Yandere Simulator

Yandere Simulator (current working title)

Logo of working title 'Yandere Simulator'
Designer(s) YandereDev
Programmer(s) YandereDev
Composer(s) Only Wednesday Music
Engine Unity
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Genre(s) Stealth, action
Mode(s) Single-player

Yandere Simulator (working title) is a stealth action video game in development and to be published by YandereDev (working name). Early development builds of the game were made available via its official website.[1][2] The game's premise centers upon a jealous schoolgirl, Ayano Aishi, nicknamed Yandere-chan after the Japanese term "yandere", who has decided to eliminate anyone she believes is monopolizing her crush's attention.[3]

Gameplay

Players will control Ayano Aishi (working name) (also known as "Yandere-chan"), a psychotic Japanese schoolgirl who has developed a crush on a fellow student currently named Taro Yamada (working name), nicknamed "Senpai".[4] They are given 10 weeks. Currently, Senpai is an NPC which cannot be interacted with, since if Yandere-chan gets too close to Senpai, then the screen will be painted over with a pink light, Yandere-chan's heartbeat will be heard, she will drop any items, and she will be unable to perform any actions other than walking. If Senpai is killed with any of the game's Easter Eggs, then he will spawn again the next day.

Every week, a new rival will appear and will develop a crush on Senpai. (Note: currently, the player is only given 5 days, as this game is still being developed, therefore, winning is impossible. 10 weeks will be in the final version of the game.) Yandere-chan will have to eliminate her before she confesses her love to him. This can be accomplished by the player via several methods, such as: murdering the rival, or making her fall in love with another student by playing as Cupid.

If a player chooses to murder someone, they must clean up any evidence (such as the murder weapon and Yandere-chan's bloody clothes) and/or dispose of the body via an incinerator or dumpster on the school's grounds, and mop up the blood. Otherwise, the crimes can be linked back to Yandere-chan and result in her being arrested. Players must also ensure that their crimes are not witnessed by Senpai, which will result in the loss of the game. The only way the player can commit crimes in front of Senpai is by wearing a mask. Masks become available by joining the Drama Club. In the future, Senpai might be able to rip off the mask if Yandere-chan takes too long or has a low sanity level. The gameplay takes place only on the school's campus, a town, and the character's house, and players must ensure that they monitor several factors such as Yandere-chan's sanity level and reputation. If either becomes too low this can affect gameplay.

The police will be called if anybody witnesses Yandere-chan murdering another student, and they will perform an investigation. The time from the original police call to when the police arrive is 5 in-game minutes. Depending on how well the player has disposed of the evidence, returned sanity back to normal, and cleaned up the crime scene, they will either be unable to convict Yandere-chan of any crimes and she will go home, or she will be arrested and will never have Senpai, prompting a Game Over.

There are several buffs to make the game easier to play/easier to get away with murder. The player has the ability to change Yandere-chan's panties; each pair of panties will give them different abilities, such as bonuses when complimenting other students, or bonuses when gossiping about other students. The player has the option to pick up different manga books from around school grounds that give the player different buffs, such as decreasing the sanity rate at a slower rate than usual and being able to convince both boys and girls to do them favors.

The player also has the option to join different clubs that might not give buffs, but might allow Yandere-chan to do something that might seem suspicious to NPCs walking around the school otherwise, and consequently decrease her reputation. Several buffs of both already-implemented and planned clubs include being able to attack teachers, being able to carry a music case in which body parts of dismembered students can be carried around, and having access to infinite clean uniforms, instead of being limited to the gym uniform and the swimsuit (and nude, but had been said by YandereDev that in later builds it will be implemented where Yandere-Chan will no longer be able to walk nude around campus and will face a penalty or Game over if caught doing so. )

Yandere-chan can carry around only one item at a time in her hand; however, she has an inventory where sufficiently small weapons can be stored, such as knives or box cutters. Some weapons are too large (or too implausible) for storage in the player's inventory, like a katana or a circular saw. Certain weapons will not be seen as "suspicious" by the NPCs, due to the school setting in which the game takes place, such as screwdrivers and scissors. When a weapon that is considered "suspicious" by an NPC is held by Yandere-chan, the NPCs around Yandere-chan in a certain radius will react and Yandere-chan's reputation will drop.

Yandere-chan has the choice to skip school for the day to torture kidnapped students in her basement. If tortured for a certain amount of time, the kidnapped student may be able to be given a weapon by the player at school, being able to kill others and maybe his/herself. Yandere-Chan arrives to school at 7:00 AM normally, but if she tortures a student at home, she can arrive late instead. Once at school, she has the choice to walk around the school and talk to different NPCS. She can choose to go to class at 8:30 AM, with a lunch break from 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM, and end school at 3:30 PM. She can go home from 3:30 - 6:00. At 6:00, she is forced to go home. Clubs practice from 5:00 to 6:00, where the player can gain the club buffs.

