Now's your chance.
Royalty Free is a visual novel where you have the opportunity that not many people get: the opportunity to date a princess.
You play as Takahiro (default name), a new guard to the castle. He meets the five princess sisters, all with their own unique personalities, quirks, and interests.
Princess Utako, the youngest of the five, is energetic and doesn't care about behaving in the proper princess manner. She'd rather go out running around the castle or watching action movies behind her mother's back. Her true love is music. Composing, writing, singing, the entire process. But Utako may not be as cheerful and carefree as she seems...
Princess Ayaka, who goes by Aya, is Utako's polar opposite. Stuck-up, prissy, and prone to anger, Aya is all about enforcing proper behavior and setting the textbook example of a princess. Her hobby is designing and sewing. She specializes in clothes, but is capable of sewing many other things as well. However, Aya has some problems under the surface.
Princess Shizuka, the eldest of the five princesses, is shy and a borderline recluse. She spends most of her time in the library reading and writing. Shizuka aspires to be a writer, though doesn't really like to take criticism. She occasionally writes lyrics and collaborates with Utako to make them songs. But what happens when she begins to shut herself off?
Princess Hinata is kind, creative, and perfectionistic. She tends to be in the art room, painting, sculpting, drawing, you name it. Art is her life, her love, and her passion. She won't stop until whatever she's working on is absolutely flawless. She occasionally sketches dress designs for Aya to sew. But are her perfectionist tendencies worse than they seem?
Finally, we have Princess Mai. Mai is sweet, caring, and very extroverted. She is a dancer, spending most of her time in the castle ballroom, waltzing away. Mai works closely with Utako, dancing to whatever melody Utako has for her. However, she has a tendency to be prone to mood swings. What happens when these mood swings start causing problems?
Takahiro also meets his two roommates that he will be living with in the castle: practical and honorable Daichi Hisakawa and spacey, hyperactive Ryouta Mizushima. He also bonds with quiet yet dignified 11-year old castle servant Chibana Yukimura and a castle chef with a dark sense of humor, Naoko Kurosawa.
Takahiro receives choices that will raise or lower each princess's affection towards him.
- Whose side will you take?
Or will you not take either?
- Tempting offers?
- Will you go or not?
That's all up to you.
The game is currently set for release in Fall 2015.
Right now, all first drafts for routes are finished except Mai's, which is about a 1/4-1/2 done.
In the summer, I am expecting to enter the "rewrite phase", where the writing and pacing will be improved, and maybe a few more scenes will be thrown in.
The game was written by me, Emily LaPerch (http://hatoheart.tumblr.com).
The character art was drawn by Viktoria Aleksandrova (http://viki-chii.deviantart.com)
The game was programmed using Ren'Py.
But for now, you can download the demo version here:
Windows Download
Mac Download
