With that said, if you are a game developer yourself, don’t feel too bad: at the time of DMMd’s release, Nitro+ already had 10 years of experience and dozens of games under its belt, as well as a large team of professionals, art assistants and an art director. Better luck with Unity or Unreal engine, for C++ and C# (used if I recall correctly for the in-house Nitro engine) languages are faster than Python. While playing it again after several years, I often found myself wondering “would I be able to reproduce that in the Ren’py engine?” the answer was often “yes, but it will be a slow, stuttering mess”. This, I guess, makes DMMd a good starter visual novel for people who are new to the genre and won’t feel too lost at the lack of choice or whatever people consider “not a video game”. Liner Notes of Akkyun, staging director of DMMd, translated by JAST USA Since DMMd is a first-person game, we wanted you to feel what Aoba is feeling, the growing terror of having something inside your head. These effects hold up well in 2021 and remain unmatched in the BL category.įor example, there are parts where you’ll hear a vibration that slowly gets louder. This is by design: special effects, use of 3D for décor, video overlays for some animated sequences and and other technical prowesses are part of Nitroplus’ trademark. Playing DMMd, you would be forgiven if you had the feeling you weren’t playing a visual novel but good old J-RPG. Toue sees life as a game that he is currently winning and he would like to see how far he can go before fate stops him. The Big Bad, the man who own the gigantic amusement facility called Platinum Jail, which overtakes most of the Midorijima island.

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