DATABANK CLARIFICATION (Patreon)

To clarify something by the way, as Barreytor asked me about the “Databank” text and what it means to get added to it, I wrote this out in an email to him and I figured it’d be good to post it here so you’d all be in the loop, too. As far as getting added to the databanks, basically if you’ve ever played Dark Souls or a TCG, think about the text that accompanies weapons or items, except here it would be a bit longer chunk of text and it would be in the form of computer terminals in each stage. These terminals are not all in a direct path, so unless you go off the main path, you will miss a good deal of them. So for example, something like this might be something you run into on the fire level, warning the player of an upcoming enemy that would hypnotize them as an attack; -------------- "…the researchers guaranteed that the demonic DNA wasn’t volatile, again and again. Upon arriving at the laboratory however, the signs of destruction were unmistakeable; they couldn’t be allowed to continue. As soon as I attempted to connect to my supervisors however, I was immediately paralyzed by those… eyes. They stared at me with such fervor that I was helpless to retaliate. I don’t know what technology or ungodly science they’ve brought to the table, but something very, very wrong was going on here, and now, I’m powerless to stop it. I soon passed out afterwards, waking up in this jail cell. I’ve been unconscious for who knows how long, and while they thankfully didn’t confiscate my PDA, I fear no one will see what I write here. By then, it may even be too late. I can feel the exhaustion of starvation setting in, so I must conserve my energy to live, live in the hopes that someone will come. If there are no more entries beyond this one, you’ll know my fate. -Junior Researcher, Barreytor” -------------- I’d also have things where I’d get everyone’s text from various levels, and then build a fleshed out connection from them. For example, let’s say someone (in this case, I’ll use my own name) wanted to be one of the evil scientists; I might tie in a line in that text above, where it would now say; -------------- "I soon passed out afterwards, waking up in this jail cell. Hentaiwriter was my personal guard; they assigned him to me as he knew me best, both of us being from the same facility back during our undergraduate days. I’m not sure how they got to him; he used to be the most moral student in the class… are they doing mindwipes at that facility as well?" -------------- And then later on you’d read in say, the Electricity level, something like this. -------------- "EXG-5000 DIRECTORY LOGS; LAST LOG RECORDED 60 DAYS AGO Factory supervisor’s log, supplemental. Submitting a request to the manufacturing team for additional parts for the EXG-5000; we apparently need to upgrade our security functions and the overall durability of the machine’s S-MRI, as both have been severely compromised. Until now, mindwiping and re-programming the grunts has been a simple task, the procedure taking only minutes apiece, as you know. However, a particularly troublesome subject, going by the name “HentaiWriter”, had a superhuman level of resistance to the process as a whole. We burned through nearly a year’s worth of fuel just attempting to grind down his ego’s resistance; I admittedly take responsibility for letting my own ego get the best of me and increasing the machine beyond its limits, which contributed to the damage as well. Regardless, we need faster cycles and stronger heatsinks if we’re going to burst down the resistance of troublesome anomalies like these in the future. After submission of these logs, I’ll be deactivating this unit until further repair. Do NOT under any circumstances turn it on; it appears the device might have taken on some of the aspects of this anomalous grunt’s psyche…” -------------- Therefore explaining just WHY “HentaiWriter” decided to help out in jailing his good friend back in college, as you read back in the Fire level. Additionally, this would lead as a segue into that stage’s boss possibly (which isn’t decided on yet, but it would be cool if it was a big ass machine!) The databanks will also have a bit of backstory into the game’s social state and why things are going on the way they are, so forth. So if you wanted to get your name in the game’s storyline/databanks like this (you get to request what kind of role you'd have in the story too, and I'll try my best to oblige it), it’s only $15 on the Patreon and it only takes one pledge of that. After it’s went through once, you never have to pledge anything to us again AND you’ll get a free copy of the game too of course :)