This is another offtake on THE GAMER by Sangyoung Seong, however, I am going a somewhat different direction from TheDespaxas. In another universe, not so very far from our own, a group of young people awaken one day to discover that the world is now a Dating Sim MMORPG; or perhaps always was: but either way, they are now one of the player characters... Over the next several days they learn that seveal of their friends and relatives are also now PCs in this worldwide game: while some of their parents are questgivers... For a while things settle into a new normal, the PCs conspiring to pursue thier assorted romantic interests, and the viewpoint character undertakes several sexy quests... However, as things progress it becomes increasingly obvious that this game is still in Alpha, the protagonist and threir friends keep running into glitches, quest strings just stop unexpectedly, and more and more patches come out drawing the game ever further from its Dating Sim roots... Before the end of the year things start falling appart as the Beta-Release looms, the romantic comedy dating-sim things started with is becoming more of a mini-game in what is shaping up to become a post-apocalyptic Zombie-Horror/Modern-Fantasy/FPS/RTS/JRPG fusion... Can the Protagonist and thier friends manage to smash the mechanisms which allow the publishing of new 'patches' into the world in time to stop "Z-day", or does Civilization as they know it go down in flames...? (And either way, what happens to the relationships they've forged along the way as a result?) That's the basic premise, does anyone want to collaborate with me on the systems and story?
Hmm... maybe in order to stop the addition of patches they have to play through them and revert them to dating sims at certain key points... so in the "undead pirate werewolves attack" section they have to go in, last until the captain spawns, then date him.
