#kitt rambles

[dawnbeast]

Sooo I have this little side project now that's basically tl;dr Persona but the playable characters are Therians/Otherkin

I briefly explored a similar-yet-different story idea, but I've since shelved it for a number of reasons. After some thinking I came up with something that seems to be sticking a lot better: my favorite trope of Wake Up, Go To School, Save The World.

The game doesn't have a proper name yet, only a codename: Project Green Lotus (my previous idea was called Green Lily, so I stuck with the theme). I don't want to reveal too much about the story just yet, but I'll say this much: there are themes of fear, anxiety, identity, and acceptance. And it very much follows the Persona formula of living a double life: balancing mundane life and supernatural adventure. In this case, a group of young Therians/Otherkin obtain supernatural powers and enter an alternate realm to save people from...well, for now I'm just calling them "Nightmares". That's all I'm revealing for now; both because I'm still developing details, and also because I don't want to spoil anything.

Things I'm hoping to include:

Time system similar to Persona (linear progression, time management, etc)

Social Skills that affect non-battle scenarios

Non-standard game over scenarios, from both story choices and failing to hit certain dungeon deadlines!

Relationships (social links/confidants). This includes romances, and romances will be LGBT+ friendly

Dungeon crawling (static, not randomly-generated)

A "wild card" silent protagonist. While character customization is very much beyond me, I'm planning on, at the very least, making them appear gender-neutral.

Potentially mature/heavy themes. While I will try to keep things PG-13, for the sake of the story and tackling certain subjects, I might have to bump it up a bit if need be. I'll be adding the appropriate content warnings/disclaimers to the best of my ability.

I'd love to make this a fully 3D game in Godot, but I lack robust programming knowledge (I'm much more of an artist/animator), so I'll be sticking with some heavily manipulated RPGMaker. I'm familiar with that engine, I know how to make it do some clever stuff, so I'm going to stick with that for now and keep the fancy 3D Godot dreams for later.

Of course, I'm just one person, and this is a passion project, so I can't exactly make this happen fast. I'm strongly considering making a "vertical slice" demo, and I'm also debating whether I want to release it all t once, or release it chapter-by-chapter. I'm also planning to release it entirely for free but put a tip jar somewhere.

Anyway, I don't know how to end this post, so uh... idk, I guess I'll share more updates as I go? Admittedly I'm anxious to be putting this out there at all, but idk, maybe posting about it will help keep me motivated or accountable or something 😅

[klttkatt0]

i forget A LOT that habit is ACTUALLY pulling your teeth in the end..

[klttkatt0]

js thinkin about the favt that most standard homes have doors that are 6’8, so habit (7’4) would have to duck going through them..

[dawnbeast]

life is so stressful why can't I just fly away or whatever and do dragon/fox things instead of dealing with a bunch of pointless rules

[dawnbeast]

after rambling a bit I'm realizing the something about the two therian/otherkin-centric projects I'm working on

One of them touches on some issues with the community and acceptance in general, but overall has a fairly light tone, a lot like my usual work

The other one is where I have a mature content disclaimer for a reason because all of the rage and dark themes have to go somewhere and this is where that somewhere is

[dawnbeast]

Whenever people call someone "weird" when they really mean immoral or creepy or whatever it really rubs me the wrong way. Like something about that specific choice of language just feels like a red flag of some kind idk

[sinner-princess]

my heart hurts a little too much right now… i know why you left but i still want to cry about it. and im so stupid for it… i hope life treats you well and i miss you so much…

i know you’re never going to reach out again, but if you see this… i really hope you get everything good in life… ♡

[dawnbeast]

I get as tired of masks/quadrobics as anyone else when browsing the Therian tag on Tiktok and find myself wishing for something else

Bur then there's rampant misinformation, toxicity, idol worship, and ragebait and sometimes it's enough for me to want the masks and quads back