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").

Development

Blank/unwritten articles

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

Articles in need of expansion or maintenance

• Articles within the Narrative category
  • Ending - examples
• 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
  • Scene direction - general expansion, examples, and media
  • Source control - significant cleanup and expansion, and potentially a split to a guide
  • Accessibility - general expansion
  • Translation - minor cleanup
• Articles within the Gameplay category
  • Choice - examples, expansion on narrative impacts/purposes of choices
  • Point-and-click
• Marketing - minor general cleanup
  • Log line - general cleanup, expansion, split to guide
  • Press kit - media/examples
  • Promotional art - media/examples, minor general cleanup
  • Elevator pitch - general expansion, or maybe merge with Log line?

Other

Additionally, the following articles need to be created or significantly expanded:

• 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)
• 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.
• Planning
  • Scope
  • Game design document
  • Minimum viable product
• Funding
  • Crowdfunding and Kickstarter
• Productivity
  • Sprinting
• Production
• Portfolio: add high-quality examples
• Itch.io and Steam
• Scrivener

People, Places & Organizations

• 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
• Nai
• Vimi
• PyTom and Ren'Py
• Visual Novels Discord
• Visual;Conference

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

Genres

• Yuri
• Yaoi
• Amare
• Otome

Articles Needing Attention

See More: Category:Article maintenance

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

See also

• Wiki Maintenance