For a project I didn't expect to get very far, the Corpse Party fangame I codenamed "D2" in my last post is doing pretty well. In fact, the first draft of the main story and gameplay is all complete in the most recent demo!
Let me backtrack to some introductory information: I was introduced to the Corpse Party survival horror franchise a few months ago, and I was pretty much hooked from my first playthrough of the English translation of Corpse Party Rebuilt by the fan translation group Memories of Fear. Since then, I've played both of the English localizations of the commercial Corpse Party games (Blood Covered Repeated Fear and Book of Shadows) and either played or watched Let's Plays of several fangames like Corpse Party Zero and Corpse Party if. As usually happens when I get this into something, I decided to make a fan project out of my obsession.
Corpse Party D2: Depths of Despair is a fangame made in a strange blend of the styles of Corpse Party Rebuilt and Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear. It's a linear exploration/adventure game with survival horror elements like both games, though it borrows characters and features like "Wrong Ends" (story-based game overs) from Blood Covered Repeated Fear despite being a continuation of the story of the original Corpse Party (seen in Rebuilt).
While I didn't expect much to come out of this game, I ended up being pleased enough by how it turned out to post links to the demo on the Heavenly Host Elementary School forums (a Corpse Party fan forum), and the fans there helped me shape the game into something I'm pretty proud of.
Since I haven't posted anything to this blog while working on the game, I thought I'd put up a post here to let anyone reading know what I've been up to. (I'm also trying to boost visibility to help me find an illustrator, but that's another story altogether!)
Anyway, that's more than enough backstory for now I think. There's some more information here if you're interested in the game. Though I'd suggest playing Corpse Party Rebuilt to get an idea of what's going on before playing the demo... the Memories of Fear site with that game can be found here.
As always, thanks for reading!
