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>discord mentioned once
>thread goes entirely off topic
We're trying to make a VN here people

>>388
Let me rephrase for those with reading comprehension. If I join an IRC, I don't get to ever see messages that happened while I was offline, that's probably the biggest benefit Discord offers over it. Ephemeral chats are down there as one of the worst ideas for people doing any sort of collaborative work.

>>394
>We're trying to make a VN here people

Okay, I know this says Visual Novel but I misread that as UN due to the font so pic relevant

>>395
>Ephemeral chats are down there as one of the worst ideas for people doing any sort of collaborative work.
Forums/mailing lists. I can't take a developer seriously if he just uses discord. Developers who use discord tend to be the most incompetent out there.

>>384
as much as i'm not a fan of wanting Discord for this either, it's not like i have anything better to suggest besides a simple Google Doc or something similar. ena project does seem to be a good example of what we're going for here but maybe this'd be easier to finalize when we have a few more people.
also, if it’s any consolation, all the anyan messages have been from me so far. luckily that hasn’t become any sort of problem.
>>389
the above being said, you do have a decent point. we've been fortunate enough to have wapchan here so far as a fallback and there's always warosu but these could still present issues down the line on their own. there's at least been some email communication for now but that'll reach a point with other contributors as well eventually. then we’d have the necessity for something greater.
>>394
these things happen.
also, a minor update: turns out >>382 is just due to college exams and other personal issues of his. i’m unfortunately a little behind with Marisa’s Day 2 but, for now, OP's given me permission to get going with the next thread when i can plus i have full PC access again (finally)! i'll likely be using a slightly modified version of what's in >>373 and then the third /jp/ thread will be up sometime within the next few hours today (or maybe tomorrow depending on your time zone, point is i’m definitely getting the next thread up before bed tonight and the only major thing standing in my way from here on is essentially just work).
hope you all have been doing as well as you can.

>>395
How did anyone ever manage to finish a project before you could rate posts with an emoji???
>>396
This.
>>397
>Git is already invented, we simply need to know it exists!
I guess there are also wikis
ofc back in the >implying nostalgia
days a board was all that was needed to make miracles. never gonna forget when /v/ translated AA2 in like 3 days because HF was too busy circlejerking

You guys do know that you could use a chatroom without the discord botnet like Matrix right? It would help alleve most of the concerns with Discord itself.

matrix is mossadware xmpp better neighbors~ cant flipping use web client for irc (no sign up require)

You guys still don't have a git repo?
Has OP posted anything working yet?

Had not noticed it has been 10 (TEN) days since the post prior to mine, this project was dead from day 1.
Why did the idea guys not question OP?
He has larped for months and now thrown you away like trash.
All of those nights spent writing 2hu fanfic, hiding the shame behind you fake "rear", imageboard losers, woe you, for you will never get that time back nor will you ever be able to share the bliss that i feel as a result of being proven right, my investment in your project amounts to the couple of minutes it took me to write this post, yet, regardless i feel so good, i posses the eloquence to describe such a feeling but i click [New Reply] with the hope not to share it with you, but that you are dragged deep into misery and wallow in it until you wake up again to be confronted with yet another day of your pathetic lives, no more community project to look forward to, a futile period devoid of joy.(nice bait bro)

>>402
i get where you’re coming from here, though would’ve rather chalked up the lack of updates here to the new /jp/ thread existing (at least on my part, apologies for that). i may not be able to speak for everyone who’s wanted to give this an honest try but my participation is coming from a voluntary place of genuine enjoyment. trolling & larping accusations aside, i still wouldn’t consider what time i’ve put into this to have been wasted so far so if it really is some big ruse on the part of OP then that’s a damn shame but it’s no skin off my back in the end. there has been working footage of what’s been developed for the engine though so i’d consider going through all that development only as a jape to be a little far fetched, maybe that’s ignorant on my part either way but it’s not like i can justify all of OP’s actions here. i’m choosing to be more understanding of the various apparent circumstances at play with those involved, especially since this same claim could’ve been made during my own extended absence for instance, but that has a reasonable-enough limit if my patience ends up seriously tested. OP has expressed via email a desire to return to this when time should permit as such again so, until that point, i’ll remain as faithful as i need to be to keep some amount of progress going even if it is slow and if that really ends up all for naught then so be it. at least some of us here have still been honestly trying, i wouldn’t have engaged with the project so hard if i thought it was impossible.

