Catatonia

Information:
Catatonia is a surrealistic RPG Maker XP game with a strong focus on exploration and item collection. It features original graphical and audio assets created entirely by myself.

The main character is an unnamed child, and the game itself has absolutely no dialogue whatsoever. The only text is on the title screen, a short blurb in the intro, and then a few item names within a very barebones menu system. There is no EXP, leveling, stats, or any RPG-type elements. The game encourages the player to merely explore and takes in the sights and sounds of the strange dreamlike world.

There will be an "ending" to the game, which can be arrived at very early on if the player so desires. The ending the player earns, however, is contingent upon a variety of factors, such as how many areas were explored, how many items collected, and how they performed in different conflict scenarios.


Screenshots:

Spoiler for Title Screen:

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Some of the screenshots are a bit sparse, as I still haven't finished fully drawing the tilesets.

Other Info:
For questions/comments/etc. I can be contacted either via this forum, or at cahrull@hotmail.com.

At this point I could severely use a few good alpha testers, both to help find bugs and also to help improve the quality of the game itself. If anyone is interested (and serious about it) feel free to get ahold of me!

This sounds pretty interesting. Were you influenced by Yume Nikki? It's one of my favorite RM games and very similar to your description.

This sounds pretty interesting. Were you influenced by Yume Nikki? It's one of my favorite RM games and very similar to your description.

Funny you should mention that - I never even knew of its existence, and I recently sent an Alpha build of Catatonia to a friend, he mentioned the name and I googled it. Does appear to be similar. Haven't played it though.

It's a pretty fun game, though the exploration can get a bit tedious after a while with how big the maps are. Coupled with the fact that they loop and have very few landmarks most of the time, it's pretty easy to get hopelessly lost.

This is definitely something different, which is good to see. If needed, I can test the game for ya.