As promised, here is a not-so-brief synopsis of the dating sim I'm working on!
Lend Me Your Heart is a visual novel in which you are a transfer student going to a new university (thanks to your old university for axing your major program, sigh). Your new university puts you in the upperclassmen housing they offer, so you don't have to worry about getting an apartment, but the building you were placed in is rumored to be... Cursed. People say that the basement is haunted, that you can hear screams coming from the rooms, that people lose their minds when they live there. The basement also happens to be where you're moving in. Which is... Fantastic.
You're the last person to move in on the floor, so you're able to get to know everyone right away. They all seem nice enough, not without their quirks, but nothing off-putting (and they're all quite attractive). Where, then, are all of these rumors coming from? Everyone else is also new to the basement this year, so maybe the curse was broken the year before? You hope for that, but strange things are already happening...
Less story-like description of the game + content warnings under the cut!
Lend Me Your Heart is a yandere dating sim, in which you live in a dorm surrounded by characters who become completely and utterly enamored with you. Enough to do some horrible things to keep you safe.
The game has five main love interests, with two or three non-romanceable, but important, side characters (currently). Each character has a different path of study in school and different... Methods to their madness. Which you learn about the further you progress on their routes! It's a visual novel, so your agency is based on dialogue choices (which may have more relevancy than you think no matter which ending you plan to get!)
If you like the handful of yandere imagines I wrote on my imagines blog, you'll probably like this.
Some more non-story stuff: You can choose the pronouns you use, it doesn't restrict you from getting any routes. If you choose not to input anything for pronouns, the game uses he/him by default. The current love interest options are all men, and have canon appearances already.
I'll introduce the characters (featuring some of my very messy sketches of them) soon!
Right now I'm making it in RenPy, but that may change if I need things that I can't do in it! (Although honestly given the games created by RenPy in the past, I think it may work fine for my needs)
What you will encounter depends on which route you focus on, so this list will definitely get expanded upon as the game gets closer to having some kind of release, but generally speaking:
Content Warnings:
Yandere trope (especially obsession)
Stalking
Blood/Gore (written descriptions will often be more detailed/potentially gruesome than visual art) (I can't draw gore well)
I'm SicklySweet (is that a name? I'm counting it as one because that's what my branding is!) and this blog is functioning as a progress log for my dating sim, Lend Me Your Heart! (A post detailing the plot more is coming next)
I wanted a place beyond just a giant document to hold all of my info, and I figured posting it somewhere people could see it would be nice, especially once I get some form of the game posted somewhere (probably itchio)!
I may also eventually post stuff from other projects, but that'll come later.
You may recognize me/my writing style from my imagines blog, @sickly-sweet-imagines -- yes that's also me! I've stopped posting on that imagines blog, largely due to disrespect I received from certain people, but I'm still alive and well as a creator! If you enjoyed my fics, you'll probably also enjoy Lend Me Your Heart (when it's in a less abstract pre-alpha state, haha)
I'll have my ko-fi linked in a few places on this blog, and the commissions I offered via ko-fi on my imagines blog still stand! For now, at least, that may change if I get busier, but I'm still gonna keep writing commissions available for people as long as I can.
I'm not entirely sure what I'll put on this blog yet, honestly. I have a lot of rough sketches of characters and stuff, but I've gone through design evolutions and such that make me hesitant to post the original sketches. Plus, I can only really upload traditional art right now since I don't have my drawing tablet with me, and I'm not sure how high quality my photos can get... I'll have to think about it more. But I hope people can enjoy my creations if they run into them! My writing is far better than my visual art in my opinion, so I'll definitely be balancing both of those when I post! It won't be all one or the other.
I think that's everything for my introduction! Again, a post about the game itself (the general plot and any content warnings, mostly) will be coming next ^-^
