Welcome to Project Deity! A Persona fan-game inspired by Persona 5's aesthetics with an original cast and original story. This project is currently in development, but is always welcome to new contributors! :) If you'd like to join the project as a contributor (Must Be 18+): Discord: Vaulted_Mexican / MarxosElCabron Business E-Mail: [email protected]
"I noticed I haven't written in this thing since graduation. When you're working full-time on the force, you hardly have any time left to yourself. Especially someone of my status."
"I'm afraid I might have something interesting to talk about... for better or for worse."
"Ever since I awoke my Persona, I've been more interested in the Metaverse and everything that goes on. Kaori's been a great help when it comes to getting stronger. I've been training, and as I go and learn about things in the Palace, things begin to click more easily."
"I decided to go ahead and use this thing for more important things regarding the Palace. For example, I've been sketching the Shadows we've encountered in there and have tried noting their weaknesses we've discovered... I'm no artist, so... bear with me here."
"I call this one the Starving Guard. Kaori said it was a stupid name and that naming the Shadows isn't a productive use of our time because "they serve as a measure of our strength" and that "we're not adopting a stray dog from the side of the road." Well, assigning names to things helps me remember things better so what does she know?"
"The Starving Guard is massive in height, but is deceptively weak. They don't fare well against Wind attacks.... or... *any* attacks for that matter, *but!* it's perfect given that Wind is my specialty. We have yet to find a resistance that makes it formidable, so it has fallen victim to my kusarigama and infantry rifle time and time again. I think they've officially set themselves as the bare minimum."
"Hopefully we'll encounter Shadows that will be a better test of my strength and tactical genius soon. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of something terrible. This is [???], signing off."
Hello, everyone! Team Deity here to announce Day 7, and the last day of Deity Week! We had such a blast showing you guys what we've been working on!
But what does this mean now that Deity Week has ended? Well, we're most definitely going to be on board 1000% and share as much progress as we can. No worries about a multiple month long hiatus, because we'll be back and on schedule.
Anyways, to cap off Deity Week, we are proud to show off the storyboards of the first cutscene of the game with voice acting and SFX.
(Note: this is NOT the final version. It will be much better, we promise.)
Hello everyone! Welcome to Day 6 of Deity Week! We're approaching the end, but this is a sign of the comeback we promise to make. We will be posting more about this game and our team, so stay tuned, because you're gonna be seeing a lot more from us!
Putting the focus back on him, we have a couple of sprites of our Jester Protagonist made by our one and only, Wander! These are not all of the sprites, but just a few key we wanted to share with you guys!
Wander's Social: https://wanderstillart.carrd.co/
Compilation of my drawings and others works. Plus links to my other social media accounts
Now that we're on part of showing characters, I'd like to introduce two characters you'll meet in the Prelude. They aren't Persona Users, but rather Confidants instead.
On the left, we have Hachiro Yamazaki, the Confidant of the Magician Arcana! He's a bit of a goof, often cracking jokes and hanging tight around the Jester, but he can be pretty hotheaded and quick to respond when the pressure's on. Graduating alongside the Jester, he begins to work as a legal observer for a law firm, all the while his turbulent college life is slowly resurfacing with a vengeance...!
On the right is the mother of the Jester Protagonist, Yuuri, who is of the Empress Arcana. While it is not traditional for the parents of the protagonist to be playing an active role in their life, we've decided to make her an active character who serves as the Jester's rock. Any troubles he's facing, any moment where he feels alone or like all eyes are on him, his mother is always there to lend an ear.
These two characters were designed by our dear friend, Al, who will be stepping down from our project! Thank you for your contributions, Al! We love you and we'll miss having you around all the time!
Like we promised, we have something better to show you guys!
Showing off our Protagonist, it's easy to know what'll be expected of them in a Persona-type plot, but what about his party members?
Well, let's dive into one of them right now!
(Sergeant) Kaori Furukawa is a 27-year old police-woman with not a lot to claim for her own. Everything personal about her is currently unknown by the Jester Protagonist. She is a personal friend of his family and has known them for a little over a decade.
Without spoiling much, she is already awakened before the events of the story, and is the root cause for our Protagonist's awakening.
Take that with what you will :)
This character was made by @crazymecjc (Carissa), one of our character concept artists! We miss ya every day, dude, and we hope you're doing well pursuing everything it is you wish to pursue!