Yandere-chan can choose to go to class to increase her Study Points, which give her skills in different areas. There are currently only five: Biology, Chemistry, Language, Psychology, and Physical Education. A skill in biology gives the player the ability to tranquilise other students; a skill in Language gives the player the ability to write convincing suicide notes if the player chooses to push certain NPCs off of the roof; a skill in Chemistry gives the player the ability to poison an NPC and kill them; a skill in Physical Education gives the player the ability to run faster and carry a corpse in their arms. Being late to class will earn the student a reprimand from the teacher and less points than if the student had been on time. The student can wear certain panties to be able to earn more Study Points than the normal amount.

Main characters

Info-chan

In the current game, not much is known about Info-chan so far, except that she has a bad reputation for selling dark secrets and panty shots, and wants Osana to suffer. It can be inferred that she is a mischievous character, and given her willingness to incite murder, voyeurism, gossip, and bullying, and her apparent indifference to the effects of her actions on others, she probably has really low moral standards, and one could even go as far as to say she is sociopathic and/or sadistic. She has the persona of "Evil," which would mean, as an NPC, she would encourage crime. She is very crafty. In both intros, Info-chan is shown to be uncaring towards other people. Info-chan doesn't feel guilt or remorse when harming others for her own personal gain. Info-chan is also extremely intelligent and resourceful. In the first intro, Info-chan seems outwardly confident and very curious (probably super nosy, too), as finding out secrets about other students is a hobby of hers, not just a job. She's very ambitious, as she wants her newspaper to become popular badly enough that she goes to the trouble of asking Yandere-chan to stir up turmoil. Info-chan seemed dedicated to her work and apparently poured her heart and soul into running the school newspaper. Her desire that Yandere-chan NOT kill off the entire school wasn't out of sympathy or humanity but due to the fact that the newspaper would die if no one was alive to read it.

In the second intro, violence is a bigger staple of her character. She specifically wants Osana to get hurt in some awful way, but the reason for it is unknown. She's willing to set Yandere-chan, an obsessed sociopath, against a rival who simply has a crush on Senpai.

Yandere-chan

Ayano Aishi (working name), better known as Yandere-chan, is the protagonist of Yandere Simulator. She is an emotionless high school girl who never knew how to love someone until she met an upperclassman, whom she calls "Senpai". She will do anything to get him. Even after declaring this, however, in the very first intro, it was seen that Yandere-chan was actually influenced by Info-chan for eliminating rivals. Her birthday is April 1 and is stated to be 17 years old.[5][6] Yandere-chan has fair skin and black hair in a pony-tail. She seems to have lots of energy, since when running, she can run faster than any other student. In her normal, default uniform, she is seen wearing a white and navy blue uniform shirt with a red mini scarf, a navy blue skirt, black stockings with black shoes. The length of her stocking is longer than any other student. She is 165 centimeters tall, and weighs 43.5 kilograms.[7] Yandere-chan's intelligence will depend on how the player chooses to play. If they do not attend class, then they will not get any study points, meaning Yandere-chan cannot eliminate the rivals in ways like playing cupid, poisoning them, faking their suicide, etc. Currently, there are 14 mods for Yandere-chan in the game.

Senpai

Taro Yamada (placeholder name), better known as Senpai, is the love of the player. Just like Yandere-chan, Senpai has greyish black hair and eyes. He is an average boy who gets average grades.[8] Senpai is a loner type and he likes to spend his time surrounded by nature.[9] Senpai will never accept a confession from a girl with a low reputation. If a girl talks to him and doesn't come to school for few days (and then shortly comes back), he will not accept a confession. He thinks girls who skip school are delinquents. If students die after talking to him, he may wonder if he is cursed.[10]

Rival

Osana Chan

Osana Najimi will be the first of ten rivals that will run for Senpai's affections and will be used as a tutorial at the beginning of the game. She is a student at Akademi High. She will be implemented within several months (as of January 11, 2016) according to Druelbozo. YandereDev first needs dozens of male and female animations for Osana to be implemented.

It should be noted that the character who stands under the cherry tree southwest of the plaza is Rival-chan. The original design for Osana had Rival-chan's appearance, but YandereDev thought she didn't look "tsundere" enough. There is now a new appearance for Osana. Rival-chan is the person with the old model, who is now considered a different character. For now since Rival-chan is invincible to the game, she will be indestructible, which means you cannot eliminate her as your rival because since the real rival (Osana Najimi) isn't implemented yet.

Osana's original model was not active because YandereDev wanted to give her a different character model to make her more unique, but it was not compatible with all of the animations that were made for the female skeleton that the rest of the girls have. She couldn't be properly implemented unless a character rigger made a control rig for her and an animator used that rig to make a full set of animations for her, or YandereDev gave her the same character model and animation as all of the other female students.

The downside of giving her the same character model as all the other female students is that she will look like a clone of Yandere-chan, but with different eyes, hair, and stockings. YandereDev could not find anyone to rig or animate her original model, so it is possible that this will be the case. Even with the old model out of the way, it may be a while until Osana's new model is implemented, because YandereDev does not want her added without also putting in a whole bunch of Osana-specific "event" animations.

Appearance

Original Osana

Osana's original look had orange eyes and her hair in two golden orange pigtails. Osana's hair was tied up in two plump scrunchies and she had a purple bow on the right side of her head. She wore white leg warmers. This appearance was given to Rival-chan, a stand-in for Osana.

