art-of-endelphia-deactivated201 asked:
Is this game a turn-based RPG? If so, how complex will the battle system be? Is it 1st person like Dragon Quest or side view like Final Fantasy?

Sonic and the True King and its Demo are Visual Novel games UwU

I assume since it’s a Visual Novel you could say it’s sort of first person, yes.

The battle system is somewhat of an experiment. I haven’t seen many VNs with battle systems, and the few I have seen have replaced the battles with mini-games like bubble shooters.

Our Battle system is decision based. Imagine it like reading an adventure novel that gives you free reign of the main character during the action scenes, but depending on what you decide the other characters react and the outcome of the battle changes.

Some features that we’re going to test for practicality in the demo later are, a persistent healthbar that basically records your ‘mistakes’ during battle. (Mistakes in airquotes here because not every time you can get injured is a mistake. Sometimes it’s what you -have to do- to achieve a specific outcoome)
The injuries then carries on into the next fight and so on and so on. Options to be healed are limited and losing all your health results in Game Over.

Status effects like ‘bleeding’ and ‘poison’ are also something we’re testing.

And the last feature we’re only testing so far are timed responses. Which is basically the Visual Novel equivalent to quicktime events. That’s roughly the concept of the battle system. But as I said we’re still testing things out so it might change until the demo comes out.

Anonymous asked:
Are you still accepting OCs?

Yes! You can submit OCs until the end of December <3

Anonymous asked:
Will we ever get to meet the team? Or do you guys prefer to work on this in secret?

Hello!!

Well we knew the question of our team would eventually come. As I’ve answered before, here: https://sonic-and-the-true-king.tumblr.com/post/179171387392/if-you-dont-mind-me-asking-how-many-people-are

We’re an insanely small team. There’s me, the mod of this blog, who’s also the writer, main artist and programmer (if you can call it that), then there is the extremely talented @doublecleffmusic who is in charge of as much custom music as we can afford. And then we have a third person who may or may not do art for the game, depending on how busy she’ll be with her actual job. And then we have some friends supporting us by giving us input in the story or helping us work out quests.
One additional team member would be our voice actor for Silver the Hedgehog who’s going to voice the intro of the game UwU

Now, our musician, Cleffy, doesn’t need to be anonymous and in fact you should all go check their stuff out. We’re going to be posting some custom music on this blog soon so you can see what their work is like. But really, check ‘em out. They’re just about to release a new album UwU

Myself and the other artist would like to remain anonymous. Mostly to keep our artist names out of the search engines for reasons related to our actual jobs <3

Our friends will of course remain anonymous as well.

And we will announce our voice actor once that is all confirmed and figured out and paid for >W<

I hope you understand uwu

iwtbs2005 asked:
Will there be a date and site for the game release? I love your blog by the way ☺️❤️

Well actually now that you mention it, one thing we’re aiming to test with the demo is the hosting website. There’s currently three we’re looking at. Those being:

https://itch.io/

https://www.indiedb.com/

https://gamejolt.com/

All three allow the hosting of fangames such as this one. So they would be suitable. However the demo will feature a small optional survey at the end where you can tell us how you liked the hosting site. We’ll make sure to look further into the options, though, and make a proper announcement at some point.

The full game is still going to be featured on several websites to make it easier.

Regarding release dates. Not at all. The Demo will most likely come out between january and february 2019 sometime.

The full game hower… We would LIKE TO finish the game by the time the Sonic Movie comes out in November 2019. So in about a year from now on. Ideally we’d even like for the Beta testing to be done by then.  However it is still almost impossible to say how realistic that will be.

We will try our very best UwU

And thank you so so much! Your questions are always delightful!!! >W<

iwtbs2005 asked:
So was the game sonic and the true king inspired by some other sonic game or was it your own idea.

Well I mean considering it’s a -Sonic- game it had to have been inspired by Sonic in general right? So I can’t claim it was my idea originally.

But in general yes. Sattk has a lot of different inspirations. For example the storybook series, like Sonic and the Black knight and Sonic and the secret rings, which probably explains the style of this game’s title.

And then of course there’s the Sonic Riders games which deal with the Babylon theme which we’re REALLY gonna get into in sattk. And then of course there’s Sonic Forces which inspired the anonymous protagonist.

Aside from that the story is still entirely ours and since Visual novels are so overused for dating games we wanted to make something that has no dating in it at all. Just a good old Sonic adventure!!!

spectrumcrovn asked:
So, uh... I just stumbled across this page a couple of days ago, but because I'm busy I don't have time to go through all of the content and process it in order to understand it. So, here's my questions: when you say "game" do you mean that you're actually making a game out of this? Is this an RP blog since I've seen a few submission post of fan characters it made me wonder? Or is it simply an ask blog? Perhaps a place to organise your visual novel and share it at the same time? I am so confused

Hello there,
No worries at all!
The short version is: No, this is not an RP blog, and Yes, we’re making an actual game. And there is going to be a tech demo (A small stand-alone game that shows off the the main game’s gameplay features and such) early next year <3

The game is going to be a Visual Novel, and the OCs that we’re casting will become background characters or even quest givers in the world of our VN. We didn’t want to create a bunch of random OCs in a community like this where people are super creative and everyone has such lovely characters. It just made sense to us to cast them instead of making our own. (though we have some original characters of our own in the game too) <3

I’m sorry the blog was confusing to you we get a surprising amount of asks… hm. Actually you have a really good point. I’ll make a tag for development posts and one for answers to asks and link them properly. Maybe I should write an FAQ. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! <3

iwtbs2005 asked:
Silver looks so pure and innocent I love him already.

Isn’t he just the purest of beans!!!! I’ve actually had people express their concerns already because I threatened bad endings where’s everyone dies.

It’s so lovely how protective people are of Silver.
And… it raises the stakes in the game, doesn’t it >:3c

everesteeveyev asked:
Not an ask, but I love the precious bean and the artstyle!! Everything here is so beautifullldsgdsg good luck with making the game! (EveryonehasamazingOCsyoOO)

!!! Thank you so much! Trust me it means the world to us <3 We’ll do our best with this game!!!

Also I could NOT agree more. The OCs are all SO lovely. I wish I could just post them all right now. I love them so much! I’m really happy we decided to fill the VN world with OCs because I get to see so many great characters now. It’s just delightful.

iwtbs2005 asked:
Will there be moments where the main characters or oc’s break the forth wall or get out of character?

Honestly, I can’t say that for sure yet. While most of the game is written already, I know from experience that a bunch of the dialogue is going to change while it’s being put into the actual game. So it’s very possible. Actually I think I wrote one scene like that into the Demo, already.