Parallel Palates is a roguelike shop simulator where you play as a cashier (gender selectable) who took a deal that was too good to be true. You now own your own convenience store but you have to pay off an enormous debt in… seven days?! In desperation, you search the shop’s basement and find a mysterious vending machine that seems to dispense strange foods from other times and dimensions. Customers suddenly seem to be coming from other worlds as well! Can you use this situation to your advantage and pay off your debt?
Rearrange furniture, expand your store, find powerful synergies with unique food and character abilities, chat with your customers, and fatten them up to improve their existing abilities and unlock new ones.
You may fail a couple times but you’ll learn more about the best synergies, characters’ abilities, and get them bigger every time.
The game is 2.5D: The map is 3D but characters and foods are 2D.
Here’s a preview of some of the content coming:
Three of the planned characters for the first release
That sounds like a good idea. I wasn’t quite sure at first since there’s just one singular goal to achieve (enough money to pay off the debt) but I could totally add an endless mode in which you have another debt goal to reach each day. A score feature (based on your money and the number of girls fattened up) was already planned so that would fit in quite nicely.
Since we’re adding modes to the game, I might as well also add a peaceful mode which is unlocked after completing the game on normal mode once which just turns off debt entirely for people who just want to relax and fatten up all the girls easily.
I second the idea of an endless/peaceful mode. I’m very interested in this, but seeing there was a one week time limit honestly put a damper on it. I know filling out a longer period with content requires even more work, though, especially for a two person team doing this pro bono. So I’m looking forward to what you’ve got planned regardless!
Looks great! I especially like that it sounds like you’re aiming for that difficulty sweet spot where failure is a reasonable expectation, but player skill can overcome it once the player groks the game.
Is the tutorial bot going to be called the “Terranite Educator for Anomalous Retail” (aka T.E.A.R.)?
I plan on having the “tutorial” as a little book that can be viewed from the pause menu. The gameplay is made to be easy to understand so the tutorial is mostly just a little optional guidebook which you’re asked if you would like to view on your first round of the game. You usually shouldn’t need it.
It is currently my day off due to certain life issues so I’m not able to program well today but I wanted to get something done so here’s the new logo for anyone interested.
EDIT: Also, if anyone is interested, I’m a little short on money, so I’m taking logo commissions for $25 each for a limited time. Just send a message through the forum. However, I refuse to make logos for games that use AI for fetish art (backgrounds, non-fetish enemies, foods, etc are fine with me).
I have somehow turned my girlfriend into a cat girl using a slideshow presentation which is absolutely amazing (I was really lonely…) so I am in an incredible mood.
Did not even realize that was possible.
Expect a ton of progress and sneak peaks coming tomorrow.
I would die of embarrassment if anyone else actually saw the presentation since it is in my real personality, which, as a cat girl, is very embarrassing… It took me like 20 hours to do and had a lot of funny and random parts. I actually did share it with the artist for certain reasons but only because he knows me very well.
He kind of has to know me very well because it’s really exhausting writing like a normal person. I am trying so hard right now just to write this sentence normally and not accidentally come off as really weird. My ability to write normally has decayed ever since I came out to all of my friends…
If anyone is especially curious about the kind of content in that presentation, as well as me, just check out where all the cat girls seem to be recently. That place has somehow multiplied in size by literally fifty times in just a few months (I came in when weekly contributions was under 100) and I’m starting to think the world is a lot less lonely than I expected…
