This project is a visual novel adaption of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll. The novel uses the original script from 1865 and also offers a simplified (modern) English version and a German translation.
The novel itself is already finished and can be played on the project site for free: https://kopaka1822.itch.io/alice-in-wonderland-visual-novel
We will start by voicing the original script of Lewis Caroll, and eventually I would also like to add voices to the modern English version (and German later on).
If you can do multiple voices, feel free to apply for multiple roles. The novel has many small roles with few lines.
If you want to contribute to the project by other means, please DM me.
Due to my lack of artistic skill, the art is currently AI generated. However, I would be more than happy to find a real character and background artist.
The following assets need to be replaced: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aYthEf2TztNVr_e77gs-HfPiqYZgNMV1
About myself:
I am a computer science PhD student from Germany and started this project last winter. I am a big fan of Lewis Caroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and wanted to bring the story to life with a Visual Novel.
I'm happy to announce that the project is finally finished!
You can download the apk or play it in the browser on the project page: https://kopaka1822.itch.io/alice-in-wonderland-visual-novel
I also recorded a Youtube video of the novel, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1YxupmHreQ
After several months of work, the voice acting and character designs are now finalized! You can check out the current state of the project here:
https://youtu.be/vkbE3BTL4v4
I’d love to hear your feedback! I'll do my best to incorporate as much as possible before the final release.
Next, I'll be revising the background assets with my artist and preparing for a potential German dub.
I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered, and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered
If any one of them can explain it I’ll give him sixpence. I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.
You see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
The art is currently AI generated, however, the novel could benefit much more from handdrawn sprites for Alice and the other characters.
I’m looking for an artist who can create sprites in an anime/manga-inspired style, typical of visual novels.
*Say something you think would fit*
So far background pictures were also AI generated, and only barely match the scene described in the book. A real artist would be able to construct the background exactly as described in the book.
*Say something you think would fit*
A nervous, time-obsessed character, often in a hurry and easily flustered. 42 lines
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!
Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!
*angry* Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!
In that direction, lives a Hatter: and in that direction, lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.
Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Well, then, you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.
Chaotic energy and an unhinged sense of humor. 48 lines
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!
*trembling* I’m a poor man, your Majesty, —and I hadn’t begun my tea—not above a week or so—and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea—
Have some wine.
It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited.
It was the best butter, you know.
Drowsy and lethargic, often falling asleep mid-sentence. 21 lines
Once upon a time there were three little sisters, and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well—
——and they drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M——
—that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are “much of a muchness”—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
Loud, commanding, and quick to anger. 39 lines
Off with their heads!
Now, I give you fair warning, either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice!
*shriek* Collar that Dormouse! Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!
Weak and ineffectual, often trying to calm his wife’s temper but failing. 62 lines
Consider, my dear, she is only a child!
I don’t like the look of it at all, however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.
Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high have to leave the court.
It’s a Cheshire cat, and that’s why. Pig!
*singing/lullaby* Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.
Very true, flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is—‘Birds of a feather flock together’.
A calm, slow-speaking character with an air of wisdom. 25 lines
Who are you?
*angrily* It is a very good height indeed!
One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
A slightly gruff but knowledgeable creature, speaking with a tone of wisdom. 50 lines
Why, she. It’s all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!
That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lessen from day to day.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Melancholy and wistful, with a slow, drawn-out way of speaking. 68 lines
Once, *deep sigh* I was a real Turtle.
Of course not, why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?
*singing* Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen!
Wake up, Alice dear!
Why, what a long sleep you’ve had!
It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.
Shan’t.
[simplified version] Won't
Pepper, mostly.
Please your Majesty, I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.
Do I look like it?
(Chapter 2-3) Easily offended, tells dry stories. 53 lines
As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!
Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate.
*poem* Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial
Look out now, Five! Don’t go splashing paint over me like that!
Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.
May it please your Majesty, we were trying— (said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke)
I couldn’t help it, Seven jogged my elbow.
I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!
The Queen! The Queen!
That’s right, Five! Always lay the blame on others!
That’s none of your business, Two!
Well, of all the unjust things—
*shout* Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!
[simplified version] Their heads are gone, your Majesty!
A timid and hesitant character, often the target of others' commands and demands. 2 lines
Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!
[simplified version] I'm not sure, thank you. I feel better now, but I'm too confused to explain. All I know is, something came at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!
Who is it directed to? (originally this is being said by one of the jurymen in the last chapter, but since bill is one of the jurors he can ask this question)
Sure then I’m here! Digging for apples, yer honour!
Sure, it’s an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounces it “arrum.”)
Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!
Protective and wary, often speaking with a tone of suspicion and alarm, especially toward intruders. 16 lines
Serpent!
I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges, but those serpents! There’s no pleasing them!
You’re looking for eggs, I know that well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?
For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.
There’s no sort of use in knocking, and that for two reasons. First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.
There might be some sense in your knocking, if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were inside, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.
A somewhat argumentative and self-important bird who insists on knowing best. 7 lines
I’m older than you, and must know better.
Ugh!
And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?
Found what?
I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing, it’s generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?
A grand and officious bird who speaks in a formal tone. 10 lines
In that case, I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies.
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!
[simplified version] Speak English! I don’t understand the meaning of half those long words, and I don't think you do either!
Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!
Hold your tongue, Ma! You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!
I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!
Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!
[simplified version] Time to go to sleep!
