Set in the first century, The Father's Story is a visual novel which offers a different perspective of the birth of Jesus and the events surrounding that night.
Do you have to know those to enjoy it? No, not at all. In fact, do you have to be a Christian to enjoy it? Of course not! It is merely a tale centered around a young shepherd boy who has had a hard life and how his life is forever changed during the events of this night as well as:
The stories told in the bible gospels around the night of the birth, are somewhat brief and do not go into a lot of detail. This is where The Father's Story comes in and looks at the potential tales that could be had with just regular people living it. How one thing led to the next, which led up to the famous birth.
From the daughter of a local baker, to the Roman centurion handling the garrison. To the leader of the shepherds who walks the grey line, to an orphan who survives off thievery and beyond!
Were Mary and Joseph really alone during the birth? What about all the angels that celebrated in the heavens, what were they up to? Did everything really go down without interference?
If you can think of other possibilities while you read this, this story is for you
With around 50,000 words in total, our story is not too long, not too short, and branches based on the choice you make for our protagonist. Because of this, the course of his life could have various different outcomes that are linked to one of our heroines!
"You turned the birth of Jesus into a dating sim?!" No, not really. As with any story there can be a romance subplot and our story revolves not just around our poor protagonist but, also women who have positive impacts on his life. After all, those who walk beside you in life can have a great influence on you and help you through. We only branch it with multiple heroines because we want his story to be one about possibility, since that is entirely what we strive to do in the rest of the story. It is during these endings which you'll also get a glimpse of more possibilities involving other stories in the gospel narratives.
Unlike other visual novels where there is simple models and maybe a handful of expressions, all our characters take a page from our Dust and Air title and include full expression sets. This means that as the story progresses, you'll notice expressions change with each conversation.
While The Father's Story doesn't have a vocal dub (Yet), we want our characters to seem more real. Thus, we do extra work to provide expressions and we believe it's something that sets our work apart from others.
Is it worth it? You be the judge.