This thread is a follow-up to a thread I made in the design subforum, the base idea is that the stats of your allies are based solely on the degree of friendship they have with them. In a gauge, it would be metered between the like of “Arch-Nemesis”, passing through “Situational Ally”, and maybe even, in extreme cases, er, “Forever Lover”.
You’d gather friendship (or hardship) based solely through dialogue through out the story.
In a battle, when you choose your allies, the highest the level of friendship they have, the higher their damage. Be careful to choose allies with low friendship, as they can even turn against you in the battle! Conversely, the higher the hate you gathered from the opposing team, the higher the damage they will inflict.
Our own personal stats would be based solely on our background, and our leveling based on the friends and decisions we make throughout the game.
So, now I finished an early prototype of that concept, and made a video out of it. (I’d recommend watching it full screen if you like me have a hard time reading small letters)
To write the story, in the beginning I was using Twine, with a Twee parser inside the code to handles the custom markups like images and stats,but later as it got more complex it turned out that it would be easier if I had a custom editor, so I made an editor that will support components with things like scenery changes.
As you’d expect everything are still placeholders and subject to change, but I hope you find the game play enticing for more in the future. 