Noscere [horror][psychological]

[Maikeru]

Okay, so here is my first attempt at a visual novel!

Plot: Skye is a college med student who would rather spend all day playing videogames rather than focus on his studies. He is barely keeping his head above water and is trying to make ends meet. While bikeriding back home from college one night, he nearly crashes into a girl who dashes out of nowhere. The girl follows him home, and Skye is forced to balence a hellishly busy college life and taking care of a mysterious girl. College life is about to become the least of his worries.

You might enjoy this game if you enjoy: [Elfen Lied] [Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni] [Deathnote] [Saya No Uta]

Estimated play time: 40 min

http://www.mediafire.com/?a04380z5557ayrc

Bios:

Skye: This is who you play as, the college student barely scraping by. He prides himself over his high score in guitar hero on Expert setting. He knows that if he tries harder in college he could succeed, but he has problems focusing. He is quick to jump to conclusions and make judgements on people.



Kat: Kat is the cute little girl that follows Skye home. She has an intense love of breakfast cereal and learns things very quickly. She doesn't seem to understand at all how the world works, as if she is seeing everything for the first time. She doesn't appear to know how to speak and understand any language and she is very curious like....well...a cat. The more she is around somebody, the faster she can learn things. I think that is all I can say without spoiling things. I'll let you find out the rest!




Minor Characters

Gene: An man who claims he is part of the FBI whos true intentions and motives are unknown.



Daniel: He claims to know all about who Kat really is. On T.V. he is the person who files the missing persons report and is searching for his little girl, but somehow he doesn't seem like the father type.




This game is currently in Alpha state, meaning that a lot of backgrounds are just not up to par, and the game is still largely kenetic at this point (picture an accordion squished down. That is my plot)
I have put development on this game on a freeze until renpy is able to be run on mobile devices. In the meantime, I am seeking artists and I do plan on having voice acting in here at some point.

Please, comments and critiques are very warmly welcomed. Enjoy!

[teacup]

This is really interesting! I only planned to check out a few minutes, but ended up playing until I got the endings.

Is it okay if I point out some spelling errors I found? I really like this game, so I just want to help ^_^;

Tommorow -> Should be 'tomorrow'
Dude your looking way too much into this! ... should be dude "you're" looking
Cabnet -> Cabinet
He isn't exited at all about the pay -> Not sure, but maybe you meant to say excited?
Forhead -> Forehead
You spelled definitely as definately more than once.
Exitement -> Excitement
Excape -> Escape

Other than the spelling errors I think this is a well-written game. Your writing certainly engaged me enough to hold my attention [which isn't easy to do XD].
I got three different endings, is that all of them?
In each of them, it ended pretty abruptly though. Are these the actual endings, or did it end that abruptly because the game isn't finished yet? I hope those aren't the real endings - the story is pretty interesting, so when it ends really fast like that, it feels a bit unsatisfying. Maybe if the game was longer and you showed more interactions between Kat and Skye, the endings wouldn't feel so sudden, but as it is, the endings come way too fast.
Aside from improved backgrounds, will there be any other differences between this version and the complete version?

[Maikeru]

This is really interesting! I only planned to check out a few minutes, but ended up playing until I got the endings.

Is it okay if I point out some spelling errors I found? I really like this game, so I just want to help ^_^;

Tommorow -> Should be 'tomorrow'
Dude your looking way too much into this! ... should be dude "you're" looking
Cabnet -> Cabinet
He isn't exited at all about the pay -> Not sure, but maybe you meant to say excited?
Forhead -> Forehead
You spelled definitely as definately more than once.
Exitement -> Excitement
Excape -> Escape

Other than the spelling errors I think this is a well-written game. Your writing certainly engaged me enough to hold my attention [which isn't easy to do XD].
I got three different endings, is that all of them?
In each of them, it ended pretty abruptly though. Are these the actual endings, or did it end that abruptly because the game isn't finished yet? I hope those aren't the real endings - the story is pretty interesting, so when it ends really fast like that, it feels a bit unsatisfying. Maybe if the game was longer and you showed more interactions between Kat and Skye, the endings wouldn't feel so sudden, but as it is, the endings come way too fast.
Aside from improved backgrounds, will there be any other differences between this version and the complete version?

Thanks so much for your interest! I will get right on fixing those errors. I have a bad habit of spelling certain words wrong all the time.

The middle to latter half of the game is where I had to have the most compression to meet a deadline, but as soon as I get some artists (the ones I used are too busy now) I will put a lot more interactivity between them as it was meant to be. There will still be an air of mystery if you from alpha to beta, as I am considering moving around character motives. Mainly I want player choices and actions ultimately influence how Kat acts. If I can take a whip to some artists I'll add more characters too!

[philip]

@Maikeru

Hi-
Just discovered this story on YouTube, and went through the two parts that were posted. I found it very interesting and would like to see the rest of it. However, I notice here on the Forum that you have not posted in over two years! Is this project still alive and will you be finishing it?

philip

[plaster]

Downloading for Higurashi horror
DON'T DISAPPOINT ME. >:33