Daydream Cafe ADV game ~ Formerly K7 SINdrome Digital Comic
I plan to release a demo by the end of the week, or the one after that. I scrapped K7 SINdrome, because I realized that the work I wanted to do would require way too much writing. I just don't have the time for that. (I originally wanted to go for a Silver Case style in approach when it came to story detail.) The inconsistent atmosphere was also something that I couldn't get over. (The atmosphere was all over the place because Killer 7 constantly jumped all over the place.) I decided to focus more on my brand of "bizarro" that I'm comfortable with. Rather then trying to imitate someone else. Another thing that I hated was that K7 SINdrome looked like a typical Rpgmaker game with the chibi sprites. So I started over & worked on Daydream Cafe. Most of the Daydream sprites were custom made or ripped by myself. The Killer 7 sprites were made by dcat, and used without his permission. (I prefer to show people what I plan to do with their work.) I wanted a look that was far more gritty, and muddy looking. Daydream Cafe still has the dark Silver Case like atmosphere, but the story telling style is more reminiscent of a typical action adventure game. (Story scenes, gameplay, more story scenes, more gameplay, rinse & repeat.) You know, the type of games that I fucking hate, but this was the best balance that came to my mind without making the game too complicated, or too fucking wordy.
The overall plot is also more low key. K7 SINdrome had you participating in a cosmic cold war between super powers that were secretly governed by metaphysical beings using presidents, & other high elected officials as their proxies.
I dropped all of that bullshit for Daydream Cafe. (The game still takes place in a similar setting, but the world is just background information now.)
Daydream Cafe's plot is more closely centered around Daydream Cafe, and a bordello called Citadel De Laputa.
It revolves around a woman who dialed the "number" to summon/hire the Killer 7 to kill a girl that she has a grudge with.
(The bloody girl in the title screen is the one who she contracts a hit on.)
It sounds simple enough.
Unfortunately the story is presented as if it came straight out of bizarro world.
Let's just say that the only person in this game who isn't a deluded son of a bitch is the woman's daughter, and that's only because she doesn't get much dialogue in the game.
Emir himself is just a plot device, so don't expect me to develop his character.
(I believe that Emir is far more interesting as a mystery man who only does what he's contracted to do.)
Story interlude:
Character battle sprites
Battle screens
Characters
There's a lot of characters in this game. I'll only list the mothafuckas who'll
have more then a couple of lines to say.
Is still in this game, but his role has been reduced to a minor one.
He's more of a narrator who foreshadows events every now & then.
I had to write his part out, because I preferred the extreme absurdity of the Mamoru bros.
Misc. scenes
Still editing this post. I need to post up more pics, more samples of the plot, and an swf file sampling the soundtrack.
I plan to release a demo by the end of the week, or the one after that. I scrapped K7 SINdrome, because I realized that the work I wanted to do would require way too much writing. I just don't have the time for that. (I originally wanted to go for a Silver Case style in approach when it came to story detail.) The inconsistent atmosphere was also something that I couldn't get over. (The atmosphere was all over the place because Killer 7 constantly jumped all over the place.) I decided to focus more on my brand of "bizarro" that I'm comfortable with. Rather then trying to imitate someone else. Another thing that I hated was that K7 SINdrome looked like a typical Rpgmaker game with the chibi sprites. So I started over & worked on Daydream Cafe. Most of the Daydream sprites were custom made or ripped by myself. The Killer 7 sprites were made by dcat, and used without his permission. (I prefer to show people what I plan to do with their work.) I wanted a look that was far more gritty, and muddy looking. Daydream Cafe still has the dark Silver Case like atmosphere, but the story telling style is more reminiscent of a typical action adventure game. (Story scenes, gameplay, more story scenes, more gameplay, rinse & repeat.) You know, the type of games that I fucking hate, but this was the best balance that came to my mind without making the game too complicated, or too fucking wordy.
