The Kocho team held a valentine's event in early February 2021. An event where talented Visual Novel makers submit their entries relating to the theme within the deadline given. Arcana Romance emerged first place amongst other entries.
It is then selected to be one of the first few to be uploaded onto Kocho's homepage for everyone to play.
Mostly, females in their teens or young adults who enjoy playing dating simulators.
I want to make a fun dating simulator where players do not need to get frustrated over pay-to-win schemes or being mindful of their actions in order to get a good ending. They get the freedom to be chaotic, flirty, or straight-up assertive in pursuit of their love interest.
Watch this video to see a snippet of the visual novel.
A dating simulator where you can date men and give funny, flirty or rude answers to get your special ending.
It plays around with anime cliches and jokes.
This is a project where I have to match the background art with the sprite art. Thus, the simplistic approach where the background does not take away the attention away from the character sprite on top of it.
These are the 2 samples of the 2D character sprites I had made for this visual novel.
I took the cartoon and simplistic approach for the 2D sprites to elevate the comedic effect and to progress my visual novel efficiently on my own.
In meantime, the anime approach when it comes to the ending scene. The players will appreciate the beautiful end scene then.