olivia_tinker Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 What are the degrees of cost in creating a visual novel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plk_Lesiak Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 It varies greatly, depending on the scale and specific goals of you project. There's a lot of free assets that you could use to create a simple visual novel - for example, using the Ren'Py engine (most popular one in the West) you can put together a coherent story with very little actual investment, as long as you can handle tasks such as writing and programming the game yourself. The author behind Sounds of Her Love, a competent looking, 4-5 hour long VN with some voice acting, told me that he did it with a budget of $300 (which mostly went towards art and VA fees). The more custom art assets you need and the more elements you have to outsource to other people rather than doing them yourself, the more expensive it will get. But considering that you were speaking about a very short, educational VN in your other posts, making it couldn't be that hard, you could definitely rely on free music, sound assets and minor visual assets available on the internet do reduce your costs. The rest depends hugely on what kind of quality and complexity you'll be aiming for. For more specific numbers, maybe some developers active on the forums would be able to say something more concrete, but VNs vary in size and quality significantly, from no-bugdet ones to mainstream Japanese games with literally millions of dollars to spend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamysyu Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 On a related note. Plk_Lesiak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUnknownMercenary Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Depends on people, expectations, etc. You can build one entirely free so long as everyone working on it uses free/original work and agrees that this is free and no one will be paid. Fees come from expectations. If you can't draw you hire an artist and those have either per hour or per work fees, if you have VA's those are usually per word/line. If you don't program you will need one of those and that's either contract/salary or hourly. If you can't write you will need a writer. Do you want music? Someone needs to make that if you aren't using free music. Other positions, scale, etc also account for how much it costs... These are the basics really. It could costs as little as 0$ depending on expectations and capabilities of the person making it (persons), or as much as infinite depending on time/scope/etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomJS Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 It's pretty difficult to get anything official on it as I found out recently: The information (excluding the last few posts lol) inside should help u out, especially this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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