The overall plot is also more low key. K7 SINdrome had you participating in a cosmic cold war between super powers that were secretly governed by metaphysical beings using presidents, & other high elected officials as their proxies.
I dropped all of that bullshit for Daydream Cafe. (The game still takes place in a similar setting, but the world is just background information now.)
Daydream Cafe's plot is more closely centered around Daydream Cafe, and a bordello called Citadel De Laputa.
It revolves around a woman who dialed the "number" to summon/hire the Killer 7 to kill a girl that she has a grudge with.
(The bloody girl in the title screen is the one who she contracts a hit on.)
It sounds simple enough.
Unfortunately the story is presented as if it came straight out of bizarro world.
Let's just say that the only person in this game who isn't a deluded son of a bitch is the woman's daughter, and that's only because she doesn't get much dialogue in the game.
Emir himself is just a plot device, so don't expect me to develop his character.
(I believe that Emir is far more interesting as a mystery man who only does what he's contracted to do.)
Story interlude:
The Door Man:
I saw a child. Wounded beside a river. I asked her what's wrong.
She did not respond. However I did feel a quiver.
That omnimous feeling sent chills down my spine.
An image of a bar, or maybe it was a cafe.
Appeared before my eyes.
Was it a daydream, or a mirage? By the time I had noticed.
It was already too late. I was smitten by the allure
of the lotus. I could not resist the temptation, so I resigned to my fate.
I had no choice. It was all that I could do.
Her web of allure spun around me. For she has mounted a new
unsuspecting mate.
Ever since I first met her... I have felt an omnipresence
of a mustachioed man.
Laughing, laughing at me.
Young lass,
Do you understand why that is?
There's no need to reply, for I can already see the answer within
your eyes.
All I ask is that you remember to take a deep breath.
Count from ten to one. Stare into their eyes...
And pull the trigger in order to unleash your rage from the barrels of the
inner chamber.
She appears. I trust that you know what to do.
Character battle sprites
Battle screens
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Carmila Xiomara:
She dials the "number" to contract the Killer 7 to kill a friend of hers.
The plot mostly revolves around her.
Her daughter makes fun of her. Constantly accusing Carmila of speaking to an imaginary friend.
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Bloody Heartland: AKA Emir Parkreiner / Killer7
He accepts a job to kill a woman, and flawlessly completes the contract.
The problem is that he seems to be trapped inside the house that he killed her in, and is trying to navigate his way out in order collect the other half of his agreed upon payment.
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Xerxes Jahangir:
The main character.
A convict who does all sorts of underworld wetwork/contracts.
He's currently assigned to assassinate the foreign ambassador for a woman who he calls "The Whore", or "The Harlot".
He constantly reports back to his superiors whenever they "pull" him into "their world".
His life comes into question once he discovers that somebody contracted Bloody Heartland to kill him.
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Doc Silver:
Jahangir's partner in crime. Silver was a Catholic priest. (Yes that "kind" of Catholic priest.)
He seems to be the more level headed of the two, but it turns out that he merely has better manners than Jahangir.
He's actually more insane than Jahangir, but his insanity isn't quite as clear to see.
Due to him being far more eloquent in his method of speech.
He's the magician type of the party.
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Camellia Petal Blight: AKA Tsubaki
She's the girl who gets killed by Emir at the begining of the game, and is also the same girl who Emir was contracted to eliminate.
She lives in a bordello called "Citadel De Laputa".
Camellia is not actually a prostitute. She just lives there.
"The Whore" personally invited Camellia herself.
Camellia joins with Jahangir & Doc Silver during the 2nd chapter after she becomes "one" with Harold. (By "one" I do not mean intercourse.)
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Harold Kumar:
He's just some hopeless romantic dork who falls in love with Camellia, and becomes "one" with her.
Well, he got what he wanted at least, hah hah.
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Jezebel, the Harlot:
She is the whore of the citadel. She seems to be a metaphysical being. She owns a bordello & is said to wield enough influence & military might to stand up against the super power of the USOA (Union Society of Acquiescence.)
