Petrophobia
SUBMISSION FOR THE GAME BOY COMPETITION 2023
TRIGGER WARNING: Themes of torture, racism, colonialism, homophobia, and misogyny.
Loosely based on the short story "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, a passage from Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, and the oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Made by: lunafromthemoon, mariano falzone and lisergishnu
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I hit on two oddities that I don’t know whether they’re intentional creepy stuff or unintentional glitches, so I’m writing them here:
at the train station, if you read the sign before talking to the people, their dialogue glitches until you leave the room.
if after the events where your cousin is attacked, after he wakes up and leaves the house, you go back to the train station, you find him at the station again just like when he first arrived. the plot and dialogue then repeats until the point where you’re asked to wear the party suit, but the suit-changing cutscene doesn’t trigger, and I couldn’t proceed the plot at this point.
I love the pixel art and the music in this, thank you for the game!
incidentally if the first glitch is unintentional I think it should stay, it’s harmless and adds to the atmosphere!
Thanks for reporting and for your kind words. We had to release as it was for the jam, but we'll make an update with quite a few fixes soon!
That was very interesting ^_^ Your pixel art is great, specially working with the color limitations of a Game Boy.
How was it working within these constrains?
Thanks! It was quite challenging, but I'm happy how it turned out, and it even looks great in a real gameboy color!
Ok, I've loaded it on my favorite emulator, played some time and it looks great so far! Look like what I wanted from my own submission but lacked some skills, experience and a team (: Definitely will do full playthrough with this one! Congrats
Thank you!!! Glad you enjoyed it so far! :D