Slice of Life island resort [INTEREST CHECK]

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Summer is drawing close on the northern hemisphere. The sun is shining brightly, nights are as short as can be, and you might have started to get sunburned. Perhaps you’ve planned a vacation? Or perhaps spending time at home with friends and family is all the vacation you seek.

I am writing this as an interest check for a simple, smutty slice of life game. I’m not writing this on the presumption of creating anything grand, to be fair, last time I tried to make a game that relied on continuous GM involvement at all times, it ended quite disasterly, to which I hardly wish to see a repeat of. Either way, I’ll be moving on now.


Introducing the lovely Panmay Island
A small branch island in the Okinawa prefecture of Japan, the island is located idyllically in what can only be described as a tropical paradise. The summers are burning warm, perfect for a nap under a palm-tree or a swim in the crystal blue seas surrounding the lovely island, far away from the common pollution of the “normal” world. Only accessible by boat, the islands host no more than a grand resort and a small village half an hour by foot away.

Along with the lovely tropical climate and lovely nature the island holds, the stay is accompanied by a lovely and service-set staff, largely so built up of seasonal workers in high-school age, the lucrative job being an excellent way to get a free vacation, heck, even a paid one, for some hours of labor a day.


What thoughs/plans I have for the game

As may have been guessed, it’s meant to be a smut-game, no particular bullet to doge there. The game would more or less just feature normal day-to-day interactions between visitors, employees and (possibly) locals. I’m not sure how set for smut it should be, if any employee there should be prepared to “service” any visitors, or if it should be left to time’s control, personally, I’m leaning more to the prior just to dodge a very slow start.

A lot has yet to be set in stone and all feedback will of course go to weigh these choices. I’m locked between having it be both employees and visitors, or only employees, perhaps during the pre-opening phase, staying true to the source material I’m taking heavy inspiration from, the visual novel by the name of Koisuru Natsu No Last Resort (A relatively nice VN I might add, nothing grand, but it has its moments, as well as some lovely pieces of art), which I think might work better for the long run.

Again though, this might’ve just become a mess, but, I saw no reason not to give it a go. If you so happen to be interested, add any feedback, state your opinion on matters referred, all feedback is good feedback.

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Ace Flyer

This looks like it could be fun. A simple and relaxed game to counter all the plot-heavy stuff in my Bookmarks...

Could me interested! No feedback at the moment, but, I'll ponder things a bit and let you know if I think of something! :)

LeSane

My interest has been peaked. It will be bookmarked and I will be waiting to see how this develops.
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I can definitely go fro something simple and easy. I think having the staff on hand to "service" guests would be a good play on it. Like the place advertises itself as the ultimate health and relaxation spa, and "sexual therapy" is just another service available to guests to help them unwind if they desire it.
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Nintentoast

I am interested! Yay! it looks like a lot of fun!
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Capone

Group games and I haven't gotten on well in the past, but I'll be keeping an eye on who is playing and what characters show up. Tentative interest checked.

Lynnette

I'm happy there has been as much interest so far as there has been, I think it's enough for me to start typing up some things for a recruitment thread.

Quote from: Chrystal on June 24, 2016, 05:57:44 PM
I have tentative interest. I'm sure i can come up with a character or two who would be attractive to others...

One small piece of feedback, Okinawa is subtropical, as it lies just to the North of the Tropic of Cancer...



Unless you are fictionally extending the prefecture about 50 miles south?

To be fair, I've been more focused with other aspects of the game, there is a certain limit to how far I'm going to bother for geographical accuracy, so to best answer your question, the latter option is likely what I'd go with, or something along those lines, though, again, it's not on the top of my priority-list to work out how to best please the world's cartographers.
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Fair enough...

You know me, Lynn, I'm totally OCD about stuff like that. If I didn't point it out it would bug me. Having done so, it will not bother me any more...!

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CaptainErotica

Okinawa is great! My companies main office is there and they have a beach house that employees can use. This sounds interesting other than the fact I've never seen the source material.

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Nintentoast

I am still interested! will the pictures need to be anime (considering the whole slice of life thing) or real people?
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Chrystal

Uh... I get the feeling I'm missing something here...? To me the term "Slice of life" is a generic term referring to a story that covers the sort of every-day things that people get up to, rather than them being special people who have special adventures. Just ordinary folk coping with ordinary drama - and lets face it, there's enough of that around!

