[SURVEY] Invisible Wings [Fantasy][Self-acceptance]

[lilithislilithat]

Hi everyone!

I'm creating an interactive visual novel about self-acceptance as graduation project for my study Music & Technology. As game audio designer a major part of the project is composing the music and implement it in the game with code, but I'm also working on the narrative design and game development in Unity.

The game is a narrative adventure game that takes the player on a journey in a dystopian fantasy setting. Follow Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, as she tries to find answers to her own identity in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony. Being bullied and harassed most of her life because of her appearance she wants nothing more than just being an ordinary human. Although she blames her magical ancestors for all her problems, she meets a faerie herself, who grows more than a friend to her and complicates her quest even further.

This week I finished a demo for the first scene in the game, including artwork and the first concept for the music:


For the engine I have written my own implementation on top of xNode, which works like a charm even for mostly linear node gaphs. Also due to the modular nature of the system I created it's really easy to add new functionality in the form of nodes, the system handles the rest. Nodes can be as simple as showing or hiding a character or triggereing an FMOD event (which I use as middleware for implementing the audio) to complex functionality as dialogue or interactive scenes.

As part of my process it's also important for me to narrow down my target audience, as I'm now aiming for "anyone who relates to the themes and/or loves fantasy VNs". Therefore I would appreciate if any of you has time to fill in a little questionnaire about target demographics, which can be found at https://forms.gle/wgzFpwdef18TR4Mj6.

For more info about Invisible Wings you can also visit the website I set up for the project at https://invisiblewingsgame.com. I'll try to update this post frequently as more updates are coming! For example I'm currently collaborating with three amazing voice actors to give the characters a voice as well. Except that in the upcomping two weeks! Any questions or feedback you have are more than welcome!