Hey sweeties! Wanted to share this with you. The last 2 days, I've been working on this little visual novel.
This one is based in the ME universe (it's -completely- AU, and more for fun, and testing out how the scripting works etc)
I would like you guys to share your opinion. Please don't pay too much attention to the awkward art and use of the same base for the characters, this is currently purely to test out if everything works, and as of now, it's really short. The base game is explained and there's 3 characters you'll be able to meet. No backgrounds or anything yet.

If this works out well, I will be making a visual novel in the same game style, but featuring furries! Yey!
The idea is to open up auctions for a few people to have their characters in the game as love interests, friends, and extra characters etc. Extra characters will probably go at a flat rate, and I may put my friends in for free :)
Keep in mind that I will be asking money, because I do have to do all of the scripting, writing, and art all on my own, so that's what you would be paying for. The game itself will be free for everyone to download tough :)
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These are the links;
(For the recors, yes, they are save :p and the links lead to the files in my skydrive, which is what the "sdrv" stands for, for those who aren't familiar with skydrive.
Mac version: sdrv.ms/16p05QL (about 12 MB)
Windows version: sdrv.ms/16p0Rgp (about 14 MB)
If these don't work for you, note me, and I'll just send you a zip straight to your email.
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All I want to know from you is the following;
Does the download work?
Can you unzip the files properly? (Just unzip it all into one folder for the game, nothing else needed)
Can you actually run the exe. ? (Should be located in the main folder you extracted. It's called TU 0.1)
Especially for mac users, since I can't test that myself.
Does it load? Do you hear the music and see the characters when the speak to you?
Are you experiencing any loops that misplaced? (Like you should be able to return to the choice menus, and you will be brought back to the beginning of the game if you say your given information was incorrect, so you can change it etc)
Does it actually run smoothly?
Upon startup, are you in fullscreen, and can you switch to windowed mode through the options menu? Does everything work properly in the options menu?
Does the song loop? It should.
Does the game end when you choose to go to sleep? This should happen too, since this is just the first day. In the future, sleeping will jump to the next day.

Think that's all I needed to know.
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Below will follow the notes I made on the game;

Game starts in full screen by default, you can turn this off in the options on the start screen. You can also adjust the volume here, because there will be a song playing, and it may or may not be quite loud :p
The game does have a save mechanism. I don't know yet if you will be able to load your save in the next version.
There's no backgrounds/scenes yet, I still have to make all of those, and as you all know, I'm a lazy shit. You may have to wait for those for quite a bit. You should be happy there's already character art of everyone you get to speak with so far :p

General instructions; click with your mouse, type with your keyboard and enter with backspace :p That's all
In the beginning you will be asked your full Salarian name, in parts :p if you want to go with the default, just don't fill anything in, and the default will be used. You can choose to fill in certain parts and skip others if you like. You will also be asked an age, the current default is 16. I am using human years for ease sake. Yes that means the default character would be joining uni early, making them a genius :p

Please let me know if you are indeed able to download, and execute the file ^-^ (Especially mac users, since I don't have mac myself, I can test it out for you, sorry :/)
If you catch any bugs/misspelling, etc, let me know. Mouths should open when the characters are speaking, and close after their sentences (with the exception of smiling/angry expressions etc)

Think that's it. Look below for more details of what I'm still working on and what is already implemented.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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Some more info about the current project:
Day counter;
In the current release, only day 00 is available. More days will become available as I write more of the script :) The main point of what I have now is just to show you the basic game mechanics, and 3 of the characters. This way, you guys can help me out, should there be any problems/bugs/mishaps etc, and once those are out of the way, I will write a larger part of the script.

Point system/counters;
You do get points added and subtracted for each character's affection, according to your choices. These points will mainly determine your ending.
These points are also invisible at the moment.
You will also have attendance points, which start at 100, and you will lose them if you skip major classes, you can win attendance back by doing minor classes.
There's also a course credit counter, which will go up as you do classwork, assignments, etc. This will determine whether you pass the term or not. Different things will happen, according to whether you pass the term or not, and this will also affect the ending of certain characters.
I also have an intelligence counter, which will help you pass tests and assignments.

Love interests;
There will be 4 student love interests, and 3 teachers (oooh!)
I'm not going to give you the details, since it's more fun to find out yourself, but 3 students have a crush their respective teacher. Trying to get close to their crush, may anger them, so you will lose points for that student. The one student who isn't interested in a teacher, is interested in another student. 2 teachers will remain professional and stick with the student/teacher relationship at all times, however you are able to try to get close to them, and if they notice it's getting to close, they will confront you about it. The other teacher will accept closer relationships.
Your choices will determine how close you get to a certain character. The majority of the characters won't initiate the romantic relationship, you will have to do this your self, otherwise you will remain in the friend zone. The other characters may try to initiate the romantic relationship, and even be forceful, so be careful! Don't be too nice!

Extra characters;
There are no extra characters at the moment, but I will be accepting OC submissions. Keep in mind that this is an all male salarian school, so if you want your oc to be a student at the school, you will have to write them accordingly. Any other characters are welcome as well. Remember that this is a silly AU. You may submit a character that already exists and change them to fit in :p
You can submit a character with the following app;

Given name:
Family/clan name:
Other names; (like the salarians include their homeworld etc :p Let me know if this is the case)
Species:
Gender:
Age/or live stage: (For ease, let's use the human relative. If you have a 800 year old asari, just think of how old she would be as a human, kay?) (If you don't want to put in an exact age, their live stage will soffice, ex; matron stage, or adult/teenager/adolescent etc.)
Summary of personality traits: (Really short, remember your oc will only appear as an extra character, they won't be as detailed as the love interests :p)

Now at this point, there are no endings, since what I've written up until now is only day 00. After I've got some confirmation from people that things work smoothly for everyone, I will continue onwards ^-^