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[HonooMasato]

So this is project that I've been spending quite a long time. And also this is my first post here so Hi there guys!

official website : http://gakuen.org

More info :
http://www.excite.co...ayer_23623.html (In JP though)
http://www.devilsmmo...eta-coming-soon

I would like to inform you about this upcoming web based game named "Sentou Gakuen" (戦闘 学園, 'Combat School'). The Open Beta date (29 December 2011) is still 4 days from now, but I'll post the thread and will keep it updated till that date so that you won't lose start so what is this game?

Sentou Gakuen is the very first Online Visual Novel that combined with MMORPG elements. Developed by Indonesia indie developer team named, "PS(T_T)eam".

Sentou Gakuen primarily takes place in a fictional school called Sentou High School, which is located somewhere in Tokyo. Physical locales of Tokyo such as Shibuya Scramble Crossing and Wako Shop at Ginza can be spotted in the game. When the story begins, the player will take their role as a new freshman student at Sentou High School where they will meet new friends as their journey begins.

Unlike most visual novels, the visual novel portion of Sentou Gakuen gets updated daily since it is part of a living community; the visual novel also affects online gameplay. Not only that, the visual novel of Sentou Gakuen is an ongoing story that, with time and players' support, will go beyond the expectations of traditional visual novels. Furthermore, the community of Sentou Gakuen may also have influence on how the stories of play out. Since it contains MMORPG elements, the players interact with the visual novel world, because only with players will there be protagonists in the world of Sentou Gakuen.

-You are the protagonist of this story-

In Sentou Gakuen, you are free to choose your own path. You can just study and study, doing bad things at school, protect the weak, or exploit their weakness. Spend your money to help your friends, or horde it, they can take care of themselves. Form a club and become the most respected group of students in the school. Declare war on an enemy, or an innocent bystander, the choice is yours.

Still don't know what is this?

Spoiler

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world. As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a character (in this case, a student) and take control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world, which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game.

How about visual novel? A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art, or occasionally live-action stills or video footage. As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels or tableau vivant stage plays. This will be the very first Online Visual Novel that ever exist.

The concept of this game will be similar like that, combining both visual novel and mmorpg in one. Just like usual mmorpg, player will have each stats. To increase stats they have to take some lessons and attending class (For example if you want to increase your strength you have to take PE Physical Education class). Another stats are such as Energy, its required if you want to do training. Willpower, this is the efficiency of your actions. Will would be bigger if you bought a more luxurious dorm room. Action Points, you need this to perform actions. Experience, progress of the levelling. Health, if u run out of this you will be sent to infimary.

There are "Story Mode", where the story of the game will be told in Visual Novel-way. The tutorial part also will be explained in this mode. The story mode, are optional, this will be you might say 'Quests'. Players are free whether to do it or not. After the player finished the story, the game didn't ended, but they can continue the game, thus this game is open ended

More Explanations

Spoiler

As for money, there are various ways to get this. The good way are obtaining it through part time job or studying. The bad way are obtained through brave-taking actions such as peeping at girls and then sell the photos, steal the exams answer and then sell it to your friends, or etc. But beware this can make you imprisoned at Detention Center. In order to protect yourself (Or PvP cases), the students can equipt theirselves with deadly weapons such as pencils, ball point pens, tweezers, rulers, staplers, scissors, pepper spray or etc. And armors. For more intense gameplay, the students can form their clubs which require some fees to be established. Clubs are a group of students that band together to work for a common purpose.

Additional notes, there are special club where the members are appointed specially by staff such as :
-Newspaper club, they are in charge of publishing School Newspapers
-Disciplinary Committee, alias moderator, they will be in charge to keep the game clean.

Screenshots

Spoiler

http://sadpanda.us/i...707-D9YE092.jpg
http://sadpanda.us/i...708-39XGXDH.jpg
http://gakuen.org/screenshots.php

Characters
These are the characters that will be introduced in game.
Fujita Eiko 藤田 栄子
http://sadpanda.us/i...173-SY1FPY2.png

Sasaki Yukiko 佐々木 由希子
http://sadpanda.us/i...168-HXEGRLO.png

Matsumoto Fumiko 松本 文子
http://sadpanda.us/i...166-APTUFQQ.png

Kiyomizu Ichirou 清水 一郎
http://sadpanda.us/i...692-H9VD8JC.png

Kojima Takayuki 小島 隆行
http://sadpanda.us/i...693-ZUNVI87.png

Takeuchi Iwao 竹内 巌
http://sadpanda.us/i...694-Y43RFUT.png

Widya Wulandari
http://hfimage.net/i...q6lsuhqszaw.png

Whoa that's quite long thread. So, if you want to know more you can visit their website here http://sentou.gakuen.org or you can follow their development status via twitter or facebook page

http://twitter.com/#!/SentouGakuen
http://www.facebook.com/sentougakuen

Any of you interested??

