The dream of bishoujo game fans come true…! The details on the mysterious ai sp@ce project that had a booth at Comic Market 2007 Winter has been disclosed. I was actually there at the announcement session to give you the coverage~
Just like I suspected, ai sp@ce is planned to be an online interactive community service in the fashion of Second Life, except it will feature bishojo game characters in 3D! So far the game titles involved in the project are: CLANNAD, Shuffle, and Da Capo II.
The basic idea of ai sp@ce is you spend a virtual life with your favorite heroine in the world that looks just like the games. For example, the town of Da Capo is full of sakura trees. Each person participating will have a partner girl who you can dress the way you like and eventually a house to decrate. The girl wil follow you around giving reactions to what you do. They are even working on an set of scripts so they can talk as if they have an AI.
After the preparations are done, it’s time to go out to the town to communicate with the other players online! The methods of interacting with the characters and other players are still under development, but they said they want to intergrate as much ideas the fans want. But the graphics of the game is seriously looking nice and smooth, especially the virtual town of Akihabara!