Project W Post: January 2024

Well, that poll is over and the option of hearing some info about Project W was pretty popular. I'm good with that! From now on I'll post once per month, near the very end of the month, some details about it.

Of course, there's no art being done, I'm not writing any scripts, the people I work with don't even know what this is about, haha. However, I do have hundreds of thousands of words of brainstorming and can give you some small insights into that planning.

The first things I'll say about it is that "Project W" is what I call the game that is my backburner project. I actually already know the real title! I just can't share that until the official reveal of the game. Currently, I'm getting the story prepared to go into production after Our Life: Now & Forever. It will likely begin some real development before all of the OL2 extensions are done, same as how an OL2 demo came out while we were still making OL1 DLCs.

Project W isn't connected to the Our Life series, though will have elements GB Patch Games has come to be known for. You'll get to design your own MC and customize pretty much everything about them. There will be tons of choices and none of the choices will be wrong. There's no bad endings at the end of this journey. You'll also have your own unique relationship with the leads. And it will have a free base story with optional DLCs. 

In terms of genre, it is gonna keep the feel-good overall feeling, too. When all is said and done, I'm hoping it will be a wonderful experience for players. And even though you're not growing up over the course of the story, it is going to be broken up into four sections. 

The similarities to OL start to thin out there. 

Project W is set in a fantasy world with a historical type of time period. There will be a feeling of adventure and some mystery and a whole lot of challenges to face. It's gonna be told in a linear way across four story arcs. 

And will you be surprised to find out that this is going to be the most ambitious project for GB Patch yet? More complex systems and with more assets needed than the Our Life games. But I'm almost positive this is it! If Project W is exactly how I'd like it to be, projects after it are gonna be smaller, though still high quality. It can't get bigger than this. At least not for me.

So, that wraps up this first Project W info dump! I hope it was interesting 😄. This is gonna be a long road, but I work on it as much as humanly possibly while not getting behind on my OL2 tasks. I look forward to sharing more about the game.