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Dear Princess: It's Murder She Wrote

Visual Novel for WASM4?

UNFINISHED

Title Screen from Dear Princess.

Dear Princess: It's Murder She Wrote is an incomplete game made for WASM4 in Zig. I developed it during the Linux Game Jam and used the WASM4 linux emulator create the final executable. My ambition was to make a mix of a visual novel, Papers Please, and Ace Attorney. The setting was loosely inspired by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The plan for the plot revolved around an attempted assassination of the titular Princess. The player character, Sparkles, is charged with tracking down the one responsible. The gameplay would revolve around reading letters, inspecting records, and highlighting suspicious activity.