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Jane Austen Games finances itself solely through advertising. We are no game producing company. Upcoming games presented here are "hand-made" and may take some time to be developed.
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It would also help if you had artwork that we could incorporate into an upcoming game. We don't expect that many Jane Austen fans to program, but if you do: every addition to our team is welcome.
Jane Austen's Matchmaker
Jane Austen's Matchmaker is about marrying your daughters as advantagously as possible. The game will feature:
Daughters
Everything will revolve around your 3-5 daughters ranging from age 15 - 21.
- Hire a proper gouverness and encourage your daughters to better their understanding, conversation, musical, riding and dancing skills.
- Buy dresses, hats, gloves and jewellery to improve your daughters beauty.
- Rely on your daughters charm and beauty to lead her own conversations. Or take matters into your own hands and convince the suitor into courting your daughter.
Take care to let your daughters have enough room to develop a personality. But beware of too unrestrained behaviour and improper suitors that will convince your daughters to enlope with them! And be sure to marry them off before they become too old!
Suitors
There will be plenty of those but not all of them appropriate for your daughter. Be ever cautious not to fall for fortune-hunters, gamblers and scoundrels. Also take care not to let your daughters fall in love with worthy but penniless young men! And then there is the competition: don't wait till some other mother's daughter snatches away your chosen suitor.
Planning the day
Plan your and your daughters days:
- Take them on a shopping tour.
- Chaperon them when they go for a ride or walk with a suitor.
- Organize a private party to show off your daughters musical talent.
- Invite aquaintances and suitors to a private dinner party.
- Attend the public ball or theatre.
As you gain necessary properties and prestige in the world you'll be able to hold your own balls, drive to London for a shopping tour, organize picknicks and hold spezialized and bigger parties.
Property
There will be plenty of properties to buy like coaches, dresses and horses. But only little household money. You'll either have to learn to persuade your husband to make an investment or marry your daughters well to upgrade your income.
Conversation
Conversations are an essential key to gaining aquaintances and approaching suitors. To lead a conversation you'll need to collect interesting topics and gossip. You'll have to learn and refine skills like irony, humour, smalltalk and compassion among others.
There will be a future extention that entails a strategy board for your conversation. You'll actually use the conversation cards that you have collected. You'll place topics in tactical patterns and improve them by conversation skills to gain sympathy and prestige over your opponent.
Aquaintances
The prestige you hold in Matchmaker's world is made up by how many aquaintances you have and how good your connections are. You'll notice that some suitors will be off limit until you move in higher circles.
Muliplayer
The game will contain a small multiplayer part where you'll meet other players when attending public balls and theatres. An extension is planned where you'll be able to make friends and invite them to private parties as well.
Exptected Release Date: Winter 2010
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