A bit of Wintercy backstory. A few years back, I made a simple tabletop RPG system to play 1:1s with my son. I called it DVNGEON, and it's a 0ed old-school RPG ruleset excellent for evening-long sessions. I had the basic idea of the Wintercry story for years. More than 10 years, to be specific. I even started a dungeon synth project as a part of the worldbuilding at some point, and it turned out to be quite successful, so you can expect to hear the music from it in the game.
Quick-forward to our age, after playing a few fantasy visual novel gems over the last year, I finally decided that the time for Wintercry had come. Now or never. So, here I am. Converting the whole thing into a dark fantasy text-rich RPG, a visual novel I would enjoy playing myself when nights are dark and mysterious. What can you expect in the game? A classic high fantasy adventure in a dark pre-industrial setting. Some cliches. But, you know, in a good way. Difficult decisions, someone may call a "psychological horror" even. Grim humour. Paper-like experience and minimalist art inspired by soft-cover RPG rulebooks and 60s fiction. Multiple endings. Classes and abilities-based dialogues with just a hint of RNG. A lot of text to read. You see, Wintercry is supposed to be a book, but my blood is too thin for a full-featured novel or at least a graphic novel: those who can't finish a book make indie games. Even though I call the thing a "visual novel", I promise to use tentacles only for good in this game, which is grabbing the ankles of unsuspecting adventurers in the grim world of ice plague. Nothing more than that.
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