New Osana

Osana's new model has long, orange twintails that reach her thighs. The ends of her hair have a small yellow gradient. Her hair is tied up in thin pink scrunchies with white polka dots, and she wears salmon pink stockings with white polka dots. Her shoes will be black. She wears a small red bow on the right side of her head.[12] A quick glance of her back was shown in, "Dumpsters, Buckets, Bathing, and Electrocution in Yandere Simulator". The videos "Yandere Simulator: Past, Present and Future" and "Personalities and Photography in Yandere Simulator" also show that her appearance has been confirmed.

A full body model of Osana was shown on YandereDev's livestream on January 17th, 2016. The photo was shown around 9:18:15.[13]

Personality

Osana Najimi is a tsundere, which is a person that is very sweet and kind, but projects a hostile attitude, often only towards their love interest. It's not very likely that Senpai would know about her crush on him, as she repeatedly insults him and he seems oblivious. Regardless of Osana's rudeness and Senpai's ignorance, Osana is still very considerate. In the original intro, she is shown walking with Senpai to school.

The second intro gives no indication of her personality, but "I Want My Senpai Back" makes her look like a tsundere, so she is still likely to be a tsundere.

Osana may not be a good friend to Senpai, considering that if she is eliminated non-lethally and Senpai's sister dies, she will not go back and comfort him.

Development

The author YandereDev's name is Alex. He's an independent game developer in California, America and has been worked in a video game company for 3 years. In April 2014, YandereDev pitched the idea for Yandere Simulator in 4chan, and it got a very strong positive reception, so he decided to start developing it. It’s a stealth game that borrows a lot from the Hitman series, but has a lot of "school simulation" gameplay elements and lots of gameplay options that make it quite different from Hitman.[11]

Development for Yandere Simulator began in 2014 and YandereDev has released test builds of the game for debugging purposes.[12] He has periodically released updates that add elements to the game such as the ability to poison rivals, electrocuting rivals, drowning rivals, stealing other female students' uniforms to change into after committing a murder, befriending other schoolgirls, small mini games, a town the player can bike around in and other elements.[13][14] Further updates will enable users to perform more tasks that allow them to blackmail or kill classmates.

Banned

The live streaming website Twitch.tv has prohibited the game from being streamed on their site.[15] In an interview with Kotaku YandereDev stated that he was willing to work with Twitch.tv on some of the issues that could have caused them to ban the game, but that he would not change the game's core mechanics, as he "[doesn't] want to remove entire features from the game".[16] He further stated that he has contacted Twitch.tv, but had not received any communication or explanation as to why the site had banned the game. He also expressed confusion over the ban, citing examples of games with similar themes such as Bully and Grand Theft Auto that are streamed on Twitch.tv.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Vincent, Brittany (15 March 2015). "VIDEO: "Yandere Simulator" Puts The Crazy In Your Hands". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Makedonski, Brett (1 April 2015). "YouTube bans Yandere Simulator anime panty shots, commenters are pissed". Destructoid. ModernMethod. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Ashcraft, Brian (30 March 2015). "The Schoolgirl Sim In Which You Kill People". Kotaku. Gawker Media. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Preistman, Chris (13 March 2015). "Learn How To Get Away With Murder In Yandere Simulator". Siliconera. Curse, Inc. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  5. ↑ YandereDev (28 July 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@JStephaniiee I've never actually decided... I believe it should be April 1st, since that's the day when the game's development began!"". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. ↑ YandereDev (18 July 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@TheCrystalMiku Since it's Yandere-chan's second year in high school, I think she's 15 or 16. Since Senpai is one year above her, he's probably 17"". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  7. ↑ YandereDev (19 October 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@RedHeadYuiRio 165 cm tall."". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  8. ↑ YandereDev (29 October 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@Animemangalove9 I think he gets average grades."". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  9. ↑ YandereDev (10 September 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@DanaLounaKami I'm currently imagining Senpai as a loner who enjoys being surrounded by nature more than he enjoys being around people."". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  10. ↑ YandereDev (27 October 2015). "YandereDev on Twitter: "@ExplodingAtom Girls show up dead shortly after they talk to Senpai? Senpai starts to wonder if he's cursed. Et cetera. (4/4)"". Twitter. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  11. ↑ "Gamesnosh Interviews – Yanderedev (Yandere Simulator)". Gamesnosh.
  12. ↑ Loveridge, Lynzee (23 May 2015). "Yandere Simulator Will Let Players Love Their Sempai — To Death". Anime News Network. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Priestman, Chris (21 May 2015). "How To Make A Murder Look Like Suicide In Yandere Simulator". Siliconera. Curse, Inc. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  14. ↑ Hansen, Steven (5 June 2015). "Yandere Simulator lets you poison Japanese schoolgirls". Destructoid. ModernMethod. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  15. ↑ Frank, Allegra (22 January 2016). "Yandere Simulator banned from Twitch streaming". Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  16. 1 2 Patrick Klepek. "Yandere Simulator Dev Says Twitch Hasn't Told Him Why His Game Was Banned". Kotaku. Gawker Media.

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