forum ame’s amazing assemblage of anarchy // visual novel concepts & update log

Started January 07, 2024 by @the-void-phantasmic group

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WARNING.

Anything posted in this thread, or related to this thread, will most likely contain or mention the following: mucduc, gore, rooty tooty point-n-shooty violence, suicide, suicidal thoughts & ideations, drug abuse, self harm, disordered eating, various forms of moderate to severe mental illness, electroshock therapy, and medical inaccuracies (mainly related to the psychiatric branch of the medical system), among other things that will be added as they become relevant.

If any of these things bother you, either proceed with caution or just don’t proceed at all. Seriously, I won’t be offended. Self care comes first.

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howdy, partner! If you know me and have for a while, you may know that I’ve been hyperfixated on a story surrounding the concept of the Heart, Mind, and Soul for a bit. This is my developer’s log for a visual fiction depiction I’m hoping to make based off of that. Wow.

If you don’t know me, hi! My name is Ame, and I’m a teenager who aspires to develop games as a hobby, and I’m also an colormancer and storyteller. My dream has always been to tell my stories to the world in some way, shape, or form, whether it’s an original story or an alternate universe. In this case, it’s an alternate universe, and not an original story.

This thread was originally to help me figure out a title for this game, and help with that is still very much appreciated.

You can find the source material/creativity lightning strike for this story down below:

Here are the music albums it’s very heavily based off of (you don’t need this to understand the story, but I might as well credit the source material):

Chonny’s Charming Chaos Compendium (Tally Hall cover album by Chonny Jash): https://youtu.be/H7ftUCwjFNg?si=nGjueEYMbM2BwTK4

Hawaii, Part II (by Miracle Musical): https://youtu.be/NbtsZJXnzFY?si=qFD8UlksHq_wh4m9

Here is the alternate universe it takes place in:

And here’s the document, where the basic plot of the game and a few other things I’ve written for myself should be:

And yes, this is a fan game and not an original concept. Most of the credit goes to Chonny Jash and Miracle Musical, as well as the theorists in their respective fan bases, with very few concepts being fully thought out by me.

I’m currently using RPG Maker MZ to develop this, so no, I’m not doing much coding myself, but I’m still working with plugins and programming events.

Note: I’m currently editing and working on the document and universe page, so there’s will likely be inaccuracies and unfinished spots. Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Content warnings and more context added to this post, as well as making it more cohesive? and somewhat professional. Somewhat. (1/28/24)

the day before overmorrow’s gonna be a long day of working on assets,,, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof. And I need to figure out how to do multiple routes/perspectives in RMMZ,,, I seriously wish there were more free MZ plugins that made this easier ;-;

Update: school starts the day before overmorrow, so I won’t have much progress in terms of developing the game until my next break from school. On the bright side, I have most of my title screen done, some splash screens at the beginning, an epilepsy warning at the start of the game, and a character selection screen all worked out. I also have a good amount of the character sprites finished. The character selection doesn’t lead to anything yet, I’m waiting to add gameplay until I start writing the scripts (which I’ll be working on in between now and my next break).

Overall, it’s going pretty well so far. I do have a small issue, though….. my parents are very interested in the game, but it’s incredibly dark and I was planning on having the characters cursing. And there’s a genderfluid character (Heart). An easy solution would just to be cutting out the cursing and give Heart a single set of pronouns throughout the game (most likely she/her, since they’re more feminine presenting and any other set of pronouns would make my parents suspicious). But that still leaves the issue of the dark themes the game has… not sure how well my parents would take to suicide being a large part of the game’s plot progression, among the other things that are very prevalent in the game. Maybe I’ll leave those things obscure and up to interpretation? But that would kill the point, methinks.

Now that I remember this thread exists, I do have some updates about the game,,,

So I did a major design overhaul of the characters, which means redrawing the sprites. Yay? They needed some work, anyway. I’m also planning on reworking the assets, not exactly sure how that’ll go. Uhhh I haven’t been able to get any of the script done, like at all, I’ll just try that whenever I have motivation I guess. Right now I’m just waiting for spring break to do anything major for the game, whether that be writing a proper script or programming events.

Also, update on how I’m thinking the branching story will function. In Cacophony, the different choice options can lead you to different interactions, allowing you to bond with different characters and such, but overall converge into the same ending. Calamity, however, can have three possible endings. The good (“canon”) ending, the bad ending, and the neutral ending. Only the “canon” ending leads to Concord as the literary afterparty. I’ll be sure to edit that into the document,,,

All of this is obviously still subject to change, but it’s worth putting out here.

Also, one thing I forget to mention for a lot of my projects, it is not at all guaranteed that this will ever make it past the concept/beta stage and get published, this just just a project for fun. But that also doesn’t mean it will never get published. Idk, just don’t really look forward to either outcome ig.

That’s it for now besties, I’m also about to edit the starter post so it helps to explain more about the game and it’s development, and add content warnings bc that’s a terrible thing to forget for so long-