âClanmatesâ is a warriors fangame in progress. It is nonprofit, and will be free to play when it is completed.
I personally am not as big of a fan of warriors as I used to be⌠the last book I read was âApprentices Questâ and I thought it was very poorly written.
However I was talking with one of my old friends who is a warriors fan, ( @angel-hawk if you must know) and I was just a little bit inspired again.
I have always been more of a Harry Potter and Redwall sort of girl, but talking about warriors again stirred something⌠An itch I guess. Iâve always been terrible at drawing cats, so I never drew any fan-art, and I was never really the type of person to write fan-fiction.
I love fan-comics, thatâs about it.
But it hit me- why not make a dating sim?
All the warriors games out there are kind of lame, so who knows? Maybe I could make an acceptable fangame?
As someone who wants to make visual novels in the future, it would be a very low stake way for me to practice coding and I could try my hand with something that wasnât close to my heart, like my own characters.
âClanmatesâ will feature four dateable characters:
It will also feature the four most common dating sim personality types:
It is up to you to play and tell which is which ;D each cat is from a different clan and you basically start your route by choosing which clan to be in. I will not be writing a visual novel about existing characters because there are far too many characters to choose from, and plus I donât want to go too far down the copyright rabbithole :T
If you are interested in this project, then hereâs some good news for you!
I am considering making âClanmatesâ a community project!
This means that If this gets enough people interested, then I will host livestreams where you can watch me work on the game, and I will take audience suggestions and requests for the plot and dialogue options!
Also, I am an artist, but as I stated before, my ability to draw cats is very⌠poor at best.
You can find my art here: https://lear-is-not-amused.deviantart.com/
As I want to make a good quality game (and visual novels are only fun because you get cool and pretty CG) I want to offer good quality artwork for the routes and not my awkward, botched attempts at practicing cats.
So if you want to support the project, and you are a decent artist who draws warrior cats, then you are more than free to donate some art to be used as the CG of this game!
Just let me know if youâre interested, Â and Iâll let you know what sort of scenes we will be looking for ;D
Not all artwork donations will be accepted as the CG of the game, however, if thereâs enough support for the game, I will add in a âgalleryâ feature where everyone can see the art people made for this game.
I am telling you ahead of time, that if you do want to draw the CG then-
You will not be payed. This is a non-profit game. I cannot sell it as Warriors does not belong to me, nor would I do that after promising a non-profit game. I am too poor a human being to spend a lot of money on something that is being made for fun.
And I am not going to say that you will get ârecognitionâ because i canât promise that, and recognition doesnât pay the bills. If you are an artist looking for commission, then Iâm afraid I canât give you anything.
Nor am I going to ask for money donations for this game. Itâs just a fangame, itâs nothing that I need financial support on.
The most I can promise you is that you will get to see your work in the game when this is completed.
Also I feel it best to say that if you do want to donate your artwork to the game, then you are NOT obligated to draw every single CG image for the game!
I am perfectly happy to have a bunch of people donate one really good CG image each, than have one poor artist do every CG picture.
So if you want to draw just ONE picture, and nothing more, you are very welcome to do so. You are not expected to help with this game anymore than you want to!
So thatâs that. If there is enough support from the Warriors community, then I think that this could be a very fun little project to work on! :)
If there isnât much support, then hey, Iâll still work on it a little bit, but it will probably take way longer. But as I said before, I plan for this to be a very low-stake piece, thatâs just for fun.