Okay! This time I will clarify everything for everyone since last post I was talking about two different things at the same time (so weird).
The concept: On the japanese art website pixiv almost every year they have 'pixiv fantasia' which is sort of a huge game that most people participate in that anybody can enter freely. There are about 4 different nations, 1 for knights, 1 for mages, 1 for some kind of bunny animal thing, and 1 for asian stuff. When a person creates their character they chose which nation or country they're from. For instance, if they want theirs to be a knight then they're from the nation for knights, and if they want theirs to be a samurai then they're form the nation for asian stuff. It's all about creating characters. At the end of the year whichever country has the most characters in it wins.
In conclusion, it's a game where people can freely create as many characters as they want and they can sometimes rp with them if they'd like or they can draw comics of their characters, whatever they'd like. Some people also draw other people's OCs if they like them and stuff like that.
I wonder if that makes sense.
It ISN'T an RP. The whole part about the RP is up to the people and they can RP whenever they want to, but it's not really apart of the game as a whole.
The idea: My idea is to create a world to better organize this. Have what countries people are in and what characters are in the game for reference of other people. Also comics about their characters can be posted there to continue side stories and etc..
The point: The point is to have fun! It'll force more people to draw things that they'd like to and improve on things that they'd like. It can also be a way for people to create their own stories for their own worlds and such things.
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My Questions for you guys:
1. Should there be guest posting and if there should be how will it be done (I've never had guest posting before, so I'm not exactly sure on how all this could work)?
2. Should it just be a challenge instead or should it be a world that includes challenges with certain themes having to do with the fantasia?
3. What kind of theme should it have, or should there just be different countries with different themes?
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Better clarification
This person explains it much better than I am (I'll just post the entire article thing):
"This is mostly an explanation for my friends but if you're a Pixiv user and wonder what exactly are those Pixiv Fantasia artworks you see on Pixiv, here's a little briefing on it for you. (And lol, I just realized my briefing weren't exactly that correct, narugami ;;)
You see a lot of "collaboration projects" on Pixiv and Pixiv user "arohaJ" can proudly say Pixiv Fantasia was one of the earliest collaboration projects to be invented on Pixiv that became very big. Check the 企画目録 tag and you'll notice that PF's "project catalog" is in the very last page, being bookmarked by more than 900 people.
How it works is that the project leader introduces a fantasy world with 3-5 countries in it (plus maybe some extra forces, as seen in PFII) and it's your job as an artist to create the inhabitants of any country of your choice. Each country has their own traits and specialties so the inhabitants you create will have to follow the traits of that country (like how one country is pretty much Asian while the other is full of wizards and witches and the other brings up magic knights, etc). The inhabitant (/artwork/submission) you create will eventually gain Views by passerbys, of course, so the amount of views your artwork gets will be the amount of "points" it has. The project leader will visit every submission in each country to count how many points each artwork has, and then accumulate those points to total into the country's points. So the main premise of the project is to see which country has the most amount of points in the end, and granted as the "winner".
This doesn't just go into one straight line, of course. There are story "events" sometimes that goes in limited periods so the character with the most points at the time would "find the 7 Legendary Orbs" or "beat the Giant Grungnir" or something funny like that. :P What's interesting is that some of these artists that have popular characters that make it into the "story" would always draw down a comic or something similar about it (for example, Maruco's Rokka beat the great Grumand and he got into the newspapers and this let his sister knows about his whereabouts, so Maruco made a "travel digest" for Rokka that connects this series of events) so it's nice to see how active artists are in joining the project. It's like an RPG in the form of artworks!
Not only that, as people play around, they also start to make their own guilds, unions or factions or blabla the list goes on, so this increases communication between the artists and their own characters with other artists/characters, thus also increasing the amount of artworks for the country they're in, therefor more points! But people don't care much about which country wins, anyway. The whole point is that if you love the fantasy genre and love creating OCs, you'd msot likely enjoy this project. If that's not enough for you, you can also "RP" your character through artworks/comics too! Or even more, you get to interact with other artists, maybe even your favourite artist! That, and your character might get into awesome group fanarts like this.
So, yeah, it's quite a fun project to watch. :) I didn't follow Pixiv Fantasia II too much besides what my fave artists made, but Pixiv Fantasia III just started today so I think I'm gonna try to follow it a bit more closely this time. Maybe even create a character and try to join it for the heck of it if I have the time."
Link to website: http://maiki.livejournal.com/615914.html
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So if there were a world it would be a main world that branched off to other worlds with links to other people's pages/clubs/guilds to better organize that stuff.
If anybody else has any ideas that would really help! This isn't just my project, I hope to get a bunch of people involved so everyone can draw more and have more fun with extra activities.
What I don't want is something that feels like a club which challenges that say 'This is only for people in such and such group'. Whenever there's a good challenge that says that I just feel broken off...and I don't really want to join those groups, I just think it would be fun to draw something for that challenge...
I also don't want something that has lists of 'these are all the members' I don't want there to be 'members' I just wan there to be 'characters' and if you're a member of theO then you're already a member of this.
Since it's so big...maybe I should ask one of the admins for help on this I dunno...>3>
What do you guys think?
