For those of you who followed my blog and think you know about the Desert Pyrate comic I tried to make, well I’ve decided that I fail too hard at making comics so I’ve turned my attention towards Visual Novels. Here’s the intro I posted at the vn engine’s forum:

I’ve had this idea floating in my head for about a year and a half now. At first, I was going to make this a branching VN where you could explore each of the crew of the ship, but then I realised that I was nowhere near good enough a writer to pull that off. And then I wanted to make it a comic, cause comics are cool. But then I scrapped the idea because I realised my plot went nowhere. And then I reworked the plot a bit (and accepted that a plot that doesn’t necessarily have an antagonist is okay a lot). But recently, I’ve discovered that I have major consistency issues and drawing a comic would be nigh impossible, so I’ve once again poured my efforts into making a VN. Except it’s more of a kinetic novel now… Branches are hard… I think I’m going to be making this a 27+ chapter/arc KN. I wanted to throw in porn, but it seems the community for non porn games is more active, so I’ll make it a non-porn game (and maybe make a nsfw version in the future). And I wanted to throw in a turn based battle system later in the series. Oh dear…

Sorry for long intro that doesn’t really matter.

A little about the plot:

The main character, Skyler, stows away on a pirate ship because she’s a bored, uninspired writer. Throughout the whole series, you learn more about each of the twelve(? I don’t remember anymore…) crew members and the awesomeness of being a pirate. The series spans a couple of years, and so a lot happens. The first chapter/arc thing is kinda short and is just an introduction to almost all of the crew. I may expand on it though. Did I mention this all takes place in the desert. Harnessing the power of magical crystals (actually, it’s glass), desert-folk have managed to build ships that fly across the deserts. And when you have ships, you have pirates.

I’d list the characters too, but there’s so many of them. @.@Instead, I’ll end this post with something cool.

A demo The demo covers less than half the first chapter. If I decide to merge the first two chapters (which I probably will), then the demo covers about 1/5th.

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