Top 5 things you didn't know about Alone With You (but now you do)

Alone With You is now just three weeks away, but we've been working on it for quite a while. We want to share some fun bits you might not have known about the game.

So without further ado...

5) Alone With You is a "love letter to the Sega CD"

We've said this before, but AWY was an attempt to make "the Sega CD game we wish existed." That's why it mixes 16-bit style, Genesis-era visuals with a rich, deep soundtrack that would have required the then-amazing new "compact disc" format. In fact, the entire game uses the Sega Genesis hardware colour palette — all 512 colours. (We did cheat from time to time.) Pay attention when you're playing — you might even notice a rather obvious tip of the hat to Sega's disc-spinning console in the game...

4) Alone With You is meant to provoke real, honest feelings

The goal of the game was to see if players could feel real things towards very not-real people. There are some tough choices and, we hope, some great characterization and writing that helps with that. In our experience, players tend to admit that they have a favourite hologram , which reveals something of their personality...

3) Alone With You is very, very Canadian

From the names and little references to the fact that we use a lot of "ou"s in words like "favourite," AWY is Canadian-made, and offers a lot of little nods to its country of origin. Canucks, be on the lookout!

2) Alone With You is more than five times bigger than Home

I loved making Home because it was a tight, focused expression if a single idea. With AWY, I wanted to try something more ambitious (and that's why a team made it, and "I" am a "we" for this game). Most players spend about 4–6 hours in a single playthrough, but we've had players spend much more than that to get achievements and see all there is to see. And since you get to choose which missions you embark on during the game, it feels a lot more personal.

1) Alone With You is for everyone

Usually in dating sims, the main character is a dude. Then my wife will say, "WTF? I want to play this @#$%ing game!" And you know what? She's totally right. So in Alone With You, your character is you — or whoever you want to be. You enter your name, and that's it — talk to anyone you want, feel anything you feel, without restrictions.