But it seems that some people are referring to something more specific?

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 25, 2016, 05:02:52 AM
Uh... I get the feeling I'm missing something here...? To me the term "Slice of life" is a generic term referring to a story that covers the sort of every-day things that people get up to, rather than them being special people who have special adventures. Just ordinary folk coping with ordinary drama - and lets face it, there's enough of that around!

But it seems that some people are referring to something more specific?

You're more or less on point, slice of life typically refers to everyday life, yes. However, it's not ultra-specific about which aspects of life it refers to, it primarily refers to a story catering around a setting that doesn't have anything directly special about it, nor any distinct degree of progression, that there is no end station so to say.

Quote from: Nintentoast on June 24, 2016, 10:14:20 PM
I am still interested! will the pictures need to be anime (considering the whole slice of life thing) or real people?

Yes, partially for the sake of having a standard and partially because I'm personally not all too big on actors etcetera.

Quote from: CaptainErotica on June 24, 2016, 08:40:04 PM
Okinawa is great! My companies main office is there and they have a beach house that employees can use. This sounds interesting other than the fact I've never seen the source material.

There's no reason to look into the source material, it's nothing spectacular, I just liked the setting :P
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Just popping in to say this looks really awesome and I will be keeping an eye on it.

Also grabbing the Slice of life term from Kissanime:

"Anime with no clear central plot. This type of anime tends to be naturalistic and mainly focuses around the main characters and their everyday lives. Often there will be some philosophical perspectives regarding love, relationships, life etc. tied into the anime. The overall typical moods for this type of anime are cheery and carefree, in other words, it is your 'feel-good' kind of anime. Some anime that are under the slice of life genre are: Ichigo Mashimaro, Fruits Basket, Aria the Natural, Honey and Clover, and Piano."

Chrystal

Okay, seeing as this game seems to have a lot of tentative interest, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring very firmly and say I'm going to make a character who will be the owner of a "traditional" European style bar, serving all sorts of drinks and "home cooked" food...

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Does that work?

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 25, 2016, 05:39:39 AM
Okay, seeing as this game seems to have a lot of tentative interest, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring very firmly and say I'm going to make a character who will be the owner of a "traditional" European style bar, serving all sorts of drinks and "home cooked" food...

Boob Face claim:



Does that work?

It should work fine, I can't think of any reason it shouldn't.

Anyways, I think I've gotten a mild fever or something, so I might not be available for answering questions for a small day or two, depending on how it develops.
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Quote from: Lynnette on June 25, 2016, 08:29:12 AM
It should work fine, I can't think of any reason it shouldn't.

Anyways, I think I've gotten a mild fever or something, so I might not be available for answering questions for a small day or two, depending on how it develops.

A small day? I'm guessing that lost something in translation, especially as right now the days are pretty much unending in parts of Norway...

*hugs* you get yourself better, sweetie.

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Your image isn't showing. Try posting it to the wiki here...

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Whoa. She get into a nasty fight with a crab?

Chrystal

The wiki is an open resource area for saving data. Wikipedia is probably the most famous example. Elluiki is Elliquiy's wiki. Anything placed in the wiki is automatically public domain and thus can be seen, used and edited by anyone, however it is generally considered good practice not to edit something posted by someone else...

This article from the Herald & Post is very useful.

I did, at one time, do a "quick guide to uploading a picture to the wiki", but I cannot now find it...

It's very easy, though. If you want, I can PM you how.

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 25, 2016, 08:36:47 AM
A small day? I'm guessing that lost something in translation, especially as right now the days are pretty much unending in parts of Norway...

*hugs* you get yourself better, sweetie.

Fair point :P Got some sleep, feeling a fair bit better, still gonna take it slow out the day at least though. And it's most of Norway actually, I live pretty far south in our long-stretched country, and the nights are still just gray, it never gets straight-up dark ^^

Quote from: Nintentoast on June 25, 2016, 09:56:02 AM
I don't know what a wiki is, so I am going to post the link. http://pm1.narvii.com/5703/2cb92c7b5e0fa83e12c552406c7db6cb15dbf177_hq.jpg

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot it down, it's moving a bit far out of bounds when there's almost more bandages than skin, could you try to find anything less... What should I say, bandaged? :P Also, image hosting sites like imgur and photobucket usually work without fail, I store all my images in imgur at least, have yet to have an image break on me.
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I think I'll try to find a different face from my usual fave xD
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I wouldn't mind dabbling in this either.

