I've only just realised that itch has forums so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
It's a video game due to it's interactive nature but is more like a visual novel in the sense that it's button pressing for different routes, but instead of reading it's animation. I already have like 3 other project ideas currently and this is still in the early stages, but I was curious to see if anyone else was interested.
The "plot" is a typical anime harem, you know the kinds: the deredere, the kuudere, the himedere and the tsundere, all of which are their only personality traits. However the main guy isn't a typical anime protagonist as this guy no-clipped through the floor from a different universe and is designed to be the only one there with actual common sense. There's this lingering feeling of danger as the main guy is a human in an psuedo-Japan high school full of vampires that lack any consistency in their behaviour or thought patterns due to the universe essentially being a badly written lovey-dovey story with all the writing flaws and over the top anime tropes you can think of!
I haven't planned many scenes yet but one I have thought of is how one of the main girls gets introduced by the typical "running into each other" trope. The guy asks if the girl is okay and then gets concerned when the girl nosebleeds everywhere and he takes her to the nurse as he has no idea what's going on but just saw the girl chuck a litre out of her nose and the nurse just kinda stands there and the guy gets freaked out and slowly walks away; all of which takes place without a pause to breathe. The idea I'm trying to explain is what seems to be a satire of anime tropes with the comedy stemming from the main guy being the only one who acts and reacts like a normal human would while everyone else are all over the place in terms of realism. Characters will behave sporadically to their personalities, which combined with the fact that he's the only human in a 10 mile radius and has no idea how anime works as he's never watched any, causes this feeling of unease as (if I do a good enough job at writing him) you will be in the shoes of the guy, trying to survive in a world that seems to keep changing it's rules due to a lack of world building and everything quickly starts to crumble away as the main guy tries to figure out how to get back to his home universe, if there even is a way, while having to deal with 4 horny vampire girls and some other plot that I haven't fully figured out yet, but my idea is like a "chosen one" kind of thing with the main guy just refusing to play along at that point and this parody montage segment where he works out at the gym and is still as weak as he was before and the "ultimate weapon" is a blunt kitchen knife that somehow gets the job done because "the power of friendship" or something idk. The main guy designs clothes and stuff, he isn't a fighter type and he knows it but the world is in his favour when it feels like it which really starts to screw with his mind.
It's essentially an interactive harem (ie, which of the 4 main girls do you trust the most not to try drain you of your blood) with different paths depending on who you pick, that reveals itself to be more and more disturbing, not in a traditional horror sense with jumpscares and loose eyeballs, but in a psychological sense as you follow the main guy as he tries to figure out even just a clue on how the world and it's society works so he can figure out how to get back home, but the fact that nobody acts rational or consistent enough to figure anything out makes him slowly go insane, and paired with the chosen one subplot and yeah, not a fun time for him. Also the fear that at any moment someone could randomly go insane and try to harm him, especially because 2 of the main girls are dangerous people, he's constantly on edge. However the girl that you choose also slowly starts to realise how badly written the world is and becomes less of a 1 traited nuisance, and more of a powerful ally. The challenge is trying to survive long enough to reach that stage though.
My plan is to release it in episodes here on itch and on Newgrounds (each episode being added onto 1 project though) as the animation bit's gonna take too long if I did it in 1 chunk. The voice acting's gonna be in English because I'm not fluent in Japanese, but it'll add to the pseudo-japan-ness of it all with random weeb Japanese thrown in to make it seem like some kind of 13 year old's fanfiction. Definitely not this year though as I have to do more research on this genre of anime as I prefer more serious action stuff but I need to know exactly what I'm parodying first for it to be effective. Is this a good idea? It's still in early stages and I hope I explained my vision clearly enough for you to get the general idea.
Also the fanservice character's name is literally "back pain" in Japanese because her breasts are so big she has trouble keeping balance when walking.
It's so on the nose but I find it funny (I got inspiration for the bad names from Yandere Simulator. Only the main characters have actual Japanese names).
She's the best friend of one of the main 4 (the deredere) so if you go down that route then she starts to realise how she always seems to fall in unfortunate positions (really not looking forward to drawing those) and she tries to look for a cure. You get to know her better too and is really interested in neuroscience but in any other route she's just the girl with the unnaturally large breasts that fell down the stairs, landed on her back in a fanservic-y position, got up, called the main guy a pervert even though he was more concerned that she might have seriously damaged something and is trying to call a hospital to make sure she didn't get paralysis or broke a bone, and then she just walked off like nothing happened while the main guy watches in bewilderment.
Oh and also the main guy is very popular (which is how he got those 4 girls obsessing over him) but has friendship issues due to him having a lot of fake friends in the past as he's the child of 2 famous celebrities who's trying to be known as a separate person and not in correlation with his parents. However because nobody here knows who his parents are, he has a better chance to be successful on his own (he likes designing clothes and stuff) which causes conflict in his mind when he tries to plan a way on leaving.
Basically he isn't the "loser who plays video games all day" kind of MC, if you get what I mean.