Endless Devotion (Prototype)

About this game
This game is made for AmalgamAsh's The Smile Game Builder Summer 2023 Game Jam.

Niall, Charlotte's fiancée, has been poisoned after eating a cupcake. It's up to Liam and Jake to find out who made it and why. Nothing is as it seems and no-one is truly innocent.

You should be able to beat this game in 10 to 15 minutes. 

Behind the scenes
This game is a prototype and I will return to continue working on this game/story in the future, but probably in another game engine. I am beyond happy with what the city navigation looks like, many of the character portraits, my current understanding of SGB's switches and variables, and with the 'search the room' mechanics.

I wrote a 15.000 word script for this game, only to realise Smile Game Builder probably isn't the best engine suited for a game like this because it doesn't have an 'auto'-function. Manually pressing keys for another line of text got very cumbersome after a while so I therefore last minute decided to opt for a condensed version of the story.

Because I wrote the original script in the style of a romance novel, the last act and some scenes may seem a little bit out of place. To compensate for not having an outrageous mystery to solve I wanted to give the characters flamboyant personalities and a relatively unremarkable crime to solve. 

Credits
- Illustrations, music and story by me. :)
- City map by ProbableTrain

Disclaimer
Any resemblance to real persons or other real-life entities is purely coincidental. All characters and other entities appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, or other real-life entities, past or present, is purely coincidental.