speaking of OP, i’ve also been told that (for the time being until he gets back) i’ll be in charge of things like writing oversight and generally keeping things together so that what we’re working through right now will eventually be implementation-ready without needing his total constant approval over everything (essentially i really am a director of this now, lol). i’ll do my best to keep tabs on what’s to come in the coming weeks and other writers can defer to me for general questions if they’d like. i’m still doing what i can when i can myself, i’m just now in a slightly more important position with this due to circumstance and will try to act accordingly.

>>399
been meaning to say that honestly is news to me but i’m horribly inexperienced at putting together collective repositories for something like this (no experience with Matrix & such). if anyone would like to step up and take the reigns on that kind of further organization then, by all means, i’m all ears for anything better besides just some Google Doc if it’ll help communication/better organize what we have. content can still be made with or without something like that but, after a certain point, it may do us more good than otherwise.

LE MON

I am still here guys, anyan will take care of things in my absence

>>402
happy people don't need to write walls of text to convince others how happy they are lol

>>404
Someone write a route for this la creatura.

well since 4chan appears to have been temporarily placed into hyperstasis for now, i might as well make sure i post my recent progress so far here too. the above link contains a slightly edited version of the Day 2 dialogue i posted last week while the below link will lead to the Day 3 dialogue i just posted last night:
https://files.catbox.moe/uwyocd.txt
https://files.catbox.moe/580cfn.txt
i talked about this briefly over in the /jp/ thread but we now technically have all the openers for the first 4 days in rough draft form at the very least, you're all free to provide what feedback you'd like but i know some other writers were holding out for a little more of that between-route dialogue to be completed as well. hopefully this'll give you just what you need when the time is right for future contributions!
>>405
thanks for saying as much, i wanted to tell you this over in the /jp/ thread but good luck out there in the trenches and i genuinely hope you can make it through what you need to alright as time goes on
>>404 >>407
little gooboo…how would a lemontene route even realistically go? you join her for a picnic out in the fields somewhere but then she forgot the drinks so you have to go on a small quest for them?
either way, i need to draw her more tbh…

now that i'm getting back into the swing of things with semi-consistent writing and i'm sorta at the forefront of this for the time being, i'm a little curious over getting a small headcount with any writers/contributors still hanging around. i know OP and Arimasuか are currently busy taking care of their own irl business while Kasen's anon is getting through an initial outline for her so i would mostly like to check in with >>371 (Chimata's patron) and make sure that anon is at least still somewhat present.
feel free to reply to this post at your earliest convenience if you can, if you aren't the Chima anon though you can still reply just to confirm that you haven't evaporated into the void quite yet. it'd be much appreciated and i hope the lot of you are doing as well as you can.
currently getting through Marisa's fourth day and the respective good/bad outcomes that'll stem from that, though this weekend is going to be pretty busy for me for a number of reasons so there might be a slight delay before i post that next contribution.

>>409
damn…well i'm still around at least. Chima's patron is apparently back at it according to a /jp/-side update so hopefully that comes though alright. next part from me will be posted over there sometime within the next two days.
hoping for the best for everyone else.

>>403
I have set up a matrix space for people more closely associated with the project. Ideally, I'd like to get development to be a bit more unified, since everything is disparate at the moment, and having a shared idea of what we need to work on can help us move closer towards a demo.
https://matrix.to/#/#touhou-jpvn:matrix.org

>>411
seems like a great idea! glad someone finally stepped up for this, thanks a bunch figamin. hopefully OP and the others can hop along in time, just sent you a message over Element about joining so feel free to check in whenever.

