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DUA

STORY

“You have seven days to survive, or else the chips in your body will explode.”

Hashimoto Jun, a young novelist, was never expecting that a trip with her boss to the opening of a new mall, would rope her to play death games with five other people. With these strangers, she was forced to work together and escape the mall safely.

This is a story about acceptance, freedom, and love.

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DUA is an otome visual novel with psychological and thriller theme where six people has to participate in death games for seven days. With chips in the different parts of their body that can explode at any moment, they have to work together to survive and escape the mall.


CHARACTERS



Hashimoto Jun
A young novelist who despise the death game. Afraid of the darkness. That fear manifested when she was younger. Doesn’t have any memories about her childhood. Can this nightmare help her regain her lost memories?


Aiko
An enigmatic girl who is hiding something. She acts nonchalant despite being forced to play a death game. Is she brave or is she just not cared about death?


Fukushima Toshiro
A carefree man who respects hardworking people. Loves to tease the person that he likes. However he seemed to be hiding something behind his laid back attitude. Which one is the real him?


Nakayama Kenji
A quiet young man who only speak when it’s necessary. Prefer to speak through his action. Determined to finish the death game and go back to his family.


Ishikawa Uta
A genius pianist who can’t express his emotion really well. He got invited to perform at the mall’s opening ceremony. He seems to be hiding something behind his cold exterior.


Kamada Shusei
A popular idol who has become famous lately. He has a bright personality but gets scared easily. Invited to the mall to perform at the opening ceremony. Afraid with the concept of death and wants to escape so badly.

FEATURES

Visual novel with point and click system
Two female protagonist with different capture targets
Common route and four male routes with different puzzle and endings
Two endings for each capture targets, good and bad ending, and one true ending.
Offers mystery and good puzzle for each days
Exclusive BGM for each characters


INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone. Nice to meet you. My name is Bamboo. This will be my first visual novel project. It has a mystery and thriller theme, which I got inspired from Sweet Fuse, Danganronpa, and Zero Times Series.

This will be quite a big and ambitious project with a team of talented people!

Writers : Bamboo, DeeEks, Ptoughneigh, Maple
Editor/Proofreader : Ptoughneigh
Programmers : Zeil, Maxfield
Composers : 3N, GamerofTheWinds, Joyce
Sprites : Apririnn
CG : Catrocker
BG : Patpourri
GUI : Rizaxillya
GUI Coder : Max


RELEASE DATE
For now, we still don’t have any definitive date for the release date because we are still in the early development of the game.


SOCIAL MEDIA
I just made a Twitter for our team to post our progress. It’s still doesn’t have any post yet but I intend to post more in the future regarding our game development! So, you can follow our twitter to make it easier to follow our progress. https://twitter.com/Bamboo_Forest14



UPDATES

2021.06.13 Game is announced
2021.06.15 Story Timeline finished
2021.06.15 Day 1 Jun’s Timeline finished
2021.06.16 Day 2 Jun + Aiko Timeline finished
2021.06.18 Day 3 Jun + Aiko Timeline finished
2021.06.20 Designing logo + main menu (WIP)
2021.06.21 Day 4 Puzzle finished
2021.06.23 Puzzle Theme #1 Soundtrack completed and mastered
2021.06.24 Ishikawa Uta’s Character BGM finished
2021.07.06 Character sketches finished

QUESTIONS
1. So far, which female protagonist catches your eyes, and why?
2. Which male capture targets do you like the most?
3. Have you ever played mystery or puzzle games, like Zero Times series or Professor Layton? If yes, what makes you like those games?
4. Do you like the concept of playing a vn game with two protagonists?

[OPEN]

searching for composer!!!

[UPDATE]

We finally get a GUI Coder!!

For now, this is going to be closed.

We are going to open it again if we need more people.

Thank you for the interest!!

[UPDATE]

We just need someone who can code GUI now :D

Contact me if you are interested.

Thank you!!

[UPDATE]

We have found a co-writer! But, we need one more!

Other positions are still open!

Contact me if you are interested.

Thank you!!

[UPDATE]

We have found another programmer!

Other positions are still open!

Contact me if you are interested

Thank you!!

[UPDATE]

We have found the CG artists!

Other positions are still open!

Contact me if you are interested

Thank you~~

[UPDATE]

We have found a dev, a gui artist, and a composer

However we need one more dev, especially for coding the script.

Contact me if you are interested!!

[UPDATE]

We have found an background artist!

Other positions are still opened.

Contact me if you are interested!

Thank you :3~~

Hello, my name is Bamboo Rei, you can call me Bamboo. I am a person who always love to play visual novel game and it's been a dream of mine to make one. This project is going to be voluntary work.

But of course I would like to sell this game later on steam/itch.io so we can get the revenue.

I'm a newbie writer and I mostly post my stories in AO3, you can check it if you like "DeeWantsToEatEverything".

The title of this otome is "DUA" (or we can change that later) and it's a story of two girls who got stuck inside a new mall, and they have to escape the mall by playing some death games or the chips in their body will explode. I took inspiration from 999/Danganronpa/Sweet Fuse. The two girls are Hashimoto Jun, a novelist and Aiko, a mysterious girl that has an unknown past. Each girls will have two love interests. Yes! There are two protagonists, but players have to finish at least one route in Jun's story before they can unlock Aiko's story.

The love interests for Jun are :
1. Fukushima Toshiro, CEO of a tech company. Quite a playboy.
2. Ishikawa Uta, a genius pianist, who people think he is cold, but he is actually just an awkward boy who can't socialize with people.
The love interest for Aiko are :
1. Nakayama Kenji, a basketball player, tall and cool
2. Kamada Shusei, a famous idol, a literal sunshine.

I have the basic plotline for the game already, until the ending.

What I need are:

If any of you are interested in this project, please contact me through discord Bamboo Rei#1987 or through my e-mail reibamboo50@gmail.com

Thank you so much!  Looking forward to your responses ^^