It begins when every Japan set dating SIM is worth its salt-with a student of transit.
This is the first day of Ayyah, in the name of “Love Love All Girls”, and they are (understandable) a little nervous. Shy and socially anxious, they hope they will manage to make one or two friends. It turns out that their classmates are keen – maybe a bit anxious – to be familiar. Aye has been compiled only by the fugitive of young women, but whether his mind is not himself. “I just want to be single!” They scream. Qi Chairpei Acla Theme Music.
I just want to be single !!: Season One, recently released On steam in early accessIs a game that you will be forgiven to ignore the steam store, which today is full of visual novels in Western Indi Davis. A handful of mediums (for example the best VA-11 Hall-A) take devotion and understanding, but many people take a sarcastic, irritating point of view, or are basically near the title, as fans are cautious. Sunder Studio’s first movie, I just want to be single !! Standing from this crowd.
Billy billed as ‘fragrant, non -sex, and non -binary’, I just want to be single !! M. Tells me on the dose. “The story of this game is largely about finding yourself and who you want to be.”
Aya appears in the offering of a fragrant identity mechanics and a player’s conversation with his classmates. On the upper left of the game’s Sunni but unmanageable UI, two meters can be found. The first of them, the ‘Farhat’ meter, fills up a total of five hearts. There is a separate meter for each heroin, coloring on their monochrome paper cut -out designs. Choose the ‘correct’ (ie emotionally intelligent) response from your dialogue options and will be added to a conducive meter, shedding your face with warmth and identity.
Dating Sims are often notorious for their basic mechanics – to say ‘the right thing’ to get romance is a philosophy that sits in anxiety with many. I just want to feel more realistic in pushing the single conversation and pulling them, and fast writing offers the wishes and desires of each one to three dimensions. “I really like the idea that in this story, you are playing as a understandable side character, and everyone around you is the main character or the main character of his story,” says M said M. “Each of them is going through progress and adventures. You are easily riding.”
This does not mean that the beloved character of this genre is not well represented by archeology. Your lesson is with the verbal spar ‘random girl’ (pink), which is a sexually aggressive sticker type that really wants to know you. After that, you have been introduced to the class rap (orange) cade, which adjusts your glasses and shows you around the school. Open the doors of the classroom, we face: Kitsomi, idol; Akin, athlete; Mika, Gyro girl; Shizuka, artist; Let’s, robot; And, behind you, newborn, deception ‘Chuunibyou’.
“I wanted to look different as possible to them, but still appeal,” the character designers explain Singleiq. “I gave the acne a more muscular body. She is a sporty girl, so she should reflect her physical nature. With cadre, I wanted a soft personality. It is rare to see a coarse, nor a cylinder girl as attractive.
Can only handle it? The second meter is their ‘level of stress’, which fills up to a total of ten skulls. Whenever your conversation partner is a little more aggressive, fighter, or angry, the skull is added. This is a great way to translate the social anxiety into a game mechanic, threatening the player by threatening the situation that he wants to avoid equally.
For the first game created by a small team, I just want to be single !! Notable polish. The menu are accountable, and filled with entertaining wordplay and look. Manga panel intermittent conversations are broken that act as a game of sports. The humor of the game is to discredit itself and close its eyes, which reminds external indi hit films like Undertial. Its structure and aesthetic approaches take clear indications from Danganona. There is nothing to be derived here, but the game parts fits together with clean and confidence, just considering the gender profession rather than just copying them.
Visual novel dating sims are usually clearly clear and distributed through the gender and sexuality of their characters. The traditional category includes Bashuju (a male main character female women), Otoms (which includes male in a female main character), and Yuri (which includes a female character women). Here, vibrations are pleasantly vague, I just want to be alone !! “Most dating Sims are especially targeted by women or male eyes, and I wanted something that could work for both,” says M said M. “Making the lead character of the film allows people to imagine themselves within the character shoes, including those who do not feel comfortable with their identity.”
It is considered for a notable healthy and understood project that began as a joke that he made in a detached server during the pandemic disease-“If there is a dating SIM but it was not intended to make anyone a date”-Finish with a cheek in a tongue, which will eventually be fastened on steam. As a ‘Anti -Dating SIM’, the marketing of the game is a lover lift pitch to get the attention of players, but this indicates the finishes of the syndrier studio gender intervention. “It’s easy to make a game that is ‘anti -romance’, but it’s not such a game,” he says. “There are still some mechanics that have not yet been fully revealed. I am interested in the relationship of my game. What does it mean to be in a relationship? What does love mean without love? I want the player to find the answer to these questions and to be tested by himself.”
The game was successfully financed by a kickstarter in March 2022, and since then, the community has been busy and enthusiastic in the Sander Studio’s detected server. MK reflects, “I was affected by the amount of people who said the game helped them represent them in some way.” “This game has ended my self -discovery for the past few years in terms of storytelling and characters, and how much I have changed during development. We have faced many challenges. I am glad we have come yet.”
In the current release of the game, only the Proolog and the first chapter are available, their total play time covers a few hours. Currently the updates of two major materials are in the development, each new chapter has been added to each. Sunder Studio hopes to complete a season within a year, but he wants to not put a concrete date on it. The initial access point seems appropriate. I just want to be single !! Still knowing what he wants to be and how it fits in the world. For those of us who are going through a similar journey, the game of Sander Studio is a welcome mirror of sympathy and possibility.
