Gameplay concept
Anyone who knows Roger and Julia from Zoey's Club in BangCity will know where the story is going.
Alternative endings are therefore not necessarily foreseen, as the game is intended to be canonical to BangCity, even if no knowledge of BangCity is required. Roger & Julia is a stand-alone game in the BangCity universe!
Roger has to stay at home and study. The player has several small plots to follow. These plots are usually flexible, so that individual actions can be selected during the day and progress can be made.
New options often appear in the game that can be chosen or ignored for the time being, which then changes the order of individual storylines. Common intersection scenes are then displayed and dynamically adjusted as required.
The aim is to create a personalized gaming experience! Some options and scenes will be available sooner or later so that the player can set priorities.
There will also be small text-based mini-games that you can use to influence your progress in the game. These are quiz games and question-and-answer games with which you can let Roger act as you wish. Only within a limited range, of course, because Julia is a determined person and has her own agenda.
To be allowed to meet Andrea, the player must have made certain progress.
The third date with Andrea will be a turning point in the game, as there will be new options and goals in the game. However, visits to Zoey's club are not planned. That would be content for another game.
My plans for this next phase in the game include a small achievement system where you can tackle different challenges.
Another feature of the game is an option I call “Juliaview”. This gives the player the opportunity to find out what Julia is thinking and planning. So if you don't know Roger and Julia yet, you can also have a slightly different gaming experience here. This option will also give the player a little bit of information about Julia, which reveals more about her, but has no influence on the game options. This is most likely to be of interest to BangCity players who already know Roger and Julia.
For the third and final phase of the game, I am planning a free-play option that players can use to simply have fun and earn new achievements. The progress and stats achieved so far should have an influence here. This phase can then be extended by add-ons, should the game Roger and Julia be successful enough to justify the add-ons.
Roger & Julia is therefore not a real free-roaming game but a kind of visual novel with variable plots that should invite you to play again after you have played through the game!