While rendering the last scenes for Chapter II, I’ve slowly started brainstorming new ideas and plot points for Chapter III. Some of you already saw one of those ideas in the previous post about confidence training.
This time I started thinking about characters who are currently not part of the main cast.Should some of them become regular characters? Should they appear only occasionally as background characters? Or maybe they should remain only in the bonus image section, keeping the main game cast as it is.
One thing I want to avoid is adding characters that appeared in FanArt renders, because those are not my original characters and it wouldn’t be appropriate to use them in the visual novel.
However, while looking through my bonus renders, I found three characters who have appeared several times already, so I thought it might be interesting to ask what you think about them becoming part of the game.
There was also another idea that came up recently while chatting with moryt3690 — a character who is a smoker and gradually loses her limbs because of it.At the moment I can't create a game mechanic where the player dynamically modifies characters, but I could still add progression for existing or new characters over time.
So I decided to make a small poll (multiple options can be selected):