Lost Soul's Guide to Dating
Lost Soul's Guide to Dating is a project I have been working on as a PO, lead narrative and game designer since October 2024. LSGD is a game in a mixed detective and dating genre that introduces an innovative dialogue system that our team has designed specifically for the project.
In LSGD, you take on a role of a Lost Soul - a mysterious person with no memories and an ephemeral body. Unlike other lost souls, you know that your memories have been stolen from you - so you set out to find a culprit and unravel the conspiracy behind it.
On your way you meet people who you can become your informants, friends or lovers, and each person will contribute to your cause in a unique way. You build your personality form scratch, and decide if you will become a ruthless investigator or a charming Casanova.
We are currently looking for funding to continue working on the project - you are welcome to contact me if you are interested!
As a lead game and narrative designer, I was responsible for creating the dialogue system and making sure that it is suitable for our genre and scalable for a bigger project. To match the technical aspects of the system, I developed a special way of writing dialogues that avoids repetition, but follows a more-or-less natural speech flow.
Apart from writing myself, I coordinate the team of writers, determining the general vision of the narrative and characters, and ensuring style consistency between all the contributors.
The project has been evolving for a long time. From a basic idea of making a better system of player-character interactions in a simple board game prototype to a full game with a set of characters, story and complex mechanics.
Our progress over the time has been summarized in the thesis paper we made as a team.
Project team:
Daniil Kovalenko - PO, Lead GD and narrative
Geil Jasmin Le Raudsepp - Co-Founder, Lead artist
Alex Anderssson - Co-Founder, Programmer
Samuel Rath Schultz - Narrative designer
Maria Jose 'Majo' Espinosa Chueca - Narrative designer
Fateme 'Maddy' Rafy - Background artist
Agnija Jemeljanova - Character artist (volunteer)
Céline Anna Cristine Blondeel - Narrative designer (volunteer)
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