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Hi!

Of course! Both projects are hard-charging ahead, and if you look through my post history you’ll see some wild cooked up stuff in the past for The Frontier.

While I have a full-time job, my goal is to slowly transition to full time project development over time, and so I am working on two beautifully passionate projects in a heavy capacity (The Frontier and Character & Witness).

Updates between the two will rotate in and out as I work on each project, but my hope is to appeal to separate fanbases, and even those who come to love both!

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For those with interest in The Frontier, there’s plenty that’s coming with Update Zero, slated for the coming months.

When you first step into The Frontier, you’ll find yourself locked onto the scrapling path, which opens in Turnspire Station. My goal is to give a wide sense of scope, and allow for tons of travel and interactivity.

Right now, I am hard-charging with development on the Wingspan Commercial District, where you’ll have many options for spending hard-earned credits with the dynamically-generated mission and work systems I’m cooking up.

To give a small taste of the Wingspan, I’m uploading two images today from when you arrive there for the first time.

Wingspan #1

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Wingspan #2

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What should people who are interested in “Character and Fitness” do?

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It sounds fun! I’m a bit surprised that Toby isn’t an RO, but the other boys are still very intriguing

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Hello!

To not take away from other posts here and to not clog up this thread, I’ll respond briefly but any further questions should be directed to my DMs :slight_smile:.

I will be periodically posting about Character & Fitness as I chug forward on the WiP build. Currently, I dedicate 2 weeks per month to The Frontier, and 2 weeks per month to Character & Fitness, rotating every other week on which title is developed so that way I can keep things still fresh while giving myself different content/styling to tackle.

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Hello there again, this is lowkey a repost but I pushed myself into overdrive for this, so please enjoy the new summary.

Title: False Ancestry.

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Investigative fiction.

Will be releasing October 1st

Summary

You are the child prodigy, the star of the town, the next in line to be captain of the football team. You are the dream that other people want to live, you have always been great at whatever you put effort into. However, that is no longer the case, you have been suspended from the team for the rest of the school year. All because of an incident involving you and a former teacher of the school.

Now you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You are still the star of the town, but things are different now, even if ever so slightly. That isn’t the only thing that has changed. The other star of the town, the queen bee, who’s been missing for the last three weeks, has been found and safely returned home. Except there is only one problem, she has lost all memories of the last ten months of her life. You are the person who knows her the best, so you have been tasked with helping her regain her memories.

Maybe if things had continued along this path, maybe if things had been different, then everything would have returned to normal, back to the status quo. The Troubled Star and the forgotten star would have returned to normal, but fate had different plans for everyone. A monster is hiding in the woods, stalking and hunting, someone wronged and calling for justice. A child who lost everything.

Spurred by a murder and a thirst for vengeance, a series of events unfold, and it’s only then that you are truly awakened to the world around you, filled with monsters and things that can’t be called human. Do you have what it takes to overcome your instincts, the thing that drives you to destroy everything around you, to save the people closest to you, and retain your humanity?

You have seven days until prom arrives to make your decision, whether as a wolf, a vampire, or a man. Seven days to overcome your past and your trauma, seven days to decide where you stand in this cruel world, seven days until you are a man or a monster.

Romance Options

Meet the Romance Options.

Irene North
Queen Bee, Captain of the cheerleading squad, one of your five, four childhood friends. She can be considered your biggest rival in life and your second biggest defender. Both of your parents work together to manage their collective finances. So it has allowed both of you to be close, both as friends and enemies.

Skye White
Nerd, weeb, and, surprisingly, the captain of the volleyball team. President of the school anime club as its only member, not for lack of trying to get people interested. She is one of your childhood friends and the one that you are closest to, is your best friend despite her odd behavior.

Jamie Healthcliff
A victim, that is the best word to describe Jamie; he has always been bullied for as long as you have known him, and it can also be said that you have always been the one to save him from those bullies. The reason for his getting bullied is completely out of his control; he is feminine by design, and the issue is only made worse by his mother. He isn’t Irene or Skye, but he is still one of your childhood friends, even if you have drifted apart.

Rachael Lazaar
A ball of sunshine and rainbows, the happiest and cheeriest person that you have ever met. She always has a smile on her face and always tries to cheer up those around her, it’s no surprise that she managed to become vice captain of the cheerleading team with that attitude. Overall, she has been a great friend to you, just a little bit of an airhead.

Ryan Ashford
The most annoying yet charming guy you know, Ashford, for all intents and purposes, is a clown that marches to the beat of his own drum. Which for some reason, works out in his favour every step of the way, and that makes him the best captain that you could ask for. He is the main reason that you gave football a second chance, and the main reason why you haven’t been expelled yet, besides Irene.

Charlotte Jenkins
Misguided? That’s the best way you can describe CJ, you can’t blame her too much, as she actively tries to be better than her family, but she is somehow still a bit tone deaf with half of the things that she says. She is that one friend who says something unintentionally horrible with a dumb smile on her face, she reminds you of someone you knew sometimes.

Dante Ericcson
You haven’t met him yet.

Trigger warnings

Abuse, Suicide, murder, bullying, themes and mentions of SA. more will be added.

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False Ancestry (Cancelled)
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I have a concept, its not thought out extensively but it is inspired by another idea I put into motion with what was called Project Vampire.

Title: Night of Wolfe (Working title, was gonna call it project werewolf)

Genre: Horror, thriller, science fiction, supernatural

the science fiction part is the alien species called Zedr.

The Zedr are a parasitic species that would spread across Earth like a living infection. Appearing like a tar-like shadow of a person, they bond to hosts by seeping into the nervous system, granting temporary strength, speed and bursts of euphoria before consuming them entirely.

