Psychic Connections

Psychic Connections is a male romance visual novel placed in a familiar setting with a light sprinkling of supernatural flavor.Follow Mason (Name changeable if you so choose) who has just moved away from home for college. Upon arrival he finds himself inducted into a support group for individuals with psychic abilities a member he will face several choices in his day to day life as he balances college with keeping his newfound friends' abnormalities a secret.We hope you enjoying meeting our cast and entangle yourself further with one of our four eligible bachelors as you learn more about their troubled lives as psychics. You'll have the chance to help them cope with the issues their "gifts" bring — by doing so, you may even find yourself forming a deeper connection.

Features:

Support group member: Join a supportive community where you can navigate the challenges of balancing college life while keeping your friends' unique abilities a secret.

Interactive storyline: Engage with a captivating narrative and meet a diverse cast of characters. Uncover the troubled lives of four eligible bachelors, each possessing special psychic gifts.

Help them cope: Take the opportunity to lend a helping hand to these individuals, assisting them in managing the challenges that come with their "gifts." Your support may lead to fostering a meaningful bond.

Deep connections: Explore the complexities of human connection as you delve deeper into the lives of the characters. Form genuine and profound relationships with the psychics as you learn more about their experiences.

Emotional journey: Experience a rollercoaster of emotions as you navigate the highs and lows of this interactive story. Immerse yourself in the characters' touching struggles and triumphs.

Balance and choices: Face various choices as you navigate through college while keeping your friends' secrets safe. Make important decisions that will shape your own storyline and uncover new possibilities.

Developer Notes:

Greetings Friends,

It's been a while, hasn't it. I have a lot to discuss, and I'm not too sure of where to begin.

To start off, I'm going to apologize for the past two years of hiatus. I'll admit, when we initially began this hiatus, I never expected it to last as long as it has. While it hasn't all been my fault, I know that it's taken as long as it has, in part, due to my lack of proactivity on making the hiatus end. I've had other things in my life taking priority, my job, my education, and while I've definitely put in many hours getting us out of hiatus, it hasn't been enough, and I know it hasn't been as much as I could have. I need to do better, and intend to do so but I still needed to acknowledge my own part in the hiatus.

Now, you may be wondering. What all have I been doing? Why did the hiatus start, and why is it still going? When is it finally ending?

I'll start with the why did it start. Approximately 2 years ago, there was a bit of an unfortunate falling out with our Programmer, he had some personal issues which prevented him from further working on the project. However, before this we'd made arrangements to make major changes to our assets. These plans did not change as initially they'd only been meant to step away for a few months, and upon their return the intention was to update our codebase to properly implement this new format for our assets.

To make a long-story short, these few months extended into indefinitely, and I found myself with a bunch of assets I could no longer use, this led to the introduction of a new part-time programmer to help us more or less fix this issue and required us to redo our asset-formatting again.

However, the issues didn't stop there, as I myself did not have a programmer full-time to handle translating my scripts into a workable format in Ren'py. With 0 knowledge on how to properly code, I was downright stuck.

Fast-forward a bit, and delving into the "What I've been doing" I've been taking some classes on Python to remedy my lack of knowledge and equip myself with the tools to handle a lot of the basic-level programming myself, this felt like a necessity to avoid this problem in the future. I'd still not declare myself a very competent programmer, but I'm no where near as lost as I was before.

Throughout this period, I've also gotten assistance on some extra features for Psychic Connections. A proper UI for the game has been implemented, this extends to UI elements for other features, such as a Scene Gallery, a Music Room, and a Sprite Viewing Lounge.

Despite the hiatus, our artists have never stopped work, all of our relevant planned characters now have sprites, all of our CGs are now beautifully shaded, and all of our placeholder BGs have been replaced. (And many of our future BGs have also been finished.)

So you may be wondering, what's left, what's stopping the end of this hiatus? The short-answer, is me.

During the hiatus, I got the brilliant idea to rewrite all of the current existing content.However, I'd be lying if I didn't say I found that to be a struggle. It's not so much that I'm changing the story too much as I am re-arranging much of what's been told, and shifting the way it's portrayed to better match my intended vision. (Whilst adding a few extra scenes here and there.) This period of limbo seemed like the only time where making such a change would be feasible, and while that's true, I underestimated how long making such changes would take, because every change naturally cascades into further changes in the later days of the script.

