Magical Diary (Sim/RPG) now with trailer video

[papillon]

Quick summary up here!

Trailer Video

Title Screen


Game webpage with some screenshots:
http://www.hanakogames.com/magical_diary.shtml

Development diary (may have spoilers):
http://www.indiedb.com/games/magical-diary

Forums (includes half-price preorder link and discussion of beta):
http://hanakoforum.nfshost.com/phpBB2/

old message follows:
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Yep, this is the ludicrously huge project I alluded to before, which is now being broken down into a series. So while it should eventually be all X all, the first chapter is GxBG and only a subset of characters are datable. It WILL be a complete story for those characters, it's just that you'll need a different chapter to play as a boy or to date a different set of characters.

What else is special about this project? Well, for one, you get to design your own character:



Learn and use different kinds of magic:



And, of course, meet lots of wacky characters:




The series is heavily inspired by fanfiction. Especially the silly kinds. I'm still trying to decide whether mpreg should be possible if you play as a boy. (Probably not, though... You're all still students, after all! Far too young!)

Mostly it's a school/dating sim. You set your schedule, raise your stats, and interact with characters. There are also intended to be RPG elements, but more on that later...

[azureXtwilight]

That is so cool! Customizing character really needs a lot of work!
The screenshots...
Somehow reminds me of summer session by any chance?

[littleramyun]

Very cool! I love customizing. All X All is awesome. I'm glad someone is doing one.

[dstarsboy]

Very awesome looking game! Keep up the great work!

[BlueRoseMaidenAras]

Hehe that sounds interesting! I love the magical setting and witches/magicians hehehe. Good luuck~ ^-^

[Riviera]

This looks so awesome.

I am so maxing the weird stat.

[sayuri]

Yay~
This is exciting, I'll be watching for updates. Is this, by chance, related to Super Charm School?

[papillon]

Yes. I think I did say it was unlikely to keep that name. It's finally actually being worked on, as opposed to "you know one of these days I ought to..."

[lepapillonrouge]

...mpreg.

-laughs-

The customization thing sounds really cool though~!

[machinist]

this looks pretty awesome o_O hope it gets finished soon

[J. Datie]

Character customization? RPG elements? A weirdness stat? Girl x BackGround All x All? I think my feelings towards this can be summed up as "very yes please".

[Starling]

Ah~ This looks cool, especially the customization. And I love games like this. *fidgets in anticipation for it*

..and the inspired by fanfiction part made me giggle XD

[jack_norton]

Looks very nice, I'm curious to see how the various kind of magic will work in the game

[Ramidel]

I see that you're quite the character designer, from your first picture. : )

[IceD]

This looks definately something worth to check up on! I jsut hope it won't be a ludicrously too large The overall game mechanic seems interesting and I'm curious how will this work, though when I've seen All x All for the first time I had some different thoughts about it Anyway, a game with such open scheme seems great, everyone will propably find something to their liking.

As for art, I definately dig the characters on those screens - the designs are great and art looks neat, especially that mage in the central screen . Character customization seems awesome - I've never seen anything like that in any OELVN's, and if you're going to provide many different sprites for it, this could be really great! I'm already thinking of something in the ways of Dragon Age or Oblivion

It's too bad you didn't put any premise or story, so I can't say much but with those backgrounds I'm a bit concerned - is this going to be something of a modern mahou-shojo/shonen story? If so, you got a minus here. I'll be honest - those characters look soo good, they deserve some kind of a fantasy/fictional realm to fit along with great and involving story. If this will be only another SIM for the sake of simulation, this game will lose much Throwing screenshots without any more description about the game makes me even more concerned, but I hope you do have a story for this, right?

Also how much of a progress has been made? What content will it have? Are there going to be ny rpg elements along with a battle system and how will they be executed? Tell at least a little bit more about the project!