couldn't find you on discord lol - add me? gnossienne__

Yo - I would love to work with you! Sounds like a great fit!! And no worries on the music, we can totally find some story beats for retro sounds if you wanna flex your audio muscles, but Ive acquired tons of spooky industrial ambient audio files over the years, so we could always fall back on those, haha.

I'm on discord as gnossienne__ , what about you? Let's talk more and I can give you the full story scope, see what you think :)

Yooo party people,

First, good luck to everyone in the jam! Don't be intimidated by the post length pls - I just prefer to be thorough! Main post before the *~*, :)

Alright - it's my first jam; I'm a writer and developer (well, I can make things work in Ren'Py and Godot). I have an idea for a VN centered around a group of weirdos that work in a cafe and the elusive serial killer that turns their neighborhood into his hunting ground.  

I know it sounds like it could lean a bit trite, but it's all in the execution, and I'm hoping to stick the landing: I'm gonna make some light dating sim elements, 2 LIs (one's a secret yandere, for some more horror), extensive choices that influence the ending - going as far as to change the end big baddie. 

Sound interesting? Stop reading and let's talk! Additional writers and developers familiar with Ren'Py would probably be awesome too, so if this is a project you think is cool and you have a different skill, I probably need you! 

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Want more specific project deets? Here's what I'm thinking so far. It's obviously very early days, and I'm super open to collaboration/feedback from people more talented in this area than myself!

*STORY*

• I have the outline finished in my mind for the entire story. If you'd like to hear more about what's going to happen narratively, reach out/reply here! 

*PROGRAMMING*

• Will be made in Ren'Py. I best understand how to create branching narratives in Ren'Py, and I don't wanna reinvent the wheel for my first jam!
• I have some awesome mini game modules for Ren'Py that I hope to use in this project, so there's going to be a LOT of interactivity for the player!  Very important to me to really push what makes VNs a unique experience - participation in the events and outcome of the story.

*ART*

• I'm thinking gender customizable MC x male LIs, but if an artist has the bandwidth to draw alternate gender sprites, that'd be dope!
• No preference for sprite art style, but given the fact that the story gets pretty dark, a more "mature" over cutesy look would probably mesh best. HOWEVER, I'd also like to do a chibi set for the main cast to use while they're talking/recalling memories, etc.
• Background art will vary between a warm cluttered cafe, residential scenes (home in the evening), and some dark sh*t. Industrial sites, blood, torture, and some elaborate staged deaths. I'd like for it to be jarring - I want to hear from the serial killer in first person throughout the story, so the art will do a lot for selling that state of mind.

*SOUND*

• In a similar vein to art as far as two disparate styles: happier, "nice" music and something more ominous/gritty in the killer's segments. I know next to nothing about art and even less about sound design, so.....I hope that's enough :')

WOW THANKS FOR MAKING IT TO THE END :)