#kitt rambles

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.