It's the year 2025 in the United Kingdom. 5 years have passed since the initial coronavirus lockdown, and with the gradual spread of dangerous new variants, life is still far from what it was. Fighting a losing battle with no certain end in sight, the government has investedbillions of pounds into new technology to help aid Britain's single adult households, struggling to deal with the state of perpetual isolation.
You have been selected to participate in a new wave of trials testing the effectiveness of the latest synthetic model. Meet ELLA, your emergency lockdown loneliness assistant.
Unfortunately, this is far from my best work, haha. For starters, I will be uploading the game after the jam deadline has passed because I just couldn't make it in time. I was working on the project on and off fairly erratically, and despite pushing hard to get it done, I just wasn't able to make it. In the spirit of the jam though, I got it finished and uploaded! I just didn't want to submit something that was untested because it might have beenincredibly buggy, so I just needed another week or so to iron out the kinks. Overall though, my heart wasn't really in this one from the start. I had an idea, but I struggled to get it out in writing-form T_T On top of that, due to the low resolution of the sprite, the overall look of this project is certainly less shiny than DD! Being limited by art resources does rather suck, haha.
7 different endings depending on your choicesCasual choices and choices with consequencesThe option to rename ELLA and name yourselfGender-neutral - ELLA will refer to you by your chosen name + 'you' and 'they'Full (terrible) British voice acting with 2 different voice options to choose fromMild adult content
Mild violence and depictions of bloodMild nudity and suggestive scenes
If you happen to find any bugs/typos, please report them here. One that I know of is there is a particular line where the text doesn't match the voice. For some reason, no matter what I did to fix this, the game still exports with the error and I have no idea why because it's fine in my test version. As usual, I have no idea if the Mac and Linux versions even work because I don't own those systems to test on :(
Need help getting the game to run on Mac? Check out this post I made.
So, I should start out by saying that I am not a voice actor, haha. This was my first attempt at it, and I'm personally not very happy with it at all, so feel free to mute the voice acting if you can't stand it xD I don't think my voice suits the sprite at all. The worst thing though is that I had to record the lines in various locations in my house due to my brother sleeping in until awkward times of the day. I don't have a proper setup for recording, and it shows. There are noticeable changes in audio throughout, and for the most part, it's not too jarring, but there are instances where it's very obvious I had to record in a different area of the house, sadly.
As with my other jam games, I wanted to have the ability to select your partner between a male and female option. Since I struggled with the project in general, I didn't have time to create the male version, but I plan on working on it (and hopefully releasing it shortly) so that there is a male synthetic version available as well :3 However, it's highly likely the male version will remain unvoiced, as I do not know any male British voice actors who would suit the role, and I can't imagine anyone would want to volunteer for a jam project where the deadline for it has already long passed >.<
Anyhow, I hope you like this even if I could have done a much better job of it!
If you enjoyed playing through the game (or even if you didn't xD), I'd really appreciate hearing your feedback in the comments + ratings are much appreciated too ^-^
If you need help with anything, or just wanna drop me a message about the game, feel free to post a comment, or send me an email: [email protected]
This game will always be available to download for free, if you enjoyed playing it, you're welcome tobuy me a coffee, or support other projectsI'm working on by becoming apatron:3
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