Submissions from 2024-03-08 to 2024-03-09 (2 total)

Genres: rhythm, action, fighting, Beat 'em up
Platforms: PC and Nintendo switch
Audience: j-pop enjoyers, magical girls fans, +16 players

Description: You will be a magical girl called Yaeko, with the dream of becoming a big idol who can make everyone happy with her songs and dancing on the stage while she fights with monsters that want to destroy their world.

The game will have many levels with different scenarios, in which you must do your performances and avoid making mistakes or getting hurt by the monsters, for this, you need to touch the arrow keys or other specific ones in the exact order or combination that it will be shown to you during the performance.

If you don't touch the keys on time or get hurt, you will lose points, and the more you lose, the music and the joyful world of Yaeko will start to vanish and her reality will show, in which she is just a poor teen who lives in an orphanage, in which she suffers a lot and secretly escapes, because the people who run the place are inhuman, so, as a survival mechanism, she started to develop fantasies to bear her cruel life.

But don’t worry, if you get more points when everything starts vanishing, Yaeko will return to her delusional world, but only if you lost some points, if they were a lot, it will be hard to go back to the “normality”, causing a game over and having to do the level again.

The game will be in 3D with an anime style, joyful and colorful in Yaeko's fantasy, but greyish and sad in her reality. The main music will always be J-pop since Yaeko would sing songs like this https://youtu.be/Ve9rVNgC2s8?si=NQfSe5btfHH8IBKY with a happy and marvelous voice, but when she starts to lose points, the music will deteriorate and brown sound slowly appears, and even more when you get a game over.

Images sources:https://media.istockphoto.com/id/519723817/photo/old-passage.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=yoO901cgYxBNeZwnx_zyeYwzG-SOSDbLFjooEEnv5bA=,https://st.depositphotos.com/3877249/58794/v/450/depositphotos_587941680-stock-illustration-theater-stage-red-curtains-spotlights.jpg, I made the girl in an app called Custom Cast and the monsters were drawn by myself.

Genre: Action RPG, adventure, platformer, Urban Fantasy, 3D
Consoles: PC, Playstation, Xbox Series
Audience: between the ages of 16 and 26

Description: The world is compromised of 2 parallel intertwined dimensions, the one inhabited by humanity and widely known as Eros and the hidden world seeping through the cracks known as Nebyss. This dimension is submerged in an everlasting eclipse with monsters inhabiting the place and at times causing massive tragedy to the world and it is up to a secret society to keep the balance of both worlds.

In this other dimension most humans who cross it must withstand the shift in dimension and awaken a summon to retain their humanity.

The gameplay revolves around the mechanic of summons which provide a tactical advantage against certain foes increasing damage by a certain margin and once the “Summon gauge is full” the player will take control of the summon with access to more abilities and attack patterns dishing out excessive damage however once it is used the character would temporarily not be able to use the summons power.

The player will also have access to a partner as it is advised to enter the dimension in pairs of 2 to cover each other in the event of a worse case scenario and said character can provide various benefits either assisting in combat, helping in exploration, or healing. Having a partner will also increase their “relationship” that can allow obtaining new skills, abilities, weapons as well as new powers to the summon.

The control scheme will have the X button as jump, square button as light attack, triangle as heavy attack and the circle will allow for the summon to attack. The right trigger bumper allows the player to use character abilities, the left bumper will allow the usage of summons powers, right trigger for dodging and the left trigger for support by the partner. The player moves with the left analog stick while controlling the camera with the right analog stick and using the right analog stick to lock on a target as well.

The main inspiration to the idea was the dark hour found in Persona 3, a separate reality related and connected to the “real one.”

The main track that comes to mind when thinking of a parallel dimension would be the twilight palace from The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess but a remixed version made by iceferno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAw-hMx4b4w&ab_channel=Iceferno