{"id":116,"date":"2014-05-11T04:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T09:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=116"},"modified":"2014-05-11T04:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T09:23:56","slug":"the-creation-of-auroras-nightmare-part-2-a-visual-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/the-creation-of-auroras-nightmare-part-2-a-visual-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creation of Aurora\u2019s Nightmare Part 2: A Visual Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks back, I talked about how I got the original idea for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare years back.\u00a0 Originally though, it was going to an ordinary novel.\u00a0 But, for various reasons, I never actually wrote it and it just sat on my \u201cfuture projects\u201d list.
\nFast forward to spring of 2011.\u00a0 I was between jobs (having recently returned from my second stint of teaching in Japan) and the game I was working on, Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja<\/a>, was stalled due to my programmer getting a new fulltime job.\u00a0 I was looking to start a new game but, since Car Washer had suffered so many delays due to lost programmers, I wanted to make a game where, if necessary, I could do all the work myself, without relying on contractors.\u00a0 At the same time, I was on a big visual novel kick.\u00a0 I first discovered and fell in love with the genre a couple years before, shortly after my first stay in Japan, thanks to Type Moon\u2019s amazing Fate\/Stay Night.\u00a0 And, while back in Japan in 2011, I made sure to track down quite a lot of other visual novels I\u2019d been wanting.
\nWith my writing background, a visual novel sounded like the perfect project for me.\u00a0 Even better, I wouldn\u2019t need a programmer and, if necessary, could handle the art and sound on my own (in the end though, I did hire people who are much more skilled in those areas than I am).\u00a0 I thought about creating an entirely new story for my visual novel but decided to review my current collection of ideas first and see if any of them would be a good fit.\u00a0 In the end, I had two stories that I thought could make good visual novels, Aurora\u2019s Nightmare being one of them.\u00a0 It won out for a couple of reasons.\u00a0 First, it was the shorter and less complex of the two, meaning it would be the quicker and cheaper one to make, which is important when you\u2019re working in your spare time on a limited budget.\u00a0 Second, I\u2019d already written the other story as a regular novel (it isn\u2019t currently available, but you can find some of my other novels<\/a> on Amazon Kindle) and, while I think it could be adapted into a good visual novel, it would be even better as an action RPG.
\nWith that decided, I began the process of adapting what had been a linear story to a more interactive and player driven format.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll talk more about that another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks back, I talked about how I got the original idea for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare years back.\u00a0 Originally though, it was going to an ordinary novel.\u00a0 But, for various reasons, I never actually wrote it and it just sat on my \u201cfuture projects\u201d list. Fast forward to spring of 2011.\u00a0 I was between … Continue reading The Creation of Aurora\u2019s Nightmare Part 2: A Visual Novel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}