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currently in early stages of making.

this game takes inspiration from dating sims/romance novels we've played most notable ones i'd mention would be our life, dandy boy adventure (18+ so... dont look at that if you're too young.. >:I )

My personal inspiration for this game is feeling a lack from this game genre. every time i pick up a dating sim or romance novel i'm going in with the thought that this is something i can rp! i get to play my own character! i can form the world the way i want! my choices matter! and sometimes this is true but i find most of the time these games are mostly just telling me a story that i get some choice in but my choices dont really affect the overall plot.
i wanna change that tbh.. i feel like romance games could be so much more than that. i mean our life proved it's possible to make a super interactable game thats more than just one year or a few days of the player characters life.
mystic messenger showed us that real time can matter in these games too. 
dandy boy adventures made the entire game interactable so the player is actually playing a game and not just pressing choices on a screen.
there are many more games like this that show that these dating sim games can be so much more than just a picking a pre selected answer and reading for 5 minutes then choosing another one. more than just picking a choice and correctly guessing which answer will give you the most relationship points to further your bond with x characters.

this game i'm hoping is gonna bring gaming elements in while keeping some of that rp'ing romance novel things intact.
i want this game to be a new experience for dating sims/romance novels.
we're currently two people working on it so obviously creating it is gonna be slow especially since our fields are super limited.
we already have a bunch of ideas cooking up and i'd be super interested to hear what other people have of ideas to add aswell.

who are we?

i'm stephanie or that is what my friends call me! i'm an artist with a deep seated love for romance games and by no means a writer... the closest thing i've ever done to writing is homework XD which is gonna be a big handicap for this game i'm sure but we'll figure it out as we go!

my friend working on this game is Scout or that's what i call him atleast XD
my friend is in college for coding and plans to be a game creator of some sort some day (so i've taken the liberty of stealing him for my own evil deeds) my friend is also no writer.

this project's creativity pretty much hangs on me as you can see but that's fair it was my idea to begin with.... Q^Q but i'd like to think it's atleast somewhat fairly parted? i have no idea how coding works so i cant say for sure but he'll have that half entirely to himself.

currently we're just getting an introduction in place for the game and a story no coding has been done it's all very much in the talking phase. but i've personally started writing up a basic script line already.
the game will start with you the player just moving into their new home and getting settled in on their first day.

i hope this game atleast sounds interesting to anyone out there. i think it'd be lovely to add someone with experience writing to our little 2 player team but even if we dont i'm sure we'll figure this out as we get along.
i'm personally pretty set on making this so to me even if my friend drops it long term i'd probably just work through it and figure some out some other way to get the coding done for it.

for now i'm hoping to just talk about it a bit and see maybe some insperation i'd love to hear a bit about what other people wish romance novels had or didnt have theres probably things people would want in a romance novel that they typically dont or that the world has yet to see so shoot some at us and we'll talk about them :D