As it stands, I'm about 65% done with the intended rewrites, for reference, Days 1-3 were initially 43.5K words, and now it's 60K. (That's almost a 50% increase in content.) That isn't counting the changes I've made to the later days that are not yet finalized and thus can't be included in my calculations.

Truthfully, I'd intended to be further along by this point, but naturally life has side-tracked me. My current living-arrangement is coming to a sudden end due to my roommates deciding they no longer wish to continue our current arrangement, which led to me looking for a new place to live. (I did manage to find something that I'm moving into this week.) In addition, this past month there was an unfortunate health-scare in my family that placed my father in the hospital. One surgery and a week of stress later, and he's back home and presumed to live many more years, but all of this was stressful enough that I found myself unable to make the progress I intended to make when I'd previously announced on Twitter that Psychic Connections would be returning this summer.

So now that I've highlighted my failings, what does the path forward look like. Well, I'll be regrettably honest, I don't think I will be making my August release like I'd intended. My initial thought was to say October is the next goal, but I think if I'm being realistic, I want to give myself a wider window for life to get in the way. So while I doubt anyone will be happy to hear this. The new plan is for December to stage the return of Psychic Connections. (This is a soft-plan for the record, we 100% will be releasing this sooner than that if it's ready before then.)

I know that it's farther away than any of us wanted it to be, and I could say I'm sorry, but at this point I don't think I could apologize enough to make up for how long this is taking, so instead I'll simply promise to do better than I was before, and to get this to you all as soon as possible.

Reviews:

Don't worry I already deleted the game. I see no point in pursuing romance with irredeemably broken characters.  I did however complete the creator's survey at the end of the game, hopefully it will steer the creators in a favorable way for those that do love it and bring a greater amount of followers in turn.  I posted my comment before doing so unfortunately as it sometimes the only way to connect with the creators.

In fact, this video game is a VN of navigation through altering the plot with choices you make, of course it has a strong component in dating and romance but it is more than just a dating simulator, right?Also, I think it wouldn't be bad to include the no-dates route for those who are asexual or straight but liked the concept, plot, or character, and just want to make them friends, I'am not one for that but I can understand. It could be used to see what the characters do if you don't go with any of them. For example, maybe Jude and Quinn will get back together if you don't intervene to give that rabbit something better (although it's possible that Jude actually needs Quinn to not be so alone or something).

Annoying rabbit?!I agree with you about the muscle guy with anger problems (although I have heard that on his route you discover that he is that "hard on the outside but soft on the inside" type, but I have not verified it because I am simply not attracted to him), but what is wrong with you?! The rabbit is super fun, the only thing I didn't like about him is that after flirting with me I found out that he had some story with the muscular guy and tries to convince us to give that guy a chance. Aside from that, the most annoying character by far is the pink panda, the one who has zero respect for your privacy and is super insistent... but she's not a romantic interest. The rich guy seems like a responsible and nice guy... but too boring for me, and the flirter cat seems a bit desperate and rather makes me feel sorry for him. But they're all rather nice people.

This Novel is fabulous! I would go on for start with Aidens route, and then with Quinns. Those are my favs. And I wanna give you my idea for our protagonists ability powers. Well, I propose you my fav ones, I mean; aerokinesis, atmokinesis or electrokinesis. Those 3 are the best kinetic abilities ever for me. Aerokinesis - controls aspects of air. Atmokinesis - controls whole aspects of weather (meaning he could change the temperature, make it more rainy. or sunny or snowy, more clouds, less, etc). And Electrokinesis - controls whole aspects of electricity, meaning he could then control his own electric aspects in his body through his bones and for prank electrize someone with little electric pound, or destroy the electronics like phones by blowing them up etc, many options to choose honestly. But as for me, Id choose Atmokinesis to be his ability. But thats just my proposal, you would chose anyway what abilities main protagonist would have. Have nice day/night.

Summary:

As a member of the support group you will face several choices in your day to day life as you balance college with keeping your newfound friends’ abnormalities a secret.Meet the cast and entangle yourself further with one of our four eligible bachelors as you learn more about their troubled lives as psychics. You’ll have the chance to help them cope with the issues their “gifts” bring — by doing so, you may even find yourself forming a deeper connection.