A Happy Life [Otome | Drama | Mystery] [Free]
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:06 pm
So as a child I grew up in various (communist) Communes. They always vilified the outside world and that actually did make it pretty hard for me to manage in a normal environment, plus many people were actually pretty happy inside a community. So I had the idea to use it as an inspiration for a Visual Novel...
In particular I wanted to challenge the usual concept of a "good" and "bad" ending and show that a bad ending in the players mind can be "good" in the eyes of the protagonist and vice versa and I also wanted the player to influence the story - not so much by direct decisions, but instead having things change based on the players perception of it... because that's kinda how it was in real life... if you believe that the community is good, you perceive it as good and if you believe that the outside world is evil (and on top of that you are completely unprepared for it) you will perceive it as evil...
So that was my original idea for it... but before you say "well if it's just an idea you should move it in the ideas corner", well by now it has already gotten beyond being an idea and the story is already pretty much written, but because I kinda suck at writing, I had it written by a friend of mine who writes teenage novels.
She did an excellent job, though she kinda turned it into a "cult" and made that a bit too obvious (originally I wanted this to be the twist)... but it is okay because there are still two cults in it - the community the protagonist belongs to and the communities in the outside world, because a real "cult" is actually great at labelling all other communities a cult Because I do after all want people to always look beyond labels and prejudice...
Anyway, I will attach the super early completely unfinished alpha test game that kostek00 helped me with: There is no art or music etc. yet, but I feel that if I don't upload it, my post gets thrown into the ideas corner and besides, the whole point of the post is that right now I really need some feedback so that I know what direction to take it towards the end and also to iron out any inconsistencies, logical mistakes etc.. So bottom line; any and all feedback is greatly appreciated and in fact needed right now... after that I also need artwork, but right now it's mainly feedback...
In particular I wanted to challenge the usual concept of a "good" and "bad" ending and show that a bad ending in the players mind can be "good" in the eyes of the protagonist and vice versa and I also wanted the player to influence the story - not so much by direct decisions, but instead having things change based on the players perception of it... because that's kinda how it was in real life... if you believe that the community is good, you perceive it as good and if you believe that the outside world is evil (and on top of that you are completely unprepared for it) you will perceive it as evil...
So that was my original idea for it... but before you say "well if it's just an idea you should move it in the ideas corner", well by now it has already gotten beyond being an idea and the story is already pretty much written, but because I kinda suck at writing, I had it written by a friend of mine who writes teenage novels.
She did an excellent job, though she kinda turned it into a "cult" and made that a bit too obvious (originally I wanted this to be the twist)... but it is okay because there are still two cults in it - the community the protagonist belongs to and the communities in the outside world, because a real "cult" is actually great at labelling all other communities a cult Because I do after all want people to always look beyond labels and prejudice...
Anyway, I will attach the super early completely unfinished alpha test game that kostek00 helped me with: There is no art or music etc. yet, but I feel that if I don't upload it, my post gets thrown into the ideas corner and besides, the whole point of the post is that right now I really need some feedback so that I know what direction to take it towards the end and also to iron out any inconsistencies, logical mistakes etc.. So bottom line; any and all feedback is greatly appreciated and in fact needed right now... after that I also need artwork, but right now it's mainly feedback...