Looks real cute! The males' character designs look a bit more on the femboy/twink side but if that was your goal then you nailed it.

I'm guessing these two are going to be the heroines who'll join the trio and eventually get together with the guys? Or are the highlighted monstergirls also love interests? I assumed they would be enemies.

can you write a bit about the experience of making an rpg? was it what you expected?

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Here's some of the oldest stuff I could find of this project. The first three attachments will actually need a little bit of explanation, because almost none of the stuff in them is in the game.

I started working on an RPG sometime in late 2018, but in early 2019 I completely re-imagined the project into the form it's in now. In its earliest iteration the game was something very different. It was to take place in a city with a character clock system and events that would unfold throughout each day on a set schedule. The way that the player would spend their time would impact how the other characters moved around the map and interacted with one another. The heroine of this game was a different character altogether, as was her story.

I haven't had much experience doing animated work before so designing the sprite dolls was a considerable time sink, it took me 4 complete restarts to arrive at my current sprite style. Backgrounds were the other hurdle to overcome. I learned fairly early on that a tile based approach would not work for the sorts of cityscapes I had imagined. Instead I drew the structures on a background image and then overlayed a passability grid on top. This approach worked, but turned out to be a colossal investment of time for just a single image. After doing some math I realized that given my drawing speed, that even if I got as much as four times faster I would still spend well over a year on just the bare bones of the project, before I even got around to doing any writing or adding sex scenes. With a fair bit of reluctance I've decided to scrap the whole thing and start fresh.

The new project was planned right from the outset as something a little more manageable. Backgrounds became tile based and the cast was switched out for a much smaller group. I've kept some of the characters I liked and the techniques I developed during my first attempt, but discarded most of the rest. One of the big changes I had planned was to increase the sprite size of the characters. The actors in my first attempt were already hitting the upper limits of what's reasonable in vanilla RPG Maker, so some modding was in order. The sprites themselves are a better structured than what I had at first and the animation are a lot less wonky. The backgrounds are a compromise, but one that lets me spend more time on more exciting things. Ultimately I'm pretty happy with how the look of the game turned out.

I've had some experience working with RPG Maker in the past, so I already had some idea of what was and what wasn't possible to do in the engine. I'm relearning a fair bit as I add new content, but it's mostly been smooth sailing so far. I think that a lot of the problems that would have crippled development have made themselves apparent in my first attempt at making such a game, so I'm very glad to have had that experience, even if at the time it felt like a massive setback to let go of it.