It's a visual novel. Or possibly a VN/cozy-farming-sim hybrid. Not sure yet. I mean, the story is what it would be in a hybrid, but I might use RPGMaker and just fake the farming sim aspect with cutscenes showing the player character going about farm tasks in between the VN scenes. (Which would have the bonus of allowing me to easily add some turn-based combat periodically.) Whether or not I do that will largely depend on how well the script turns out; if it seems really good, then I might actually go to the expense of hiring a programmer to make a farming sim to integrate it with. (Presumably this would also mean using some engine other than Ren'py. Like Unity or something.)
All that is for later, though. I'm still just working on the script.
No, not even the script yet. I'm still in the planning phase, actually.
I've gotten to the point where I'm deciding on the other people in the village, who they are and what they do. (Fortunately, unlike normal cozy farming sims, there's only one love interest, and the MC will fall for her regardless of the player's wishes.)
Anyway, since the story and two leads are inspired by danmei, I'm basing the setting on ancient China, though it's a fictional world. (Like with Avatar: The Last Airbender, you know?)
I like what I wrote today about one of the NPCs for the town where the heroine settles down:
Village Head – a dotty grandpa type. Seems senile because he is. But very friendly and warm, loved by all. Just don’t expect an intelligent answer to your question. The type to misquote philosophy rather than tell you what you want to know. (Ack, I’m going to have to invent a Confucius-analog and write countless aphorisms of his!)
I'm not looking forward to the whole "inventing a Confucius-analog" part, but I still love that character description. 🤣
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