Ruler by Default: A Fantasy Life Simulation Visual Novel

[ProgrammerByDefault]

Hey everyone, I know there was already a post by another user on this under 'other topics', but I feel this section is a bit more appropriate. I am the primary developer on this game, and want to share our vision with the lemmasoft community, as well as to answer questions and take feedback that will ultimately help us improve our final product and make an awesome game.

For the best overview of our game, I would strongly advise looking at our kickstarter, but I will give a brief one here as well:

The premise of Ruler by Default is that you are an average guy who one morning your daily routine is sharply interrupted as you are yanked from your world into another dimension. You find that this is all the result of a summoning intended to bring back the other dimension's evil overlord who was lost to your dimension many years prior, but for some reason they got you instead. Through an odd twist of fate, it is found that you are a valid candidate to take over in the absence of a ruler, and they somewhat begrudgingly accept you as the new overlord - at least until they can send you home. Throughout the game, it will be up to you to manage your time and training, as well as to build relationship with the characters you encounter along the way. At the end of the game, the typical 'romantic' endings will be augmented by additional 'ruling style' endings based on what you focused on in your training along the way.

The gameplay revolves primarily around scheduling your weekly activities and events that occur randomly or at key points in the game, trying to capture some of the feel of games like Princess Maker while also including significant dating/relationship elements to provide an interesting hybrid of two great gameplay styles.

Please post questions and suggestions here, and I will do my best to answer them thoroughly and in a timely manner!

[PyTom]

I had to edit out the link to the kickstarter, per forum rules, since there isn't a demo or a similar game by substantially the same team. (If there is either, please forgive me and feel free to edit the link back in.

[ProgrammerByDefault]

Ah, sorry about that. No, we do not have a demo just yet, but I do have one in progress. I'll edit in some of the more crucial overview content that the link had so people can still get the full experience, then update the link once the demo is posted