What Kind Of Game Is This?

[GuRu Asaki]

What Can I Expect?
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Are There Going To Be Any Costumes From Anime?
Are There Going To Be Any Normal Non-Anime Clothing?
Is there any swim wear or a Pool in Game?
How much Content do you intend to allow People to buy in Game?

What Is There To Do, Besides Dating?

Is There Ever Going To Be An Online Meeting Ground?
Kinda like a Place where you Meet & Socialize Online?

How big is the City to Explore? (Outside & Inside)





I like this Game a lot, but if Dating is all you can do?
--- I'm not sure this is for me...

Plz let me know?

[Shoujo City]

1. All clothes are based on anime/Japanese designs. But if you mean exact replicas of costumes from specific titles, then no, I cannot use them due to copyright restrictions.
2. There is a variety of casual clothes, like jackets, skirts (for girls), t-shirts, jeans (for boys), etc. If that's what you meant.
3. Yes. Yes.
4. There is a conbini designed after a typical Family Mart, a store for clothes, vending machines, and also food stalls/miscellaneous goods in various locations.
5. The main focus of the game is school life. Dating is just one of optional activities. It will be possible to play while ignoring the dating aspect altogether, if one chooses so.
6. There won't be any form of multiplayer or online functionality. All game features and mechanics were designed with single-player experience in mind, so adding multiplayer on top of it makes little sense. There is just no gameplay that could accommodate interactions between multiple players in any meaningful way.
7. All locations are small, because I'm focusing on detailed and authentic designs vs big open spaces that would be filled with generic empty buildings. The game has a lot of explore in terms of Japanese culture (e.g., 100+ authentic cooking recipes, school tests on all periods of Japanese history - from Kofun and until Meiji restoration, 100 different omikuji based on accurate Buddhist verses, etc.), but in terms of square feet (space), it's small.

My Twitter is linked on the game's page, so you can check it for previews of almost everything discussed here. Every few days I post updates on various game features that I'm currently working on.

[Elucidator]

I liked the shoujo city project and as you mentioned its really the details. Like 3D dating sim is one thing, but ... the immersion.
Things like doing some homework, drawing kanji or whatever; it creates a sense of immersion that only 3D can offer properly. I'll look forward to seeing Anime City develop.

[MikuruX]

It's an attempt to recreate Ai Sp@ce to some degree but not completely as most of the games assists (if not all) are from Ai Sp@ce.

[Shoujo City]

Originally posted by MikuruX:

It's an attempt to recreate Ai Sp@ce to some degree but not completely as most of the games assists (if not all) are from Ai Sp@ce.

My previous game (Shoujo City 3D) had some elements inspired by ai sp@ce (e.g., Akihabara map layout and water gun mini-game), but this project doesn't have much in common. Apart from overall anime aesthetics, maybe. But similar aesthetics are also shared by most other anime games out there, I think.

[Kawzier]

Any intention of mod support? While the game doesn't have that many eyeballs at the moment it would give the potential for community content in addition to the base game content later down the road. a game such as this (life/school sim?) has a lot of potential in modding.

Either way, game looks like it has much potential!

[Shoujo City]

Originally posted by Kawzier:

Any intention of mod support? While the game doesn't have that many eyeballs at the moment it would give the potential for community content in addition to the base game content later down the road. a game such as this (life/school sim?) has a lot of potential in modding.

Unlikely, sorry. Depending on what exactly should be made moddable, it could entail many months of dedicated work and rebuilding a lot of game design/code.

And we are talking here about a lot of work invested with vague hopes that some day, maybe, there will be enough of modding community to make use of it. Otherwise all that work would be wasted for nothing.

My time is not infinite, so if I'm making feature A, I'm not making feature B, and vice-versa. And right now it is very hard for me to find any logical justification for why it makes sense to invest several months of work to add mod support for custom clothes (0% guarantee that anybody would ever use it), instead of dedicating the same amount of time and making (for instance) a new Okinawa beach map with fishing, water gun battles, and campfires (100% guarantee that 100% of players would use it).

So... I'm not saying this idea is completely off the table, but for the time being, I don't think it would be good & reasonable investment of my development time.