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Meet the main character from our new game “Thief of Hearts!”
🕑 Added 2024-02-25 23:00:07 +0000 UTCHello again to all of our supporters!
How was your week?
What did you think of our Vivian previews last week and our teaser video?
Do you like the name of our new visual novel?
The MC
Today, we're excited to reveal images and some details about our main character.
Similar to the female love interests we've previously introduced through preview images over the past month, you will have the freedom to select your own name for the main character.
However, this main character is significantly different from our past leads. While he may be youthful, his confidence and thirst for adventure stand out as his defining qualities.
Optimistic and ambitious, he possesses a keen sense of empathy towards others, but at other times he can be quite cocky, sarcastic and just plain unlucky.
About Ariel
Our first previews featured 'Ariel,' and after careful consideration over the past few weeks, we've concluded that changing her appearance is necessary.
One of our goals for this year is to start publishing our games on Steam. We know many of you have asked us that in the past and we want to make it a reality this year.
However, it seems that Steam is very strict when it comes to allowing games on their platform.
A recent attempt to submit 'Melody' was rejected because the characters looked "too young", and we thought Ariel would fall into this category and this new VN could be rejected by Steam just like they did with Melody.
What we’re aiming for is to give Ariel a more mature, “adult” look, which will better our chances of being able to publish our game on Steam successfully.
So next weekend we will be sharing our new look and design for the Ariel character.
Thanks for understanding.
The Plot
And that brings us to the plot of our new game.
In "Thief of Hearts", as the main character, you’ll fill the role of a young man who is navigating through a world of theft, deception, and unexpected alliances.
Your journey is not just about being a thief, it's also about the effect you have on the people around you, personally and professionally. Oh, and the females we've shown you so far are also thieves. They possess certain skills that we'll be showing you in the upcoming weeks starting with Ariel next week ;)
This new visual novel will have mini-games and choices that will determine specific outcomes. You'll meet new characters along the way, while you’re being sent on specific paths during your journey. We want to give this new VN more dynamism and more importance to the choices as we know many fans have complained about our games being too linear at times.
Let us know what you think of our MC or about the details of our new game in the comments section below.
We’ll be back with more previews for “Thief of Hearts” next weekend!
Chat soon,
MrDots
Comments
Singularity
Look your games are great. The writing, visuals, diversity in characters, humor mixed with serious topics. Very very good. However even in sunshine love the MC and a few of the girls looked a bit to young, while that is explainable and not unheard of irl, and acceptable given the variety of girls in that game. It just don't work for a mc/protagonist in my oppinion. Considering how these types of games are played, mainly from mc's perspective, I would think that most players/readers would prefer a mc/protagonist that they at least to some extend identify as/relate to. and considering that it is labelled an a(dult)vn it should be assumed that at least the majority of readers/players are adults, meaning that so should the mc be. Reading through and making choices in a story where mc(you) is dating(among other things) a bunch of beautiful women is a really cool fantasy I think most of us can agree, but it breaks immersion if the mc is not at least to some extend believable it the set context, so beautiful women=good looking man(not boy) otherwise it just don't make sense. In sunshine love the girls also often made comments about mc being in great shape while at least visually he was skinny af. It is a very easy way for making a boyish looking guy look more like a man to simply bulk him up a bit, give him a bit of muscle, height and a couple of hard lines to the face, maybe even a small beard, let him look like a man and not a 16 year old boy. I can't speak for the rest of the community, but can say that for my part playing as/reading from the perspective of the boy-looking no-skills butt-of-every-joke getting-physically-outmatched-by-every-girl dork with an idiotic/arrogant attitude that has absolutely nothing else going for him than his oversized dick is getting really old. It has become the steriotypical mc, and while that might work in some of the college based avn it just don't work anywhere else. Having an mc that the reader can relate to or at least root for makes the experience so much better. Let him be able to make sensible/heroic/idiotic/perverted choices, the more option the better ofc but mainly let it feel like mc actually has a personality besides being horny or let the reader feel like they have a hand in shaping mc's personality. This is a thing i feel like is overlooked in many an avn, the mc is the main character! and we are reading his story, therefore he should also have the most fleshed out personality/backstory. Now directly relating to the mc of you new Thief of Hearts avn. He looks like a boy that did ok in gym class but has never worked a day in his life, like Vivian's boobs wey more than any dumbbell he could lift. And sorry to say the way you describe his personality sounds alot like the stereotypical avn mc clown i was talking about, no offense meant. I like the theme that it seems you are trying to set with the bike and not overly tight jeans. I just hope that if he is gonna behave/look like a bit of a tough guy, then go for it, give him a bit more bulk/muscle(especially those forearms jeez) and some rough edges, please don't let him fall into the straight-out-of-a-boyband poser douch catagory
Jonathan Hang
My week was fine. It was a small teaser. I need to see more. I'm fine with the game's name. MC looks OK. Lately, I have preferred my MC to look a little more mature and on the older side. I'm kind of burned out by MCs who are and look too young. I want my MCs to be older, like in the 21–30ish age range. I'm surprised you guys aren't on Steam. Yeah, Steam is very strict on AVNs. Oh, I'm excited. I can't wait for the new Ariel look and more previews of ToH.
