dumped by one of your romantic interests
Yeah the girls will never dump you. Just make you feel like trash for breaking their hearts and if you're the kind to not feel that way about fictional characters you still gotta deal with them telling you to fuck off when you ask for the sex
Will there be any grinding before the post main story sandbox, or will it be mostly VN-style before that?
Only if you're intentionally mean to them to where you don't have enough numbers. Immersion breaking for me to reveal that but it's still a video game.
Do you have any specific games that you would say the mechanics are most similar to?
Love and Sex: Second Base?
Will there be any RPG-style combat to represent "the shared trauma and life saving moments of the main plot"?
We talked about this last night.
I'm not willing to divulge which games because I don't want to throw shade but there are some games out there that don't really prioritize.
I was playing one game and the art, story, and its combat system feel half baked because it seems like they just shoved all of it in unfinished. Rather than making something stable and building on from that.
If combat will be in our game, which it would be cool if it was, it'd be part of a remaster effort or be in a sequel game as we'd have the base code from this one.
May I suggest some kind of annotations
I actually included specific issue numbers in the outline I provided for the team... Also Yes I read every single one of them. So the team would be able to include actual issue numbers in the corner of the screen for you and other players to compare the stories.
Reminds me of how Stan Lee would always make some annotation in the corner.
I would probably be less likely to play the game at all if I felt like it was very closely tied to the comicbook continuity, but I didn't know where to get started catching up with that.
You won't be required to read the comics to enjoy this game. Anything Null doesn't take part in won't be too important and if it is, relevant characters will inform you on the details that you need to know.
Shiny, how can you just drop something like this?
I have suffered.
Any idea when the first chapter will come out?
Either way - Shiny, there are about 3 days 'till the end of the month and uh... y'know? I bet my entire life saving of a single potato that the game'd come out before the end of the month.
As I promised awhile ago I said if the pacing slowed down I'd let you know. I'm keeping my promise. Our coder had to travel to Italy. He has his laptop with him but it is work travel. Probably a early to mid April thing unless the Bossman surprises me.
I'll note that this isn't a delay. I never promised March. I only said it was possible. This has always been an out when it's out project.
I don't see how I can get that takeaway with Shiny saying stuff like "A lot of the events are time sensitive due to their placement in the comic timeline."
You won't be on a timer. Only that you will need to go talk to a girl before proceeding to the next chapter. We won't let y'all miss out on something. You'll get your fair warning.