so i bought rpg maker vx ace* and ive been coming up with a plot and characters!!!!! and im gonna make a video game!!!! aaaa!!!
its a meta little cyberpunk rpg starring you, the protagonist in someone else's body, and your allies V, Xenon, and Kori (names subject to change). infodump and some doodles under the cut read for a fun time :3
*edit: ill actually be doing it in rpg maker mv! vx is a little limited for the scope of what i want to do with this project
welcome to under the cut. here's thirty billion information for you. :D
essentially, the plot revolves around V and the player finding people who have been wronged by the Narrator, who bends the story to his own will to create a plot he enjoys, and how they want to shape their own destinies. your goal is to defeat the group of cybernetic monsters that he created as villains.
YOUR PARTY CONSISTS OF
- Sylvie (she/they): that's you! everyone calls you "Player," though. your body used to belong to V's childhood friend before the Narrator decided they were the perfect base for a protagonist. general all rounder in combat, with a basic sword for a weapon. you want to find out more about the Narrator's goals and what happened to V's friend. also, why are you "Sylvie?"
- V (she/her): a firey girl who can hear the Narrator speaking. she teaches the player how the world works, and is the first person they meet. uses two daggers in combat, efficient and quick fighter. immediately tells the player she plans not to befriend them. wants to fight the Narrator for taking her childhood friend away from her for the sake of a story.
- Xenon (he/they): wears a completely black mask with a white X on it to hide their identity. miraculously, this works despite their neon green hair. graffiti artist. medic in combat with both single and multi target heal skills. fights w/ a paintball gun. grew up in a cult that thinks death is such a natural part of life that it should never be prevented. became a medic as a type of rebellion against his cult.
- Kori (she/her): TINY GAL. HUGE HAMMER. VERY YELLOW. self explanatory combat - high attack, big damage, hits hard. not much else. she's actually super sweet, but the giant electric hammer she carries around makes her seem way scarier than she is. really really wants to be helpful. she lives in a town based around fighting and fight clubs, so she had to learn to defend herself to survive.
some doodles of V and Xenon :3
ill draw the whole lineup soon!!! :D
also if anyone wants more info or has questions PLEASE ASK!!! I LOVE LOREDUMPING!!! anyway my tag for this Huge Project is #pixell.rpg :3
the official (for now) weapon designs for my cyberpunk rpg, storyteller synthesis!! people have been asking for them and i am here to serve my lovely fans <3
i also included the characters' signatures next to each of their weapons! initially they were just space filler but they actually ended up being really fun and im very glad i added them :D
masterpost link (all the other info on ss is here if you'd like to check it out!)
for those unfamiliar, hi!! these are my initial designs for a currently unnamed cyberpunk rpg i'm making. their names are sylvie, v, xenon, and kori. you can read about them here!
anyway, these are only my initial designs and so they're still very much subject to change. i decided to just color the sketch instead of doing lineart because i don't want to spend excessive time on a simple lineup, but i might line it one day. who knows.
the weapons are currently just silhouettes because they're eventually getting their own post about designs!!
a bunch of stupid gifs under the cut for whoever wants em :3
yknow the trope of a deus ex machina soving a huge problem out of nowhere in a story? essentially, the main religion in storyteller synthesis is based on worship of a literal machine god. the followers of the religion worship it by telling it stories :3
if youre thinking "what are you talking about?" the storyteller synthesis masterpost is here! its an rpg im making :D
YOU'RE MAKING A GAME??? HOLY SHITT THAT'S SOO COOOOL
PLS INFODUMP PLS PLS PLS
YESSSSSSS YAHOO!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO!!! THANKS FOR ASKINGG
for the sake of posterity, here's a very quick overview and my masterpost!!! today i shall ramble about something a little more specific than usual: the fight club at karma point!! :3
Karma Point is, in itself, a pretty simple mid-sized city. It deals with a lot of the same problems as Onyxveil - pollution, disconnectedness, aggressive advertising, et cetera - but there’s one key difference. Karma Point's culture revolves around its fight club.
There’s not a single person in the city who hasn't heard of it. The fighters are treated like celebrities. People make incredibly risky bets on who will win certain matches, and get into some fights of their own because of it. Kids dream of growing up to be the coolest fighter there ever was. The city walls are always plastered with posters of champions' faces and advertisements of their next matches. A good chunk of profits to be made in Karma Point involve the fighters in some way. It goes without saying that the city would fall apart without them.
One of these fighters is a young girl with neon yellow hair who wields an absolutely gigantic hammer. Her official club win streak is in the high fourties, but she does even more fights outside of the club for fun. She's one of the most famous champions right now, and many people underestimate her due to her tiny size. This champion's name is Kori.
Kori is a bit of a mystery. Nobody really knows how she got into fighting, let alone how she got so good at it. During her numerous interviews, she often gets asked about her origin story, but she always just flinches for half a second before brushing it off with a joke. People love to theorize about it, but she's never confirmed or denied anything. All the public knows is that there was some formative event that got her to want to fight.
When the party gets to Karma Point, they're lucky enough to catch one of Kori's matches. Maybe if they're even luckier, they can recruit her for the cause...
hello there! i'm in the process of writing and designing a meta cyberpunk rpgmaker game, which i'm calling Storyteller Synthesis!! this post has all the links to posts ive made about it so far, with short descriptions.
if you want to reblog, please reblog the original post to avoid spreading an outdated version too much!! :3
to get added to my taglist, comment or reblog this post to let me know you want to be on it!!!
my initial concept, loredump, and sketches
my first colored sketch of the main characters
a silly doodle with a bit of in-universe religion info
a doodle dump of mostly xenon and exactly 1 sylvie
info on interpersonal dynamics in the party
weapon designs and character signatures
religious beliefs in the sunbasked stratum (xenon's cult)
voices i imagine for the characters
karma point and kori loredump
INTRO TO V!!
there will be many, many more links on here!! in the meantime, thanks so so much for checking out my stuff <33
ngl the more i learn abt kori the more she becomes my fave. absolute silly.
If the squad found a fan-group cosplaying as them what would be their reactions?
and yes Karp is in that group of fans. she's the one who started it obviously.
MEIN GOTT. THE KARPIFICATION BECOMES CANONNNN
they would all be pretty surprised!!! just in different ways :3
sylvie and xenon would be shocked to find that people even knew who they were (but they would both be flattered), while v would wonder why people would put in the effort to make cosplays of their little gang. kori would be ECSTATIC and probably offer them free tickets to her next match or something :D
here is a bonus very messy kori i drew forever ago and never posted. as a gift :3
wwait ur making video game??? can i have Knowledge for The Art (im so ready to throw fanart of ur game characters at you. if The Pain doesn't kick my ass that is lol)
AAAA OMG??? ADSGDHFNJLHLK IF YOU MAKE FANART ILL EXPLODE I SWEAR ON MACHINA ADSFFHJKJLKLL
THE MASTERPOST IS HERE!!! LOTSA TEXT BASED STUFF GOOD FOR PERSONALITY AND SUCH
HERE'S VISUAL REFERENCES FOR THE SILLY GUYS AND THEIR WEAPONS!!! vvv
