I just can't believe that actually no one said anything to the emperor! If you ever had that thought fleeting through your mind when you read the classic tale Emperor's New Clothes as a child, this is the game for you! Now you can choose what each character will say to the emperor in this fun absurd interactive visual novel and see how your emperor responds.
design goal
An innovative visual novel through the lens of different perspective:
While in most of the visual novels and choose your own adventure books, players either play as the protagonist or choose a avatar to play for the rest of the game, I want to create a visual novel where players are the crowd/the figurant in the scene but their action has impact on the emperor/the main protagonist. During the game, you will play as 4 random characters in the crowd during the emperor's grand celebration. As each of the character, you will have several opportunities to make choices which will determine whether the emperor will trust his new clothes or not at the end of the story when the little kid questions him.
Lessons and morals under humor and absurdity:
While the story itself is quite funny and ridiculous ( you can choose to vomit at the emperor! ), I try to reflect the problem about class and status in society. For example, the emperor is more likely to get angry at lower class people even if they lean towards praising the emperor.
