Project Love and Cafe

PROJECT: LOVE + CAFE is primarily a story-driven game with semi-anthology chapters using the RPG Maker game engine, which is used only the original assets. Unlike many RPG Maker games, there's no such system as battle, inventory, party, and puzzle due to much lacking of a role-playing elements, which resulting that element converts into a slow-paced cinematic experience and visual-novel style autorun event system to emphasize the storyline.

It added a "Call Menu" system, which it ables to pause or save/load the game during the dialogue (except the choices and movement route).

It added a "free-roam two choices" selection system, almost similar to Bandersnatch, with some limited-time and choice notification features, if the time runs out or optionally press to skip the choice, each one of the main characters remain quiet, which was technically inspired by Telltale Games, although it does not affect any choices.

It tells about a collection of narratives that hope to spark conversations on love—and by love, we don't simply mean the romantic kind. We believe that, to understand the nature of love, we need to look at its different types and how we, as human beings, express them.[1]

Although the game title is romance, it tells five different stories and some characters that discuss about food and friendship.

• Will - A 17 year old "Century Historical and Literature" class-rep highschool student.
• Sophie - A 18 year old "Visual and Media Arts" honorable highschool student. She was reading a newspaper about food's toxicity and nutritious.

• Matt - A math prodigy who was working on his studio. He's a fraternal twin brother of Ari.
• Ariette - (short for Ari) A fresh graduate young-woman who is a fraternal young twin sister of Matt, which is ten minutes younger than him. She's also a housewife of Jesse. Originally intended "Arie" as a boy, who was scripted by Antonio.

• Rick - A comic-strip writer who befriended Claire and tells her about plaguing her relationship with her friends.
• Claire - A comic-strip illustrator who distressed about her friends and unable to cope herself until Rick befriends her.

• Benedict - (nicknamed Ben) A civilian who is Danielle’s boyfriend.
• Danielle - (short for Dani) An arrogant woman who is Ben’s girlfriend.

• Damien - A dropped-out senior college student who attempts to stop Chisato from suicide. Originally named "Dom".
• Chisato - (real name as Christine) A freshman young woman with wearing a gothic schoolgirl as a cosplayer. For a reason, she tries to contemplate kill herself, but possibly wanted to stay with Damien. Originally named "China".

Frederick C. Borromeo (born Sept 3, 2003) is a Filipino solo game developer himself for three years to develop some experimental short games, primarily made in RPG Maker MV engine. In his early life, he was diagnosed with ADHD when he was five years old, though he doesn't speak early on his age until six, and his native speech doesn't go well enough, but he began more outstanding for English subject in his teens. In his career, he was interested in films and video games, as the latter sparked his expression on its story-driven experiences. Thus he continued to develop more experimental short games with trial-and-error game development for days without a single commercial and longer game he made of.

After his negligence of trial-and-error game development, Borromeo turns depressed and stressed out almost everyday possibly without working on his delaying works due to his distrupting mood swings and verbal abuse on his friends via direct message in free time due to his worsen symptoms. Despite this, he decides to finish his examination and performance task overall of the first semester, but he notices the page "Drama Analysis" from 21st Century Literature. He found the title "The Dust In Your Place", made by Antonio, who also wrote the short film adaptation of the same name.[2]

He was first interested in video game adaptations after he oversaw Antonio's works, and he decided to make it and gave permission to Antonio for adapting the stageplay to the game. Antonio accepts, allowing to experiment him with his game, and Borromeo's decision to publish the game as an alpha demo and update into cinematic experiences as a full game into Itch.io and RPGMaker.net for completely free as possible.[3]

The game was Moonwriter's Tale's first video game adaptation and its feature-length debut, as primarily a solo-developed the game himself, following his experimental and underwhelming game jam short projects over three years as a teenager, before it shelved without reason.

Began developing in Jan 19, 2022, he solo-developed himself for two and a half months included a crunch time of 8 to 12 hours sometimes but almost every day during schooltime.[4]

As the video game progresses, the developer's decision to adapt the stageplay into a video game and added some writings included cultural references.

• "I love to Singa" was never mentioned in the stageplay before the developer's girlfriend decides to add into the game to make it funnier.
• In the stageplay, the 1898 novel War of the Worlds was mentioned along with the video game, the 2005 film of the same name was also mentioned instead on the novel.
• Damien and Chisato, originally named Dom and China in the stageplay. The developer change names for the game, and the latter named after one of the main characters from The Testament of Sister New Devil.
• In the stageplay, taxi stand was originally set. In the video game, there's no mentioned or took place of the taxi stand, but decides to set it to the park.
• The video game portrays Ari and Jesse as a girl and boy, despite being Arie and Jess as a boy and girl, who was originally concepted by Antonio in the stageplay.
• In the stageplay, Will and Sophie portrayed as university students, but in the video game, it changes the detail as a highschool students.
• In the stageplay, Damien was portrayed as a senior college student, but it turns out as a dropped-out student in the video game.
• The main character, Arie, was supposed to be more than two years younger than his older brother Matt in the stageplay.
• The fourth and fifth act in the game is more different than the stageplay.

• Itch.io