#wenclair dating sim game

[diudiudiu]

Wenclair Dating Sim Game Preview

Play as Enid Sinclair in a dating sim game set in Nevermore Academy where your main goal is to romance your roommate, Wednesday Addams, before the end of the school year. And, because life as a teenager is hard, try also not to fail school or neglect your other friends.

Very quick video demo:

Just wanted to share something I've been working on when the idea wouldn't leave my mind 😵‍💫 Initial gameplay ideas (subject to change 🤷‍♀️):

Attend class (keep up your school grade)

Earn money (to use for gifts and dates)

Romance/affection system (Wednesday is the only one you can court but don't forget your friends)

Special heart events

Special day events

Multiple endings

Built with Godot 4, my goal is to eventually release this as open source, free for everyone (just don't judge me on my code 👀) Art credits: Modified using shubibubi's assets as a base (full version license)

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wenclair how to build a better boy au nobody asked for but it lives in my brain for a long time so I have to share somewhere

It pretty much starts the same as the movie but Tyler is more like Mae and Wednesday is more like Gabbi, they aren't exactly bullied in school but Tyler has a crush on a dumb jock(Ajax) who everyone thinks is dating Bianca, the queen bee of school.

Then, at one day of boredom where Wednesday and Tyler are having one of their sleepovers, Wednesday tries — because, why not? — to invade her father's HD, in which she believes will have some simulation game that'll lift Tyler's humor up, since he's too sad for not being able to ask Ajax out for The Prom.

Just as the movie, the "game" is actually the top notch project about a new Android weapon that can be customized etc etc, so when Wednesday shows it up to Tyler, both of them still thinking is just a "sim model" they'd have to build, he decides:

"We'll build your dream girl!"

Wednesday, of course, is against it since she "doesn't have a dream girl", so she sarcastically describes the epitome of someone totally opposite to her: blonde, bubbly, social butterfly... Which lead them to build up, "accidentally", Enid Sinclair, who has as her mission to take Wednesday to the Prom and deliver her perfect first kiss.

Of course everything explodes after, they pretend nothing happened(or, if happened, it wasn't their fault).

The next day comes by and while Wednesday and Tyler are at school, people are looking at them much more than normal. Wednesday doesn't mind, Tyler, on the other hand, becomes too self conscious.

Not much later, they discover the source of the comotion: the same girl they created last night is there. Enid Sinclair, in all her happinesses, blondness and charisma, is looking at them and running towards Wednesday, who is petrified, while Tyler can only think "What did we do?!".

and well the rest of the movie would have to develop differently since Wednesday is not as happy by Enid's presence as Mae was with Albert's and the side plot changes a little. Also, Pugsley and Eugene would fulfill Bart's role. but i don't really have the full idea formed so that's the end for now i guess.

[diudiudiu]

Hi, how have you been?

How is the Wenclair dating sim going?

👋👋👋 The game is...going lol.

Some more screenshots of the characters and academy:

Long story short: I made a bunch of progress on it before deciding to take a small step back and rethink the think because it grew a bit out of control (in a good way). I'm hoping to first do a smaller release of another Wednesday/Wenclair game idea I have before going back to my dating sim.

Longer story: my excitement for my dating sim game along with my wealth of ideas overtook me. That, along with my inexperience with Godot 4 led to me pretty much focussing too much on everything.

Though my dating sim game pretty much has all the independent gameplay elements working, it's been tricky actually piecing them together. I tried to make my game engine be flexible enough from the start to work with everything I wanted and run smoothly that I essentially overengineered it to a point where it's clear my overall structured was not right ☠️ (Which is no good because when I did manage to put things together, stuff kept breaking. But also, the saddest thing was that it was no longer fun for me to work on)

So, I decided to take a small break from it to regain my bearings and start again with something less complex so I'm more confident in what I end up releasing. This has now resulted in a stepping stone Wednesday/Wenclair game project I have which will follow a more episodic and linear format so it'll be easier for me to get a better grasp of Godot 4 and reuse things for my dating sim eventually.

This new project has been going much better and I have already been able to take things from my dating sim project to improve on. It's just taking me some time to work on, esp with this time of year being generally busier for me.

Probably not the kind of response that was expected but it's slowly getting there 😬

[diudiudiu]

Wenclair Dating Sim Game Update #1

It's been over a week since I posted my preview for a Wenclair dating sim game project I'm working on and I wanted to share more of my progress :)

For anyone interested, these are implemented so far (subject to change and further improvements):

More of the Nevermore Academy campus (places to explore, including for class attendance and a shop to purchase things)

Schedules (for attending classes and gathering NPCs)

Grade penalties for missing classes

Branching dialogue system

Affection system based on dialogue and gifts

More sprites, including uniforms

An actual UI, including a minimap

Will see where else this project takes me 🫡

[diudiudiu]

Day 20-something of finding unexpected things in my game Lol, should I keep this in? 👀😳

[diudiudiu]

The game looks awesome, and its understandable to take a break. I was just wondering since its a good idea that i havent seen anyone implement into a game yet!

ty! the art is def the hardest bit for me to learn (even if it's as simple as modifying existing sprites lol)

though its not the dating sim premise, hopefully the other smaller wednesday/wenclair game project i'm working on will maybe be interesting to others besides me lmao either way, it'll all be stuff i can reuse for the dating sim when i get back to it 😊