This sound fun.
Would totally make a love interest or two.
I did play a shall we date game so know some bit how it works.
When it comes to setting. I would love to see something less used.
School are too often used but how about a band setting with a rival band.
Or maybe movie shooting, so we get actors and the staff, add maybe to be horror movie or a fantasy or scifi movie to make it more interesting.
Or a traveling group of some sort.
Or maybe early mars colony.
Or maybe Space ship pirates and the humans get kidnapped by mistake. Mistaken identity.
Or something easier a ad making company with new employers.
Or more of a classic thing vampire, witches etc.
Or a noble aristocrats and their servants could be set in pretty much any period.
Or maybe sea world biologist on work in a tropical sea.
Or .....*looks at the number of ideas* um... I over did it or? Well if you need more I dont mind letting my mind go crazy.
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for stats, how about we do the simple thing the more stat in athletics the more affection points one get from the sport loving/focused love interest.
A example how it would work.
We say collect 50 points to get a date with love interest X 75 for first kiss 120 for being a couple.
When making the character you get 10 points to put in the following categories.
Athletics: 5
Knowledge: 2
Charm: 1
Luck: 1
Creative: 1
Instead of gaining levels we do so that,
Each time you post for example 3 times( we could add with at least 2 paragraphs but doesnt have too) you get one point to spend.
So each love interest should have for example 1-2 categories he is attract to.
Ben - Athletic & Charm
So when a person talks to him/her and gives them a favorable type of answer they get 5+1 =6 points in the love bar. And a unfavorable answer gives the half of it 6/2= +3 or we could say one loses 3 points that would make it harder. And work for creating rivals?
But talking to example Yuo who likes creativity and charm would earn them only 2 points for a positive answer and lose/earn 1 point on a bad answer.
well thats just a idea on top of my head on how to make stats XP