That's all for Day 4 of Deity Week! Stay tuned in, because there's a big surprise coming at the end of Deity Week! Thank you all very much!
Hello guys! Team Deity here with Day 3 of Deity Week! We're currently sifting through some of our content to make sure everything is as spoiler free as possible! Tomorrow will definitely be a better post, but in the meantime, enjoy this blooper from our storyboard artist, Page!
Hello, everyone, Team Deity here! Welcome to Day 2 of Deity Week!
Our next surprise for you all is a music snippet on one of the original tracks we're composing! Composed by AquaTail, we give you a look into the Jester Protagonist's world, and what to expect from a story like his!
Hello, everyone, Team Deity here! Welcome to Day 2 of Deity Week!
Our next surprise for you all is a music snippet on one of the original tracks we're composing! Composed by AquaTail, we give you a look into the Jester Protagonist's world, and what to expect from a story like his!
(Edit: We tried posting the original video here multiple times but Tumblr really hates us so we're gonna link to our Bluesky post instead 🫢)
Hello, everyone, Team Deity here! Welcome to Day 2 of Deity Week!
Our next surprise for you all is a music snippet on one of the original t
Hello everyone! Team Deity back with some pretty big developments! We know we've been MIA for a while, but at the very least, we have some things to show for it!
Today is Day 1 of a week-long event where we'll show you the fruits of our labor!
But first, let's take a moment to look back on our work. As some of you may know, in a few months, Project Deity will enter its first year. Due to this, we'd like to share what a year's worth of progress looks like, and we'll start with our dear old Jester Protagonist, alongside some commentary from our beloved Project Director, Vaulted_Mexican!
"Looking back on how long we've taken designing him, I think me and crew can all agree that we couldn't agree on the Jester's look worth a damn😭. Believe it or not, designing a Protagonist for a game centered around an anime artstyle is pretty hard. Usually we go about two routes.
You overdesign and end up with Protagonist designs like Yugi, where the character is so extraordinarily different that it's hard NOT to pick them out of a crowd, and then you have characters like Kirito from SAO, who looks so regular that you could easily mistake him for most other anime MCs.
We started from the base: making him from scratch. There were ideas on how we wanted him to look, but our main artist at the time (Page) ended with a result that looked quite good.
Our next artist, Victor, would go about getting multiple designs of our Jester Protagonist in an action pose. Given his character, it made more sense for him to be a bit more reserved and sensible in the real world but more vicious and tactical in the Metaverse. Come through with the first polished lineart, and we give it a second take because... well, I'll explain that in a bit.
We move onto our next artist, Al, who ended up making our first promotional piece to kind of test the waters for what would be to come. Still one of my favorite pieces that came out of them (besides his Metaverse attire).
Finally, we came across an artist (Wander) who was able to replicate the P3R artstyle. His work is by far some of the most professional I've seen, and I'm glad to have him on the team."
Next up, is our other resident character artist, Carissa. We asked them to translate over Victor's work to a more defined version in which we would use for reveal trailers/VA cards. They did quite the amazing work, and with another character we will reveal further down the line :)
However, we reached an impasse. My pal Alice, who usually busy and occupied with the daily stresses of her life, came to me and pointed out a flaw in the Jester's design:
He was simply too Akechi-like. As a result? It made the Protagonist look younger than intended. It was a bit of a pain in the ass, but we went back to the drawing board and ended up with our final sprite made by our dear sprite artist, Wander.
Despite the hurdles, I loved every part of getting to work with these artists to decide what our MC should look like. What I love about the Jester is that we made him just plain enough blend him with the crowd, but looks can be deceiving. *This* is what a year's worth of concept and redesigning over one character looks like. There are some pretty big plans I have for him that you guys will just have to see!"
Hello, everyone! Team Deity with a pretty important announcement!
As you all may know, our project for the longest time has been rated 18+ for matters of discussion too intense for younger fans of the Persona series.
As of late, the brilliant minds at Project Deity have been brewing up a storm! However, our creativity has been stifled as of late, and it all traces back to some departments not being as full as others.
Work is still being done on the game, so rest assured that there is still a product that will be pushed out. You may be wondering: what is this getting at?
From this moment onward, the age requirement to join as a member of Team Deity has been lowered from 18+, to 16+.
After shifting around some of the content, and working with a much broader audience in mind, we can safely deem this content (somewhat) appropriate for younger contributors/fans (PEGI 16).
