(NEED HELP ASAP! PAID OPPORTUNITY, TIME-SENSITIVE🙏)
Hey everyone! My group and I are looking for someone who can help us code our Unity visual novel for our undergraduate thesis. We're on a tight deadline, so we're willing to pay for your time and assistance.
While we're still learning Unity ourselves and genuinely want to understand the process, we could really use someone with experience to help us bring everything together before our deadline.
🎮 About the Project:
Stereotypical Sweethearts is a 2D interactive visual novel that explores how gender stereotypes and social media archetypes shape identity, self-perception, and relationships.
Grounded in research on gaze theory and Gen Z digital culture, the game follows a narrative-driven experience where players interact with characters navigating their own struggles with self-image and self-expression.
Through meaningful choices and character interactions, players are encouraged to look beyond first impressions, challenge socially constructed labels, and reflect on identity as something fluid, personal, and constantly evolving through both online and offline experiences.
📌 Short Lore:
The protagonist is gifted...or cursed, with a form of synesthesia tied to gender energy. They can see other people's auras and perceive the texture of their voices through sensations like taste and touch, yet they cannot perceive their own.
Gender energy isn't determined by biological sex or identity labels. Instead, it reflects how a person expresses, performs, suppresses, or understands themselves.
A person's aura shifts with emotions, stress, confidence, dysphoria, and social pressure, but its deeper patterns become clearer as the protagonist grows closer to them.Each character struggles with gender dysphoria, self-image, or identity in their own way. As the protagonist helps others understand themselves, they unknowingly begin confronting their own identity as well.
By the end of the game, the protagonist finally starts to perceive their own gender energy. The choices made throughout the story determine which aura resonates with them the most.
🙏 We're Looking For:
If you have experience with Unity, especially if you've worked on visual novels or narrative games, we'd love to talk! Please send me a DM if you're interested, and we can discuss the project, workload, timeline, and payment.
We've already completed a large portion of the pre-production work, including the narrative, assets, and even a draft flowchart outlining how we envision the game's logic and coding structure. The foundation is there, we just need an extra pair of hands to help us finish everything before our deadline.
Even if you can't help directly, an upvote, share, or comment would mean the world to us. Feedback and constructive criticism are also very welcome. We've poured months into both the thesis paper and the game's development, and we'd love to see this project come to life.
Thank you so much for reading! ❤️