Once all the rules are all firmly established, I’m going to start mercilessly breaking them, until the player no longer feels like they’re in control.ĭoki Doki Literature Club offers a kind of horror that reaches out into the player’s world, affecting them outside the game. The first hour of the game is important in establishing strict rules for as many things as possible: The characters’ behavior, the flow of the story, the poem minigame, the interface. I think what you get is players who aren’t sure how seriously they should be taking the game, because most of them know that something is going to happen – they just don’t know what. What does that pleasant surface do to the player? What effect does it set up for you that helps you frighten the player later on?ĭDLC starts off disarming, to say the least. It’s a combination of me enjoying writing disturbing content, and wanting to demonstrate what the visual novel medium is capable of doing. Its notoriety makes it an easy target for satire, because the satire can be enjoyed both by people who play dating sims, and people who make fun of them.
There’s a very enthusiastic subculture of gamers who seek the "fantasy fulfillment" that those kinds of games provide – that is, cute girls (or guys) flirting with you and falling in love with you. What drew you to create this world of sweet teenage romance and bury something sinister within it?įrom the moment of the project’s inception, it was designed as a satire on anime dating sim-style games. Siliconera had a spoiler-filled talk with Dan Salvato, writer and coder of DDLC, to have a talk about the game’s unexpected change in content, why its true nature was kept hidden, and what effect this kind of game can have on the player in the real world.
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With only a simple warning of “ This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.”, players will be left wondering what’s so off about these innocent teens, only to come to a sinister turn in the free game. Doki Doki Literature Club! ( DDLC) seems to be a cute visual novel about meeting other writing fans in a literature club, only starting to show its true nature over the course of play.
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