Drecanis Visual Novel: The Beginning

To be honest, I want sure how to start this update post, or even if I should do it now or wait until I got something more concrete.

This is my first visual novel attempt. I am not new to story writing, or coding, but this is a huge leap, and I guess what I really need to do is tell the community what I'm trying to do, and count on you all to give me good feedback as I go along.

My goal with Drecanis is to create an immersive, expandable world, where your choices can indeed have consequences. I wanted more than a branching storyline that bottle necks you to a specific ends. I wanted something that feels organic, and feels as you are a part of the world, not just along for the ride.

To start, I am designing a proper rpg element in, using savage worlds ruleset. This may change later but gives me a structure to build on. Goal is that even if your only create your character, it's a valid one to play a Savage Worlds campaign.  This means that the visual novel will be heavily skill based to move through it.

Right now, version 0.02 allows you to select a race, and explains how I handle gender in the game to attempt to be more inclusive. I've never seen this method used, so feedback is welcome.

I plan to work on the basic character generation first, but the programming allows me to easily add races.

All image assets are placeholders, shamefully borrowed from Google search to put something there.  I am in the market for some asset creators, but my monthly budget for this project is limited unless I get myself set up with some backers.

Assets I need done now is some example images for the race selection (2 per race), a background for the character creation screens, and a image for the cover of the VN.

If you run the VN, and think you can make some of those images, send me a message with cost and work example.

So much work to get to before even beginning the story writing, but I hope to get there together with all of you.