Piper Black
A downloadable game
Piper Black is an exterminator working under his father, but his childhood was anything but ordinary.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder and implications of murder, implications of a child murder, emotional(?) child abuse, exposure of violence/death to a child, misgendering of a transmasc character, self misgendering, visible blood, ambient BGM that some might find unsettling.
This is a short kinetic visual novel. It was made in about a week for the Only One of Any Asset (O2A2) Visual Novel Jam!
The game features...
- 995 words
- 1 (long) illustration
- 1 BGM track
- 1 SE
It also features...
- An edgy little horror story
- A transmasc wasian protagonist. Don't you love race and gender?
- Second person narration
- A funky vertical orientation due to my own carelessness with planning -- we make do!
Aaand... the credits!
- Font: Latin Modern Mono by GUST e-foundry
- BGM: Thriller Ambient by unfa
- SE: Ticking Clock 1 by Sonoptic
- Art, writing, and shoddy programming by me!
Thank you for checking out my first (finished) visual novel!
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Development log
- Fixed typos 💀Apr 17, 2023
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Oh gosh i did NOT expect that ending and I'm saying this in the most positive way possible, this is amazing! I love the atmospheric horror vibe too, great job!!
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Oh, gosh, god, this was Very Good. LOL I am taking a moment just to like, collect my thoughts after that. It was very much an experience from start to finish and I'm reeling just a bit hahahahaha.
I want to just start by saying that the vertical orientation thingie??? That was so good??? I've never played a game shaped like that I don't think LOL besides I guess mobile is somewhat similar perhaps, but not that tall?? Anyway, what a unique choice, even if you say it was originally not on purpose LOL Because it was also so so so effective?? Like I don't think you would have been able to do what you did with the slow panning and reveal with a more standard orientation. It was so well done!!
The music choice was wonderfully unsettling. I was getting goosebumps just from the music alone, accompanied by the overall darkness, almost staticy-feeling vibe and claustrophobic feeling from the orientation. And the use of the clock in the middle was Spot On GUH. Loved that part. So delightfully creepy.
The build-up from beginning to end was so well done. Like. The "reveal" so to speak in the middle wasn't even The Big Part, which was still yet to come at the end with the final reveal and final pan, WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING AS THE MIDDLE PART WAS THE MOST STARTLING AND UNCOMFORTABLE?? But even that didn't have quite the innate under-the-skin creepiness of the final mirror shot GOD I think I giggle a bit at the end but not because it was funny because I was so creeped out and it was a gut reaction alkdfjads
I WANT MORE OF THIS??? I WANT MORE OF THIS CHARACTER?? THIS STORY AND WORLD??? THIS CREEPINESS???? I hope even if you don't plan to continue this story itself you continue to make stories like this because it was incredibly wonderful and really twisted my gut in that delightful unnerving way I love so much. Absolutely fantastic job!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your thoughtful comment. I appreciate that you took all the time to write this, it makes me so happy!! ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ this was very encouraging, thank you so much!!