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Request: Allow <iframe> embedding in Scribblehub editor of google slides with url as https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/xxxxxxxxxxx.
Effect: Readers will be able to consume visual novels on scribblehub site without the need to be redirected outside the website.
Labor cost: Low. I'm no expert, but it's probably just changing the Content Security Policy. [1] [2]
Rejection: Readers will continue to be redirected towards external websites to consult visual novels (such as youtube or google slides).
Potential of Scribblehub in piercing the Visual Novel market
"A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity." - wikipedia
fig: screenshot of Umineko, a famous visual novel
There exists a few platform hosting visual novels. They use HTML5 features to make interactive slideshows.
However, I believe they exhibit few flaws:
1. They focus on the interactive game aspect of visual novel
2. They came too early
1. As games, visual novels can offer multiple endings depending on the choice of the player. However, this often requires that the game is completed. Because of this, most platform seems to be oriented towards one-shots. However, in this current age, serialization is a very safe and attractive business model compared to releasing completed works. It can be observed from the popularity of live-service games, or games released in incomplete states that slowly updates. Not only it soften the initial investment, but it also maintain a visibility on the internet by staying active. Webnovels are lot less demanding for writers than real paperback publisher, as they don't have to spend years in a damp room having mental breakdowns polishing their entire manuscript.
To this day, no VN platform seems to be designed with serialization in mind. Perhaps, they have tiny "latest updates" section, but nothing as friendly as scribblehub. Therefore, scribblehub can pioneer online serialized visual novels at the low cost of embedding slideshows.
2. Platforms specialized in VN came too early. Online publishing platforms live thanks to the content generated by users. In the case of VN, how many random users are able form and direct a group of artist, writer, composer? That's right, there were not enough creators to support a lively community of consumers. As a result, VN platforms are ded.
But everything is changing thanks to AI.
Democratization of AI-generated art & music
Today, how many users are now able to craft a story, art and music on their own? Absolutely Everyone.
As a proof, scribblehub users have spontaneously started to make VN. We can cite @Corty for turning Mad God into a VN, or @Natsumikan for her short experimental piece using Yodayo AI arts.
Although they are not making VN, multiple forum users regularly post their AI-generated art. How long do you think it will take before they decide to combine to some story telling: Ellieporter AI thread, Reinaislost's profile posts, Cipiteca's profile posts, RepresentingEnvy's thread.
For a writer, the biggest hurdle for visual novel is the graphics. Paying a human artist for the volume of content needed was simply impossible and too risky.
AI just smashed this hurdle in atoms. Their scripts improve at an unprecedented rate, making them easier to control and output better quality image. There are also constant improvement for AI-generated music. So, we can only expect a surge of VN-like content in the foreseeable future.
In conclusion, Scribblehub has an interesting opportunity to start riding the incoming tsunami of VN-like content. Scribblehub doesn't suffer from the drawback of only relying on the yet-to-exist VN community, and thanks to the webnovel readers already here, scribblehub provides a fertile ground to grow the potential VN audience.
Limitations of Google Slides
Google slides is the god damn easiest way to make a VN. You get what you see, no need for programming and everyone had to do powerpoint presentation at school.
Unfortunately, Google forbids hosting and sharing any kind of explicit content. So we can't do google slides smut. Is this a good thing? Maybe...
Google slides loop the same music in the entire slideshow. You can't switch the music at determined slides.
Author Userbase's reticence
At best, they should be indifferent. At worst, they should be against. Authors are in an implicit competition for reader's attention.
For authors who aren't interested in AI-generated content or transverse art skills to supplement their stories, the implementation of new features exposes them to losing their popularity to new types of works. As a result, such new feature will induce a sense of insecurity.
I believe such case can be seen in fanfiction.net, which demands good grammar and good quality prose and disable the usage of pictures, which undoubtly elevate classic book in their platform at the cost of banishing all form of graphical art.
For the moment, such fear cannot hold true.
-There are too few VN creators to drain away reader's attention. And if it became a problem, a solution would be simply to redirect VN content to a separate website. This could be the endgame plan after growing a sufficient userbase enjoying this type of content.
-Like how Anime and Manga are in strange competition for audience, they are also in a beneficial symbiosis where a large portion of the audience is shared across both format. What I mean is that just because the audience reads a few VN doesn't mean that they won't read books, and vice versa.
-A story is dope regardless of whether there are pictures or not. The highest quality litterary works will not suffer just because they don't put pictures.
Conclusion
Scribblehub is in an unique position to pioneer serialized visual novel thanks to its already established readership and experimental AI-enthusiast writers. A way to capture this movement at practically no cost is just to enable <iframe> for google slides.
Disclosure of Conflict of interest
None.