They reproduce either by hijacking existing pathogens or through a grotesque “pleasure-death” cycle, where they overstimulate a host until fatal collapse, using the body as gestation material.

One of their abilities is inducing sleep paralysis, trapping victims between waking and dreaming, where they hallucinate shadowy figures like them and feel crushing weight on their chest.

The MC is infected but has rabies as well so the entity permanently fuses with that to reproduce but it instead makes the mc become a black, nightmarish werewolf at night.

The horror aspect would be the dual personality and the other Zedr.

Romance would start early between 2 people. One is a zedr fanatic, wanting to experience the pleasure-death themselves. The other is an FBI agent who was at ground zero when they first arrived.

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Rabies is insane.

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I was thinking on how to make a disease thats certain death, turn into a benefit.

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it’s an interesting concept, I will be there when it drops as long as college doesn’t strangle me.

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Hello everybody, my name is Glitch, and this is my first official game (and story) that I’m actually going to work on, so I decided to post it here to see what others think. This idea is in a very early concept so any feedback will be great. Thanks for checking it out!

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Title: You Died. Again.

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Genre: Superheroes. Tragedy. Origins.

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Concept: After your apartment was destroyed in a superhuman showdown, you were supposed to be another nameless casualty. Yet after saving your little sibling from certain death, you come back. Literally.

Stronger. Faster. Unkillable apparently. To Cam’s relief and joy. Yet it comes with a cost, but we get to that later.

Now you are living in a local community center for the displaced while waiting for your apartment to be fixed, after an uptick in gang activity in your neighborhood and no superheroes in sight, you are convinced to become a vigilante.

Yet in a city full of superheroes some may not take too kindly to that.

This is your origin story.

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Characters:

The Mc: Player choice in personality and background. Although there is one fixed trait. You love your sibling and will do anything for them.

Camron “Cam”: A 14-year-old going through their edgy phase, yet they are secretly obsessed with superheroes, and it never fails to bring out their inner child.

The Community Center Owner: Watches after Cam and MC. She takes no nonsense, and you need thick skin to deal with what she does daily.

The Superhero: A shining light in the darkness… yet all shining lights have a shadow.

Love interests:

The graffiti artist: A graffiti tagger you saved one night who turns out to be more involved in the superhero scene than you thought. Secret identity and all that.

The Old schoolmate: They work at the community center you are staying at. You barely knew them growing up, with them being a part of the popular crowd yet they seemed to have chilled out since then.

The journalist: brave. dumb. very very reckless. he always getting in danger to get the scoop which means you have to keep saving him.

Powers:

-You die.

-You come back.

-Each time you get slightly stronger but at the cost of your body and mental health.

-Just remember to not push too hard. You can only die so much in a row before you need a break. Or more.

Full disclaimer:

My goal is to give the player as much control as possible but to be fully transparent: Some of the story elements may be fixed (although that could change). That is to manage scope and to keep the narrative coherent.

Ex: Cam is a very important part of the story. In many ways. You can choose your relationship with them to a degree whether it be you resent them or enjoy their company but the mc will never harm or hate Cam. That’s because their connection is going to be a big part of the story. Central even.

Anyway, any feedback for this will be great. Like what works and doesn’t work? Or just general thoughts. Thanks for reading!

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Time First

You can pause time. You don’t know how to unpause it.

So you spend whatever working time you have doing whatever. Steal stuff, go places, work on yourself, sleep. Do all the fun things you want before time resumes. Time will start again, right?

Right??

Set in the Philippines, MC is a university student who does their morning routine when time stops as they set foot on campus.

Some of the fun things I plan to add:

  • Walk on the river
  • Go to the mall and hoard all the consoles and PCs you’re too broke to buy
  • Do petty things to your bully like messing their always perfect hair
  • Figure out why you can stop time, and why is a cat moving and talking with you?
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Reminds me of doomday, dying and coming back stronger. But if thats your power, why not kill yourself and cheese it?

Premise is fine, not heavy on superhero originals.

Need to see it in action to offer more.

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Reminds me a bit of my struggles with depression really, even if I have survived and indeed come back mentally stronger all three times now I don’t really want to go through number four unless it becomes absolutely unavoidable, also because there is always a very much a non-zero chance I might not survive the next time. So I guess to do it properly mc here needs recovery time after each time they die and come back stronger to heal properly and probably the recovery periods to do it right get longer and longer the stronger the mc gets.

Dying and coming back is how mc gains and grows their power(s) their actual superhero abilities they use in combat are likely something else, maybe something the mc selects?

Reminds me of the old game on this site “A wise use of time“ that was a fun game and we have not seen something with that sort of theme in quite a while, so I say go for it. The Philippines is also a unique setting, which places it in the same niche as Merry Crisis set in Singapore and I always welcome settings that deviate from the standard American/Western Europe settings for games with slice of life elements. So good luck with your project and looking forward to your demo here. :+1:

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Id tell you to use some kind of negative emotion buildup for excess death but i doubt youd want an emo vigilante

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Could be a great concept, or it might fall a little if there are no NPCs to interact with :sweat_smile:

Love the setting. I lived in the philippines for several years, needs more representation in stories :fire:

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Anyone know what happened to Nax? Writer of Tale of Two Princes, a WIP game on here?

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Probably busy in university.

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Likely. I hope one day Tale of Two Princes is revived.

My feelings on certain matters were expressed in comments in another subject ‘‘ What kind of stories do you want to see for Choice of Games & Hosted Games.’

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So far, I’ve been thinking to make it a short story, and focus on the loneliness that would happen if you were in this position for so long. But there is a cat to keep you company! And yes, the lack of NPCs could be an issue, so I’ll refine the story more. Maybe Act 1 could be all the fun and games then loneliness, then Act 2 could be meeting people in the same boat as you lol

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