Doki Doki Blue Skies

**Doki Doki Blue Skies**is a mod which overhauls *Doki Doki Literature Club!* into a traditional romance visual novel, maintaining a strong focus on mental health as its main theme. The mod was heavy influenced by Four Leaf Studio's *Katawa Shoujo,* with one character from that game also making a supporting appearance here. Major changes in the mod include giving the MC more of a personality, and Monika no longer being self-aware. The mod has three routes for Yuri, Sayori and Natsuki. Each with their own good and bad endings. A Monika route was planned to be featured, but was cut during developement.

Blue Skies introduces several new characters and features which weren't in the original game, including an homage to Emi Ibarazaki from *Katawa Shoujo*. The mod also includes mobile phone visuals, weather effects, transitions, and route specific dialogue boxes. The mod has a 44 track (53 including bonus tracks) OST composed by NPbus and MR/PA. It was released on Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube.

Doki Doki Blue Skies was released June 13th, 2020.

## Synopsis

The game comprises three arcs, with the first roughly following the same story of the original, with MC writing poetry to flatter the girl of his choice and joining one of them for the preparations for the festival on the weekend. After this, the story is expanded to cover the rest of the academic year with three distinct stories for Sayori, Natsuki and Yuri with different endings depending on the player's choices.

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## Blue Dissonance Development Team

#### **Directors**

* Sir Swampert
* kyoryii

#### **Writers**

* Sir Swampert - Act 1, Sayori, Yuri Route
* kyoryii - Act 1, Yuri, Monika Route (cut)
* Tiffany - Natsuki Route
* Ultra Instinct Shaggy - Natsuki Route
* GlyphInBullet - Monika Route (cut)
* Jacket - Poems
* Tactical Cupcakes - Poems

#### **Artists**

* kyoryii (Lead Artist) - OC design, Sprites, BGs, CGs, Credits
* Cyrke - BGs and CGs
* BlackRabbitArtworks - CGs
* Rashee - CGs
* Crashpunk - BGs and Sprite Edits
* Forfen - Festival BGs, Logo.

#### **Musicians**

* NPbus
* MR/PA

#### **Programmers**

* kyoryii
* Sir Swampert
* Crashpunk
* Gregg
* Ogsnakebone
* [erased]
* Afterlife Sama
* Sasu

## New Characters

* **Mom**: MC's unnamed mother who works abroad. She shares MC's sense of humour, but is very perceptive and insightful, giving MC valuable advice in his high school crises.
* **Akechi Sakurai**: A relatively young, passionate history teacher with a witty sense of humour that makes him popular with his students. He is MC's homeroom teacher, and MC looks up to him as a mentor.
* **Emi:** An energetic transfer student who is part of the track team. She provides relationship advice for MC.
* **Shiori:**MC's class rep and close friend of Monika. She shuns traditional roles but is diligent in her classwork. She has a pet dog called Mochi.

## Trivia

* Emi is named after and based on Emi Ibarazaki from *Katawa Shoujo.*
* MC's Mom is nicknamed MoMC by the mod's community.
* Whilst unnamed in the mod, the bully character is named Eiji.
* MC's phone is inspired by the Phone Trigger mechanic from Steins;Gate.
* The text notification sound is a sped-up version of the Pokémon Center healing sound.
* During development. Shiori had fishnet tights.
* There are two scrapped outfits - A summer outfit for Natsuki and a casual outfit for Monika with a coat. The coat is based on Nagito from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
* Sayori's Halloween costume is based on Cassidy/McCree's Van Helsing skin from Overwatch
* Monika's Halloween costume is based on Kyouko Irisu from Irisu Syndrome!
* The artwork used during the credits is inspired by Durarara
* The track '*Rose Tinted Glasses'* on the OST was inspired by the MapleStory 2 track *'Yester-Story'*