I’ve begun work on my new game Crystal Valley University. In it, you play a young adult starting college in a world where monsters and magic are part of your every day life. I plan to make this game pretty character driven, limiting and unlocking choices based on how you play your character. It will be a drama/romance/slice of life with a larger underlying conflict that the character and their friends (if they make and keep any!) will have to deal with before the end of the semester.
Currently it’s about (4%, 1 Chapter, ~4,000 Words) done, and I plan on updating about every week. There should be an intro scene, 12ish chapters, and possibly an outro scene. I plan to have each chapter be a week in game at the moment.
To play the demo, go here: https://dashingdon.com/play/been/crystal-valley-university/mygame/
I fully understand that this is EXTREMELY early in the process to be putting out a “demo” (if that’s what you can call 2% of a game!), however, I really wanted to start a topic so that I can keep updating my game and have a place for it.
This is my first post, my first story, and my first game, I’m a complete newbie at everything, so bare with me.
5/13/2019
Posted game with about half or a third of intro chapter completed
Mostly just setting up character forming choices
Character appearance choices are purely functional atm, no flavor text
There is a final screen showing most of the choices you make, that is just for my testing to ensure all of my variables are working properly
That will be gone by the next update!
Looking for feedback on:
- Overall interest (though this is mostly a guilty pleasure, so I will likely continue whether there is a lot of initial interest or not!)
- Stat screen, make sure to check it and make sure everything is working, I’ve done a bunch of tests and it seems fine, but more eyes always help
- Number of physical characteristics available to choose from. So far, gender (m/f/nb), species (6 total), skin tone (3 shades), and body type (4 choices). (More/Less options?)
- I’m in college myself so I have plenty of fun anecdotes and events to draw from, but if you have any things you’d like included, let me know!
- Finally, bugs or grammar you aren’t fond of. Let me know!
Thanks!
5/18/2019
Character creation and intro chapter complete, waiting on betas!
Looking for feedback on:
- Grammar, bugs, etc.
- Anything you love or hate!
- Nothing too specific this time around
Thanks!
5/28/2019
Added on physical appearance to the races along with a better history and tweaked other minor things about character creation. Also started the move in day chapter, though it’s only the very beginning. I will still update the next part of this story in a week, though the updates after that may vary between every one or two weeks because I’m not getting a lot of story content each update and don’t want to bore you guys with micro updates!
Looking for feedback on:
- Grammar, bugs, etc.
- Anything you love or hate!
- Nothing too specific this time around
Thanks!