Digimana - New Manga style

[Drago del Fato]

Tada!!!
I havent been posting for quite some time and I must say that this site is looking great and there are soo many people here. You rock!
...but let's get to the point...  ;D

Have ever heard something like this from yourself, friend, cousin, etc.

"Man, I've got this awesome story for manga, but there is a problem. I can't draw!"

Well, I've heard it from my friend and I told him. Just write dude. Even in text format, you will learn how to draw...eventually...

And guess what? He listened to me! Started writing and wrote 20 episodes 'till now!

And while he was writing, I came every week to check up a bit on his episodes and they're cool!
(he really knows how to write a story)

I thought, how about i make a program that reads his text files and plays some BGM while program reads the lines.

And I made Manga Reader.

He was so excited about it! He said that program rocks.

After a while I also made an episode of a manga. He said it's a good story but...I don't know.
I uploaded it together with manga reader and I hope that you'll like it (I wanted to upload his episode  but I don't have a permission from him, cuz I haven't asked him about it)

Now I want to hear what you have to say about it.

This is the link of my manga uploaded on Megaupload.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2M89MKRT

Manga reader's abilities:
- can play Background music(BGM) while showing lines of text, for a better view of the story!
- can play ambient (Ambient) music like rain, nature, underwater, etc.
- can play sounds (SFX)
- change colors of texts
- use emotions like drop, warning, silence(...), etc.
- allow use of faces.
- more...

I hope you'll like it.  :-\

 

[Tohsaka]

Actually, I do believe that this type of format has been around for a while, in the form of Visual Novels and/or Kinetic Novels. An example of this can reside here: http://insani.org/narcissu.html.

 

[Drago del Fato]

Really? 

I had no idea.

I've been to the site right now and it looks like the author made pictures (of course it looks more intresting that way), but this manga reader isn't just for me and my friend, it can be used by ANYONE. Just run the program, open the textual manga, after you've opened it, just right-click anywhere on the program and chose about. You'll see all of the commands that can be used in the version.

Well Im gonna see the novels and tell you what I think about that style and how it's similiar to this (or not maybe). 

 

[Drago del Fato]

Well, I tried it.

It's cool and everything. Looks like a pro's job.

But still, I like manga reader, not because I made it or anything but because it's useable by anyone.

Narcissu is similiar, but it's a japanese novel (i think at least) which includes images, transitions and well I must admit nice story. But its made by an experienced writer and she got some drawn art from an artist )

Well Manga reader is different. It offers you, to write your manga the way you desire, using music, sfx, ambient, emotions, shaking the window etc., to create a manga that other can see by imagination, not using drawn images or shiny effects. The manga you make for manga reader is to put reader into thinking how the main character looks, how does a certain background looks, villains, etc. I think it's fun to do that.
Face window is an extra. For those who want to make faces (I don't really know why I made it).

Well for those who want the manga reader alone I will put it to download together with manga editor.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7K1MWI0Y

I know I'm pushy. But I really want someone to try it. I want to hear opinions!

I forgot to mention that I made an Editor together with Manga Reader. It has all of the functions supported by Manga Reader and (as my friend says) it's easy to use...

Manga Reader and Editor supports MP3,MID,WAV file formats for sound.