Sadly, A very stereotypical otome game. Although, I'll pump you guys up with so many bishies and corny lines that you might end up in the hospital.
Her father sends her to Montague on a 30 day mission: to marry the King and poison him. Although, while in Montague, the princess meets the King's friend, Mercutio[!] who falls in love with the girl after a friendly fencing match, in which he lost. The girl, in turn, falls in love with the king, who is a lonely man forced into monarchism by the death of his parents. At first, the king is polite to the girl, not entirely sure of her open friendliness but later opens up to her in his mother's library after he found her reading some books. After the library incident, the king falls in love with the girl and swears to protect her. After little consideration, he proposes to her and although she would like to accept, she is torn between betraying her father and hurting Mercutio; and doing what she wants...
So.. in short, nothing to do with Romeo and Juliet besides the characters.
I had written many endings for the story, so after many tries at getting it right, I stumbled on Ren'Py!! and I decided to make this into a choose-your-own-adventure game!
But the story has changed a lot and is still changing, so please bare with this description until I come up with a better one.
There's not really a lot of meat on them yet, because I have to revise the script, but..
Characters (with rushed sketches of each):
Juliet
She's the main character. (the Alice, if you please.) She starts off as a very impressionable person, but I'm really trying to leave this character wide open so you guys can mold her personality into something that you want her to be. She's the adopted princess of Capulet, sent to the peace conference by her father to resolve issues with the family of Montague.
Romeo
Romeo, the young King of Montague, forced to take the throne after the sudden death of his parents when he was twelve. He's very unlike the real Romeo. He's a gentle and hesitant character, the kind that you can really take advantage of.. but he seems to have something against
Mercutio
Romeo's childhood friend and an excellent fencer. He hates Tibalt because of an incident that happened in the past, claiming that nothing would have ever happened if Tibalt hadn't done this, and done that. He's a very energetic character and acts as Romeo's servant sometimes. (Don't ask me why, it's just one of the things that stayed from the original script.)
Tibalt
Prince Escalus
The highly decorated, highly devoted Prince of Verona that I had way too much fun with back in character development. It seems that his only wish in life is to keep the peace between all the nations (to keep trade flowing through Verona). I think the only real way I can think of describing him right now is Tamaki.
Paris
Juliet's fiancee. He's that one character that plays around with the ladies.
Librarian Who's name is yet to be figured out..
He/She is that one weird character that everyone stay away from..
After I finish some of the art, I'll put up a development blog or something..
As for progress:
Script: 20%
Sprites: 1%
CGs: 1.5%
Coding: 10%
;^; I have a lot of work to do!