Ingvis

This is a submission for Bring Out Your Ghosts 2024. Check out everyone else's entries in the jam there.

Official Trailer

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Anchorage, Alaska - 1970.

A young adult writer, Erwin Loomis, is looking for a home to move in with his new family while his wife is working hard. He settles for an out of shape, but beautiful Victorian mansion. In the night following his perfect morning, something wakes him up after a terrible dream plagued his brain.

What are you making this in?
How do you pronounce the title?

I did the entire game in RPG Maker 2003, or 2K3 for short. This is my first RM project in years, but it is also the first that I've ever done in this engine. To put it into perspective, the first one I ever used was VXAce and made some dumb shit with it. And to answer the latter, it's of similar pronunciation to the word envy.

When did you first come up with the idea?

Sometime around August of 2023, but I was going through a writer's block at the time that even affected my YouTube grind to an extent. While I still have it from time to time, it is nowhere near where it used to be. I knew I wanted to make my game in an older engine like 2K3, so that I could be creative with its limitations.

Did you have some inspiration?

Some of the influences I had in making this were 1408 (unknowingly at first) and The Shining. I really wanted to dive deep into more psychological themes as I haven't seen them used often or at all in the RM community.

SwaggBae: story, art, programming, and music.