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Hey, everyone ^w^
For a good few years now, I've been a fan of the ongoing psychological horror/thriller visual novel Lucid9 by Fallen Snow Studios, which I highly recommend to anyone who read Doki Doki Literature Club and didn't find it depressing or scary enough. The ending of the first part of the game, however, killed off a character that a lot of people really liked in order to reinforce the game's grimdark tone. While it served a valid purpose in the plot, I felt that the two main characters were written well enough that more stories, albeit non-canon ones, could be told about them.
The narrative universe, particularly the fictional megacity of Isamu, Japan, was ripe for speculative worldbuilding, in my opinion, and served as an excellent potential foundation for a setting-based narrative for a story that reflects the world-weary zeitgeist of the early 2020s.
I'd like to announce that I'm developing a fangame based on the characters and narrative universe of Lucid9, but with a few significant twists. In this game, you'll explore the technologically-advanced, authoritarian dystopia that the city of Isamu has become from the perspective of Rui Hayata, a once-innocent high school student transformed into a cold-blooded, cybernetic killer by necessity and the will of the Way Forward Corporation. As Rui, you'll need to make use of your skills in diplomacy and combat to forge alliances and save Isamu and its people from a viral epidemic intent on finishing off a broken and weakened world.
Since a lack of talent on my end has led me to make use of pre-existing assets as placeholders, this project will likely be updated to Unlisted status upon completion due to legal stuff. As a heavily politicized work featuring occasional lewd humor, strong language, and themes of war and violence, the finished product will also be rated R-18. Despite the fact that I can't claim ownership of anything in or related to this fangame, or the fangame itself, I'd still like to share some details on what I've been working on in this forum post.
In addition to these cards, I've also created some demo sprites using screencaps of 3d models from CharaStudio, all of which are in an even grayer area in terms of laws relating to intellectual property and things that could be considered it.
Since I'm not entirely sure if the game can be played without the risk of save corruption or flags behaving weirdly because of my inability to configure them, I've included a link below to a video walkthrough playlist of the game thus far that I add to regularly (about every one or two weeks)
I also feel morally obligated to include a link to the Lucid9 development blog where you can check out the game that this fanwork is based on. It's also, like, ten times better than whatever the heck I'm trying to do here ( ´ ω ` )
Fangame Walkthrough Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhghY2ALFkwkn1YwebCQDJONnDpay2H_F
The Actual (and substantially better) Game: http://lucid9.weebly.com/
Thanks for checking out my post! I look forward to hopefully creating more of this, even though I have no idea how any of it is going to turn out.
-spartancupcake23
For a good few years now, I've been a fan of the ongoing psychological horror/thriller visual novel Lucid9 by Fallen Snow Studios, which I highly recommend to anyone who read Doki Doki Literature Club and didn't find it depressing or scary enough. The ending of the first part of the game, however, killed off a character that a lot of people really liked in order to reinforce the game's grimdark tone. While it served a valid purpose in the plot, I felt that the two main characters were written well enough that more stories, albeit non-canon ones, could be told about them.
The narrative universe, particularly the fictional megacity of Isamu, Japan, was ripe for speculative worldbuilding, in my opinion, and served as an excellent potential foundation for a setting-based narrative for a story that reflects the world-weary zeitgeist of the early 2020s.
I'd like to announce that I'm developing a fangame based on the characters and narrative universe of Lucid9, but with a few significant twists. In this game, you'll explore the technologically-advanced, authoritarian dystopia that the city of Isamu has become from the perspective of Rui Hayata, a once-innocent high school student transformed into a cold-blooded, cybernetic killer by necessity and the will of the Way Forward Corporation. As Rui, you'll need to make use of your skills in diplomacy and combat to forge alliances and save Isamu and its people from a viral epidemic intent on finishing off a broken and weakened world.
Since a lack of talent on my end has led me to make use of pre-existing assets as placeholders, this project will likely be updated to Unlisted status upon completion due to legal stuff. As a heavily politicized work featuring occasional lewd humor, strong language, and themes of war and violence, the finished product will also be rated R-18. Despite the fact that I can't claim ownership of anything in or related to this fangame, or the fangame itself, I'd still like to share some details on what I've been working on in this forum post.
Promotional Graphic for Echoes: A Lucid9 Fangame, featuring an edited version of the District 3 background from the original game and a 2d sprite of this fangame's version of Rui rendered using Illusion's CharaStudio
As of writing this, the fangame is currently sitting at about 120,000 words after almost a year of writing. While it's filled with bugs, and nowhere near completion, I've created some "codex cards" thus far to outline some of the major organizations in the game. Some, like Way Forward and Lemniscate, already exist in the actual game, but others, such as Kazehaya Combine and the Special Services Division (Rui's employer) have been added into whatever the heck this alternate universe is based on (or not based on) details from the actual game.
In addition to these cards, I've also created some demo sprites using screencaps of 3d models from CharaStudio, all of which are in an even grayer area in terms of laws relating to intellectual property and things that could be considered it.
Since I'm not entirely sure if the game can be played without the risk of save corruption or flags behaving weirdly because of my inability to configure them, I've included a link below to a video walkthrough playlist of the game thus far that I add to regularly (about every one or two weeks)I also feel morally obligated to include a link to the Lucid9 development blog where you can check out the game that this fanwork is based on. It's also, like, ten times better than whatever the heck I'm trying to do here ( ´ ω ` )
Fangame Walkthrough Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhghY2ALFkwkn1YwebCQDJONnDpay2H_F
The Actual (and substantially better) Game: http://lucid9.weebly.com/
Thanks for checking out my post! I look forward to hopefully creating more of this, even though I have no idea how any of it is going to turn out.
-spartancupcake23
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