Hello,
As a longtime player of various wg games, I have finally decided to try my own hand on creating one, and would very much appreciate some feedback on the premises of the story to see if there might be folks interested in playing such a game.
The basic idea is as follows:
You’re a captive of a powerful Sultanate. While male prisoners are sent to Labour camps, you actually get an option to regain your freedom. In an arena or elsewhere, you have to fight against fellow prisoners, keep winning and you might be free one day, keep losing, and you might end up in a permanent captivity.
Besides fighting, you can explore (within the vicinity of your confinement), hang out and develop relations with other prisoners, and even some captors. Chose to antagonise or to be friendly and maybe even more.
Depending on your background fighting would be easier or harder, and interaction options might vary (depending if you’re a captured warrior, farmer’s daughter or baker’s daughter), each background coming with different fitness, strengths (or weaknesses) and body types.
For the actual gameplay, I’m no programmer, so everything would be text and story based and driven. But since there’s room for a simple stats/skills and combat mechanism, and a lot of branching, depending on the success of the game, I might transfer the whole idea to something like renpy.
Among future ideas, I’m also open for possibilities to collaborations, so you might also get some pictures. (since I’m not an artist either, my philosophy is to rather have no art at all than to have a bad one).
I’m happy to share more specific details should any questions arise.
Take care,
Inkblotch07