Q: What is The Collector?
A: The Collector is a game where you play as me, Flora! I'm one of several kidnapping victims who has been forced to take on a new identity as a Kitsune girl in her kidnapper's supposed utopia.
Discover who each victim was before, who they are now, and try to change your future in a world where the abuser makes all the rules
+ Deals with topics of trauma and surviving abuse
+ LGBTQ+ Positive
+ A portion of all support will go towards fighting Human Trafficking
Q: No but like... what IS it?
A: Oh! It's a visual novel. It's like a novel, but with visuals/sounds/choices. Let me run down some other quick info while we're here...
+ Playable on PC/Mac/Linux
+ Approx 40 hrs of gameplay
+ Available on Steam and Itch.io upon release
+ You can play the current version of the game TODAY by joining my Patreon at the $10 tier.
Q: How long have you been working on this/ how far are you in development?
A: We started in October of 2018, and will be finished with the full first draft mid June. The rough release date for the entire project is mid 2020.
Q: Are you doing this alone or working with a team?
A: I have a team of writers, people I commission for backgrounds and music, and a friend who helps with programming.
Heart - Head Writer, Sprite Artist, Programmer. Anything not done by other people.
Lexi - CoWriter
Harken - CoWriter
Cedar - Worldbuilding Assistant (Honorary Yokai Professor (°◡°♡))
Vui - Background Artist (Commissioned)
his deviantart - www.deviantart.com/vui-huynh
Plasterbrain - Music/ SFX (Commissioned)
her soundcloud - soundcloud.com/plasterbrain
her own Visual Novel Project - pizzagame.party/
Eliza - Programming Helper! (She helps me when I get stuck T﹏T)
her twitter - twitter.com/elizagamedev
her game - store.steampowered.com/app/420…
Q: If I wanted to support this project, how can I do that?
A: Take an interest, ask questions, or tell people you think would be interested in something like this!
And if you have the means, support me over on Patreon www.patreon.com/heartgear
Everything above covering my bills goes towards hiring artists, covering production costs, and supporting warinternational.org/
And that's everything! If you have any other questions, please reach out to me here or... better yet, ping Heart over on the Heartworks Discord
Thanks for stopping by!
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