No, that’s not my project. And I’m glad you like the idea!
I’m actually planning on doing Eros and Phyche separately, if people like my Aphrodite game. (I even have a weird timeline in my head. Because it’s so obvious that Aphrodite happens before Hades and Persephone. And of course Eros and Phyche comes after that )
First of all, I’ve never introduced a character like this in my life (and I’ve never written fictional stories), but I was inspired and impressed by the game I played, and I decided to visualize what kind of person I was imagining in my head with music and write it that way. English is not my native language, you can already understand how I integrate paragraphs. also, I don’t have an aspect that I understand from coding in general. and since I don’t have a computer that will need it anyway, it will remain for now as a half-story that will stay between the lines in the Word application on my phone.
Game called; The Last Door (I decided to write by listening to the music of this game. It made me shed a tear not gonna lie )
Anyways…
in short, I will post a summary of our character here.
Our main character is 26 years old and has been diagnosed with severe depression and dezorganize schizophrenia by their doctor, from whom they receives therapy, and is using medication on the doctor’s advice. The trauma from their past has affected them so much that they unconsciously shows their distance towards people in their daily life with their attitude. No matter how much the doctors explained to our character, there was no way to fully cure this disease, but at least the medication would help to relieve the symptoms. MC spend their sleepless nights just staring out of their little window. They were not quite sure at the moment when they decided to let our MC out. Our character spends their years in isolation because they have (besides learning their brother passed away after receiving an uninvited letter) no one in their life since the mental hospital and their acquaintances there.
Mental problems aside, the moment you read the letter, something went wrong and you had never seen your brother talk like that. Although your brother’s death was counted as a suicide, even though it contained almost cryptic messages, you don’t trust your thoughts to comment out loud, but you were so sure of that there’s a lot missed info your brother didn’t mentioned in the letter, before he passed away. Now… you decided to go to that house out of respect for your brother’s sake. Despite he’s warnings, and at the risk of losing yourself completely on the road, you set out.
This is it ( I know the paragraphs are looking… wonky a lot lol)
I have also written the letter, but it is too long.
In this concept, you still play as Cinderella (or Cinderellis if male) and you still have recently married a prince/ss. However, there are 3 routes all which vary according to which personality the prince/ss has. Accordingly, their hobbies, their ambitions, and even the royal family itself will change, depending on which route you take.
The 3 routes are listed below:
The Fairytale Prince/ss Route: In this route, the prince/ss is “quiet, thoughtful, and compassionate, often seen as the forgotten sibling due to their older brother’s charm and larger than life presence. Unassuming, gentle, and kind-hearted, they are so different from the nobles that look down on you.”
The Trash Prince/ss Route: In this route, the prince/ss is playful, extroverted, and charming. They’re seen as the frivolous, trash prince/ss and are often overshadowed by their more competent and colder older brother.
The Dark Prince/ss Route: In this route, the prince/ss is “icy, brooding, aloof. They’re seen as the dark prince/ss and are often overshadowed by their warm and compassionate older brother. You’re not sure exactly why they chose you, for they don’t act like they’re in love with you.”
Charm–your fairy friend–can’t be romanced. Neither can the evil step brother/sister. However, they have now quests attached to them that you can choose to complete or not.
Questions I have for people reading this:
Is there any route that captures your attention?
fairytale
dark
trash
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If you could add a route, what would it look like?
Two things:
First of all, this is a very fun and interesting way to address the whole “the prince and Cinderella are married, but also I want love interests” issue with your original idea. It’s like 3 ROs rolled into one!
Secondly, as much as I love it, this method could end up being complicated. You know, every scene could potentially change based on which “prince/princess” we go with. Like I said, I like this idea. But it may end up being a coding nightmare
I have no idea if it’s still in action or not, but there was a game a while back called “The Odessa Dating Games” that included one RO who you could pick a personality archetype for. It was a cool concept, as is this, but if that writer is still around, it could be a good idea to pick their brain on how that worked out for them.
That said, I do think this particular instance might be simpler than it seems at first. If there are no other RO’s, then creating one RO with three distinct personalities isn’t really very different from just writing three RO’s. It’ll take an eye for errors but I think it’s just as doable as multiple romance options and I like the angle.
Love seeing more political-themed WIPs pop up and India is certainly a fascinating democracy to set a story like this in. Looking forward to seeing future additions to it – best of luck!
what do you guys feel towards resource management games?
last night I tried checking HG and COG discussions on reddit, it doesn’t seem that people dislike management games that tells less story, but they also expect to be able to do more in the game and less randomized outcome
I’ve played lots of games with no or minimal plot. However, none of them were text games. Story is the defining and winning point of text games, to me, because a text game’s plot and characterization can go into much greater depth than a graphic video game.
But there are plenty of free game engines and free asset packs available out there. There’s no reason to make a management game with no story specifically as a text game.
Ok. I’ve started coding this story with the online version of Choicescript IDE (DropBox), slowly… I’ve been looking at the coding on different forums (here too) and I think I’ve gotten a little bit of a grasp on it. I also saw how a few of the stories here were coded by putting the ( startup.txt) to the end of the link. I may take a few ideas from there and adapt them to my own story. I hope this won’t be a problem for the authors. As for my story, I don’t plan on sharing anything for now until the paragraphs ( and the codes) are in order. I’m currently setting aside some time for the first chapter in detail. Even as I write these sentences, I have to use translation and I’m sure there will be a lot of problems that I have to fix to make sense of it. There are so many additions I want to add to my story. I won’t lie, I’m a little nervous. And that’s it for today
i got really scared of the code too but it turns out it’s super simple but everyone makes it so complicated.
It’s literally four things:
You write.
If you have choice you use hashtag
If choice has consequence, you create a ‘memory’ by creating a variable like x and you make it false. If you use variable (like buying something), then you make x true.
if you need to use what you bought like a sword just say if x → use sword.
you dont need to say if x is true, you just say if x.
Everything else you learn online but there’s not that much. You can learn everything about the code in one day using youtube tutorial. I think if there is a book about choicescript it would be only 10 pages for the stuff you actually use to make a complete game.
Would anyone be interested in a Harry Potter fanfiction game? i just want to make it for fun. (i wouldn’t make money from it.)
It would set in the Marauder’s Era. You would be sorted in a house: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor.
The only problem I foresee is that most of the love interests would be male: Severus Snape, Regulus Black, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin…
Maybe add Lily Evans and a Greengrass (Slytherin pureblood) girl.
Just not sure of the legalities of it exactly. Is such a game okay to make as long as I dont profit from it?
Alternatively, a game set in Tom Riddle’s era would be fun too. Though most of the love interests (besides Tom Riddle) would be OCs lol.