A forum-like website that allows users to search for available artists/writers/musicians/animators dedicated to creating VN’s.
Part of this Website will feature a general forum where users will be able to ask questions/give advice to other users creating their own visual novels.
The other half will feature a list of artist portfolios; generated by user's profile/portfolio inputs. Instead of continuous thread bumping for an artist to show that their commisions are open/looking for work and describing their abilities within. The plan is the to create a tagging system that will allow users to search for artists under various criteria.
There are few resources available to help in creating a visual novel. Despite appreciating many of the functions and website formatting of some popular forums. I personally found it difficult to search for artists that would/could help me.
While seraching through a general forum website format. There is only so much information you can gain from just a thread title. Many times have threads with [CLOSED] in the title would still appear in [OPEN] searches; The reason: because the word open was used just once somewhere else within the thread!
It's also extremely time consuming to check through every thread to get a glance at an artist's art style or to see what they cannot/can create.
I personally wished there was a way to better filter out potential artists I might want to check out.