Future title (Patreon)

So, Starlust was going to be my next game after Tailor Tales. The concept was that you'd sign up for a dating app, and be able to chat with singles and take them out on dates. Casual, more realistic, and just fun.

With the release of The Ssum, a mobile game by Cheritz, they focused on a single LI and you could chat with him. Riddled with microtransactions, and general ways to block the player from progressing to encourage them to spend money, lots of people ended up getting annoyed at the game. They also found the LI, Teo, really boring.

It doesn't help the translation is pretty bad so you have no idea what they're saying.

Anyways.

It really got me thinking about my future title. It won't be riddled with microtransactions, and you could date more than one LI - but still, maybe a chat simulator without a story or plot isn't that interesting in the long run.

So I was already thinking of a different concept. I'd still like the chatting part to stay, but I think a cool concept would be if you were to log into a 'fake' game, an online RPG, where you'd meet partymembers. You can befriend these people and chat with them, eventually date them. The fake game would be a dungeon crawler type game, and you'd actually traverse through these dungeons (though it would be relatively simple gameplay) and meet new people. There would also be a story.

Whilst working on Aiden's route and making the chat simulator as well as the small League-type game, I thought it would be nice if you could actually play the in-universe game yourself. More immersive that way. So the dungeon crawler idea sounds nice to me.

Still, I'd love to hear your input! I know the previous poll had quite a bit of 50/50 on the RPG-idea and the chat idea, so perhaps people would enjoy a mash-up of them.

So what type of game would interest you more?