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4.5.18

We have been spending the past few days studying and creating a diverse set of characters, but since the school is supposed to have a large population, one of the core ideas was to make each and every character--from the protagonist to even the most insignificant of NPC--be fully fleshed out by someone in the community.

We want the player to be able to have genuine, authentic relationships and interactions with practically anyone in the city. This means you--members of the fanbase--can make any number of characters, of any kind! You can make fellow students or you can make random passerby. The only limit is your imagination.

At least 90% of any characters created for us will be put into the game. There will be restraints on certain types of characters; We will not accept any characters that degrade others for phobia-based reasons (the setting is a warm, welcome community), but characters that are designed to be bullies, narcissists, adolescents, or bad people in general are allowed, solely because those kinds of people exist in real life (No matter where you are). Their actions in-game will, depending on what it is, not be shown. For example, bullies beating up a kid would be shown because the protagonist would be able to stop it, and it (sorry if this offends anyone) isn’t as bad as a lot of other things. Those other, more serious and explicit topics would be implied and not be shown on-screen, as we wish to allow this game to be played by any range of people while remaining realistic and giving the player as much experience as we can.

Clubs

In the school, each club will have around 17-20 students (Though there are a few exceptions we’ll talk about later). You could create a lovable character for some of these clubs:

-Agriculture

-Cuisine club

-LGBT club

-Art club

-Chess club

-Debate team

-Academic team

If you decide to make a character for any of these clubs (Keep in mind these are not all the clubs, we will show the rest later on), tell us what other types of extracurricular activities and classes they would take part of (For instance, the character you make may enjoy art, so outside of the art club they could take classes for photography or creative writing. Or, they could take something completely unrelated). We are currently developing a school-wide schedule, so you can either wait until we release it to create your character or you can just stay in contact with us.

How do you make a character?

Email us at [email protected] or privately message us with a subject titled ADP Characters. You will be credited entirely for any work you do, but if you wish to remain anonymous, you will simply be credited as Anonymous # or another name you would like to be referred to as.

Note: Please keep all characters in the same email chain rather than sending several entirely different emails. This helps to keep us from making any mistakes in crediting.

You can also show us drawing(s) of the character(s) (Mind you it does not have to be amazing, just has to help us figure out what they look like).

Final note: We are beginning to understand more and more about the appearances of our default protagonist as well as the default love interest. We will have drawings of three versions of each (Female, male, and nonbinary) to show soon, along with short descriptions of them.