Seems light, could work to get me back into the swing of things.

I'll hunt for an FC sometime today.

Chrystal

Even in the UK at this time of year if you look North at midnight (actually 1:00am because of British Summer Time) and you're out in the countryside the horizon is light, it looks like the Eastern horizon just before dawn!

So, when are we likely to get a character sheet to fill in?

Not that I'm impatient or anything... LOL!

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 25, 2016, 03:23:03 PM
Even in the UK at this time of year if you look North at midnight (actually 1:00am because of British Summer Time) and you're out in the countryside the horizon is light, it looks like the Eastern horizon just before dawn!

So, when are we likely to get a character sheet to fill in?

Not that I'm impatient or anything... LOL!

I don't have a set moment yet, this was just a post to gauge interest, since it's there, I'll get around to writing the whole thing. Next week is my last week at work before I'm off for my vacation though, so I'll have a fair bit to do prepping since I'm the only one in my role at my workplace, and I'd rather not get called twice a day being asked for this or that, ideally,things will just work, so I'll likely be spending some time on prepping for the summer during my afternoons, but I'm hoping to get it up sometime early next week.
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Chrystal

I'm off camping next week (Tuesday to Tuesday) and while I will have wifi at the camp site I don't like using my phone for complex posts, so it's unlikely I will get the character sheet completed until I get back, unless my wife lets me take the laptop, which is unlikely.

So, please will you reserve my idea for the bar owner? I'd be okay if someone wanted to play a waitress at the bar, but just one I think...

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 26, 2016, 03:30:19 AM
I'm off camping next week (Tuesday to Tuesday) and while I will have wifi at the camp site I don't like using my phone for complex posts, so it's unlikely I will get the character sheet completed until I get back, unless my wife lets me take the laptop, which is unlikely.

So, please will you reserve my idea for the bar owner? I'd be okay if someone wanted to play a waitress at the bar, but just one I think...

Don't worry about it, enjoy your week off the grid, the game probably won't start off till next weekend at its earliest.

But yes, I'll reserve it for you ^^
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Quote from: Lynnette on June 25, 2016, 06:44:22 PM
I'm hoping to get it up sometime early next week.

As the bishop said to the actress....!


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Quote from: Chrystal on June 26, 2016, 07:52:48 AM
As the bishop said to the actress....!

Isn't it "Said the actress to the bishop"? :P
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Depends, after all bishops can talk too....

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Chrystal

Quote from: Nintentoast on June 26, 2016, 10:39:27 PM
New FC idea! I hope you like it! It is the Female version of the Hetalia Australia character.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/4af2929212e0eb92ffd369de64e3e74e/tumblr_mqj2o5MGVB1sopzgeo9_r1_500.gif

I think she needs to make up her mind what she's wearing... LOL

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Quote from: Chrystal on June 27, 2016, 06:08:37 AM
I think she needs to make up her mind what she's wearing... LOL

Or preferably (from my perspective) take everything off!

Hahaha! I agree with both of those statements.

I'm glad you like this one ^^

Sorry for the changing outfit. This was the only good pic I could find of her by herself.
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Quote from: Nintentoast on June 27, 2016, 10:24:07 AM
Hahaha! I agree with both of those statements.

I'm glad you like this one ^^

Sorry for the changing outfit. This was the only good pic I could find of her by herself.

if you're set on it, I can separate the images later.
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Quote from: Lynnette on June 27, 2016, 10:26:20 AM
if you're set on it, I can separate the images later.

If you want to! If it needs to be one image, then yes please do. But you don't need to if you don't want to.
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Oh. Alright! I'll be right back. I Am sorry! I am not used to these kinds of things, so it might take me a while.
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Sorry, wasn't meaning you should do so, babe, I was just suggesting the easiest way. And my original comment was meant purely in jest!

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Nintentoast

Oh! Okay! I understand!

And I knew it was in jest! Don't worry. :)
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Rave

Are people reserving certain characters / face-claims? Or does it not matter until the threads actually start beyond interest check?

Relikai

Any limitations on face claims? Real People/Anime/Art Drawings?

Tsuunade

Felt like dropping by and expressing my interest :P. I also actually have read Koisuru, it was a lovely little VN.

