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Need Some Suggestions And Some Opinions
13 years ago
So I've been talking and thinking and debating and whatever-whatevering for awhile on the idea of me doing a comic. Some of you are aware, some of you not so much.
I just need some suggestions and opinions on how you guys would feel about it.
I was thinking of doing one of those "Choose Your Own Adventure/Quest" style comics that are so popular these days (like: MSPaint Adventures, Prequel, RubyQuest if you ever saw it, etc etc). The kinds that are like one panel long usually with story stuff written along side it for dialogue and internal thought, each page is usually made up of pictures that tend to be reused, and then every few pages you get a completely new splash image set that basically just looks like an series of actual unique comic pages, and they rely on input of the fans to decide how the story progresses. I'm thinking of doing something like this because it's easy and doesn't require me to do complicate panels every other second. (And I could crank out about a million a day with the right input frequency)
Basically, they idea would be I draw a shit ton of characters and backgrounds and arrange the characters on the backgrounds in such a way that they interact with each other or the objects around them, so it's all very copy paste for the general pages and then major actions (fighting, opening things, solving puzzles, whatever) get their own unique page sets. As I'm thinking about it, I think I'ld probably be more heavy on the event pages as this would be most prominently a porn comic. And I would feel better doing porn as unique page sets rather than the more simplistic ones. And between the pages I would rely on anyone willing to make suggestions to help the characters decide what to do next and how to progress. So let's say Point A is porn and Point B is porn, but there's a few conversations and some walking between the two points, I would do unique pages for Point A, B, and the walking more than likely, but the conversations might be in the more simplistic style. And to get from Point A to Point B would rely on the audiences input (stuff like: "Do this!" or "Pick up that!" or "Say this to that person!") and depending on that input, the story may change.
But I'm not sure how I feel about that. I know some people like that style of visual story telling, but I know a lot of people really hate the shit out of it because of how done to death it is. And if I'm lacking in people wanting to see me do that, I'm not getting a lot of input, and with that style of story telling a lack of input is a lack of content and an ultimately broken story.
There's also the issue of my uploading pages for it. It might get to being a really heavy flow of pages some days that might only be altered a slight amount and my gallery would all but completely convert into nothing but comic pages. I was thinking that I might be able to open another account and just post the pages there, but I'ld be worried that might become an annoyance for some (rewatching me on another account as well as this one). Even on top of that it still might annoy some of the watchers if they log on and see a million subscription updates just to realize it's nothing but pages from whatever my comic account would be.
I keep saying "A million pages a day" when I talk about this style of content, and that's clearly an exaggeration. But it really wont feel any different if I get a lot of good suggestions one day and just do all of them it could be a really large amount. I've done these sorts of visual stories in the past and I can tell you it can get quite page heavy. Last year I did one an I was cranking out 50 or so pages a day. I imagine that would be really annoying to sift through for some.
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Overall I just need opinions on the idea. Maybe some suggestions for how to streamline the system a little better. I really like the idea, and I know I could totally get it to function and supply you guys with stories AND porn, but I'm worried about how rough around the edges it is right now.
Sorry if this is really long, I just like to be thorough in my pleas for assistance.
I just need some suggestions and opinions on how you guys would feel about it.
I was thinking of doing one of those "Choose Your Own Adventure/Quest" style comics that are so popular these days (like: MSPaint Adventures, Prequel, RubyQuest if you ever saw it, etc etc). The kinds that are like one panel long usually with story stuff written along side it for dialogue and internal thought, each page is usually made up of pictures that tend to be reused, and then every few pages you get a completely new splash image set that basically just looks like an series of actual unique comic pages, and they rely on input of the fans to decide how the story progresses. I'm thinking of doing something like this because it's easy and doesn't require me to do complicate panels every other second. (And I could crank out about a million a day with the right input frequency)
Basically, they idea would be I draw a shit ton of characters and backgrounds and arrange the characters on the backgrounds in such a way that they interact with each other or the objects around them, so it's all very copy paste for the general pages and then major actions (fighting, opening things, solving puzzles, whatever) get their own unique page sets. As I'm thinking about it, I think I'ld probably be more heavy on the event pages as this would be most prominently a porn comic. And I would feel better doing porn as unique page sets rather than the more simplistic ones. And between the pages I would rely on anyone willing to make suggestions to help the characters decide what to do next and how to progress. So let's say Point A is porn and Point B is porn, but there's a few conversations and some walking between the two points, I would do unique pages for Point A, B, and the walking more than likely, but the conversations might be in the more simplistic style. And to get from Point A to Point B would rely on the audiences input (stuff like: "Do this!" or "Pick up that!" or "Say this to that person!") and depending on that input, the story may change.
But I'm not sure how I feel about that. I know some people like that style of visual story telling, but I know a lot of people really hate the shit out of it because of how done to death it is. And if I'm lacking in people wanting to see me do that, I'm not getting a lot of input, and with that style of story telling a lack of input is a lack of content and an ultimately broken story.
There's also the issue of my uploading pages for it. It might get to being a really heavy flow of pages some days that might only be altered a slight amount and my gallery would all but completely convert into nothing but comic pages. I was thinking that I might be able to open another account and just post the pages there, but I'ld be worried that might become an annoyance for some (rewatching me on another account as well as this one). Even on top of that it still might annoy some of the watchers if they log on and see a million subscription updates just to realize it's nothing but pages from whatever my comic account would be.
I keep saying "A million pages a day" when I talk about this style of content, and that's clearly an exaggeration. But it really wont feel any different if I get a lot of good suggestions one day and just do all of them it could be a really large amount. I've done these sorts of visual stories in the past and I can tell you it can get quite page heavy. Last year I did one an I was cranking out 50 or so pages a day. I imagine that would be really annoying to sift through for some.
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Overall I just need opinions on the idea. Maybe some suggestions for how to streamline the system a little better. I really like the idea, and I know I could totally get it to function and supply you guys with stories AND porn, but I'm worried about how rough around the edges it is right now.
Sorry if this is really long, I just like to be thorough in my pleas for assistance.
Although, I dunno if I'd recommend going with a sprites on premade backgrounds approach. Pretty much only porn stuff is gonna be suggested, so doing fresh drawings each time would probably work better. I saw some of those drawthreads you did on 4chan, and you could pretty much do that, but with maybe a little more detail, occasional backgrounds, etc. You don't need to be cranking out 50+ pages a day, now.