BASEDMG'S PROFILE

What's this? BasedMG, back from the dead?

I was browsing through my old Kotone tachie while trying to come up with a less cluttered angle for her, and I saw something I never thought I'd see again. Before I show you, however, I'd like to set the mood.

It's late at night, and you've been working hard on writing your story; putting together code, and extensive playtesting to make sure it works. You decide to spice up a certain scene by adding a "shadowed" version of the character to be revealed after the initial shock of "bumping into" that character. So you open up her tachie, take the neutral pose, and put in a black mask over the character. It looks good and fine in your editor, so you save it and import it straight into the game. You play until you reach the scene, and this pops up on your screen.

I still don't want to look at it. Gave me quite the scare when I first saw it. In regards to actual route progress, I believe I've half-heartedly mentioned some idea of starting Kotone over from scratch, and I still wish to write her story. My only problem is that I don't know what story I want to tell with her yet. I originally wanted to portray the story of a girl who was struggling with way too much for any regular teenager to deal with. On top of familial issues and a somewhat crippling insomnia, Kotone also had to deal with the prospect of not graduating second year with the rest of her class, as well as maintaining her part-time job so she could make money enough to leave the familial issues. And if <player> were to screw up their relationship, there would be the fourth worry of not being able to trust the one you love.

Needless to say, I had a lot of ideas for the character that I felt were just stacking up way too high. I like the insomnia angle, but adding in insomnia just to have it makes it seem like I'm trying to write for Katawa Shoujo forcing something just to have a "unique" character. I feel like she needs the depth that all those problems brought, but I can't realistically look at it and say I'm content with what kind of story what would write. I feel like I tend to circle around issues rather than address them head on, so it would help me greatly if I had some feedback on how I should pursue the route.

Tl;dr: Should I go heavy on the drama and issues, or lay it back more and focus on the kind of slice-of-lifey romance that Heartache is known for?**

Cheers!

**That's not to say Heartache doesn't have character conflicts, but it seems they're a bit more subdued than the kind I was going to write.

author=Kevincalanor
But the prologue said that the school were divided in a male (north) and female (south) wing.

The line that says the school is divided also mentions that there are some exceptions to the rule, but what might cause such an exception is up to the content creator. I haven't played Uchioniko or Yuu's routes in depth, so I can't give any examples save for Kotone's. The game mentions that there are some classes the boys take in the girl's wing and vice versa, so Kotone's found asleep after the previous class, after one such switch.

So, I'm currently in that limbo where I want to write for Kotone but I can't seem to get any ideas or thoughts onto the proverbial paper. I'm not abandoning the project by any means, it's just going to take a bit lot longer for me to get her route done. I apologize for any inconveniences this causes, but rest assured I haven't forgot about our resident sleepy pianist~

I'd like to say something grand like "The entire time I was gone I was able to finish all of Kotone's route and then some! \o/"

...But, sadly, that isn't the case. Truth be told I kind of lost interest for a while, as these things are bound to happen now and then when you're not on a strict deadline. But now that I'm feeling it again, I'll have another update within the week, and I'll try to make it a good one.

Pre-Beta v0.3 released!

• Handy dandy link(for those who don't like to read)

• Official Release Post(for those who want details)