#speaking of this old idea i wonder how much rpgmaker costs

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📖 I love hearing abt this kind of stuff because I have a ton of story concepts too lol

Ohhh alright so

Pretty much since around middle school I’ve been wanting to create an RPG game in the style of like Yume Nikki or Dreaming Mary, ‘cause I love those games.

I wanted the main character to be a kid with purple hair (when I first conceived of them I was flip-flopping between calling them Iolite, Iokaste and Ione but I’m still not sure what I’ll end up naming them), and the whole game would be really pastel with kind of a kidcore/babycore aesthetic goin’ on. All of the other characters are toys of some kind, like there’s a plush elephant named Emmerson and he lives in one of those plastic playhouses kind of like this one with his boyfriend (a plush mouse). I also thought it might be fun if there were areas with more specific themes goin’ on, like a big city with hot pink skyscrapers where fashion dolls live versus a little village of stuffed animals where the hills are made of quilts. 

Obviously it’s not all pleasant, since I drew my inspiration from Yume Nikki and Dreaming Mary. I was mostly intending for the story to be about the protagonist struggling to leave behind their childhood and transition into adulthood, but I’m not quite sure how I’d represent that within the setting I have in my head. Unlike my inspirations, I kind of don’t want there to be any moments where we see the protagonist’s reality. I want the whole story to take place inside this cute childhood wonderland and I only want their struggle to represented through like symbolism and stuff. Maybe there needs to be a companion character that kind of serves as an avatar for the protagonist? Like you could assume that things which happen to your partner on this journey are sometimes representative of things that are happening to the protagonist IRL? idk.

The overall message I have in mind for the game would basically be that becoming an adult doesn’t mean never having fun ever again, but there might be a bad ending too.