Ego Birth

IMPORTANT: one of the effects used in the game is a sort of TV static thing that covers the whole screen. imo it is pretty flashy and sudden, so if you have photo sensitivity issues or something similar please be careful. you don't have to play this game!

made for GMTK Jam 2023 by me. the only things i didn't make are the fonts. i'll add them to this description later.

you play as an NPC in a video game, whose main objective is to find ways to get the Player Character to die. you are essentially stuck in 4 alternate versions of a time loop and the only way out of it is by killing all versions of the player within a single loop.

the idea for the game was to have you, the player, be more passive (as opposed to the game-controlled Player Character), which would make this somewhat of an idle game, since you'd have to wait for the game to start conversations with you. the end result is a bit more active and fast than i originally wanted, but i didn't really have the time to figure out a way to make waiting around more engaging. i think this could be an interesting concept to develop further, but i doubt i'll be the one to do it.

unfortunately i didn't have enough time to do any sort of options menu, so there are no volume sliders or resolution options. i could just enable the built-in unity stuff, but my pixel art would turn into mush on anything other than 16 by 9, so i decided to lock it to 720p instead. sorry.