#creative concept

Her name is PAIGE! And she is my pride and joy. An aspiring teen writer who dives into the underground head on for... Research purposes? On a creative writing project? Well, she is an odd one.

A concept I wished to explore was using her torn notebook as more of a mechanic than just a weapon, so with inspiration from TS Underswap, what if her torn notebook was a menu? Through it you can open saves, loads, notes on the monsters and areas you encounter, and the menu. Which realistically would be changed to items more than anything, but I wasnt thinking at the time LOL.. i didnt want explicit save loading in this game / concept, due to most likely using Flowey. And he has way more determination than this silly ao3 author. So, the concept was to "save" with either auto save, or have some sort of queue or sign to save. Like Paige thinking she should "note her findings" in her notebook, which prompts you to save your game without exactly forcing you to if that makes sense? Though saving and loading is a very integral part of Undertale, so I'm unsure if this concept would exactly work out. If you guys have any ideas how I could do it, please share!

Monster ideas?? Npcs?? New areas?? Um. No idea. I'm not the best with designing non humanoid characters and writing them diversely... And even worse with areas. Ans how will this game be played???!!! Well! If this even does get to become a game, I took inspiration from our lord and savour Racheldrawsthis (praying I got the name right) for a visual novel RPG of sorts! I thought it might be more interesting due to wanting Paige to have more personality, more dialogue and overall be more of a character, so showing expressions was important to me, which is why I designed this shitty example concept LOLL

This format would probably be for everyone, though I'm unsure if every single monster would have a sprite or not. Maybe just Paige? Maybe all important npcs will have a few sprites and expressions to showcase their feelings and personality, mannerisms, etc. a random froggit doesnt get a sprite. 😔