Roads to the Red Night
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Android
Hello, I am Quetzal and this is my first VN. You can follow me in my Spanish Youtube Channel or my English Youtube Channel. If you want to support this project, I have opened a PATREON. Ah yes there is also a Furaffinity but at the moment of writing I haven't uploaded anything in ages.
“Roads to the Red Night” is the story of Beckett, a jazz singer and sex worker surviving in the North African fictional city of Khandra under European colonialism. Set in the 1950s, the novel is inspired by the writings of the beat generation, a group of mostly gay authors that revolutionized American literature back in the 50s and 60s, particularly the works of William S. Burroughs, who spent years of his life in Tangiers. Like him, Beckett is a junkie, hooked on a terrible drug called Moloch.
The mechanics are simple: the protagonist can use the drug for short term benefits in his rolls, but the long term consequences of its use can bring problems in the future. Beckett is a messed up anti-hero, but deep down he has a good heart, can you balance his addiction with his chances for redemption?
“Roads to the Red Night” is not a dating sim, but it does have some plot relevant NSFW scenes that are completely optional. The plot is driven by political intrigue and sci fi body horror influenced by the works of artists like David Cronenberg or Ken Russell.
This is still an early demo of the prologue, the backgrounds are placeholders, and so is the music. NO AI ASSETS HAVE BEEN USED IN THIS PROJECT, everything here has been manually written, drawn or extracted from non AI sources. Many backgrounds are bound to change as the project develops and I can afford better assets for the game. Please support me on my PATREON.
PS: THE LANGUAGE MENU IS BUGGED AT THE MOMENT. There is a Spanish version of this written but I still haven't managed to make it work. Next update should fix this.
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Development log
- Fucked over by Australian TERFs1 day ago
- I see the bad moon rising...5 days ago
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Menos mal que la jugué a las 2 am cuando estaban todos ya dormidos HAHA
La verdad que tienes un arte increíble para narrar y construir personajes. Los ruidos y música de fondo añaden mucha inmersión y las mecánicas de dinero y de withdrawal también le dan mucha interactividad al juego, cosa que no puede decirse de otras VN.
Estoy deseando continuar con la historia y jugarla en español, ánimo con ello!
Literalmente cree mi cuenta aquí solo para apoyarte. Excelente tu arte y contenido.
Gracias!
So fun!
Thanks!
Felicidades por tu primera novela visual!
No me pararán las terfoides.
Of course right after an amazing project like this gets started, itch does some super fuckery. I feel so bad for the Creator
A bunch of dried up TERF cunts are not going to stop me. Creativity and the human spirit refuses to submit!
La novela visual está bastante bien: un setting original, una especie rara de ver como protagonista, buen worldbuilding, buen arte en sprites y en CGs. También un muy buen inicio de la historia presentando a Becket y sus amigos,al león tóxico, la droga y poniendo pistas de que tal vez hay algo de magia en dicha sustancia.
Pero obvio que tiene problemas, tiene pequeños que nadie presta su atención, excepto yo, que es la movilidad de los sprites, que no estén estáticos, osea hacer múltiples sprites de cada personaje en cada pose posible.
Y otras muy grandes como cualquier cosa relacionada con el código como dices en tus videos. La verdad busque alguno de los errores un poco adrede, pero supongo que puedo enlistarlo ahora:
1. La galería se reinicia cada vez que sales y entras del juego, borrando todas las imágenes que desbloqueaste.
2. La galería entera se expande, descentrándose de la pantalla, al tocar uno de los CGs, independientemente de que esté o no desbloqueado.
3. Al empezar el juego pones el trailer del juego que nos presentaste en Youtube, el problema es que cuando acaba arriba sale un mensaje de que "movie" no fue encontrado, deberías hacer que pase a la siguiente línea inmediatamente después de que el video acabe.
4. El mapa de Europa con lore, aparte de que habrá gente que no deducirá que debe pulsar en los países para recibir lore, también está mal recortado los clicks, si tocas el mar mediterráneo te pondrá el país más cercano en vez de ignorar el click, si tocas la zona cercana a Khandra en vez de mandarte información de la África Galia te pone el de las islas de D'Annunzio, si pulsas la esquina inferior izquierda del mar Muerto te manda a Garibaldi. Es muy probable de que haya más deslices chungos en ese mapa, pero me daba pereza seguir buscando errores en los clicks de un mapa.
5. Y obvio, que no te funcione el idioma español por algún motivo lol.
La VN tiene mucho potencial, eres muy talentoso, demasiado para el promedio de este nicho, pero es obvio que antes de seguir con la historia debes contratar a un programador o terminar por aprender a como programar una VN. Porque no solo debes aprender, debes volverte un experto, principalmente porque añades mecánicas extras, contadores para el dinero, videos, elementos de point and click. Mucha suerte, la vas a necesitar
Muchas gracias, tomo noto de todos tus comentarios.
I CAN FIX HIM!!
You can!
MC It's like a gem that shines in its own way. I like it very much. I can't wait to follow it.
Espera, esta inspirado por artistas reales de la generación beat??? naah demasiado nivel para este sitio. Donde esta el furro multicolor mitad demonio mitad dios que cambia el tiempo a voluntad y que es un auto insert del escritor???? Le faltan errores de continuidad y gramaticales. 2/10
Aquí decimos "New Orleans is a dead museum"
Hay mucho talento en este juego. A true gem!
You're breathtaking.
I know you said this is not a dating sim but ı am curious if we are ever gonna get a love interest in the upcoming updates ?
Yes! At some point in the future I'd love Beckett to have a romantic interest. But it will take a while to get there, I have a character in mind but he's still a sketch. Realistically speaking, it's hard to start a serious relationship when you are a fucked up junkie! I'm thinking of a Eugene Allerton type.
Eres un maestro Quetzal. Muchas gracias por esto.
Gracias a ti, capo!
Honestly, this is incredible. It’s really interesting! To be honest, I’ve never seen a story so well built, with characters so well developed. The special effects, the music… everything flows perfectly.
The only thing I still don’t understand is the stat system you see at the beginning of the game. I just had one question: do those stats actually change anything? Do the choices in the game also affect the story? Because I’m a bit confused.
I’ve replayed the game several times. If you’re seeing this comment, it means I’ve already finished it once, but I still don’t fully understand how the stat system works.
Anyway, I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes next!
Thanks for your comment! You made my morning :)
The stat system affects dice rolls. At the moment it is a bit superficial, I wanted to do a simplified Fate/Disco Elysium thing, but for the prologue I focused more on characters and story and didn't want to get bogged down by the gameplay systems. But dice rolls are influenced by your withdrawal status and the stat system. At the moment the only dice roll that affects the story in a permanent way is the last scene (also one game over half way), the rest are just a bit of flavour. As the project advances, these dice rolls will be more important and have more lasting effects.
Thank you for your comment, more to come soon.
Ottoman?! Based! downloading it right now!!🤩👏
The Ottoman empire is in the lore, and quite a lot, but the game is set under French (Galian) colonialism. Think Tunis-Algiers. But the character Penelope is from Asitane (Istambul).
Still based (though it would’ve been cool if part of the story took place in the Ottoman Empire).
But I’m just joking, the game really caught my attention. I’ll definitely play it and share my thoughts. Great work! (:
Please share your thoughts. I'm in the need of feedback!
El arte es excepcional en toda regla, una experiencia increíble de la propia mano de los mejores CC de habla hispana.
Gracias majo!
I was able to read the first build of this VN a few days before release thanks to Patreon. It is a very interesting game with a main character that is as broken as he is compelling.
Thank you for being my beta tester!