After having been humiliated in entrance of her friends, the 14 12 months outdated Kikue Aimori stands on the roof of her condo constructing. Taking a deep breath, she notices the woman who began all of it, strolling hand in hand with Kikue’s outdated childhood buddy down the lengthy street. She tightens her fists, steps again, and affixes her footwear again snugly onto her ft. Her life was ruined, and he or she wasn’t about to let her do it to anybody else.

Kokoa Rikima. She would not comprehend it, however Kikue noticed her take her love confession letter and put it out within the open for everybody to see. She was the topic of ridicule for the longest time following the reveal of her crushed love for Rikima. She performed harmless, however Kikue knew the reality.

Kikue begins to observe her private life intently, and notices, unusually, {that a} highschool has already been prescribed for her earlier than entrance exams have even begun. Rikima is the highest of the category, by way of grades to this point, however this faculty is not essentially been identified for accepting aces… it is rumored to be populated by harmful sorts of Yokai, hiding silently in the dead of night, stalking their victims and stealing their souls. Yet right here this potential genius was…

Now 15, Kikue stands proudly beside Rikima, each having been topped with tied scores of their entrance exams. Her eyes widen barely to see the title of the college she could be despatched to… it appeared that their little recreation of cat and mouse would proceed into their later years, would not it?

Kikue comes dwelling to a letter stuffed below her bed room door, sealed with black wax.

Let the video games start.

Checkmate is an anime-styled social technique recreation going down in a Japanese High School, impressed by Death Note, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and My Hero Academia. You play because the aforementioned Kikue Aimori, starting on her first day of High School. In change to your safety within the faculty in your endeavors to sabotage the charismatic Kokoa Rikima, you might be tasked by the mysterious determine ‘KURO’ to analyze particular members of your fellow friends and college school. Once you’ve got came upon what that particular person’s most prized possession is, it’s then your purpose to acquire it and guarantee it’s despatched alongside to KURO. You ask what he plans to do with them. He laughs, and tells you that you’ll perceive in due time…

DEVLOG #1 – JUNE 7, 2022

Hi there! Thanks for studying that blurb. It’s topic to vary, however I feel it should keep that method for some time except I out of the blue determine to take a flip with the plot.

According to the timestamps in my Unity venture, I began formally engaged on this recreation April twenty fifth, 2022. I had the concept for it whereas attempting to kill time on a two hour flight. What if a online game employed Death Note-like social mechanics the place you needed to out-manipulate an equally crafty drive with an unknown motive, powered by a mysterious entity and adopted by supernatural occasions?

So far, the sport principally simply appears to be like like a Unity asset flip. I admit that wholeheartedly. I’m not the very best at 3D modeling, so it is largely going to be belongings. I’m utilizing a basemesh made by Ctool on Sketchfab for my characters.

Currently, I’ve a system with a crude GUI that retains observe of what season it’s, what weekday it’s, the time, and the 12 months. (I plan on having the time progress, with the top of the sport being commencement.) I’ve a random pupil generator, however on the given second I’ve solely modeled a single hair model to this point. I attempted utilizing my very own basemesh at first, but it surely seemed…

_{Left: The basemesh I purchased. Right: The basemesh I made myself.}

*coughs* Well, clearly made by somebody very new to 3D modeling.

The college students I’ve are able to pathfinding utilizing Unity’s navmesh system, and I can provide them schedules and actions, however that is about it. Extracurricular golf equipment exist, however for now they’re nothing greater than an enum.

At the second I’m engaged on animating the basemeshes. They got here with detailed eyes, and I’m actually new at rigging, so my blink that I made is a bit wonky, but it surely’s functioning. The eyebrows also can emote.

As I work on it I’ll hold you all up to date. Feel free to ask questions and provides suggestions or recommendations!