I accidentally cursed my girlfriend and she turned into a cursed spear!
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
This is a very dark and gruesome game. Don't expect happy endings.
The project was submitted for GamesNow jam #2 (2020) with design constraint "Sad Games". Originally this idea was for Nanoreno 2020, but I didn't have motivation to make it during that. When I heard the topic for this jam, I wanted to make something more inspired than this. A game where the sadness is told through mechanics rather than dialogue. Lacking inspiration for something great like that, I figured I could use this as a chance to finish this vn instead. I only had one sprite, a few sketches and the AI generated music pieces done before the jam so I hope it's okay.
There are some action segments in the game where you must move your character with the mouse, but they can be replaced with choice menus in the preferences if it would make the game difficult to play through otherwise.
Art, Writing and Code by Qazhax
Soundtrack composed by AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist): https://www.aiva.ai
Fonts from google fonts.
There are a total of 5 endings. With a bit under 2000 words, I hope it won't feel too rushed or forced. Writing is hard. The part before the endings should somewhat work as a metaphor but I'm not very confident I managed to convey anything properly. I feel so embarrassed about all of the dialogue, lmao.
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The new season of Soul Eater is pretty wack yo!
Pretty unique premise. Feels like I just stumbled upon one of them bizarro VNs in the vein of that Pigeon Dating Sim or that one VN where the male characters have (literally) dangerously pointy chins.
The fact that the artifact didn't just magically turned her into a regular spear but actually twisted her body into a grotesque flesh spear just adds to the tragedy and horror of the scene.
Interesting choice of color palettes. It definitely contrasts to the tale the game is telling and it adds to the surreal nature of the premise as well.
Rarely have I seen Ren Py games like these have an action game sequence. It's pretty impressive to me that you've managed to program that minigame into an engine originally designed for a more point and click style of gameplay.
I would be interested in following this game should you decide expand upon it.
Would be pretty neat if it has some sort of leveling or alignment systems that would affect both their appearance/powers/etc. to make it even more interesting game-wise but one can only add so much into a jam game seeing that such events only allows a limited amount of development time.
Overall this is a pretty neat short game you made there.
Great set up, feels like the story could continue into a long game!
Also like the popping colours
The transition screen and dialogue system is pretty badass
Nice melodrama! Every ending was sad in its own way. Cool integration of player choice in more action-based gameplay. Didn't even know that was possible in RenPy ^^ - Elisa M