Capone

Still on the fence, but if I join I'll be using this for my character. A flirt, the sort that knows your eyes are up there, just doesn't care. Original thought was him working as a bartender, but might have him something more simple, like washing dishes in the kitchen or something.


Haibane

Hi everyone. This sounds like it could be a nice low key game to chill out with. I take it the setting is going to be based solidly in Japanese anime/hentai with suitable names and pictures?

Did you decide on who the characters will be limited to? Did you go for all staff and not guests at all or are guests ok?

I have a picture in mind who is this lady:

 

Misaki Yamamoto.

Haven't decided yet if she's a guest or an employee. If the latter she might be in management I think, though I think she's also rather playful or ditzy. haven't thought too hard about it yet in case there's going to be limits on what I can choose.

Moon Hound Hati

Quote from: Haibane on June 28, 2016, 11:29:40 AM
Hi everyone. This sounds like it could be a nice low key game to chill out with. I take it the setting is going to be based solidly in Japanese anime/hentai with suitable names and pictures?

Did you decide on who the characters will be limited to? Did you go for all staff and not guests at all or are guests ok?

I have a picture in mind who is this lady:

 

Misaki Yamamoto.

Haven't decided yet if she's a guest or an employee. If the latter she might be in management I think, though I think she's also rather playful or ditzy. haven't thought too hard about it yet in case there's going to be limits on what I can choose.

Definitely looks like a manager-san to me. :)
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Quote from: Relikai on June 27, 2016, 11:02:46 PM
Any limitations on face claims? Real People/Anime/Art Drawings?
Checking back on the thread, on page 1 Lynette said she wanted anime images, not real photos/people. She didn't specify but possibly western art might not have quite the right feel to it either but that's our GMs decision.

LeSane



Well since we are making claims on certain character images reckon I should throw mine in as well. He currently does not have a name, but I feel he could be staff. I'll hash it out with Lynn whenever those positions become available.
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If the characters are gonna be limited to Japanese only I may have to sit this one out.
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Quote from: Kokaine on June 28, 2016, 02:37:39 PM
If the characters are gonna be limited to Japanese only I may have to sit this one out.

Yeah, I'm gonna wait on GM confirmation for this.

Nintentoast

Well, it had said in the original post that it could be visitors. I would imagine that if there were visitors, then they wouldn't be all Japanese... Even with employees, I think it sounds like a place foreigners would be part of, but I agree. Let us wait for GM to say something on the subject.
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Hai!  *HUGS*

Just so people know, the reason I reserved a face claim and character is because I am now sitting in a tent in a field with a very unreliable Wifi connection and will be for the next week. I didn't want anyone stealing my character while I was gone.

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Hi everyone

Sorry communication has been a wee bit lackluster from my part, i've been busy helping a friend of mine moving, and it's my last week before my vacation starts, so I have a lot to do at work, which in turn becomes overtime. I'll try to answer as many questions as possible, if I missed any, do tell.

Images will be locked to artwork. I'm not going to say that it's completely locked to eastern art, but, I'll put a big ehhhhh on western art, if it fits, it passes, if it doesn't, well, I'll have to turn it down. Same goes for eastern art of course, but, my rules are a bit more lax as the art is more standardized.

I have yet to have found time to decide if characters are locked to employees or if it's both visitors and employees. I am leaning more towards the latter and I have a suitable explanation as to why customers would be locked out of the picture, nipping a bit more from the canon I'm taking inspiration from. If not, well, it won't be limited, I'd love some feedback though. In the end, I'll make the call, but it'd be nice to know what people think. I hate having to mention this, but I suppose I have no choice, if you're indifferent about it, stating so doesn't help me out much. I'm interested in the "Yes or no" responses, not the "Both please" responses.

As far as nationalities goes... I wouldn't lock the doors for a foreigner or two, but, I'd rather have as much of the cast as possible be native Japanese. The Okinakawa region isn't a typical hotspot for tourists since it isn't as big of a cultural icon as some of Japan's mainland cities, nor does it have a lot of significant tourist attractions except for its sub-tropical weather, it mostly attracts SEA-tourists, rarely western ones, with Japan being one of the most expensive countries in the world to both travel to and vacate in, it's not a very high rated tourist hotspot for non-SEAs.

When it comes to image reservations, that's fine, when you've posted up your image, consider it reserved. As far as roles goes, feel free to state your current ideas regarding the topic, what you'd like to do, and possibly why you're interested in the role, but don't consider it a safe reservation, I might swap it out for someone I consider more befitting the role.

