Loveless

Ah Love....

It makes us do crazy things... Romantic moonlit walks on questionable nights..... Embarrassing letters that we soon regret..... Less than appreciated gifts.... Blackmail.... Murder...

You play as Rin Fukishi (or your own first name), Senior at Ren Pai prep school and recently, you've fallen head over heels for your classmate and class valedictorian Haku. 

You thought you had him all to yourself until five rivals transferred in for their final year Aoi Hatsuke, Kaede Kobyashi, Chiyo Aoki, Eri Yamada, and Sora Tanaka.

It's up to you to defend your beloved (who doesn't quite know it yet) Haku from these five interlopers by any means necessary! But beware, time is not on your side. You'll have a set period of time to find the evidence you need, find ways to isolate your target, or outright eliminate them.

You'll be tasked with puzzling through the school, locating blackmail, murder weapons, articles of clothing to conceal evidence or information to relate to the target. Beware though, as not all items will help you on your mission and some may even spell doom for your plans to make Haku all yours...

Be through but, take too long and your rivals will propose to your beloved leaving you.... loveless.

Features

• multiple branching narrative options as you puzzle your way through eliminating rival lovers
  
• lasting impacts throughout each chapter depending on how you choose to talk down, intimidate or murder your rivals.
  
• light puzzle elements (logic puzzles and searching that will vary and become more complicated with each rival)
  

• and if there's time, a choice between a male or female love obsession
  

warning this game features violent themes such as murder, blackmail, gaslighting, suicide and bullying, such themes may not be suitable for younger players and may be considered offensive to some players. Player Discretion is advised.

note

this project is a WIP and as such progress will be somewhat sporadic, updates should be at least monthly if not bi-monthly with devlogs along the way. I may consider opening up some way to get early access to builds before i render out their CG's to get more updates out as a whole and so that i can speed up testing updates.

Due to the branching nature of this narrative (i really want to put emphasis that how you deal with rivals WILL have an effect on future chapters dialogues). updates will greatly vary in length, as of v.04 i'm working on de-cluttering code and getting a core loop code setup for faster updates. I am unfortunately a solo developer so i have to code the game and make all CGs

current roadmap
*note roadmap subject to change based on time but this is a general roadmap of how updates will drop. revised roadmaps will be posted under a REVISIONS section with crossouts in the original based on progress. all releases will probably be a beta release in another file for simplicity's sake.

1. v.06 The Chyoi update (includes everything for Chyoi, CG's endings, and all routes)
2. v.065 The blackmail and consequences update
   1. there aren't a ton of consequences for blackmailing as of right now in Loveless, This update will fix that adding new dialogue for those of a more manipulative persuasion, making certain individuals less trustful of you (Kaede prototyped this system but i'm planning to retrofit it into far more people with v.065)
3. v.07 The Eri update p1
   1. this will include all of eri's path's, deaths, blackmail options and pacifist route. due to the nature of Eri being the most confrontational and me needing to program and render multiple micro endings for screw ups, this update it's going to be a 2 parter
4. v.75 Eri's Lament (Eri update p2)
   1. includes the rest of the projected 5 alternate "fail" end cards owing to Eri's personality.
5. v.079 Refinement update
   1. A small update centered around fixing some old CG's grammatical fixes (punctuation, misspellings i may have missed, etc), and general quality of life updates with any other encountered bugs that may have escaped notice.
6. v.08 The Sora update
   1. same as Eri this will include all major choices and content for Sora
7. v.085 Refinement p2
   1. one last ride down the patching slide before the epilogue, fixing any not so great CG's based on feedback, and a bit of code cleaning and maybe some new CG's depending on time
8. v.09 Epilogue
   1. The response to all your actions and the consequences of your choices. right now we're looking at about 11 total endings (not including the failed murder endings)
9. v.09 Full release!
   1. at v.9 the game will be finished save for Hinata (The alternate love interest) the game will need to be recoded in many different places so be aware hinata will probably be longer than any other update to release. This update will include any final bug fixes and corrections to the epilogue + any remaining CG fixes that weren't able to be implemented sooner as well as persistent awards for the main menu (just a small achievement icon for each main ending you achieve).
10. v.095 Hinata p1
    1. you'll finally be able to pursue Hinata, due to the massive undertaking i'll be splitting this into two parts.
    2.  v.095 will fix all the code BUT not include the CG's
11. v1.0 Final version (Hinata p2)
    1. add's all the CG's for Hinata
    2. Achievements for Hinata.

bonus roadmap

These updates will ONLY be if there's time.

1. v1.1 the joke-date
   1. hides several easter egg endings with specific triggers throughout the game.
2. v1.2 Bonus loop, life as adults
   1. Will only be accessible with certain endings, an update with the graduated characters at university and one last loop to kill, blackmail, or talk down a rival

old roadmap

1.  Kaede update (includes the following below) version .05 released
2. chiyo loop + evidence update
   
   1. this update would allow you to find the evidence you need to blackmail chiyou as well as murder weapons.
      
3. chiyou blackmail death and pacifist
   1. endings
4. eri  loop + evidence
   
5. eri blackmail, death, and pacifist
   
6. sora loop + evidence
   
7. sora blackmail death and pacifist
   
8. epilogues based on choices.
   

post release

1. Hinata love interest line
2. a joke ending only unlocked via special flags in each chapter.
3. expansions to make loops harder or easier based on feedback
   
   1. post game expansion, maybe a couple of or a single adult rival