lisa the friendless

After years of isolation, the end is here. It is time for you to leave the safety of your home for the real world, or at least what's left of it. Who knew that it was so much scarier than you could have imagined? Decaying ruins, creeps around every corner, the monsters are growing in numbers, and the gangs are getting more brutal, why, its like a second apocalypse happened. What will you do now? Go for the girl?! You must be kidding. Your wounds haven't healed since the flash, and you want to go for the girl. The girl that destroyed the list, and everyone on it, the girl that somehow controls the monsters, the girl that must have a thousand people going after her, people who will kill anyone that want the same thing. If you were a smart man, you'd kill yourself now, and save yourself a painful death, though you were never the smartest man. You'll go on as an excuse to leave your pathetic life. Fine, if you want to, go ahead, but if you really want to succeed, think about this last question, do you really think you can do it alone?

History

Lisa: The Friendless is my Lisa fan game, it has been around, well, since i found out about Lisa Fan Games, but back then it was very different, and little of what it is today. It really took shape when me and my brother were talking about a Lisa Fan game, we wrote down our ideas in a google doc, and one day i decided to sprite these guys. After they were done, i finally got my computer, moved all the sprites over, and i made a poster with them, and that is the first friendless thing i uploaded to the internet. After that, i started uploading bios of all the characters (inconsistently). I decided to add it to the fan games and mods on the Lisa Wiki, and i joined the Lisa Joy Club on Deviant Art. After that, I made some more guys, and stopped, (I'll explain later), and got RPG Maker, but haven't done anything friendless related yet.

The Story

In Lisa: The Friendless, you play as Rodney. The Flash happened when Rodney was a child, and he has never been the same. He hid away getting supplies from a nearby town, and isolated himself from the world. Some time after Joyful, the town is raided and destroyed, and he will have to leave home. To motivate himself, he has decided to go after the girl, despite all of the dangers.

The Actual Game

Lisa: the Friendless's main idea is party members. In my opinion, the best part of the original Painful (Other than the story) is the party members. Yes, they were unbalanced, but they made the game very repayable, and made fun, unique, combos. Aside from gameplay, they were all neat, unique characters. The only other official game, Joyful, didn't have them, much less fan games. For most fan games, Party Members are merely just story based companions that you get or lose at set parts of the story. , such as Joel, Cyclops, and Swen from Pointless, hopeful, and Wishless. Some fan games have secret party members, like marry, Spike, and Johnny Walrus from Lustful, unbreakable, and vegaful, but they are more of a bonus than what i am talking about. Worlds with a large number of optional party members with them having times to shine as characters. They will still be used in battle like they always are, and some will have pretty unique ways of fitting, but now they have uses outside of battle. For example, a car is in your way, so you need a big guy to move it. This will help you find new paths, avoid battles, and dodge harm. However, with more ways to use party members, there are more ways to lose them, from perma-kills, to kidnapping, to making the wrong decision. Your party members can die, or just get beaten up or stats will go down. Maybe you drink some mystery mixer, and get poisoned. You'd better be careful. We aren't sure how many part members there will be, but we are trying to match the amount in painful, maybe even more. So far we gave 25 done and sprited.

Enough about party members, lets talk about other things. The World will be large, and crazy, it is planned to be like unbreakable, a big cross road that you will have to explore to find paths and tools to move forwards but you can always go back to get things you missed, like party member or items (Though some will disappear if you take too long). There will be campfire scenes whenever you rest, so you can your party can rest and talk. There will also be dream sequences for some characters.

Help and Suggestions

So, as i said we have about 25 party members. That isn't exactly true, however. We actually have about 32, but I haven't sprited them. I plan to change art styles to the new Monster Styles (The one the Monster update created), so i stopped making new Sprites, until i updated by old ones. Now it is hard to help Lisa fan games because of how many of them get canceled despite all my passion, i can't guarantee one hundred percent that my won't, but we are always open to help. If want to help, go ahead and contact me. Music is nice, but we aren't going to have a fully original soundtrack, and sprites are very useful. Suggestions for anything really are much appreciated. I would also love tips on anything, from game play programming, to sprite making, and music.

Other Stuff

Well, if you want to know more, please check out my deviantart, I've uploaded a few things. I will have a discord, after i make the first demo, that is a long time coming, so i might make it before that.

https://www.deviantart.com/crrippo

The End

It is worth noting, the speed. I am really slow, me and my brother are working on lots of different things. The difference between this is that it is public. I am easily distracted and jump around between projects, but i will try to keep you updated. Please ask, here on gamejolt would be preferable.

Thank you for reading this, it's very long but this is my passion project, and i hope i can get it done.

developers the Wyrm aka slimsope aka crrippo and Slighty Smooshed Sandwich

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