Please be patient everyone, I'm sorry things are taking longer than initially intended.

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I'm all for following the source material and going for employee PC cast. Also, I think I might want to reserve the role of a chef.
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Kokaine

Yeah, with that stated I'll step back. I dun mind using Eastern art but having a Japanese character often becomes a bit tedious when getting into culture and height restrictions and all of that.

You guys have fun tho. Im sure I'll see some of you around.

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Quote from: Lynnette on June 28, 2016, 04:23:08 PM
I have yet to have found time to decide if characters are locked to employees or if it's both visitors and employees. I am leaning more towards the latter and I have a suitable explanation as to why customers would be locked out of the picture, nipping a bit more from the canon I'm taking inspiration from. If not, well, it won't be limited, I'd love some feedback though. In the end, I'll make the call, but it'd be nice to know what people think. I hate having to mention this, but I suppose I have no choice, if you're indifferent about it, stating so doesn't help me out much. I'm interested in the "Yes or no" responses, not the "Both please" responses.
At first I thought it would be fun to play a visitor but then a reality check made me think that at resorts visitors rarely mix with employees unless strictly on business, so apart from ordering drinks at a bar or food in the restaurant we'd end up with two groups working separately with very little contact. So in that instance I will vote for employees only. In addition to that employee groups often get up to more hanky panky than visitor groups (think cruise liner crews or holiday camp entertainers).

Quote from: Lynnette on June 28, 2016, 04:23:08 PMAs far as nationalities goes... I wouldn't lock the doors for a foreigner or two, but, I'd rather have as much of the cast as possible be native Japanese. The Okinakawa region isn't a typical hotspot for tourists since it isn't as big of a cultural icon as some of Japan's mainland cities, nor does it have a lot of significant tourist attractions except for its sub-tropical weather, it mostly attracts SEA-tourists, rarely western ones, with Japan being one of the most expensive countries in the world to both travel to and vacate in, it's not a very high rated tourist hotspot for non-SEAs.
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Quote from: Lynnette on June 28, 2016, 04:23:08 PMPlease be patient everyone, I'm sorry things are taking longer than initially intended.

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It's fine my love, I take ages to get a group game up and running, often 2 to 3 weeks before I'm satisfied things are organised enough to start the first IC thread.

I've been searching online for images from the VN and found loads of porn images but none of the backgrounds. These would be great for scene settings - has anyone a link to a collection of them? Or something very similar that would also work?

Given the employees only possibility then I guess my lady will be some kind of manager or maybe an accountant or IT support type. She'll be in her mid 20s.

EDIT: The h-game my character comes from is called Tropical kiss. There might be some useful images from that as it seems to be a broadly similar thing, though more harem oriented.

http://g.e-hentai.org/?f_doujinshi=1&f_manga=1&f_artistcg=1&f_gamecg=1&f_western=0&f_non-h=0&f_imageset=1&f_cosplay=0&f_asianporn=0&f_misc=0&f_search=tropical+kiss&f_apply=Apply+Filter&advsearch=1&f_sname=on&f_stags=on&f_sdesc=on&f_srdd=2

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Keeping this guy as my faceclaim ;)

Would say that he is a football (soccer) player currently taking time off during the Off-Season for some fun and genuine relaxation.

pdragon

throwin' in my own face claim, Alexander Jin Hale, half Japanese half American (as the name suggests). Probably gonna have him work as a bartender/part time singer.
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Uh yeah, I think my character is rather western looking despite being Japanese art. I was thinking of making her an expat. Possibly a tax exile or maybe she went there on a TEFL programme and never went home.

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Haibane

She looks fine to me. Her face is 100% anime style and while her outfit is a bier-keller fraulein style thing I hardly think that matters. Also blondes in anime are very common. If its an issue there are gazillions of waitress type anime girls out there you could use, it might even be the second most common type of image after schoolgirls (well, third most common after schoolgirls and naked girls I suppose...).

Chrystal

Nah. I chose that picture out of hundreds that came up on a Google search. I like how she looks. I think the issue is that when I was a kid we drew Japanese characters with little slits for eyes \./ like that. To see them drawn with big round eyes O.O looks wrong to me.