This project still looking for writers? Any specific areas that still need to be filled?

>>413
absolutely. with a few other key volunteers currently M.I.A. at the moment, we have a prime opening for anyone fresh & willing to follow-through to step up. technically, assuming the others do eventually come back with their routes in-tow, we still have up to 2 more slots to fill for our starting roster. i'm currently handling all the in-between route shenanigans, so a new character outline would be an excellent start if you'd like to contribute.
what did you have in mind? i'm willing to work together on anything else i've technically been shouldering on my own as well, aside from the girls i'm trying to write for. it's just a matter of good coordination from here really.

>>414
I was thinking of maybe Shinmyoumaru or if that's too much DDC representation then Yuugi.

>>415
>Shinmyoumaru
Inchling onahole…
In all seriousness that's a nice pick. There's not a whole lot of Shinmy love so it'd be interesting.
>Yuugi
The bigger problem is how MC gets to her. With the tone being for more grounded stories you're limited by where a villager could reasonably go. That said, there was a post in the /jp/ thread spitballing some ideas on how he could accidentally get there.
>If we employ the help of "convenient plot device" I could see a plot where he's out and about and a sinkhole claims him. He falls down, gets banged up and ends up in the underground. This leads to really any of the SA cast: Yams finds him in a tunnel or web cue arachnaphobe boyfriend fic, maybe he crashes into Yuugi's onsen and she cares for him, Orin spots what she thinks is a dead body and you can take your pick of any Chireiden 2hu, or maybe Parsee spots him drifting along the river below her bridge and fishes him out.
My point of view is as long as it looks plausible it doesn't matter so much if the hows and whys are a bit contrived or convenient. The reader's suspension of disbelief is pretty resilient. If you're going to do an asspull it better make sense.

>>415
there was a bit of talk in the initial thread over a Shinmy route so it'd certainly be an addition of interest for more than a few anons, inchling/smaller girl shenanigans aside. one of the biggest initial hurdles for her would be figuring out how MC runs into her but maybe that's just me. also, if there was a confirmed Banki route at this time then i think we'd be pushing it with the DDC inclusions but as things stand you're fine.
>Yuugi
like the other anon said, you'd have to get a bit creative with the approach here (the idea of our MC accidentally falling down a sinkhole is one i've toyed with mentally a few times now). as long as things don't feel too hamfisted then the writing should work out fairly decently.
personally, i'm more partial to Big Oni Girl myself due to personal tastes but since i'm currently overseeing character planning/additions anyways i'll leave the final call up to you. once you've settled on who you'd rather write for, then we could start hashing out some kind of outline.

>>416
>>417
Yeah given the more grounded setting I think me doing Shinmy makes more sense (and I like her more anyways). Regarding how you run into her I was thinking the MC could stumble across her being harassed by some belligerent animals in the outskirts of the village.

What happened with 4chan?

>>419
4chan got hacked by the sharty

tbqh it was deserved, but I hope it recovers. I'd hate to lose touch with most of the people I like on /jp/, seeing a community scattered to the winds is not a good feeling.

Good thing I have alternate modes of contact with a chunk of them against their knowledge or consent.

>>421
yeah i feel bad for the innocent boards but hopefully its a wake up call to hiro to actually give a shit about the site instead of jacking up passes

>>421
I just wanted to lurk today and check some overnight responses to my posts but the most annoying posters in the history of imageboards just had to put all this effort into making that impossible.

>>420
whelp, that explains it. so much for the update i wanted to make last night but i guess i didn’t get as much done as i would’ve liked to anyways…
now that we’re all here again though, how do you feel about an Inchling route OP? just curious

will the new friends help us?

I should hopefully actually be back now, just with less free time than I had previously hoped. Could someone link the most up to date versions of everything? I have a decent bit of time today to do some proofreading.
As for writing the Seija route, I will probably start that once I get a feel for the prose I should write with. I have some ideas for the story, but I don't want to decide on anything until I start writing.