Wait a minute, that can't be right. That doesn't make any goddamn sense.
It's just a fucking bordello!?
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Mamoru bros.:
Well suited men. Who speak half assed philosophy during a blow job.
They constantly seek for an "Answer" away from this "state of decay", and they don't seem to like Camellia much.
"She is carnivorous. She disgusts me."
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Henrik Dullahan:
CEO of Godsong corp. He seems to have a hand in many underworld activities.
He's also constantly seen being pleasured by whores at Citadel De Laputa, yet he claims that he's never been there in his life.
The records check out, and it turns out that he's telling the truth.
What gives?
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Cornellia:
She's a crazed ninja school girl serial killer.
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Augustus Gustavo:
He's typically seen hanging out at the restroom lodge of Citadel De Laputa.
He's an old acquaintance of Jahangir.
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Morganna Fyawat:
A stunningly beautiful impeccably dressed woman who goes out with Camiuex Weswin to some fancy ass bourgeois opera.
This, this is the most wonderful day of her life.
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Camiuex Weswin:
He takes out that hot ass babe Morganna to a date at a opera house.
He doesn't seem to give a fuck about her.
His eye seems to be more focused on the Well suited men, the Mamoru Bros.
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Millsbury Doeboy:
Jahangir's contact.
They seem to always be discussing about the Carmila vs Camellia rivalry.
Is it just a simple bitch fight that they should ignore, or should they step in & interfere before everybody else around Carmila & Camellia gets dragged into their business.
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The Door Man:
He's the creepy guy who hides behind the shadows of a door every time Carmila comes over to visit him.
The Mamoru Bros. can't stand it when she comes over to speak with the Door man.
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Monsieur GREEN, & Mistress PINKY:
Jahangir's superiors who sometimes "pull" him into "their world".
They may look like a bunch of shady characters, but hey shame on you.
You should know by now not the judge a book by its cover.
They like to check up on him every once in awhile, that's all.
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Tetsuguro Kusabi:
The same Tetsuguro from the Silver Case & FSR.
Although he's a cop, he was actually on a joint assignment with Emir Parkreiner & Sumio Kodai.
Unfortunately Sumio Kodai went missing, and he has no fucking idea where Emir Parkreiner went.
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Toriko Kusabi:
The same Toriko from Silver Case & FSR.
She seems to live in the same dorm as "The Door Man".
She has sexual relations with a man who's nearly a decade older than her.
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Sumio Kodai:
Yup, the same Sumio from Silver Case & FSR.
While not a therapist, he is a freelance detective so he takes up any job regardless of how inane he may think it is.
He spends the whole game just listening to Carmila nag all day.
He sometimes offers her advice that he himself would never be caught dead following.
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Yayoi Itsushima/Hanayama:
The same girl from Moonlight Syndrome & FSR.
Who knows what she's up to. I don't even know why she's in this game.
Hell, not even Suda understands what the hell she's up to half the time.
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Mika Kishi:
Same dead bitch from Moonlight Syndrome, and guess what?
She's still a dead fucking bitch....
The character who is based off of I, Topdrunkee.
Calagatha Seizar
Is still in this game, but his role has been reduced to a minor one.
He's more of a narrator who foreshadows events every now & then.
I had to write his part out, because I preferred the extreme absurdity of the Mamoru bros.
Still editing this post. I need to post up more pics, more samples of the plot, and an swf file sampling the soundtrack.
The part when you shoot the K7 logo is pretty cool. (It only works if you shoot his head.)
Battle screens
Bloody Heartland
"Chapter 1: Life is to kill for completed
Screen transitions back to the Mika Kishi static screen."
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The first chapter doesn't tell you much.
It's during the second chapter where you get a bit more of an idea of what's actually going on.
Crime 2: Flowers of Romance ~ Play Harold Kumar's scenario
One of the more telling plot scenes happens after this guy leaves the cafe, but I will not describe it here, because it's not spoken dialogue.
