This post specifically is for me to complain about how a staple concept in over 60-70% of games in the market is so difficult to actually achieve or locate.

You'd think that it would be as easy as Unity being able to keep track of a list of choices made, and then making a kind of "prefab" out of the choices that can be referenced later with coding. With something as powerful as Unity, you'd think that more people would have made pre-made assets allowing you to do this.

But tragically, this isn't the case! I really wanted Doki Doki Rainbow to stand out because you would get to make your own character. It took me hours to draw all of the art, and hours more to compile together a working character selection menu, and now I either have to completely scrap the idea, or rework it once I find a solution for how to get Unity to keep track of the individual selections players make to customize their characters so that it can be referenced later in game.

When I explained to my fiancé that Dream Daddy used Unity and Fungus and managed to achieve this, their great idea was to reach out to the developers to see if they could give me some insight. Unfortunately, they're a little nearsighted with regard to the fact that the Game Grumps crew absolutely would not see or even pay attention to my request for help for a number of reasons, but the first and most important being: 1 - trade secrets, they figured it out, why would they share? 2 - It's freaking Game Grumps, why would they, or anyone on their team respond to me, or even care? They get flooded with literally hundreds of thousands of messages a day. I'm probably more likely to win the lottery in my Province before they'd see any of my desperate pleas for trade secrets.

For right now, I've reached out to a creator of the single 2D character customization asset that I was able to find on Unity for further clarification on what their asset is capable of or oriented for so I can decide whether or not to spend my actual human dollars on it. But it's been a week. And in the famous last words of the Opportunity Rover... "my battery is low and it's getting dark."

For anyone who has a solution, or knows of one or where I might find one, please enlighten this sad game developer, so that I don't have to scrap an idea that took me literal months to complete for the sake of being unable to understand C# and Json syntax well enough to figure it out.