Premise/Features
• Simple slice-of-life VN about anon and Libbie working at the Z-Energy office together and falling in love/spending time together.
◦ No in-jokes. The Z-energy corporation is enough.
◦ Maybe Kiki the Squirrel lives in the broom closet or something?
• There will be different colour-coded versions of Libbie who work in different departments and have different responsibilities.
◦ Base (Writer + Database), Maff (Math + Calc), Artist (Draw + Present)
◦ The male version of Libbie is a jerkass rival who will compete with the player for a girl’s affection and/or show up repeatedly to taunt him.
• Anon can choose to spend time with each version of Libbie. If he impresses/helps her, she’ll like him and give him a chance to win her heart.
◦ Maybe some small dialogue puzzles or math puzzles; nothing too serious.
◦ There should be some kind of interactivity: even simple yes/no answers to branching conversations are better than linear dialogue.
• Ending variant for each Libbie, and one or two secret/joke endings depending on other things.
Hook
• Anon, a lowly gas station attendant for the Z-Energy Corporation, has been “promoted” to assistant manager at a new branch after repeatedly napping on the job. He arrives to find the office a dysfunctional mess staffed by Libbie androids, and with a performance review looming on the horizon, the entire branch is in jeopardy. He’ll have to roll up his sleeves, get to know his coworkers, and actually do some fucking work if he wants to keep his job.
Character Profiles
• Anon
◦ It’s Z-Anon. I doubt he’ll ever actually appear in art.
◦ The other characters chirp him for being the new guy and coming from a gas station, but he might be the office’s only chance.
• Base Libbie
◦ The “normal” Libbie we all know and love. Green hair, and aspects of LibreOffice Writer and Database. The most responsible of the three Libbies at Z-Energy.
◦ Not an especially deep character. As per Tyson’s description:
▪ “Calm and collected on surface, but courageous and carefree at heart. She is passionate, ambitious and confident about the future, and knows how to have fun with her job.”
◦ Tries to be optimistic and reliable, but her cheery demeanor is cracking under the weight of the branch’s poor performance.
◦ Tragic backstory about being defeated by The Penguin, which caused her to focus on her job above all else. Might be looking at a bad case of burnout if not for the player’s intervention.
• Maff Libbie
◦ The black Libbie responsible for mathematics and financial stuff; has an inverted colour palette that is predominantly black/dark grey with green highlights. Aspects of LibreOffice Math and Calc/Spreadsheet.
◦ Talks the stereotypical jive like you’d see in any image board shitpost, but not actually a nigger: more like a Japanese gyaru combined with a blaxploitation character. Enjoys teasing her coworkers, especially Anon, but has a pretty fragile ego herself.
◦ Bad at her job, but not stupid: her math processor is fully functional, which makes her more like an idiot savant. Doesn’t do a good job bookkeeping, but never gets fired because she’s so sweet and nobody wants to hurt her feelings.
• Art Libbie
◦ Free-spirited artist Libbie who works in HR/graphic design and always has some kind of morale-boosting scheme. Yellow hair, with aspects of Libreoffice Draw and Impress.
◦ Heavily inspired by the kind of new-age corporate culture guru who was everywhere in the dotcom boom. “Harness your ethereal synergy to amplify your positive wavelengths, my friends. Your feng shui is very disrupted – I advise a diet of mung beans and kale to realign your astrological orientation,” etc.
◦ [maybe she’s stuck in an artistic rut and needs Anon’s help to rediscover her muse?]
◦ Office should have a poster with a dolphin or something. Maybe she’s a health food nut.
◦ Claims she’s very good at her job, but nobody can make heads or tails of what she’s saying so they can’t really argue.
• Male Libbie
◦ A rival to the player, based on the male version in Tyson Tan’s original picture. Male Libbie is a suave, stylish businessman in a sharp suit and tie. Prior to Anon’s arrival, he was doing most of the heavy lifting around the office and had all the ladies’ attention.
◦ Has some dialogue during minigames/puzzles where he mocks Anon or predicts that he won't have the smarts to pull it off.
◦ Potentially an undercover agent for The Penguin, who has been sabotaging Z-Energy from the inside for months. He doesn’t care about his job because he can just charm his way into another one.
▪ [Maybe Anon can redeem him and win his trust? Or maybe he’s just exposed and exiled like the dirtbag he is.]
• The Penguin
◦ A soulless corporate stooge who works at the rival company Fibre Office and lives for nothing more than climbing the corporate ladder. Has a history with base Libbie: they were competing for the same position, and he bent the rules to ensure she would be disqualified.
◦ The true antagonist and typical corporate brownnoser. Only got hired because he kisses his boss’s ass, and longs to see the Libbies and their work destroyed so they can be replaced with faceless automatons after an aggressive merger.
◦ Will stop at nothing to crush Z-Energy, be it h4ck1ng into their system and deleting the folder named "super important files – do not delete", photoshopping nudes of libbie and plastering them around the building, or cutting power to the office. Truly evil.
• Kiki the Cyber Squirrel
◦ (Joke character who appears once or twice. Maybe she lives in the broom closet or the server room? Might be too unfocused.)