B.E.C.K.A.
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
cw: flashing images, death, depression, light depictions of [censored] gore
Entry for TOXIC YURI VN JAM.
With such one-liners as:
"You find yourself back in the land of corporate wage slavery, your jugs in hand."
"Your life ends faster than an elephant."
"She's been more truthful with you than you've ever been with her."
Our first attempt at a game jam! Please try it out.
Needed to SPRINT to get this done (in the span of about a week, the game is unfinished as a result of this) and will fix some things soon! After a little rest. Expect small fixes soon-ish (doubled dialogue lines, typos, etc).
Fixed some things! Namely:
- Set a taskbar icon (i dont have a taskbar i didnt think of this)
- Fixed some typos/doubled lines
- Normalized the audio for the game! Which is (in hindsight) really important because it can be incredibly jarring if you randomly swap to something LOUD.
- Set a default cps of 35
Bigger changes later (potentially).
Writing - https://bsky.app/profile/icye.bsky.social
Art - https://bsky.app/profile/edea.bsky.social
Programming - https://bsky.app/profile/lunatender.bsky.social
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I've gotta be honest: I have a soft spot for girls with those big, dorky swirly glasses; always have, always will. So you already know that Sable was immediately my favorite member of the cast, heheheh~
My favoritism aside, this one was interesting. The portrait art for the characters was charming throughout, of course, and I always appreciate when VNs color-code the dialogue to each character~ Also, I think this is the first VN I've ever read where one of the main characters was basically just ChatGPT—and a very scary ChatGPT that ends up riding around in the body of a cute girl, at that, heh.
I'd love to revisit this one once you've rested up and had the opportunity to circle back around and finish everything for it the way you'd envisioned it~ I'd love more screentime for my girl Sable, naturally, but thinking back on the one CG sketch we see near the end, I've no doubt the VN would really pop with more fullscreen art like that (and perhaps some more music, too)~
But yes, nicely done, doubly so for a first-time jam game!
When we were determining the scope of the novel for the jam, we ultimately decided against a "personality choice / multiple route"-based story in favour of a more "focused obsession"-based one, but we did so pretty late.
So, while Sable started as only the exact trope you've a soft spot for; dorky swirly glasses, she drifted and marinated in my brain for a really long time compared to the lines she is written into - really excited to bring to bear all her dorky depravity!
This was a fun entry, rot13("gb or oyvaqrq ol fngvngvat tevrs vagb ercynpvat gur Erorppn-funcrq ubyr va ure urneg jvgu Orpxn, lrg gur npg bs perngvat Orpxn znexf na vaurerag cbjre qvssrerapr orgjrra gurz. Zbyqvat Orpxn gb or zber va yvar jvgu Jera'f rkcrpgngvbaf bs "orvat Erorppn" jbhyq whfg or n abezny qnl bs jbex va gur pbagrkg bs pbqvat, ohg vg orpbzrf fnyvragyl nohfvir jura gur fhowrpg vf fncvrag. Avpr rnfgre rttf nobhg ivz/rznpf naq Ebxb'f onfvyvfx :)")
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would really love to see some of the artist's other works, but can't seem to find anything at all :c
sorry!! our artist is a little bit shy about posting things online for a few different reasons, and she also draws pretty infrequently in general
i told her you were interested tho
Had a blast writing!! Hopefully will find some time to expand upon the abruption of it all :3
Congrats! looking forward to playing!