Now this sounds good. Do you have an idea what would be the focus of that Game? As in would you focus on that Football mechanic or rather the story/VN element with maybe even the ability to skip the Matches or let them be decided by the computer based on some Team stats like in those old Football Managers.
Wish you all the best for your Project! Cheers!
for now as I am very new in writing stories, we are going to focus more on the gameplay and how to integrate it with the story.
with this I mean that there are not going to be many branches, nor different routes.
I don't know if you have played a fire emblem, think of it as one of them, the story of the chapters would be quite "kinetic", but the weight of the character development is more in the supports.
skipping matches, is something that we have thought to implement it in the future, but for now we are not going to dedicate time to this, because playing matches is important to get the support points, in fire emblem these are obtained by doing combo attacks, healing another character, etc, here it would be a little bit the same, doing combo moves, passes, assists etc.
and the supports will also give new combos moves, this is to motivate to also see the platonic supports and with secondary characters.
And will the relationships be rather Vanilla or do you have plans for Link LIs?
you mean if they can romance each other?, yes that's the idea.
as such each character has their own supports, these are going to vary between friendly supports, and the supports of LI.
of the 5 main LI, 3 of these will be able to have relationships between them, and the other 2 also between them.
the plan is that you can romance each one separately, for their group, or be with all 5.
in May I have to deliver what is going to be for the U, so I hope that in late June I can make the thread already showing more of the game and there I will explain more how would be the mechanics, the characters and the LI.