Two weeks ago, I came across the term visual novel and pounced on it. While the story I plan to write for my dissertation certainly won’t be novel-length, the concept of visual novels encompasses the middle-ground between text and game that I would like to explore. They’re close enough in interactivity to Twine that I would be able to include the ideas inspired by that medium, and still fairly new and niche (so rewarding to explore) but well-established enough that I can build off of existing structures without having to handicap myself with development.
Still, they’re a medium that I’m not incredibly familiar with and bring up several topics that I need to delve into in preparation for my dissertation. These can, broadly speaking, be split into 3 separate categories:
- The Content
- The Execution
- The Conversion
Which sounds like a great outline for a cyberpunk story, if you ask me.
