Yes yes, thank you for your words. The story not being much is one of the reasons why I’m not having the game up for now, as I want to have at least two chapters to show off the worldbuilding and characters I’ve been doing, but my pacing is typically slow so they’re probably long.
Yeah, it will be an extensive and difficult project, and whenever I update, it takes me a few hours due to adding new things and more choices and options to make the experience feel so different—especially now I’ve been making choices differ based on gender. Yes, burnout is real, which is why I’m going to take this at my pace now, but I truly want a game that stands out, you know, with choices and depth and truly different mechanics that other games don’t have, and not simple, and actually has complex meaning and a message in a world that’s unique with actual distinct characters with their vices, controversial views, secrecy, emotions, body language, speech, etc., also set sexuality (In my vision, other characters have fixed identities—including gender and sexuality. I think it’s more immersive if the player can’t reshape others, only themselves.
) and character arcs if they like you or not -to have more variety in routes to make the game replayable. Since I don’t see much here, and I want to give breath to something.
Yea my story is taking a more psychological, surrealism approach to try and show how differing views/perspective and The player might see a character as cruel—only to later realize they were protecting someone in secret and how mental state is not just you but the world around you that builds the generalization. I taken that part kinda from Paprika and the manga My Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought and the use of symbolism (eg Soulstrand, the vice-reactive customization, and the codename/true name and actual things in my text). But I promise the setup will lead into the story due to me believing to build emotion and attachment within once I release it when I’m ready.
My inspirations are like Ergo Proxy, Death stranding , Gattaca, Mr. Robot, The Giver , Children of Men, Cyberpunk, Fight Club, Texhnolyze, EVA, Serial Experiments Lain etc. I’ve been trying to make the story not force everything and slowly build it up, which I can’t really do with 21k words so far, lmao. But thanks for your words, actually means a lot. I’m making it so extensive due to me wanting it to be one of those loved projects and I’m glad you recognize it . I will update when I make the new post of the re-release in this forum when I’m not rushing, and you will see the soul and beauty of the eugenic world that strips identity that I’m taking to make. Thanks for your input, truly.