A Totally Normal Painting Hanging on the Wall
A downloadable game for Windows
My entry for Scream Jam 2022 +1. This is a tiny short story/visual novel (visual short story?) about dealing with death as an EMT. It's based on real calls and real experiences, but I took a little poetic license (it's a horror jam, after all). Your choices do matter and will affect what happens in the story but this is a very short, focused experience.
Content warning here for death, dead bodies, and grief. The horror "spice level" is very mild, but the real-life trauma scale is a fair bit higher.
Credits:
Yarn Spinner --
Migfus 20 on Open Game Art
Independent.nu on Open Game Art
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Install instructions
Unzip the folder and open the .exe named "The Tunnel 2.0." You may be prompted to extract all the files, go ahead and do so!
Development log
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I Was Blind at first but when I Looked I Realized I Missed the Detail9/10
excellent title. i'm looking forward to your longer title.
HELL YES I LOVED THIS. i've been really keen to see what you get up to since i started following your pixel art journeys on cohost and this did not disappoint!!! your writing is spectacular and everything in this just goes together so well. even if i hadn't read the description or anything else, i'd have probably been able to guess that this was written by an EMT just based on the emotional resonance of this story.
so keen for The Tunnel!
This Painting is so normal, it's crazy. Played through a few times, but I couldn't really tell if there was any sort of actual branching path, just one difference showing up... But, the one difference is pretty excellent!! I love having a normal painting!! And, besides the quirks of potential differences, I think the writing here is powerful as hell, in a way!! I've heard quite a few stories from EMTs before, and, uh... well, this is certainly a very mild one compared to those; mostly just about the trauma of, specific parts of being an EMT. But that's a powerful topic!!! And this is definitely a thoughtful game!!!
Thanks for making this neat, atmospheric, slightly spooky experience!!!
this is really cool!! i enjoy simple games a lot, and the atmosphere and music were really perfect... the writing was really engaging, i played through it twice but i didn't notice much difference, so now i'm thinking of playing a third time... i wanna know all the secrets......
great game, thank you for sharing!