# Persona Style - RPG Template | Summer Engine

## About this template

Persona-style games run on a calendar system where every day forces a choice: study for exams, hang out with a friend to deepen a social link, or enter a cognitive dungeon to exploit enemy weaknesses with all-out attacks. Social links and confidant ranks power up persona fusions in the Velvet Room, turning your relationships into combat strength. The after-school life of friends, romance, part-time jobs, and study sessions IS the game, and dungeon deadlines create real tension.

Summer Engine helps you build the calendar loop, social link progression trees, turn-based weakness-exploitation combat, and persona fusion system through conversation. You define the cast, the daily schedule, and the shadow world. The AI scaffolds the interlocking systems that make every in-game day feel meaningful.

The magic of this format is that players create their own story through daily choices. Who they spend time with, which confidants they max, and how they balance dungeon progress against social life makes every playthrough personal.

## Who it's for

* Writers who want to build a game around daily life, friendships, and a supernatural double life.
* Solo devs inspired by Persona 3-5 who want a calendar-driven RPG with social sim mechanics.
* Designers who love the tension between time management and dungeon exploration.
* Small teams building a life sim RPG with turn-based combat and relationship progression.

## Highlights

* ### First Semester Demo  
Build the opening month: protagonist transfer, first dungeon awakening, establish the calendar loop, and introduce 3-4 social links.
* ### Social Link Showcase  
Create a vertical slice with a full confidant arc (10 ranks), showing how relationship choices affect dialogue, persona fusion bonuses, and story outcomes.
* ### Full Calendar Year  
Develop a complete school-year RPG with seasonal events, multiple dungeon deadlines, exam weeks, and a climactic final semester.

## Highlights

### Calendar-driven gameplay

Every in-game day matters. Players choose between social activities, studying, working, and dungeon runs under real deadline pressure.

### Social link system

Confidant relationships rank up through hangout scenes, unlocking combat bonuses, fusion perks, and branching story outcomes.

### Weakness exploitation combat

Hit enemy weak points to earn extra turns. Knock all enemies down and trigger stylish all-out attacks with the full party.

### Persona fusion

Combine personas in the Velvet Room to create stronger ones. Social link ranks boost fusion results and unlock ultimate personas.

## Features

* ### Day/night calendar loop  
Time advances by player choice. Each day has morning, afternoon, and evening slots for school, social links, jobs, or dungeon crawling.
* ### Social link and confidant trees  
Ranked relationship system with unique story scenes per rank, dialogue choices that affect affinity, and gameplay rewards at key milestones.
* ### Turn-based combat with press turns  
Elemental weakness system where hitting weak points grants bonus actions. Guard, attack, use skills, or swap personas mid-battle.
* ### Persona collection and fusion  
Collect personas from defeated shadows. Fuse them in the Velvet Room to inherit skills and create powerful new combinations.

## Genre fit

* RPG
* JRPG
* Social Sim
* Turn-Based
* Life Sim
* Desktop
* Handheld
* Web

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