WIP - Bionic Heart

[jack_norton]

Ah in the very beginning since I want to finish my other game Spirited Heart first. That one is about 70% done...

[IceD]

Nice stuff out there!

I may be wrong, but the engine kinda reminds me off the Girlfriend of Steel series. Anyways, Heileen was a great VN and you did a good job on it. I'm expecting the same or even a lot more from this project And I like the art, especially the backgorund on the screenshot - it gives the sci-fi feel.

By the way, how are you able to work on so many projects at the same time?

[jack_norton]

I don't know that game...but in practice is like a simplified adventure (without the hunt for the right verb+noun combo).
As I said I don't really work on many at same time, but have all the art ready so when I finish one, I can start a new one without any delay

[jack_norton]

New development screenshots. They use same PNG image, but with zoom I can do both waistup and portrait view, without losing details

...definitely Tanya is a hot ... robot!

[wulfsaga]

so...what happen next?

[IceD]

Whew, that looks really promising I've assume that Tanya is somewhat a main character and she's propably an android? If so, I'm looking forward to the story

I'm also meedling around some ideas, concerning artificial intelligence. It's an interesting subject to talk about, especially nowadays...

[jack_norton]

Whew, that looks really promising I've assume that Tanya is somewhat a main character and she's propably an android? If so, I'm looking forward to the story

Well main character is the player though you never see "yourself" in the game since is 1st person view. Tanya is for sure one of the most interesting character I had the pleasure to write. A very advanced robot that is almost indestructable but still capable of blushing because she's almost naked in front of the person she secretly loves

Those looking for a "strong female lead character" will surely love this game! (I think papillon was looking for such a character in a game)

[papillon]

Sorry, jack, but that doesn't quite count as the strong female lead I was looking for. I meant the player character, since a lot of romance games with female player-characters make them fairly weak and air-headed, Or So I Hear.

[jack_norton]

I meant the player character, since a lot of romance games with female player-characters make them fairly weak and air-headed, Or So I Hear.

Ah I see. Well, maybe one day I'll make a sort of The Shield VN with a woman (not bald) instead of Michael Chiklis! that should be an interesting combo lol

[jack_norton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnqv6snwQg

a short video preview of the game. Shows a bit the new "adventure interface" where you can do actions and walk to different places from the Holomap. Definitely this won't be a standard visual novel

[IceD]

This looks really, really promising . The art is gorgous. After seeing the holo map "thing" I can agree Bionic heart is definately not similiar to Girlfriend of Stell, maybe anything at all. It's a great concept.

[jack_norton]

Thanks! another thing I'm adding is TONs of possible endings. Some endings can even occur only after a few minutes playing the game, or in middle of the story, while other change the final ending of the game. Maybe better if I include an autosave feature in certain points of the game

[IceD]

Oww... But don't get too overboard with it. Girlfriend of Steel 2 used similiar settings. You could have the first ending (obviously bad) after few minutes of play. It was kinda fun looking at Shinji being punched into unconsciousness by Asuka, but next unforeseen endings were kinda ignoring; you could just end the game in seconds and mostly, in a most unexpected and silly situation. And it wasn't that much fun anymore

But I'll think you'll manage to build the gameplay the best as it can be

[jack_norton]

Well I don't plan to include "unavoidable" sudden-death endings. I mean, in worse case you can just rollback to last menu and choose another option!

[Watercolorheart]

This makes me want to work on Controlled Chaos again ... even though it was kinetic/linear, Yukina always has a special place for me.

My, the heroine certainly is buff though.