Hello people of the Look Outside Tumblr,
I have been on a mission. I have been on a mission that has shown itself to be quite the endeavor, especially as a student. I have been learning to code to create a Look Outside dating simulator (in which you play through the 15 days of the game as Sam, and pursue various characters), this project is called “Look Inside”. I do not intend to use unofficial sprites, but if anyone is able to draw in the official styles and has ideas, I won’t complain.
I have been working for a few weeks now casually and have a weak skeleton of a game as of now, but despite having played Look Outside over twenty times and having completed all of the Steam achievements, I find that I lack a proper understanding of a lot of the characters and how they’d evolve/interact over the story. I have a love of Leigh and Hellen, for example, but I feel that I need assistance to gain a proper understanding of them to write them. While playing the game, I had a terrible habit of using the same team in my playthroughs, and I’ve missed out on a huge amount of content throughout the characters because of it.
If you have any writing experience in fanfiction, etc, and are passionate about a character in this game, please give me ideas. The character list is expansive, but I want an equal amount of love to go into writing each one of them, so some may be excluded.
Fredrick and the Fredrick’s
I’m open to including other characters, but you have to give me enough ideas and/or information. I’ve pondered David or Audrey, for example, but David would force me to add the sewer and kids, and Audrey would be difficult to use for a dialogue-heavy story. Sam doesn’t say much, so it’s a lot easier to play off of him with a more talkative person. (I doubt the want for romance-able David is that much of a need in this fandom, but something about him and Sam together makes me happy.)
You can dm me, you can give me an ask, you can repost this, I don’t care how the information gets to me.
I don’t know exactly how credits would work in this situation (and it’s a free visual novel, not a work of perfection), but I will credit people for ideas that I use in the game. Probably an end card or something.
Note that this is my first time programming, and I have no help besides that which comes from this post, so it might take a while to make it public. This is purely a passion project and I have no way to say for sure, but with the information I currently hold, it shouldn’t take more than about four or five months to finish. I might want to polish it a lot, so no promises on a finish date. I will keep you all updated when it feels relevant.
The software I’m using is Ren’py in Visual Studio Code.