>>425
i sure hope so. it’d be really funny if an event like 4chan imploding would be what marks the ball finally starting to get rolled for the other volunteers here though.
>>426
unfortunately i’m at work right now and won’t be able to get you what you need for another 5ish hours but i’ll reupload what i’ve written to post here when i can, it’s just good to have you back on board even if you still don’t have all the free time you’d like (i don’t either fwiw, otherwise i probably would’ve already started writing for Ran’s route by now lol).
hope those novels you were getting through weren’t too bad, i’ll be free to hash through more ideas when i can later as well.

If you ever decide to take an anthology approach, I have an idea for an Alice story that I'd never be able to make into a paneled doujin

Well if I things are gonna be like this then I'll better start getting back to writing soon. Just wish I got my employment contract first tho so I can stop feeling exhausted after my current hellish job

>>426
ok, just for cohesion's sake, here's nearly everything i've written for the thing thus far from the intro all the way up to my currently unfinished dialogue for Day 4. it might be a lot to get through so just take this at your own pace:
https://files.catbox.moe/4oeamw.txt
https://files.catbox.moe/njfg5r.txt
https://files.catbox.moe/uwyocd.txt
https://files.catbox.moe/580cfn.txt
https://files.catbox.moe/n4i93y.txt
since ChimataAnon's contributions have already been looked through, i'll refrain from reposting anything from him for now (most recent writings at the bottom-most link btw).
>>418
>MC could stumble across her being harassed by some belligerent animals in the outskirts of the village.
that could make for a really cute interaction if you can pull it off right, with either animals or maybe even especially wild youkai if you'd like. would it be typical of her to be exploring around there though? it's not a total deal breaker of course, it'd just have to be the main spot you'd keep meeting her from there until you're locked in with her successfully is all.
>>428
with the right kind of effort, it could even be turned into an entire Alice route. feel free to share if you'd like, though i can't say i'd be the one to start following through with it.
>>429
>so I can stop feeling exhausted after my current hellish job
most jobs nowadays are designed to leave you in this exact state, i stg…
hope you can fare well when it comes to jumping back in though, the Kasen route is one i'm starting to look forward to as well.

>>424
> Inchling route
How this would work?

>>431
mostly how you felt about Shinmy being a character in the first place but that's part of it too i suppose

>>432
I think it's a bit strange but what I think doesn't matter, If the writer can handle this well, that's fine

>>430
>would it be typical of her to be exploring around there though?
My understanding was that after DDC Shinmyoumaru hangs out at the Hakurei Shrine semi-frequently so maybe she's staying over in anticipation of the Flower Viewing and you meet her in some grove nearby. Might have to workshop that a bit though.
>>431
I figure there's three potential options
>Option 1, Shinmy is an inchling the whole time and it's played straight. Obviously precludes any normal kind of lewdness if we're doing that.
>Option 2 Shinmy is around the same height as other characters, probably the most reasonable option but does kind of take away a unique trait that some find appealing.
>Option 3, lots of switching between inchling and normal size with the mallet. Gives the most freedom writing-wise but is probably annoying if you're putting together scenes. And it's gonna inevitably look like size changing fetish stuff.

As for whether people even want a Shinmy route I'll leave that up to you all.

>>434
From a lorefren perspective I'm wondering how she'll be done since she and her dream self swapped places in AoCF and the whole plot thread never got resolved (thanks ZUN). Dream selves have… less than ideal personalities so you have a wildcard to write.

Of course you can ignore it. It's not well known lore by any means and unless you're a grimfren you're not going to care much. So long as the writer can write a decent character I have no objections, it'll be interesting to see what they do with her.

