Looking for individuals who can work on community building, management of Discord servers, insight into marketing strategies and copyediting devlogs, and game publishing pages like Itch. IO, Gamejolt and eventually Steam. The game prototype is in the final weeks before a release package for playtesting and feedback is being made and the project intends to publish its pages with good outreach, comms and community. Comms will also specialise in project updates and devlog tweaks. Comment below if you're interested and we will reach out via discord.
Project details:
Shadows of the Republic
Shadows of the Republic is a Visual Novel RPG set in the historical and turbulent period of Republican China and World War II. Navigate investigations and conversations, building your identity as you deconstruct the world.
Premise
Following the Northern Expedition, the flag of the Blue Sky White Sun was raised across provinces as warlords fell like dominoes. China was now united once more, at least in name and spirit. The fate of the nation had now fallen into better hands. However, not before a new East Asian Empire rises from the East Horizon, eyeing the fragile confederation of warlords, officers and careerists.
You are Fang. One day, you wake up to find your world upended and thrust into a new matrix of shadows and deceit. Navigate 10 chapters of intrigue, betrayal, espionage and shattering events. Start off as a border customs officer in Beijing, uncovering Japanese smuggling and opium exploitation in northern China, work as a double agent for the Kuomintang and the Wang Jingwei Regime in the devastation of Nanjing, and achieve your final mission in the occupied wastelands of Canton.
Features
Personality Development System
Your personality develops through your choices and actions, and this will affect your narrative options, paths through puzzles and investigations, and social interactions. Keen to lie a lot? You will gain a pathological trait that makes the truth difficult to disclose!
Skillcheck System
You will gain 15 "echoes" or skills that enable you to have unique commentary and perspectives on world affairs and insights into people around you. Some echoes are perk-based and tied to your personality and will not scale, such as the Death ECHO, hearing the ghosts of people long gone advising you.
Explore
The world encourages you to go into rooms and locations and wind back to places to reexamine NPCs, objects, thoughts and insight. Interact with small observations to complete investigations.