Word count

[coyotecraft]

What would be a good word count for an rpg maker game?
Writing a script, I have a hard time gauging how far to take it. I try to outline but I'd like to have a touchstone to determine if something is too much or too little. Otherwise, I'm just gazing into infinity.

 

[ZenVirZan]

Depending on the writing style and story, genre, focus, etc, I'd imagine it'd vary tremendously.
I'm not a writer though by any means so even if I knew the context I still couldn't tell you :x

 

[coyotecraft]

Someone wrote out scripts for some of the final fantasy games. That kind of overview gives me a nice perspective. FF7 is about 150 "scenes"
Which reminds me that the gameboy advance Trpgs I played were about 50 missions, so maybe 25 story scenes or more.

I'll have to try framing a story within a number of scenes. I can almost think of it in terms of animations, if the story was a motion and the scenes were a limited number of frames, I can then block in key poses...eh, but it's a little more complicated with game play objectives to consider, non-linear progression, and conversation branches.