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September Dev Log - Early Inspirations
🕑 Added 2025-09-26 02:49:30 +0000 UTCHello all, as always, thank you for enjoying the game!
First off, thank you to those who requested commissions. I never thought there would be that many people asking for custom content, but so far I'm happy to have new fan-made characters in the new build!
This month, I figured I'd do something different and talk about how this game was created and some early inspirations for our beloved heroines.
The game world
The game's universe has always been a world-building project of mine since I was a teenager. I read a lot of fantasy back then and imagined many of the characters to add to the world. Over the years, I've been updating it and creating lore for the world but never any story to connect them all together.
It wasn't until playing Rance that I realized all these stories can be written in something different. I started focusing on character backstories and started fleshing them out until there are at least 20 characters who are the "main heroines" of an entire saga.
Alice
One of these early characters was Alice, a young orphan innocent girl who yearned for adventure. She had always been a favourite of mine, and many of the game's systems are tested on her first before being developed for the others.
This entire game started as a simple scene viewer for the MC and Alice. There were 4 vanilla scenes and 1 sex scene, and that was it. But after adding Alice, I attempted to add another heroine (Ranny) and it grew from there.
Alice might look bland and boring to some fans, but I've always liked the simple black hair + blue eyes combo; it all comes back to one particular character from the anime "Heaven's Memo Pad”.
Yūko Shionji, or "Alice" in the anime, served as an early inspiration for the character design. Though her personality does not resemble the game's Alice at all, that was more of a later alteration.
Bel
Bel was created to serve as a healer who couldn't perform magic healing. In her original design, she was a paladin who could heal her allies.
I figured that would make her too OP, so I nerfed her to a simple nurse who bandages really fast (She was still very OP in the earlier builds). Her whole backstory as a former outlaw was more of a later addition, as she needed a reason to leave her hometown for the village of Albion.
Her original design was primarily from Tillday Sharp (Or Tilde Sharp) from Rance. Like in that game, Tillday wants to become the strongest knight ever, hence creating Bel's personality of always trying to do her best or become the village's greatest healer. Though Bel's original hair was supposed to be brown, since green hair always seemed like a weird colour if done in real life.
Vanessa
The lustful nun was created near the same time as Alice, and served as the main caretaker for the MC (whom he eventually lusts over).
Her design was a combination of two Rance characters, Sel Catchgolf and Rose Card. Sel serves as the character design and Rose for the questionable personality.
You can guess which one is the faithful one and which one isn't.
The oxymoron of a lustful nun has always been a favourite of mine, and at first, I wrote Vanessa as a secret daughter of a succubus. But after limiting the amount of monsters in the world, I figured she could just be a normal woman who just so happens to love sex more than her goddess.
That's all for today. Maybe I'll do more in the future after I'm done with this new build. Thank you for being patient as always, and I hope you all have a great month!
