Dispersio -Visual Novel/Graphic Adventure Game

[Footprint]

Dispersio will be our first project.

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Team:
Me: programmer, scriptwriter and director
My brother: character designer, drawer, songwriter.


Plot:
?You're aunt is dying?
I love my family when they give me good news.

?

I perfectly remember that day...

An earth tremor.
No more light...
Nothing around me...
Suddenly a blinding light sorround me
then i realize that it isn't my world...

I don't want to say a lot about the plot because it's really important in a VN.


Other Info:
Go away! You're useless!...Or not?
Dispersio won't have gorgeous ladies who scampering everywhere, obviously there will be female character but they'll be normal people.
Ther will be soundtrack but we won't abuse of it we'll focus on the Sound Effect to help indentification. Anyone have a own soundtrack in the real life so also in Dispersio soundtrack won't be important.
In Dispersio there won't be a true main character because all the character will be important but obviusly one character will be more important than other but he won't be the hero because in Dispersio ther aren't any world to save, or any lost memory...

Plot
The plot will be the true main character of the game.
The first two chapter will be the introduction, they will destroy the peacefulness. After this first chapter the story will be divided in chapters. You must play every chapter different time to cover all the possible way and to understand the plot.
Dispersio will be set into a hypothetical futuristic cyber-punk world. There won't be any strange alien, or powerful android.

A Visual Nover without choose?
There will be obviously some chooses that will influence your understanding of the plot but without changing the end.
In Dispersio will be important HOW you get to the end and not what will happen when you'll finally reach it.

Price&Release:
Dispersio Chapter 01 will be released on AppStore this month.
The first chapter will be an introduction to what will happen, from the second one the story will be so so so exciting.
The game will have only italian language but in a week, or two, you'll have the english version.
The two version will have the same price 0,79?/0,99$.
We'll try to keep the same price for all the chapters but if one or two chapter will be so, so, so longer the maximum price will be 1,59?/1,99$.
We must decide the price for the PC/MAC version.


Screenshot:







PS: the background text is provisional.

Yesterday the game (italian version) was sent to Apple.
The english translation start today cause of some extra added to the game. We hope to release the english version as soon as possible.

Today we also start the second (and the real first one) chapter.
It will be available as soon as possible.

This first chapter will be an important intro to the huge world of Dispersio*.
The real game will start with the second chapter (as you can read in the news on IndieDB).

This first chapter will be a Visual Novel, with small Graphic Adventure Game component, that will introduce you to Dispersio, the Dispersio Spin-Off and the Comics.

It's a small size game (under 20mb) because we want that also who haven't got a wi-fi connection will be able to play this chapter.

The next chapter will be Graphic Adventure Game with Visual Novel elements and they'll have an higher size so the next chapter will look better then the first one (however this one look really better).

*we have also a PC/MAC game under construction (based on Dispersio world) and it won't be a Graphic Adventure Game and a contract with an Italian publishing house to publish a comics based on Dispersio (initially Dispersio was a comics but we decide to build this game)

[ChiffaN]

Looks interesting. What is the timeframe for the followup chapters?

[Footprint]

Looks interesting. What is the timeframe for the followup chapters?

Depend. If it's a long (more than 5 hours of gameplay) chapter 3 month.
If the chapter is short (less than 5 hours) 1 month or 2 month.

[madam_octa]

I think you'd be better off making shorter versions for idevices, but you have to be consistent when delivering chapters, 1.5 months sounds perfect.
I'll definitely grab the first chapter, sounds interesting and I really like the genre

[Footprint]

Italian version is out now. English version will come in a week.
For the following chapters the enlish and the italian version will come out together.

[Footprint]

News for everyone.
This first chapter is a prologue with a short game play but with the release of the second chapter we'll release an update that will change the entire first chapter (will add lot of scene and gameplay stuff) we can do this cause of some new stuff that will be introduced in the second chapter.
We know, is a little bit strange but in this way you'll have a "new" chapter for free (if you already have the first chapter). Start will be update every time that in the story something related with the past appear.
So the Start chapter will have a lot of update for free and everytime with a lot of new stuff. It must be a surprise for the release of the second, and coming, chapter but maybe is better to say it now.
We call it start because all in the story start from here but we could't release it with the full story because there will be a lot of spoiler into the game...
So don't worry if this first release is short. With the second, and coming, chapter you'll have a new chapter for free.

[Footprint]

Dispersio Alone Lite ENG is available for FREE on App Store.

[ChiffaN]

Footprint, thank you for allowing me to test out the Start chapter. I understand your premise, but you were completely truthful in that there really is not much gameplay in it and it feels more like a long cutscene. I'm not sure about your plans for release of the full second chapter, but I would advise you to at least bundle the gameplay of the FREE lite version in the Start chapter. Otherwise the sudden finish of it comes of as a shock.

Look out for a news bit on this soon.

[everzzz]

Looks interesting.