So I noticed over at the patreon, that a main protagonist was chosen and it is Rocky....
First of all, this is a great post. You understand everything correctly.
Rocky was chosen by a general open vote, and even those who usually cannot vote, because the choice of the protagonist is too important, voted. We, as we said on Patreon before the vote, have ready-made scripts for each of the characters already familiar to everyone: Rocky, Martha, Jenny (and even one more character, but the plot has not yet reached him/her during the voting, and therefore he/she was not included in the list of candidates).
We have provided a description of each of the three options:
1. Rocky, although he pretends to be a macho, is actually quite an obedient guy (well... if something doesn't change his mind about...
).
Game will go from the vision of young man who has just begun to seriously take an interest in the other sex.
2. Jenny tries to look more mature than she really is in the eyes of others.
Game will go similar to Rocky but from the side of a young woman.
3. Martha... Well... I'm sure that each of you has already created her image in your imagination).
This is just a housewife with a specific character and an old-fashioned upbringing.
Game will go from the vision of a 41 year old adult woman from around the 1950s (this is the approximate time in which the characters live).
In fact, we thought that Marta would win, not because we like her more than the rest of the characters, but because there are always a lot more messages, suggestions, requests and ideas about her from the players. But as the vote showed, most people want to play Rocky.
As one of our most active patrons said:
" I think the most natural fit for the protagonist is Rocky. Part of the reason is that it is the character we have been currently controlling, and has the most neutral perspective to see the story unfold. Like seing what happens to the other characters like Martha etc from Rockys perspective seems like a good way to do it. Him being human still also opens up for a potential transformation at some point, and him being a man opens up for "interesting scenes" with some of the games women
."
Initially (before the release of version 0.01) Martha was just an active NPC, but the players really liked her and we wrote a full-fledged scenario for her and added her to the game as a full-fledged character. In general, this is an overly serious character, corresponding (in our opinion) to an adult woman of the 50s. Strict, domineering (she lives alone with her daughter outside the city/village and keeps an apple orchard for making cider and her pies are famous throughout the area), she is also known among the inhabitants of the entire northwestern part of the Kingdom. She is a little rough, a little unkempt (but still quite well groomed) and yet she is charming and feminine (although she tries not to show it because "Pfft! How stupid!"
). Based on this, we see that this is a rather comedic character.
We were inspired by such films as "I Love Lucy", "Green Acres", "Under the Yum Yum Tree", etc.
Rocky, Jenny and many others are inspired by films such as "Grease" for example.
Attention!
We were only a little inspired by these films (atmosphere of the time, mood) and did not copy or steal ideas, etc.
All characters, events, storyline, dialogues, ideas, etc. in the game belong only to the developers of Neon Night Time.
No plagiarism!
As for the gameplay, indeed, regardless of the choice of the protagonist, the rest of the characters will remain with him (according to the plot) and all situations, moments, scenes and events will also remain in their places. However, sometimes, especially some scenes, you will need to play as other characters.
Firstly, they also need to develop and show their worldview and there may be some changes in attitudes, character, behavior.
Secondly, each character has their own abilities (well... it's a classic, guys
). For example, it's no secret to anyone that Martha is very strong. But thanks to the transformation, she became even stronger (natural power of a pig! Boom boom! Wow wow!
).
Therefore, as you correctly noted, all playable characters complement each other.
Ohh.. Sorry for such a long post, but I tried to explain as much as possible and I hope I succeeded.