Exiting the White Room
An owl, a goat, and a wolf live in a white room. They’ve been stuck there for a long, long time. One day, the owl wakes up with a fleeting recollection of the day prior. You, the owl, tries to recall what happened.
A short mystery game where you try to uncover what happened to you and your surroundings the day prior.
Despite its namesake, I've kept everything off-white so you folks don't burn your eyes looking at the game.
This game was made for O2A2, a game jam with a strict ruleset for assets.
- 998 words
- 1 sprite
- 1 background
- 1 BGM track
- 1 sound effect
Big thanks to all the folks from Fantasy Mechanics for helping me bring my first completed game to life. Couldn't have done it without you guys!
Director; Writer; Sprite & GUI Artist: DJThunderHeart
Main Programmer: JaCoder23
Other Programming: Megapig9001
BG Artist: Zzzzleepy
Music; SFX: Wookywok
Note: For the best experience, please download the game. Thank you!
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- Post Game DevlogJul 18, 2024
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
An interesting experience and well executed mystery that got my wheels turning, loved it ~ ♥
Thank you very much for playing and reviewing the game! I'm glad you enjoyed the mystery :D
You are certainly right about having a little quality-of-life update now that the jam is over. I'll try to do one sometime down the line <:
🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
Thank you for playing c:
(I was so surprised to see this in my subscription feed on YT 0-0)
im not very smart so im a little boggled rn but this game is cool beans and very pretty. hope you make a sequel or the like, the lore seems promising
Thank you! I'll consider it ^^
Your visual presentation here is outstanding! Totally on point, makes this game all the more immersive and unsettling. The blurring until you examine something and zoom in on it is such a clever detail, I can't help but love it-
And Noah's sprites/expressions worked so well that I didn't pick up on any suspicion until right before we got the chance to get the truth, that was again wonderfully done!
I have small questions about the ultimate details of the Reveal, I might have to read that again to process what happened the day before fully, but the overall presentation is so good it gets 5 stars from me easily!
Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you got quite the experience out of it c;
Most eerie VN experience I've had in a while ngl 0-0
Very good use of presentation btw. The blur effect while point n click is seamless to the narrative and it makes it feel immersive af. Even though the bits and pieces I could get are limited, it does the job well to make my imagination go wild and makes the experience both haunting and at the edge of my seat.
Now excuse me while I paint my white room green lol
Thank you! It's all thanks to the whole team that the game is able to look like this ^^
I'm glad we're getting folks to put on their theory crafting caps if even for a lingering moment~
I also loved how with under 1000 words you made it that perfect length to enjoy and get all the important details as the tension builds without making anything feel dragged or skipped :D
This is super well made and was so much fun to play/record, I look forward to seeing potential future projects!
Wahhhhh, thank you so much. I'm glad you got a lot out of the story! So much so that your creativity went off in the description of the video (i enjoyed reading it btw) cx
It certainly was tricky trying not to pass 1k words. Blew past it writing the script way sooner than I thought.
Oh and bro you're mad funny and the editing enhances it-- I'm definitely checking out more of your vids xD
Intriguing game! I like the usage of blurry visuals and zooming in on specific things in the background. I felt like it helped get a lot more mileage out of the limitations of being able to use only 1 background. I like the mystery of the situation the characters were in. You did a great job giving enough information to the player to help them understand the situation but not completely spell out everything that’s happening. I felt like I had more questions than answers at the end. Would be interested to see a follow up to this! Great job on this!
Thank you very much! Certainly didn't expect a playthrough. I'm glad it got your gears turning.
I don't know if I'll do a follow up but I'll consider it ^^
This was so haunting!! I'm left with so many questions about who they are and what's going on and what are these awful experiments and why is any of this happening MY GOD???? You did a great job of giving new little bits of information slowly as the story went on to really build up the tension... and I loved the use of the single ambient monotone track that gave everything such an otherworldly vibe...
The composition of everything was also excellent. You used so many different styles! From the use of the sidebar NVL for the dialogue to the point and click section as August is coming to and trying to remember things... and absolutely lovely artwork! The starkness of the room was so intense. Together with the music it really made it feel so isolating. And I loved the sprite work and menu art! What a cute style (that also then makes everything feel that much more surreal in the game lakdjfasd)
Just really well done! I enjoyed this a lot, both the overall tone and ambience as well as the deluge of questions and thoughts this opened up in my head!
Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed the game! (I was bouncing all over the place when I read this earlier.)
I wanted this story to have enough information to understand what's happening, but open enough to think of many other possibilities.
Even when I try to draw more anime-like, it seems like I can't be rid of my cute style lol
I was at a surprise myself with the track the composer made. Simple, but very fitting when hearing it in game!