Hey, I have silently been reading about the game. I am interested and would like to test my hand at it, but I am an ESL and sort of noob at writing (I feel that is important) Just to test the waters: would anyone be interested in a Keiki, Koishi or Zanmu route? I know that is kinda random, but those are the three characters I have been writing lately, so I would have something to work with.
Godspeed.

>>436
I'd be interested in a Keiki or Koishi route. Zanmu is too new for me and I haven't really formed any opinions of her, but I won't tell you no since the only way for her to get new content and fans is to make fanworks of her. I also wouldn't worry about being an ESL or noobish at writing, formatting and grammar can be worked out in a second or third draft, and there's native speakers to help point out mistakes.
Some questions would be how would you intend our protagonist meet either of them, and in Keiki's case get over the barrier between mortal and divine? Koishi's whole gimmick is being unconscious and affecting your own unconsciousness and perceptions, so how much of that will play apart of your writing?

>>437
There should be a Zanmu route so you can navigate yuri love with Zanmu.

>>438
>>409
>i would mostly like to check in with >>371 (Chimata's patron) and make sure that anon is at least still somewhat present.
Hey, still here! I've just been busy with other 2hu stuff but I have been working on the Chimata route, please don't worry! I did post on the jaypee since I thought we had posted there for a bit and then checked back here when I remembered "oh yeah" since /jp/ is down.

>>438
Jesus did the yuri-autist move here?

Just found about this website and it's cool to see a VN project going somewhere. I was going to ask if I could help with the programming side of the project. But as I quickly read the thread, that part seem already covered. I don't know a lot about the Touhou lore so I can't really help with the writing. So, to all anons involved in this project, have fun!

>>435
>From a lorefren perspective I'm wondering how she'll be done since she and her dream self swapped places in AoCF and the whole plot thread never got resolved (thanks ZUN). Dream selves have… less than ideal personalities so you have a wildcard to write.
If I recall, dream selves eventually "acclimate" to being the real one and stop acting like a dream version.

>>434
>you meet her in some grove nearby.
>Might have to workshop that a bit though.
maybe you could even meet her in a place like the Spring Path. it could be a nice surprise to see her in a place like that since it isn't immediately obvious and is a decently-topical location settled between both the Shrine and the Village itself.
as for how to approach her size, i think her inclusion in any form will inherently carry with it that underlying tone of mild size play and having her stay as her typical small self gives a unique angle to the route imo. to me, Shinmy simply isn't Shinmy unless she's smol. maybe part of getting closer to her would involve her inevitably using the mallet to shrink you down but eventually you can learn to appreciate each other as you are normally.
i'm slightly indifferent to her inclusion overall but figured a little feedback anyways couldn't hurt.
>>441
nice post number there. maybe the dream-self inclusion can be more of a minor detail or something to feed into depending on how the writer would like to carry out the in-route corruption ending though that's just more spitballing.
>>436
glad to have you interested! i honestly haven't seen much genuine interest in a Zanmu route across the threads so far, so i would suggest either Keiki or Koishi. the Koish is likely going to be the more popular choice overall there but >>437 also has a good point when it comes to people needing to make more Zanmu content in the first place (as well as good advice in general).
if it helps you out in any way, here's the most updated version of the Masterdoc i've been keeping that ought to have all currently relevant information for anons in your position: https://files.catbox.moe/4zdqz7.txt
once you've decided who to go with, a small outline for how her route/interaction would play out would be in order and we can start working through some overall ideas/themes from there.
>>439
thanks for the update! we're all a little busy in our own ways so it's just good to see you chime in, good luck with what you're working through atm and feel free to join the Matrix instance if you'd like some more direct feedback from others aside from this thread.
as for myself, i'll hopefully be posting more progress for Marisa's Day 4 come tomorrow as long as tonight's shenanigans don't leave me too creatively winded. Happy Easter everyone!
>>440
thank you kindly~!

>>442
I am the Koishi/Zanmu/Keiki anon. I will read the link you posted, so thank you for that. Hopefully I can say something more definitive in a few days. Good luck with the Marisa route btw.