Next Game: Plan and Q&A

Some information regarding the next game. Do note that this is only a plan and is subject to change.

Next Game is a party-based sandbox rpg with real time action combat. It is similar to Heroine Rescue Team in spirit but I wouldn’t call it HRT2 exactly as there will be differences as well.

Next Game will feature 2 Phases: the Roaming Phase and the Action Phase.

The Roaming Phase currently looks something like this: (very early in-dev pics of course) where you control the player party and you decide where to move to on the World Map. In the World Map, you can encounter other parties and various locations. Clicking on those parties/locations causes the player party to travel towards them.

The Action Phase is what happens upon reaching the interaction target. This is where the player’s party enters an Area and the player gets to control their character directly. They can fight the other group if it’s a hostile party or simply explore the Area if it's a location/town. When this conflict is resolved, or when the player decides to exit the area, the player will be brought back to the Roaming Phase and is free to explore the World Map again.

This setup is similar to games like Mount and Blade and Starsector, so if you are familiar with those games you should have a pretty good idea what it is like.

As I see this as a successor to Heroine Rescue Team, it will have many of the same features found in Heroine Rescue Team:

• Loot and Magical Gear

• A Capturing & Recruiting System

• Party and Allied Party Members

• In-combat Grabs

• Randomized Dungeon System

• Modding System

Of course, it will have some new features as well:

• Monsters (not grabbable) and Monster Girls (grabbable)

• A whole new World Map system to explore in

• Non-combat activities such as playing as a trader that caravans between towns

• Different factions on the World Map that the player can side with and influence the state of the world

Btw I should probably mention that most of the mods for Heroine Rumble 2 will be compatible with Next Game as well and can just be plugged in as it is.

Game Setting: high fantasy / post-apocalyptic (post-apocalyptic as an easy way to justify finding some modern lewd things in a high fantasy setting world :P)

Combatant Size in Action Phase: not that high, probably like a small group for player versus like mabe 20 ish active enemies at most at once (not counting reinforcements). Believe it or not, what Mount and Blade did to support 1000 units in a battle is probably fairly impressive underneath the hood.

Beat-Em-Up Gameplay? This is the part where I am not 100% sure on what to do. Heroine Rescue Team has a 3rd person view action system and I’m sure there are players looking forward to that. On the other hand, starting as a beat-em-up saves me from having to implement a completely new combat system from scratch and I can focus on the other aspects of the game at first and push it to a more playable state.

Again, I haven't decided on this yet, but there is a chance that once the other areas of the game are more established, I’ll replace the beat-em-up Action Phase to a 3rd person view action system similar to what Heroine Rescue Team has.

I have some (very very early of course) footage if you want to get a better idea of what I'm talking about:

Action Phase: https://x.com/Enlit3D/status/1808350238102769930

Roaming Phase: https://x.com/Enlit3D/status/1808545348656509429

That’s it from me for now. I’ll leave this post as a Q&A and feel free to ask any questions regarding the Next Game in the comments and I’ll answer them and make the next info post more complete.