Hi, hi~
I'm very happy to make this devblog!
A little about me and this project:
You can call me Waffles and I'm an artist but I've always been into games since very little! So I've been wanting to make my very first visual novel when I was 11. I've always been a big fan of RPG games and Adventure Point & Click too and thought that I might want to include that in my Visual Novel! So time passed and life got in the way and I kinda abandoned that project...UNTIL some time ago when I looked at it and was like I need to finish this! So...this is why I've joined this jam!
About the game:
The game is called A Cursed Traveler's tale. It is about Fanstasy/Comedy, Adventure, Dark Magic and Time travel!
Here's the game story:
And the features planned are:
- A character creation at the beggining of the game;
- Custom name and pronouns for the player;
- Adventure game style gameplay;
- An inventory, money and shop system;
- Phone message system;
- In-game Calendar with events!
- Jobs, HP system, stats and cooking/crafting system with REAL recipes!
- 5 routes (2 female characters and 3 male characters), all with different endings depending on player choices;
- Other Dating sim mechanics;
- CG gallery and unlockable content;
- And more!
Before this jam, many of these features had already been implemented but just for testing purposes since I was not expecting to get this project to something for people to play. It was just my way of learning and I was having a lot of fun...but then I thought that It would be nice to see if I could actually get a demo and make an actual game in the end. I got so hooked up with the story and characters that I wanted it to be a an actual game!
So, for this jam I've promised myself that I would upgrade the old code and re-write the story and actually take this old project of mine and make something nice with it~
I've found amazing people along the way who had helped with this little project but I'm mostly doing it all by myself~ I'm doing GUI, Sprites, Items, Backgrounds and Story on my own and I did the code too but since I am not a programmer I've been stuck with some parts of it so I've found great people who were willing to help~
You'll find more info about this game on it's official game page here! And I'll try to keep this devblog updated~
Okay, enough talk! Let me show you some images~
First some BG sketches:
I still don't have Sprites to show since I am working on them right now but I'll update this when I'm done!
And here's some screenshots of gui:
You'll be able to cook! The player will unlock recipes that other characters will teach them~
There's a character creator at the beggining of the game, with custom pronouns!
A working phone with different features, like a map to travel to locations!
You'll have your very own PC to upgrade different stats! You'll need them for getting some specific love interests routes and to advance in the story~
And this is just a quick example of how the choices and the dialog look like!
Welp, that's all for now! I'll update this again once I make more progress with characters~
Thank you so much for reading this and remember to never abandon your dreams!