I'm kidding, I'm making a google slides serialized visual novel (e.g. chapter 1)
Effect: Readers will be able to consume visual novels on scribblehub site without the need to be redirected outside the website.
Labor cost: Low. I'm no expert, but it's probably just changing the Content Security Policy. [1] [2]
Rejection: Readers will continue to be redirected towards external websites to consult visual novels (such as youtube or google slides).
Potential of Scribblehub in piercing the Visual Novel market
"A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity." - wikipedia
fig: screenshot of Umineko, a famous visual novel
There exists a few platform hosting visual novels. They use HTML5 features to make interactive slideshows.
However, I believe they exhibit few flaws:
1. They focus on the interactive game aspect of visual novel
2. They came too early
1. As games, visual novels can offer multiple endings depending on the choice of the player. However, this often requires that the game is completed. Because of this, most platform seems to be oriented towards one-shots. However, in this current age, serialization is a very safe and attractive business model compared to releasing completed works. It can be observed from the popularity of live-service games, or games released in incomplete states that slowly updates. Not only it soften the initial investment, but it also maintain a visibility on the internet by staying active. Webnovels are lot less demanding for writers than real paperback publisher, as they don't have to spend years in a damp room having mental breakdowns polishing their entire manuscript.
To this day, no VN platform seems to be designed with serialization in mind. Perhaps, they have tiny "latest updates" section, but nothing as friendly as scribblehub. Therefore, scribblehub can pioneer online serialized visual novels at the low cost of embedding slideshows.
2. Platforms specialized in VN came too early. Online publishing platforms live thanks to the content generated by users. In the case of VN, how many random users are able form and direct a group of artist, writer, composer? That's right, there were not enough creators to support a lively community of consumers. As a result, VN platforms are ded.
But everything is changing thanks to AI.
Democratization of AI-generated art & music
Today, how many users are now able to craft a story, art and music on their own? Absolutely Everyone.
As a proof, scribblehub users have spontaneously started to make VN. We can cite @Corty for turning Mad God into a VN, or @Natsumikan for her short experimental piece using Yodayo AI arts.
Although they are not making VN, multiple forum users regularly post their AI-generated art. How long do you think it will take before they decide to combine to some story telling: Ellieporter AI thread, Reinaislost's profile posts, Cipiteca's profile posts, RepresentingEnvy's thread.
For a writer, the biggest hurdle for visual novel is the graphics. Paying a human artist for the volume of content needed was simply impossible and too risky.
AI just smashed this hurdle in atoms. Their scripts improve at an unprecedented rate, making them easier to control and output better quality image. There are also constant improvement for AI-generated music. So, we can only expect a surge of VN-like content in the foreseeable future.
In conclusion, Scribblehub has an interesting opportunity to start riding the incoming tsunami of VN-like content. Scribblehub doesn't suffer from the drawback of only relying on the yet-to-exist VN community, and thanks to the webnovel readers already here, scribblehub provides a fertile ground to grow the potential VN audience.
Limitations of Google Slides
Google slides is the god damn easiest way to make a VN. You get what you see, no need for programming and everyone had to do powerpoint presentation at school.
Unfortunately, Google forbids hosting and sharing any kind of explicit content. So we can't do google slides smut. Is this a good thing? Maybe...
Google slides loop the same music in the entire slideshow. You can't switch the music at determined slides.
Author Userbase's reticence
At best, they should be indifferent. At worst, they should be against. Authors are in an implicit competition for reader's attention.
For authors who aren't interested in AI-generated content or transverse art skills to supplement their stories, the implementation of new features exposes them to losing their popularity to new types of works. As a result, such new feature will induce a sense of insecurity.
I believe such case can be seen in fanfiction.net, which demands good grammar and good quality prose and disable the usage of pictures, which undoubtly elevate classic book in their platform at the cost of banishing all form of graphical art.
For the moment, such fear cannot hold true.
-There are too few VN creators to drain away reader's attention. And if it became a problem, a solution would be simply to redirect VN content to a separate website. This could be the endgame plan after growing a sufficient userbase enjoying this type of content.
-Like how Anime and Manga are in strange competition for audience, they are also in a beneficial symbiosis where a large portion of the audience is shared across both format. What I mean is that just because the audience reads a few VN doesn't mean that they won't read books, and vice versa.
-A story is dope regardless of whether there are pictures or not. The highest quality litterary works will not suffer just because they don't put pictures.
Conclusion
Scribblehub is in an unique position to pioneer serialized visual novel thanks to its already established readership and experimental AI-enthusiast writers. A way to capture this movement at practically no cost is just to enable <iframe> for google slides.
Disclosure of Conflict of interest
None.
I'm kidding, I'm making a google slides serialized visual novel (e.g. chapter 1)
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