One starry summer night, on the shores of a quiet beachside town, best friends Adrianne Vinh and Margot Mackay witness an alien ship crash into the ocean. Aboard the craft was an alien, confused and now with no way home. Welcoming him into their life, the young women are tasked with teaching him the ways of humanity – a far cry from his conquest-obsessed homeplanet.
Play as Adrianne and experience the wonders of small town life through extraterrestrial eyes! Will you pursue a healthy friendship with him? Invite him into your found family? Or, perhaps, will romance blossom between you two…?
But beware, all is not sunsets and ice cream on these picturesque shores… What mysteries lie amongst such tranquil life?
For this Josei Jam 2023 project, I was co-producer and lead writer. The visual novel amassed 28.5k words in the span of two months, with the release of the demo on June 30th. An update was released for the Amare Games Festival 2024. I also assisted in running our Twitter account and authored our marketing copy and devlogs. I aided in voice acting direction and wrote dialogue barks for the characters.
Here is an except from a dialogue bark sheet for the love interest character, Alien. As the game was too large to be fully-voiced, we opted for partial voice acting instead. The barks had to be versatile enough to be used throughout the entire nearly 30k-word visual novel while staying relevant to the various scenes, diverse in delivery, and staying short and concise as to not overstay their welcome. The main trio of characters received 15+ lines with up to three inflections, while minor characters were given seven lines with up to two inflections.