Homeostasis
A downloadable game for Windows
Homeostasis is the biological process by which an organism continuously regulates its internal environment to maintain stable, optimal conditions necessary for survival.
The world you knew, the life you imagined... is no longer within your grasp. Nor will it ever be. But life keeps going, even when it's not what you thought it would be. So might as well make the best of it!
Decorate your 'home.'
Shoot down the obstacles standing between you and your next piece of comfy furniture.
...or just bash their faces in with a lead pipe!
Careful, though. You're not the only one who's making a home underground.
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Made for the Toasty Jam with the theme 'Underground'!
This is a short shooter inspired by PC98 games and I fear my love of yanderes is quite on display in this one.
Shout out to louismorel for being every single voice in this game LOL
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NOTE: This early build has two game-breaking bugs! The game will crash if you save over an old save! Also, you will be soft locked if you eat your keys! I am working on fixing these bugs currently. Once fixed, I will upload a mac version AND a web playable version! Thank you SO SO SO MUCH for the support during this time and hopefully the updates won't take long!!
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I really like this game! I have no complaints, but only one question- is there a way to make the furniture line up to the wall better? I have added a visual aide to better explain what I would like to achieve, please and thank you.
Thank you so much! Not currently, that was a feature I couldn't QUITE figure out in the week I took to make this game, but I am currently working on a patch/update for the game where I will have this fixed! As well as some other bugs and annoyances! ^-^
I follow your channel on YT, I was so excited to see this entry. I would really love to learn more about this world and Ren, of course. Thank you for the lovely experience, the themes surrounding it were great. I also loved how the textures of the sprite art felt like watercolor? It's a great look. I did accidentally eat the keycard, but I think that is part of the charm.
Played it today.
10/10 character designs and game aesthetics, everything is so good! The only thing I'd complain about is that it's too short :(
The idea and story are fantastic.
Do you intend to make it a longer game? I would absolutely be willing to spend money no matter how much it costs to play more! It has so much potential!
AHHHH Thank you so much!!!! Yes, I SUPER agree that it's too short! This was made as part of a game jam over the course of ONE WEEK, so like... I had no time to put in all the things I wanted, hahaha. XD (Seriously, making the inventory and the furniture stuff even WORK in a week was a lot *is dead*). However!!! It's gotten a great response, so this will be the proof-of-concept/demo, but I plan to refine the gameplay systems and such and expand the story into a full, proper game in the future! Because I ended up loving this little project. <3 Thank you so much for playing it!!
i adore the art style and feel of the game! thanks for all your hard work. i am very inspired by the ui. i adore the blend of visual novel and exploring.
also sorry if screenshots are not allowed if its spoiling ill happily remove them !
side note (thanks for making so many helpful tutorials for the community)
it was fun being able to play around design a room !
(also made our bestie a bedroom for fun felt like could use one)
not sure if there's water and electricity im guessing so but made a little laundry room !
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH SO CUTE, thank you SO MUCH for the screenshots! I love how you've decorated!!!
What an adventure! I loved every minute of this, even with my issues I had in my review. Everyone should give this a shot and i think this should really be a more common style to have gameplay interspersed with the VN elements.
This looks awesome! Is it available for mac? I tried downloading, but it didn't work.
I don't yet!! But I will respond to you once I do! Thank you for being interested, I'll try to get a mac build ASAP
oooh i am so excited to check this out!! could you please add platform tags to the download so i can use the itch app to manage the game? pls and tyyy
Yes, I will as soon as I can!! Thank you for your interest!
It doesn't seem like platform tags have been added yet? they're just the checkboxes next to the download file itself where you go to upload your files, if finding them is the issue. Windows, apple, linux, & android symbols.
oof sorry, I was waiting because I can't edit much while the jam is ongoing! Right now it's just Windows.
IMPORTANT KNOWN BUG: YOU CAN EAT THE KEYCARDS. PLEASE DON’T DO THAT.
lmao that's actually kind of funny
Extremely impressive and gorgeous game! The gameplay is very smooth and I love the character designs. Can't say much about the story yet, unfortunately I got soft locked on my first try :( My inventory was full when I found the keycard, but after I triggered the dialogue it disappeared anyway and couldn't be picked up anymore. Also I accidentally consumed they key I found in the furniture room... Oops. I assume it's set to consumable on accident, but I find the image of the heroine eating the key very funny non the less haha Also, could you perhaps upload a non .exe version of the game? Mostly, because I think it's better if players can manually backup their safe files, and also because I can't open the game again after I closed it once. :( I think having a single .exe file might just be prone to a lot more errors >.< Also for a more selfish reason, admittedly, I really love learning from other rpgmaker projects by examining their guts and I'd be very curious to take a look at this one :D But I completely understand if you want to protect your eventing ideas and custom plugins (I'd hope most people wouldn't just copy a plugin unless it's already public, but a few bad apples, as they say...)
Thank you so much for playing!!! Yeah, the ability to eat your keys is a bug in my inventory system that I just never had the time to fix 😭😭😭 after the jam when I can mess with the project and stuff, I’ll upload a patched version that’ll have you NOT able to eat things that aren’t food or drugs haha. I’ll also upload a non-enigmaboxed version then. :)
Aw, awesome! Maybe you can put in a chocolate key somewhere as an easter egg haha
The Art style and UI are absolutely immaculate :O
eeeeee thank you, BlackJacketBoys!!!