[Purin]

How does.....what ?
IMPOSSIBLE

My brain hurts thinking about that.

[WrathSpino]

... this sounds like it will be very, interesting.
(sits back in chair)

[Avalon]

What sorcery is this?!

*bookmarks*

[Nosebleed]

I'm actually looking forward to this when registration opens on the 29th. I'm interested in how this is going to play out.

[Fandrey]

Oh, hey, i've seen this in the news.
There was a bit discussion about the game in national game developer's community too :>

[Takashi]

Wow, An MMO Visual Novel?
First time I've ever heard.

Also, who showed you DS?
just curious.

[Traanth]

There's so much in this that has made me curious.
I guess I'll try the beta.

[Magmetor7]

An interesting style of gameplay. I would find it hard to comprehend the system used on a developer level. Visual Novel elements have to be pretty set in what they have to be, while MMO elements encourage many changes throughout play. Those together are very easy to conflict with each other. I'll enjoy the Open Beta when it comes out, that's for sure.

[HonooMasato]

The Dating System here is quite interesting. The player can choose whether they want to be in relationship with another students (another players) or NPC Characters from Visual Novel. This action can be done by confessing, putting love letter on shoe locker. However if you want to date NPC Characters you have to win their affection points, and how to raise the affection points? by giving items and or raising certain stats or etc. However, 1 NPC can only date 1 user with the highest affection points towards him/her, so for example you date with 'Widya Wulandari' this week (because you have the highest affection points to her amongst another player), then by the end of the week if someone else has bigger Widya's Affection Points, she will broke up with you and confess to him/her instead. So you have to maintain your affection points even after you won her.

PS: Yaoi and Yuri relationships here are allowed

From other forum:

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I can't quite find the MMO aspect of this
Are the clubs like guilds in other MMOs
MMO aspect as how do you interact with others, other than a club

school chat, private messaging, student council. Or well when you press "Explore" on navigation basically it's where you can interact with other students

For more gameplay info you can visit the library here

http://sentou.gakuen...x.php/Main_Page

Another information on Clubs,
Clubs are player driven, and if you want to form one you have to fill a form on student council, and need 3 more initial members. The Club president can hold club activities depending on how big the club is (members), starting from simply helping teacher and up to doing fundraising.

On closed beta there are some interesting clubs, such as Red Tails which only allow female members join the forum.


or


Dollars like in durarara, note that they also own anonymous private chatbox, something like this



but somehow this club getting inactive, hope they operational again at open beta

[Nosebleed]

You didn't answer Takashi's question, Honoo.

And lol, slutty npcs.

[HonooMasato]

Also, who showed you DS?
just curious.

-> someone from msn

[Shippo]

HonooMasato, on 27 December 2011 - 05:47 PM, said:

PS: Yaoi and Yuri relationships here are allowed

I can already see that 70% of the players will make female characters in this case

[HonooMasato]

5 First person that PM me with, "I want to play sentou gakuen". Will receive gift code, you can redeem it for 150 points, (in game 2nd currency)

Shippo, on 27 December 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

I can already see that 70% of the players will make female characters in this case

No, that's just your imagination

[Traanth]

I PM'd. Now tell me I'm lucky .

Cool. All more the reason to try it out.

Edited by Traanth, 27 December 2011 - 09:36 PM.

[HonooMasato]

The game is now open

check the main site to register

[Nosebleed]

So far, my only gripe is that part of the story takes really long to load up.

[Yukarasaki]

That's just the server. Don't forget that lots of people are on at the same time.

The first part of the VN is a looooong read.

[Nosebleed]

Yukarasaki, on 29 December 2011 - 09:07 PM, said:

That's just the server. Don't forget that lots of people are on at the same time.

The first part of the VN is a looooong read.

It does feel like it's dragging on, but it gets more interesting.

EDIT: Finished the prologue.

Spoiler

We read, we read and we’re not sure why we’re reading. But then we read for no reason, and realize it’s just for the sake of reading…

[bobbert4ever]

The servers are running smooth right now. Believe it or not I went through the day 1 story for like 2-3 hours, and I'm STILL not done with it (stupid long loading times, I should have waited til later). It's decent so far I really like this game. It's hard to find a game like this where there is absolutely no real life money buyable crap (yet). And we defiantly need to start up a DoujinStyle club