Posted April 02, 2022 by Steg Game Dev
#visual novel #game design
Okay, so, like, this is the third Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! game.... but it's noooooooooooooooot?
The first Furries & Bears game was a bear to write, and then rewrite. It was also my first commissioned title, so I was working under conditions and restrictions and wants and needs that caused me a lot of stress. A lot of anxiety.
1) It was our first furry/anthro game.
2) It needed to have a lot of elements that I and the rest of the company were not familiar with, but were willing to experiment with.
3) We needed to hit four tentpoles of the game design in order to please our contract and our contractor.
But the game was a hit. So much that we fast tracked a sequel. We managed to get the rights to use the original's name but none of the first game's characters. Our original artist, who is back for this game, was not open for new business, so we used a different artist and a decidedly much more experimental storytelling structure.
But for a third game, we wanted to both bring it back to basics as well as make it ours. We didn't want to start something new that was tangled up halfway in someone else's property. So the third Furries & Bears game isn't really the third Furries & Bears game. It's also set within our grand scheme of adapting every Shakespeare play into a game, so it's officially under the Paper Shakespeare/Furry Shakespeare banner as well. The play happens to be Edward III.
So, you know, enjoy.