Let's Play the Hero Gacha
A project for the 2023 Yuri Game Jam
This is a bit of a "devlog" of sorts, documenting the progress I've made on my game as I make it. It's what I would consider my first "real" game development project. I've worked on a few before, but they either never came to fruition, or were nothing more than jokes (looking at you, Torb Fighter). I've been knocking an idea like this throughout my brain for a while now, but it was really only shot forward when I saw the game jam and decided to actually get into the saddle again.
Essentially, this is the product of a silly little lesbian wanting some equivilent to a harem anime, but with wlw. Of course, this means the protaganist needs to be just as insufferable as any other harem protag. To my best attempt, anyway. You can actually find her on my 404 page, funnily enough! But what started as a bit of a thought on a whim turned into a more developed "story" bit by bit. What if this girl was helplessly addicted to gacha? What if she happened to get an app that summoned the heros to the actual world? At first, I was going to make it a "new" gacha that just appeared on her phone one day, but a couple weeks of thinking and I realized it would be much better if it was just an established game, with fans across the globe. Mostly for interactions involving that (and seeing themselves as marketable plushies). I like to consider it a "reverse isekai" in a way.
I would say the game is still in its' infancy. Almost all of the sprites are placeholders, and the mechanics are being worked on day by day. My main goal right now is to get a "product" ready for the final day of the game jam. Of course, I don't intend to charge for it. This is more to prove to myself that I
Anyway, rambling aside, I'll use this to kinda update on what I'm doing and how far I've come. Partly to anyone that's interested, and partly to keep a focus on how much I've actually done compared to what I could've done before. Here's some pictures.
