SILVER BONE CITY NIGHTS

Our visual novel is a love letter to some of our favourite characters from BG3, specifically some (old men) unromanceables, and some OCs, set in my original cyberpunk world - DOLL PARTS. It's for adults only, and you pick one of five original characters where you then explore the known - or unknown - streets of the Discard Downs of Silver Bone City, your intentions for being in the city slowly revealed to you with your choices as you play.

You will meet some friendly faces, some not. Some people that you might want to run from - or to. Maybe you'll have casual fun in the city with some faceless unknowns; heard even royalty hangs out down there. Maybe you'll find the love of your life - or the bane of it.

CURRENT WIPs & BTS

PAST AND PROLOGUE WIPS AND PREVIEWS

Here is our main menu splash screen we worked very hard on and we can't wait for you all to experience it in game!

Placeholder Voss V2 outside a bar in the Downs

Tram in the Downs

PHONE SYSTEM PREVIEW

We're working on a phone system for all the playable chars, and they'll all have unique skins and be fully interactive.

Preview of the messaging system with your love interest!

All of the player characters will be able to choose their pronouns, gender presentation and (bar two of the chars out of five)genitals. All the love interests in the game have their own preferences and biases and depending on your presentation and pronouns, they may not be that into, or really into you. All of the player characters are a unique race that may or may not matter to the LIs.

There's also an extensive achievement system as you play through related to your interactions with the world and your love interest.

Maybe you'll even meet a Prince washing dishes.

Each player character is unique and have their own story and reasons for being in the Downs of Silver Bone City that unravels as you play.

EARLY BTS AND CONCEPT

So when we were originally coming up with the ridiculous idea of "hey you wanna make a VN?" we started drafting up something a lot smaller and shorter, using Una's art she'd already done for my fic DOLL PARTS, and I just wrote some stuff quickly into Ren'Py to try and get a handle on how to work the engine doing a lot of this as I'd never in my life used it before.

I'd written a long Twine novel before, so I understood the basics of interactive fiction, branches and the style and format, but using Ren'Py's engine felt like a bit of a steep learning curve for me, so these were a lot of messing around and seeing what it could do for us! And well, now we are here, almost 100k words into something massive and we really hope you enjoy the prologue when we release soon and meet all the characters who you'll take through Silver City.