Candy Hamster Days was initially rejected by Steam, maybe as a result of Valve is extra restrictive of video games that characteristic sexually specific photographs of actual individuals, or probably for another motive we’ll by no means know. As a designer referred to as Oda informed Automaton, “We nonetheless don’t know precisely how the platform noticed issues, however after revising particulars such because the age score settings and re-submitting the sport, it was finally authorised.”
That is an FMV sport the place you die and are reincarnated as a hamster named Hamta, the pet of three sisters who appear to spend most of their time gazing lovingly into the digicam whereas pretending to pat you on the pinnacle. “We’re calling it a totally unprecedented style,” Oda mentioned, “a sort of ‘being-taken-care-of journey sport.'”
The undertaking’s overseer, who goes by Katayama, gave some perception into the conception of this deeply unusual concept for a sport. “Years in the past, I labored a part-time job carrying mascot costumes. I spotted that each time I wore a fancy dress, kids and aged individuals who would usually by no means strategy me all of the sudden turned very pleasant”, he mentioned.
The opposite half of the concept got here from a videogame, although not one with an apparent hyperlink to an FMV visible novel about hamster-pampering. “I am an enormous fan of Grand Theft Auto 5,” Katayama went on to say, “the place you turn between three protagonists as you progress. As I used to be having enjoyable switching between the lives of different individuals, lives that weren’t my very own, I had this concept that it is likely to be good to have a hamster as one of many choices as an alternative of a human.”
Nicely, that makes excellent sense then. The extra prosaic motive for Candy Hamster Days being made is the growth of FMV courting sims in Asia. “Katayama had talked about to me that live-action video games have been turning into widespread in China,” Oda mentioned. The Street to Empress collection was a current FMV hit to come back out of China, and Korea’s 5 Hearts Below One Roof has additionally been fairly widespread. It is solely pure a Japanese studio would need to get in on the motion, and I suppose making your sport about somebody being become a hamster by Truck-kun is one option to stand out.
Candy Hamster Days is on the market now on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer.
