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?