Mind Unto Psycho is an indie horror slasher-movie-style game.
The playable alpha version of the upcoming Prologue Demo can be played on itch.io: https://pantophon.itch.io/verdunville-demo
Story and Game:
Vint Devon is a university student. He doesn't know what to do with himself after he graduates. Meanwhile, he becomes the object of affection of unusual individuals who would kill for him, or...kill him? Play as Vint and progress through the story as the game profiles you psychologically through choices, changing your story as you go, and giving you a personal fate.
Unravel what truly goes on in the minds of unstable individuals, or ...have a cup of coffee.
It's not BL. The game is for anyone, whether straight or bi or gay, who's into horror.
Themes: Horror, Branching Narrative, Psychological, Eroge
Setting: A fictional city called Verdunville in a fictional US island state Hervorragend.
Characters:
Vint
Vint Devon is a business administration student at the University of Verdunville, the biggest one in the Island State of Hervorragend, USA. He's a handsome guy with a serious and cynical personality. He works part-time at a restaurant as a delivery man and he has a pretty girlfriend. He has only one friend, his more easy-going dormmate Lothaire. Vint doesn't know what to do with himself after he graduates, other than being forced to take on the family business.
Skyler
Skyler Eicher is a withdrawn unfocused young man. He majors in architecture and works as a postman part-time. He is pretty nervous and shy, but on occasion he becomes unsettlingly serious. He likes to hang out in junk yards and make things from metal and other objects he finds. When Vint bumps into him, Skyler is visibly shook and impressed by him in some way, but so much that...he just begins to stalk Vint.
Corin
Corin Rosengarten is a literature student, and an acquaintance that Vint recently made. On campus people generally think he's a girl, and Corin doesn't mind being referred to as such, in fact he feels nervous about people finding out he's a guy so he goes along with it. He sings in the choir of the cathedral next to the University, and has an angelic sweet voice as well as a personality that matches it. Corin is petite and very kind to everyone, and often talks about beautiful poetry or culture. He is sometimes with Vint and Lothaire on campus when he's not with his girl friends.
Vesper
Vesper Antoine is an unusual-looking student, who has the allure of an attractive mature woman but without breasts. Oddly, Vesper styles his hair like a poor copy of Vint's and wears similar clothing as him, but with his own twist on it. Vesper is very mysterious and cryptic in character when he speaks, but it's obvious he's hiding some things behind that pretty "mask", which would actually change Vint's attitude towards him. Vint can avoid him, or never meet him at all, or if he's catching on about Vesper's secrets then he could delve deeper...
Lothaire
Lothaire Finnan also studies at University of Verdunville like the others. He shares a student dorm apartment with Vint, who's his close friend. He has more of a laidback personality compared to Vint. He's into night life culture, bars, music and girls, and is Vint's lifeline to society. Without him Vint would probably go insane. Lot has a firm goal of what he wants to do after graduation, and that is: his ultimate dream of building and running his own pub.
Clementine
Vint's girlfriend. She and Vint are close and very romantic, going steady for about a year. Vint met her at his job as a delivery man, she works as a waitress at the restaurant and is two years older than him.
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Features:
- 17 Routes and Endings
- A notepad for recording thoughts and choices
- Optional Sexual Content (MxF scenes, MxM scenes(but not easy to get))
- Voice Acting (W.I.P. getting people)
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Prologue Demo (alpha version) Screenshots:
https://pantophon.itch.io/verdunville-demo
The pre-production has been done (story, characters, arcs, acts, concepts, and gameplay design).
The game itself, routes, endings, and most choices have been coded into a playable pre-alpha that briefs the story or scenes through an outline.
So most of the work left is writing the dialogues and narration, and creating the final art.
At the moment I'm working to finish the assets for the demo.
Then when that's out I can continue writing the full game.
It's an indie project so the only backing it gets is through a Patreon, if you're interested in that: https://www.patreon.com/theiridescentlight
I will update the content of this post when the finalized demo is officially out.