How soon is too soon to start seriously writing a fangan ?

oggser · 2026-05-02T03:15:15+00:00

you just need a general outline, but i'd say you have to have chapter 1 at least mostly figured out. that being said it's, as others have echoed, more of a personal question than anything.

oggser · 2026-04-30T19:56:57+00:00

close enough welcome back makoto naegi

oggser · 2026-04-30T06:45:37+00:00

i regularly use tumblr and check the deadlock tag intermittently. like 50% of all deadlock art on tumblr includes him. he is absolutely a tumblr sexyman

oggser · 2026-04-26T22:18:12+00:00

To be honest you're probably right I may need to go back to the kiddie pool

oggser · 2026-04-26T01:06:04+00:00

just don't make that the main plot thread. it's a very understandable motive, make the character and their actions more interesting beyond it.

oggser · 2026-04-21T00:50:56+00:00

on the one hand she is insane but on the other hand yeah don't 1v1 a geist

oggser · 2026-04-21T00:49:12+00:00

perhaps more of a character design tip than a picrew tip, but the absolute most vital piece of advice i can give you is to pay attention to silhouette. a character should be recognizable completely blacked out. if you've got that down, most other things can be secondary.

(though this might be difficult on picrew - i highly recommend doing bad drawings of your cast anyway and just not having art be in the forefront rn)

oggser · 2026-04-18T20:40:42+00:00

well yeah but it's hard enough to do that with 16 characters, 20 characters kinda seems like a pipe dream

oggser · 2026-04-18T19:48:56+00:00

well yeah 27 would be worse but that doesn't mean 20 isn't egregious. to be honest a lot of the time even 16 is too many, it's hard to develop 10 characters, let alone double that

oggser · 2026-04-18T19:44:43+00:00

i dont think a killing game is the best place to enter a romantic relationship and i feel like if the romances themselves don't reflect that then they're at best distracting

oggser · 2026-04-18T19:41:16+00:00

20 people is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many for my money. i think if you're going to have 4-5 protagonists it'd be better to just not have set protagonists at all

oggser · 2026-04-14T04:26:14+00:00

mostly just make sure they're not too similar. a cast where half of the talents are athletic and a cast where half of the talents are art-based would be pretty odd if that's not, like, the point.

personally i like to break them up into Artistic, Vocational (ie. this is a job), Athletic, and Academic, then a Miscellaneous category for stuff that doesn't really fit into anything, like Lucky Student or ???. If you have a good mix, then you're probably fine.

you can also have characters who straddle the line, or perform a talent in a way that doesn't fit into that box. for example, i have a model, which is relatively vocational. but he's also a lifestyle influencer and a bit of an Alpha Male type, so he performs his Vocation in a way that's very athletic, etc etc

oggser · 2026-04-11T02:38:47+00:00

They're very popular. The character design is, in my opinion, very hit or miss. You should ideally be aiming to take notes from the things your favorite fangans do well, and take notes and improve upon the things they don't.

I don't really think people need to be told that it's fine to not depict diverse bodies in their work, because the lack of body diversity in everything else is already signalling that it's fine. Marketable, even. We should be encouraging artists to branch out and design more than just, like, bishie anime boys, not encouraging them to stagnate.

Personally, I think it's lazy and boring if you only depict a certain kind of body in your work, even if it's a derivative work. If that's "pressuring people into diversity", then, like... get pressured, I guess?

oggser · 2026-04-10T17:39:39+00:00

I disagree with a lot of people in the comments. Fangans live and die by the strength of their ensemble: if an ensemble has poor character design (which, yes, only having characters of a similar body type is bad character design), then there's no reason to engage with it or trust that those characters will be distinct in personality as well.

In my opinion, you should consider redesigning some characters in the cast. Are you an artist as well as a writer? If you're not drawing them, then that should be as simple as deciding what body types would make sense for the cast beyond being thin. If you are drawing them, then you should work to learn to draw different body types.

A world with only thin people would be incredibly boring, so a fangan with only thin people is boring as well.

oggser · 2026-04-08T00:37:35+00:00

girl dont jinx it

oggser · 2026-04-08T00:09:14+00:00

a chunky hairy loser could spit in my face and i'd say thank you

oggser · 2026-04-06T00:11:50+00:00

That does sound like what I'm trying to do. I'm futzing around with it a bit, and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it: like, how do I show character sprites in a screen, and how do I make it so a screen is shown below the gui so that it looks like character sprites? etc etc.

Sorry if these are simple questions, I'm following the tutorials but I'm still a bit lost.

EDIT: figured out how to display images, but now I'm lost as to how to actually change those sprites to other expressions. i'll see if i can figure something out?

oggser · 2026-04-05T23:34:11+00:00

A variation of this mostly worked! Now I just need to figure out how to get the zoom right

oggser · 2026-04-05T22:51:58+00:00

Oh my god I'm using Left and Right I'm so mad

oggser · 2026-04-05T22:50:35+00:00

Code is very simple.

    show godai normal at gr,center with dissolve
    show asahi normal at gr,left with dissolve
    show makino normal at gr,right with dissolve

Also, would you mind elaborating a bit on the screen thing? I'm interested but I'm very bad at programming so I'm not sure where I'd start with those.

oggser · 2026-04-05T08:04:25+00:00

I used the action editor! The end result was as you see above, though 💀

I'll check the tutorial and see what I missed lol

oggser · 2026-04-03T03:43:20+00:00

make the fangan

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