Of course, we as a team consisting of older and more experienced developers will take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of younger/inexperienced developers-to-be.
That being said, if you wish to join this project as a contributor, now that this restrictive rule has been alleviated (to a degree) we urge that you apply so that we may potentially cut this game's dev time shorter and shorter!
That's all for now! Thank you for your patience, and we hope to push out some teasers and the like soon!
Hey everyone, Project Director here once again with a serious announcement.
The progress of the game has been going steadily, but we feel as though weekly posts of nothing big is a bit of a let down for weekly posts.
That being said, we will resort to only posting big updates in regard to the project. There will no longer be a guaranteed posting date, but don't worry! We are still in it, and we will get something big out soon!
THE JESTER SYMBOLIZES MUCH OF WHAT THE FOOL SYMBOLIZES.
IGNORANCE...
SPONTANEITY...
AND FREEDOM. HOWEVER, THESE ASPECTS ARE OFTEN SUPPRESSED DUE TO THEIR TRUE NATURE. IN THE CASE OF THE JESTER, THE HOLDER OF THIS ARCANA IS OFTEN MISGUIDED AND UNWILLING TO WORK WITH OTHERS, IN CONTRAST TO THE FOOL, WHO IS COMPATIBLE WITH EVERYONE. THE JESTER IS OFTEN ONE WHO IS MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED AND OFTENTIMES FIND IT EASIER TO DON THE MASK OF SOMEONE IGNORANT, RATHER THEN THEIR IGNORANCE BEING GENUINE.
REGARDLESS OF THEIR INTENTIONS, THEY COULD NOT HAVE ANTICIPATED THE FATE I HAD IN STORE FOR THEM.
I ALWAYS FOUND THE HOLDER OF THE JESTER ARCANA... INTERESTING . EVEN AS THEY POSSESS THE PROSPECT OF INFINITE POWER SIMILAR TO THE FOOL, THEY COULD NEVER MOVE PAST THEIR INADEQUACIES. DESPITE ALL THEY'VE DONE, THEY'VE PUSHED EVERY BOND THEY'VE HABILITATED... FURTHER AWAY FROM THEM.
WHEN THEY TREADED THE WAR-FORGED PATH TO CONTEST ME, THEY FACED MY SUBORDINATE BEFORE THEY COULD SEE MY FACE. THE INNATE POWER THAT THE JESTER HELD, EVEN WITHOUT THE POWER OF THEIR BONDS... WAS BEYOND EXCEPTIONAL. ALL THAT IT TOOK WAS THEIR SANITY. THEIR MIND WAS BROKEN FROM THE TORMENT. THE AGONY THEY FACED WAS ENOUGH TO PUSH THEM PAST THE BRINK OF UNREST...
THEIR EVER-SO TIRED EYES, DARKENED CIRCLES PROMINENT UNDERNEATH THEM. WE'VE DONE THIS DANCE MANY TIMES BEFORE, JESTER. YOUR BRIDLED RAGE AND INSANITY PUSHES YOU TO KILL MY SUBORDINATE AND FACE ME WITH YOUR FIST TAINTED IN THEIR BLOOD, AND A DESIRE TO RESTORE YOUR HONOR.
AND LIKE MANY TIMES BEFORE...
I HUNG YOU BY YOUR CHAIN.
WATCHING YOU SWAY FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS EVERY LIMB IS PULLED AT MY WHIM AND COMMAND. IT SEEMS AFTER ALL YOU'VE FOUGHT FOR AND ALL YOU'VE TRIED TO DENY, YOU COULD NEVER BE ANYTHING MORE THAN A PUPPET.
I SUPPOSE IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO PROCEED WITHOUT FINDING THOSE WHO WILL UPHOLD MY ORDER. ASSIST IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS NEW WORLD ORDER IF YOU DARE. WITH YOUR AID, WE WILL RISE. I AM STILL LOOKING FOR DEVOUT MEMBERS TO FOLLOW ME IN RIGHTEOUS WORSHIP.
The Jester Protagonist is a 22-year-old college graduate with a bachelor's in Criminal Justice and an associate's in Music Education. He is a stoic individual who prioritizes the safety and welfare of others first, and the upholding of the law second.
We could never run out of helping hands! Project Deity is still recruiting talent, and if you're interested in seeing your work in a fangame, the interview process is still going!
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