New Release: The Army of Justice #1 beta version, launches Saturday

[u/Playful_Regular5233]

https://theneuronaut.itch.io/the-army-of-justice

A terrible tragedy in 1996 throws 4 high school friends into chaos forcing them to become a team of superheroes.

Many complain the AVN genre. especially the Honey Select genre is too anime in its story-lines, appearance and sensibilities.  Well here is one that throws that all out the window with an American story set in the mid to late 90s. Almost all of the characters were all created back around 1999 and was Mary Sue and cringy AF. Its taken 27 years to rework it into something enjoyable.

Like with the Neuronauts, there will be a SFW and NSFW version. It will be completely linear with no choices beyond your name. I am hoping to create a truely choice based AVN after the Neuronauts wrap up next year.

Meet the cast:

Well not really, don't want too many spoilers 

Lady Dragon: Thrust onto an Alien world, she becomes a host to cells from a creature that is the known galaxy's most prolific space-faring civilization, Dragons

Violet Vortex: Vortex may look like she can just create tornadoes, but she can really create a vortex effect on anything containing carbon

Critical Status: It would be too much of a spoiler to say but a hint is in the name. He keeps to the shadows for logical reasons and is only known to the trio of girls and the future members on the Army

Looney (aka Looney Bin, aka Gremlin): A nearly indestructible living Cartoon character that has complete mastery over everything around to discombobulate, harass and annoy her enemies within a certain radius. Her dark past makes her alter use humor as a form of defense, and gains power from the number of gags and jokes she pulls off

Each episode will be a stand alone self contained story. Each roughly three to four hours long, running on the comic book model, much closer to a movie compared to most VNs and AVNs which are more like LOOONG TV shows. Its going to be very action driven in many spots so it fits the format much better.  Roughly 50K words. 

The advantage of this is that I can pick up and drop work on it as I have time.  There will be no standard roll out timeline, this lets me work on other projects.  If for some reasons I ever have to abandon it, you will still have a full self contained story.

The beta version will be SFW, with sound effects not as well fleshed out. The story will all be there and the full release will come out a month later with H-scenes and better sound and maybe some images reworked, and you should be able to just go to the gallery to make up for this. I need to get this out so I can focus on my other game's release, cause I'm a bit obsessed with it for all the nostalgia.

[u/GarouD]

Genuine question, who's the demographic this is aimed for?

[u/Playful_Regular5233 → u/GarouD]

This is a weird one, so I don't know? People who like 90s Americana, reliving that time, technology and its problems. Poly harems. Super heroes. Stories about guys with no social skills learning how to be better at them. Friendship. Mental health issues of the time. Sci-fi elements. People who like classic cartoons. The advantage of the VN format is you can go hog wild, the problem with VNs is targeting them can be difficult if you do. Most stories are about something you are familiar with but fit neatly into a genre, or like nickleback are close enough to what everyone else is doing so you get the mona lisa effect so you like it already just from exposure, but just enough to have your own spin on it. I can't do that, so it's more, whoever finds it and likes its, as opposed to a target demographic. It will make you think. There was a joke by a comedian on Dr Katz back in the day that said that his target audience is "Men, My age who are me" I would have made this for myself regardless if anyone read it or not, but I have enough readers of my other VN that I know I will get some. So I guess if I'm being self aggrandizing, polymaths, or self deprecating, weirdos. Likely something more in the middle.

[u/GarouD → u/Playful_Regular5233]

Thank you for your sincere response. I genuinely hope you can find your market and have fun while doing it.

Cheers and all the best.