168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberbang 2069 might sound like a porn parody of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077, but there’s much more to it than that. Yes, it takes the existing characters of Cyberpunk and transplants them into the more erotic setting of a visual novel/dat🍨ing sim, but it’s not cheap titilation to cash in on a popular video game, but instead is closer to lovingly crafted fanfiction to 💧better explore a world the game only scratches the surface of. I recently sat down with the developers Nara, Bean, and Celest of Triple Thirst to see how the idea first came about.
“It started after playing the whole story of Cyberpunk 2077,” Nara, the game’s artist, tells me. “I was basically sad because I couldn’t date Goro in Cyberpunk 2077. As a straight Fem V I was given one choice only. River is okay, but one romanceable character? It's just sad.”
While Goro was the spark for the game, the fires weren’t lit until Nara stumbled across another character for a fleeting moment.🥃 “My depression led me to liking a guy called Sandayu Oda, who has only 15 minutes of screen time and zero chance to date. So I decided to make a dating sim withꦑ him. At first, the game was called The Rematch, with only Oda as a love interest. But our team grew and more people wanted to see more people to date. So we choose Goro, Johnny, and Hanako. Since the Hanako path has a bit of a problem, we had to drop it and replace her with Vik. So here we are now, with a full path for Sandayu Oda, and three demos for Goro Takemura, Viktor Vektor, and Johnny Silverhand.”
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You may be struggling to remember Sandayu Oda. With 130 hours in Cyberpunk 2077 myself, my first thought upon seeing him in the visual novel was ‘oh yeah, that guy!’. But if he’s way down the pecking order compared to Johnny, Goro, or even Vic, why focus on Oda at all? According to Bean, it’s all about the eyes. “He has a really great voice actor, that helped a lot,” Bean says. “He just has this really deep, foreboding, emotional kind of voice. For me, that was what really drew him in. And then he also has these just strangely gorgeous eyes. Why does this scary man have these big blue eyes? It was just so interesting for us to talk about that. Clearly, his model was unfinished. He doesn't have fingernails, there's no finishing on his cyberware, and the lack of content combined with an interesting design and the alluring nature of his character, we felt there was such a story there. I will admit that I've written a lot of Oda fanfiction as well, and he's just different in so many iterations of it, because you can extrapolate on his character based on how he presents himself in the game. It was a fun experience to take his story and make it our own.”
Bean joined the game after Nara and Celest already had the idea in place, coming on board as a writer, and proved to be a key piece of the puzzle. “At first, the game wasn't in chapters,” Celest says. “It was in days, we had six days planned out. We wanted it to be the first day you meet with Oda, the second day you talk to him, you get to know him, until you finally end up, you know, banging him. We kind of got stuck because neither me nor Nara were native speakers. We knew Bean from a server, and we thought ‘She's really good at what she does, why don't we ask her?’ and she basically saved the game. That's how we made Triple Thirst because it was just the three of us at first.”
Away from the game itself, one of the most interesting aspects of Cyberbang 2069 is that it was made with express p𓆏ermission from CD Projekt Red itself. Many assumed a tweet praising the game from a Cyberpunk dev constitutes this ‘permission’, but Bean explains that it all happened long ago behind the scenes. After a friend suggested they check if their game would even be allowed, the devs headed to CDPR’s website.
“We read their terms of service and for fan art it's really gracious. You can make money off your fan art, you just can't lock it behind a paywall. We already knew it was going to be free, but they do say ‘do not make a video game based off Cyberpunk’, which made us question a little bit about what a visual novel falls under, because some people would say it's not a video game. It's fanfic combined with art in more of an immersive style, really.”
This prompted Triple Thirst to send an email inquiring whether their project would be allowed, and how best to change it. “We were expecting maybe some kind of clarification like, ‘Oh, is this about Johnny?’,” Bean says. “Because there's been some issues with his character [in the past] because of Keanu Reeves, but they just sent back, ‘Go for it’. That was just a few months into our development, in April of last year. I've been seeing a lot of articles that are referencing the tweet from Patrick [K. Mills, CP77’s quest designer] as ‘Oh, look, they give permission’ but we got permission [before].”
The game’s success has skyrocketed recently after several press outlets 🙈picked up the demo, and the immediate plan is to turn the existing demos into full paths like Oda’s. After that, the team isn’t ruling out bringing in even more characters, but the plan is to highlight those who were not available for romance the first time around.
“We would really love to do more,” Bean tells me. “At this point, we are not going to promise anything. But what we can say is that our focus is definitely going to be on characters who do not have romances in the game. Because there's so many characters that are so interesting and have such story potential. The cyberpunk fandom is very shippy. So there's a lot of people that pick one NPC, and then that is just their person.
“We tailored the experience to have a lot of customization. So you can be a female, be a male, and you can be transgender, you can have different skin tones, just so people can really feel like it's their V, their experience. We want to offer an experience that they can't have in the game. I particularly really love Blue Moon. I would love to do a story with Blue Moon, because there is an open ended romance in the game in which you can ask her on a date and she laughs at you. And then it broke my heart a little bit. So I would really love to explore something like that. But we've also been asked for Mateo, Meredith, Claire, Jackie, there are so many characters that we could expand on, and I really hope that we can continue.”
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