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Today marks Desolate Villages 1st ever anniversary also the day that I became a game dev, even though yesterday was my blog’s 2nd anniversary. I feel like this day is more important since it was the day that I publish my first game.

I really want to say thank you for everyone that has follow and support my work, also want to thank all the amazing people I met and talk to that help me. I just really want to say thank you to everyone since every comment, every message, every fanart, every let’s play, just everything you guys do makes me happy. That content I made is something someone is playing or that someone likes.

I know desolate village isn’t the best game, but it was the game that push me to get into game development. Also, it was the first game I ever finished and publish. Desolate Village is a project which I like which is one of the main reason I said I was going to remake it. Don’t worry I’m still going to remake it, but I’m going to stop calling it a remake and more of a rebuild of the game. Since the new concept is completely different and has a whole completely different plot.

Rebuild of Desolate Village:

The rebuild is going to be more of a reimagine version of the game, you won’t have to play the original to get the plot. Since the plot is brand new and deals nothing with the original. So, the characters in this version will be different but have similar traits from their original counterparts. Also, there won’t be any of the kidnapping, drug, and animal village plot stuff. Since I now felt this was a weird concept for a plot, and I had trouble writing a script with these themes. So, I scarp it out of the whole game’s plot. But the plot would deal with serious issues.

The new concept for the games plot is going to deal with Alex moving in a quite village to get away from the city life he lives in. While moving he would meet the rest of the cast which would have their own personality’s and traits. I wanted this game to be more like animals crossing and Harvest moon, being more character relation base. But the game is going to get creepy/twisted depending on how you interact with characters. With this concept I’m planning to only have two endings really.

The games are really going to deal with character relationships and will have a whole creepy twist like the original, but it would be different but also tie in with Alex more.

Characters:

The remake is going to have a small cast, well smaller than the original by one character. The game is going to have familiar faces but also one new face. Also, two characters that will not return in this game are Stella and James, I’m sorry for anyone that like them, but I had some personal issues with them as characters. Maybe I’ll bring them back in another project, but for now they will not be in the rebuild.

Another thing these characters in the remake are different from the characters in the original version, that means their backstory’s and personalities are not the same. You could call this maybe a parallel universe game from the original.

(New designs for the characters)

Alex: He’s still the main character of this game, but his personality and appearance has change. Alex personality would change depending on the players actions in the game. Alex can be naive and kind, or rude and serious. Alex moved to this small village to get away from his problems in the city, since it was too loud.

Adam: He’s the only one similar to his original game counterpart in both appearance and personality wise. He would just be more of the cheerful shopkeeper who tends to play tricks and tries to lighten up the mood. He still does act sadistic and creepy like his original self, but it’s offend uses as to mess with others. His true nature is hard to tell, but he’s the type that doesn’t get upset quickly.

Chloe: She change a lot, since the character was a bit annoying. So, I basically made her more of a character who is still the leader but more of a person who wants to motive others by wanting to do things together. But she is lazy and tends to fall asleep. Her appearance looks different since she looked similar to characters from other games, plus she just looks very childish to me.

Elliot: He’s basically 100% different from the original game, they are two different people in design wise and personality. Elliot in this game is going to be the straight man for the craziness that Adam and Chloe pull. He is the one that shows lack of care and emotion tends to be alone, to deal with his hobbies. But he is the village doctor and has a hobby of sewing plushies. He often wears a bear hand puppet on his right hand. He does have a dull personality but does act odd at times somethings doing childish things even though he would seem serious on what he is doing.

New character: This character doesn’t have a visual design, since I want to keep them hidden. Since they are a new character. They will be a sibling to a existing character won’t say who, but they do work at the train station when you enter the town. The character does love chickens a lot and tends to draw them, also tends to draw things like town maps.

I hope the cast for the rebuild sounds interesting, note this is just their general information about them. They will have more dept, to them from the info I put down. Also, each character does play a role to the story this time. They are all important to the plot of the game. Unlike the first game how some character did nothing for the story, for this game all character’s effect and have value to the games plot.

Another thing Alex friends are gone since, they don’t help the plot in any way. I added them in the first game to just tell a spooky story really. This game is different, so they won’t be needed really.

Final thoughts:

(Redraw of a CG)

I’m grateful for people I met in this community, this is the first time I’m in a community as a content creator. Also, thank you for those who use the poll I made, I didn’t think I’ll get 35 responses 0__0. I didn’t think anyone would use it, but all your words are super helpful to me and I used them to help me flesh out this concept. So I thank all of you so much, also thank you everyone who played the game, last time I check the game had 5,949 downloads and 16,234 views. Just thank you guys soo much really. I didn’t think the game would get that much at all. All of you are amazing, really you are!

But now the rebuild will most likely be made after Verloren, please don’t hold me to my word as I say after. Since that could my the 4th game I’ll make or the 5th or etc.. The game won’t come before Verloren unless I say so. But I do plan on making the rebuild a thing, since I want to give Desolate Village a better story.

Thank you all for following my devolvement for the past year and I hope you would enjoy the future concept I’ll create.

Also I want to give quick shout outs to friends and people I really look up to. Check them out when you have the time, since they are cool people. I’m sorry if I forget anyone, also this is in no order. ~~If the @ don’t work I have no clue how to make them work. Maybe my computer is acting dumb.~~

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