Yoshioka

Yoshioka Aoi is a young girl training to become an idol.

As an up-and-coming rock star, this shining light of a seedy rock scene is noticed by an unproven producer from the idol production company ‘I MY ME’.
Surrounded by doubting smiles from the company’s staff, the two rookies entrust their dreams in one another.

Two years later, as her training period reaches its end, Aoi begins to question the path she’s taken. Why did she choose this path, and where will it take her?
Aoi is a cheerful girl who sings sad songs.
A rock star who finds loud noises scary.
The child her parents always wanted, but never had time for.
The little sister who made her brother run away.
An idol whom all the staff love, but none of them trust.
For two years, this is all Aoi has been…

In the transitional period of this young lady’s life, you—as her Producer—will be the only guiding light that believes in her dream.
Or… maybe she’ll be the one to guide you.

Cinematic

Less novel, more visual. Written and designed like a movie, this story is told through animation and sound instead of the usual narration, making for a light read.

Intimate

By utilizing different methods of presentation, diegetic exposition, and naturalistic dialogue, the events are communicated delicately so you may enjoy the plot without feeling talked down to.

Easy to Play

Play the whole story at once, or go at your own pace scene-by-scene. Don’t wanna reach for the mouse? You can do everything via keyboard controls!

A Simple Beginning

No convoluted lore, no crazy drama. A child is trying to find herself, and that’s all the complexity life needs.

Behind the Development

Developed in one month by one person, as part of the NaNoReno 2023 game jam.

As an unofficial fan character based in the idol-filled Interlunium universe, Aoi is best described as “the most fictional character I’ve made.”
As the only character I’ve ever made that didn’t originate from my own stories, I was always careful to work with her. The cage of canon made it hard to explore her backstory, and for a while, she had little more than a design and a couple tiny bits of fiction to her name.

So how did this random fanfiction OC become the face of a game? How was she drawn, animated and voiced? All those questions and more are answered in the game’s daily devlogs, which you can read over here.

Technical Details:

'Yoshioka' is built using the KiriKiri2 engine (吉里吉里2) and written in TJS2, using the KAG3 framework. Scripts are encoded in Shift JIS, and as such, you may need to run the game with Japanese locale.

Sprite animation is powered by e-mote.

Known issues:

Auto-mode at the highest speeds won't wait for voice playback to complete, but this should only affect a few lines, if any.

The voice volume is tied to the sound effect slider. I didn't have time to make it a dedicated option.

Theoretically, returning to the title screen during (and shortly after) camera pans may cause visual glitches on later pans. I couldn't find this bug in practice, but I never programmed in a solution for it, so... it might be there.

Unfortunately, 'Yoshioka' doesn't seem to be natively compatible with Kirikiriroid2 emulation.