Is there anyone on GAF or related I can get in touch with in regards to future mod plans?
I have an idea for a (mostly post-game) addition to the core experience to make Skyrim more believable in terms of social interaction with NPC's. Basically my idea is to create Animal Crossing within Skyrim. This would include having in-game time run off real-time (either computer's clock or otherwise) so that if it is 8 pm irl, then it is reflected in game and also that time passes even when you don't play (I assume it would have to do updates about that kind of information as you load your previous save..). But, the meat of what I want to do is conversational, relationship building, drama inducing, and hopefully experience enriching through social interaction and dialogue choices with any and all NPC's.
This would mean extensive writing to include various factors into conversations, such as the player's race, social connotations of that with other races, gender, preference to certain schools of play (magicks/warrior/thief) perhaps even more focused (alchemy, enchanting, smithing), political beliefs and standing, etc. Basically fleshing out every character within Skyrim.
I thought of this mainly because I wanted to work on my dialogue writing, social interactions, and so on. One of the first thoughts I had of this being relevant from a gameplay perspective was that I thought of a hermit under a bridge, who a player could gradually become more familiar with through continued social interaction. Each day (real time) he would talk to the player, or on bad days not want to see them, and as a potential relationship grows he could send the player on radiant quests, give valuable information about rumored treasure, or even give a prized possession of his to the player. These kinds of interactions with all sorts of characters in the game could provide valuable content to the player, perhaps even unique items or enchantments to items.
It's still in the infancy in my mind, but I would really love to do as much of the writing as possible as I know next to nothing about the technical aspects of modding. I have a lot of creative writing experience and this would be a great exercise for me in my spare time to keep me working at bettering myself.
If anyone is interested or is able to provide more information on how to go about this, please let me know. This is definitely something I want to pursue.
tl;dr:
How to make Skryim: Animal Crossing.