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ItsMeLilyV
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every day i wake up, palm slap my entire keyboard, and remove the "sports" and "hentai" tags from bossgame

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Anonymous User asked:

Hello! Sorry if this is digging too deep into the history of Bossgame, but there's something I realized recently after finishing the game.

I remember the early prototypes - before the project moved to Unity - featuring a cast of 4 main characters, including Anna and (I assume) Sophie, but also a character from one of your previous games, Mirror Boy. Is there perhaps a connection between Mira and Mirror Boy, considering some obvious similarities?

Oh no, I love talking about this stuff! Take a look at this wonderful old art of the original party, by Accha!

BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart is an evolution of an RPG Maker game I was trying to make around 2016 or so, also named Bossgame. It featured a four-member party - Lily, Anna, Mirror Boy, and Derek, who would fight complex, tactical boss fights in turn-based battles, with a focus on synergy and planning ahead.

For the RPG Bossgame, the characters & personality were already pretty established. Lily (named that at the time because I was too scared to use it myself) was the curious but insecure defender, Anna was the joyful, reckless mage, Mirror Boy was the anxious, kind healer, and Derek was the competitive, bold wild card. Lily & Anna were girlfriends, Mirror Boy was Lily's old friend, and Derek was Anna's brother. Anna and Derek would bicker like siblings, Mirror Boy's passive nature would provoke Derek, Mirror Boy and Lily would chat about old times, and Anna and Lily would flirt. It had a lot going on! I had a pretty solid prototype, but the game itself was extremely overscoped, a little too slow, and I never really settled on a plot...

In the transition to today's BOSSGAME, I tried to bring over all of these characters at one point or another. Lily (now Sophie) and Anna were the focus, of course, and the game centers around their relationship and teamwork as devil hunters. In early, early versions of the script, Derek was there as a masked knight you fought several times before learning he was Anna's brother; unfortunately as the story was rewritten and trimmed, he didn't make it. Mirror Boy became Mirra, and they evolved from an overly anxious healer to an anxious exile and a bit of a goof. I loved Mirra's character ever since I jammed the game Mirror Boy, and I wanted to keep them around, even if I had to change their gender a couple times ~ It took me a long time to settle on their role in the story, but I'm extremely happy where they ended up. Sophie having friends and roots in Mammon City, and the way an old friendship bounces against Sophie's anxieties... It worked out well!

Oh, and Dawn was there too! She was the big boss of RPG Bossgame. She was too good not to keep around... the world loves a grumpy lolita.

Thanks for the question <3

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