VNDev Wiki:Article Wishlist

This is a list of desired articles. Feel free to edit and add to the list, but do not delete entries unless you have finished writing them.

You can also check out the wanted pages to fill in some of the missing pages linked elsewhere on the wiki ("redlinks").

Assets

Blank Asset articles

• Narrative
  • Outline
  • Writing
• Art
• Audio
• Programming
• User experience
• Gameplay
  • Quick Time Event (existing content needs to be scrapped because it was pulled directly from Wikipedia)
  • Minigame
• Articles within the Marketing category
  • Cover art
  • Trailer

Asset articles in need of expansion or maintenance

• Articles within the Narrative category
  • Ending - examples
  • Continuity - general expansion
• Articles within the Art category
  • Sprite - images, and information about techniques for animated sprites (transforms, Live2D, Spine)
  • Background - images
  • Event CG - general expansion and images
  • Special graphics - images
  • Animation - media
  • 3D Camera - general expansion and media
• Articles within the Audio category
  • Music - general cleanup and reformatting
  • Sound effect - general cleanup, examples, and media
  • Voice acting - examples and media
• Articles within the Programming category
  • Visual novel engine - general expansion
  • Scripting - general expansion & examples
  • Transition - general expansion
  • Source control - significant cleanup and expansion, and potentially a split to a guide
• Articles within the User Experience category
  • Accessibility - general expansion
• Articles within the Gameplay category
  • Choice - examples, expansion on narrative impacts/purposes of choices
  • Point-and-click
• Marketing - minor general cleanup
  • Press kit - media/examples
  • Promotional art - media/examples, minor general cleanup

Development

Blank Development articles

• Development. One part of the page could be a merge from Development stages
• Guide:Your first visual novel jam: How to participate in a VN game jam (jam etiquette, working alone vs leading a team vs joining a team, how to scope for a jam, etc)
• Planning
• Funding
  • Budgeting
  • Development grant
• Asset - serves as a portal page for all Asset categories & pages, plus talks about the assets included in VNs in general
• Articles in the Production category
  • Project management
• Productivity
• Articles in the Marketing category
  • Advertising

Development articles in need of expansion or maintenance

• Visual novel: More information about the history of the medium.
• A list of visual novel engines, including Ren'Py, NaniNovel, VNMaker, TyranoBuilder as well as pertinent history about them and their creators.
• Articles in the Planning category
  • Game design document - general expansion and cleanup; examples
  • Minimum viable product - adjust and expand to focus more on visual novels specifically
  • Demographic - minor general cleanup
  • Scope - significant expansion, a bit of cleanup
• Articles in the Funding category
  • Crowdfunding - general expansion
  • Kickstarter - general expansion
• Articles in the Productivity category
  • Sprinting - expand: psychology of why it works
• Production - minor general expansion
  • Development team - several empty sections
• Portfolio - significant expansion, cleanup, split to guide
• Articles in the Marketing category
  • Log line - general cleanup, expansion, split to guide
  • Elevator pitch - general expansion, or maybe merge with Log line?

People, Places, Organizations, & Tools

• Aginyan, Sekai Project, the Sekai Project Discord
• The Buzz Visual Novel Podcast, and its history.
• Ratalaika Games, its relation to Visual Novel Developers and its support of Spooktober VN Jam
• Lemma Soft Forums: History, significance/impact, current state
• Elringus
• Arimia and Crystal Game Works
• Stella
• Vimi
• PyTom and Ren'Py
• Visual Novels Discord
• Visual;Conference
• Scrivener
• Itch.io - general expansion
• Steam - general expansion

Jams

• AKUA, Otome Jam, and their relation to visual novel development.
• Sakevisual, the host of NaNoRenO.
• Alte, the host of SuNoFes
• Mikey, BaiYu, O2A2 VN Jam, and their relation to visual novel development
• Spooktober VN Jam
• Winter VN Jam and Katy133
• Sealed With A Kiss VN Jam

Genres

• Yuri
• Yaoi
• Amare
• Otome

Articles Needing Attention

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• Articles with empty sections
• Articles to be expanded
• Articles with image requests

See also

• Wiki Maintenance