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Idlewyld

I'm leaning towards this pic for the time being



I'm calling her Melinda Walters. She'll be a guest looking for a little R&R

Lynnette

Quote from: Haibane on June 29, 2016, 02:59:23 AM
At first I thought it would be fun to play a visitor but then a reality check made me think that at resorts visitors rarely mix with employees unless strictly on business, so apart from ordering drinks at a bar or food in the restaurant we'd end up with two groups working separately with very little contact. So in that instance I will vote for employees only. In addition to that employee groups often get up to more hanky panky than visitor groups (think cruise liner crews or holiday camp entertainers).

See, that's my view on the matter as well. It becomes a very... Unpleasant dynamic so to speak. Visitor-only games in these rough outlines pop up every so often, though I rarely see ones with both roles being open meshing well, and I'm not too interested in doing visitors only either. And yeah, that's definitely true, I heard a thing or two from a dancer at the Color Magic when I went to Kiel earlier this year, things do apparently get pretty heated sometimes to put it that way.

I'll put some more thought to it, but I'm still very much so on that side of the spectrum, and haven't heard much against it.

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Idlewyld

Well, I can certainly edit Melinda to be an employee if that's the final decision. Nationality wise, I can certainly change her too.

Haibane

Lynette, I don't know the source material and don't know how close you are basing this off it, but what kind of employee roles will there be? Can we assume any kind of normal role found in a holiday resort or do you plan on having any extra ones that have sexual purpose (such as maids that clean the rooms and offer extra services, or poolside waitresses that do likewise)? Even without guest interactions these job-types open up extra plot ideas.

How big is the resort? Is it small and cosy with only a few staff or is it huge and caters to 100s and 100s of guests? I'm trying to find a role where a character can fit and get a sense of the place they are in.

Sorry for all the questions, and thank you!

Lynnette

Quote from: Haibane on July 01, 2016, 03:17:10 AM
Lynnette, I don't know the source material and don't know how close you are basing this off it, but what kind of employee roles will there be? Can we assume any kind of normal role found in a holiday resort or do you plan on having any extra ones that have sexual purpose (such as maids that clean the rooms and offer extra services, or poolside waitresses that do likewise)? Even without guest interactions these job-types open up extra plot ideas.

How big is the resort? Is it small and cosy with only a few staff or is it huge and caters to 100s and 100s of guests? I'm trying to find a role where a character can fit and get a sense of the place they are in.

Sorry for all the questions, and thank you!

Sorry for the long delay before my response, I've been stupid busy the last couple days, things should cool back down after tomorrow however.

Again, don't worry about the canon, I'm just taking ideas from it, I'm not directly adapting it. However, I'm thinking somewhere in the middle ground. In the VN, the game is displayed to have about 12-14 huts (see the images on the header) and a separate more hotel-like building they never disclosed the size of to a scalable degree, however, I'd assume there would be about 15-20 rooms there as well, going by the scarce amount of images I can find without booting up the VN myself and finding a frame where the building is in view, so it'd be a sizable resort, for certain.

I'll elaborate a bit on the canon to figure out a couple holes that more or less have to be explained, the resort has, in the canon, yet to open, with the manager working on the paperwork, whilst using the workers hired for the summer as her guinea pigs to find out what has to be further worked on with upcoming guests in mind. The appointed staff at that given point was limited to the manager herself, the head chef, and around six summer-hands, however, this part, we can scale as we see fit pending on the interest, even if the resort isn't open yet for residing, the restaurant and any bars on the premise could still be open for locals etcetera to keep the losses down a tiny bit. Without elaborating too much on the matter, positions that'd be available (More by request of course, if there is a position you want, I'll evaluate on the spot) would be the following

- Manager (Would be played by yours truly for GMing purposes)
- Economist
- Chief of staff
- Head chef
- Bartender(s)
- summer hands

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Haibane

I am happy to have my lady be the Chief of Staff or the Economist, whichever you need filling most.

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Chrystal

I shall be withdrawing my interest. Sorry but this is not what I was thinking it would be.

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Quote from: Haibane on July 04, 2016, 12:20:36 PM
I am happy to have my lady be the Chief of Staff or the Economist, whichever you need filling most.

Chief of staff is likely the more important role to have filled, economist isn't that relevant, at least not unless someone wants the role.

Quote from: Chrystal on July 04, 2016, 04:06:15 PM
I shall be withdrawing my interest. Sorry but this is not what I was thinking it would be.

I'm sorry to see you go, know you're more than welcome to come back if you change your mind ^^
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