Lovestruck

Lovestruck: A Yandere Simulator Fangame
Lovestruck is a fangame for Yandere Simulator developed by Itch.Io user TheChatotMaestro using the game-making program Ren'Py and the DSE framework. It is a dating simulation game featuring the April Fools Day Male Rivals as the datable characters, in very early development. It takes inspiration from games like Asagao Academy and Mystic Messenger.

It can be found at https://TheChatotMaestro.itch.io/lovestruckyansim, and there are devlogs for it both on it's itch.io page and on the Yandere Simulator amino.

Gameplay
The gameplay is based around the Dating Sim Engine for Ren'Py, and is divided into 4 periods of game time- Morning, Lunch, Afternoon, and Evening. Each period of time, the 'day planner' shows up, and you can select your actions for the period, divided into two categories. After you've selected, the two halves run one after another, and often, a random event will occur before you move onto the next phase. The next phase involves a set of menus that let you choose what to do using up to five 'action points', and the actions you take can get you bonuses or make bad things happen. After both halves of the period run, the period is over, and it moves onto the next. Morning is when you walk to school and hang out before school, Lunch is what you do during the lunch break hour, Afternoon is what you do after school, and Evening is how you spend your evening before you go to bed, wake up, and the cycle repeats.

The game now includes weekends! On Saturday, you have one extra period of time to perform free-choice actions, and one extra set of study points from spending the afternoon at cram school. On Sunday, you have two extra periods of time to perform free-choice actions, since you do not attend cram school.

Routes
The game will take inspiration from Mystic Messenger when it comes to its character routes- there will be two different story paths, "Casual Story" and "Deep Story". Casual Story will feature Osano, Amao, Kizano, Mujo, Aso, and Hanako, as well as one more 'mystery character'. Deep Story will feature Oko, Mido, Megamo, and Osoro, as well as three more 'mystery characters'. You will select one route to go down at the beginning of your game, and then after a certain amount of time, you will go down one path based on how many 'heart points' you obtained for each character.

The conditions for getting routes vary- from anything as simple as "Have more A hearts than every other category" to "Have X amount of B hearts, Y amount of C hearts, and no more than D hearts". Characters will be separated in their respective routes by difficulty- for example, Osano will obviously be easier to get than Hanako, and Megamo will probably be the hardest of the revealed characters in Deep Story.

Deep Story will probably not be available until you have cleared Casual Story- perhaps only once, perhaps multiple times. It's undecided.

Version History

 * 0.1.3: Added weekends, the stats menu, and the progress menu.
 * 0.1.2: Added Midori, Michael, and Rhys- three characters closely related to one another for story reasons- began to add in events where you can randomly encounter Osano Najimi, and fixed bugs.
 * 0.1.1: Added talking sprites to all the 11 main characters and moved the beginning credits.
 * 0.1.0: Implemented the day-cycle system, in which you go through school days and do things. Things added in this update include encountering characters, going to class, and eating lunch.
 * 0.0.5: Finished the intro cutscene.
 * 0.0.4: Updated the intro cutscene to include all characters up to Megamo Saikou.
 * 0.0.3: Updated the intro cutscene to include all characters up to Hanako Yamada.
 * 0.0.2: Updated the intro cutscene to include all characters up to Mujo Kina.
 * 0.0.1: Game published. Contains an intro cutscene, introducing all characters up to Oko Ruto.

Trivia

 * The game includes two characters who are not in Yandere Simulator: 'Rhys' and 'Michael'. It seems like they may be references to certain people...
 * It's not hard to find out who '???' in the progress menu is.
 * There are plans for something called 'Special Story'.
 * One of the Deep Story 'mystery characters' may eventually be moved to something along the lines of 'Extreme Story' or 'Expert Story', in which they are the only character.
 * The game's creator wrote this Wiki. (Hi!)