Mud in the Memory
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
You've called your best friend to explain what happened.
You know exactly what you did.
Or...do yo?
This game was created during the Spooktober 6th Annual Visual Novel Jam. It deals with PTSD and the challenges around it and may wildly differ from our other projects in tone.
Voice Acting Notice: While we created this game as a group of friends without commercial intent, we are aware of the video game voice performer strike going on at the moment. We'd like to remind everyone not to support projects that steal their voice talents' hard work to be used to train AI.
Content Warnings: PTSD, attempted murder, monsters, blood, brief mention of suicide rates, flashbacks, unreliable memory, flashing images
Credits:
Art: Matthias "Illumenos" V.
UI/UX: Matthias "Illumenos" V., Sarah "Crazy Cow Lady" D.
Music: Ill Yama
SFX: freesound.org with editing by Sarah "Crazy Cow Lady" D.
Voice Over Mixing: gogoIEO
Writing: Sarah "Crazy Cow Lady" D.
Editing: Andrea "Weeaboo Overlord" C., Sam B.
Programming: Sarah "Crazy Cow Lady" D.
Quality Assurance: Rhytmatics
Voice Acting:
Amanda: Amber Barile
Benny: Khalil Jarrett (twitter)
Lina: Misele Hoang
Marten: @MikeYoungVO (twitter)
Miscellaneous:
We used the Renpy Graph Vizualiser from EwenQuim! Thanks for letting us keep our sanity with all these jumps and labels <3
We found a way to vertically layer our music by SuperBiasedGary. Thanks to you, our layered audio no longer desyncs <3
"Blumen Wallart" image by Mária Endrész on Pixabay
For a more detailed breakdown of everyone's involvement, please check out the credits within the game!
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Install instructions
Windows
Download and unzip the file. Double-click "MudInTheMemory.exe" to launch the game.
MacOS
Unzip the game file you downloaded from itch.io, then control-click the app icon. Click on "open" at the top of the shortcut menu, before confirming that you want to open the game by clicking "open" again.
Afterwards, whenever you want to play the game again, your computer will remember your choice and let you open it by double-clicking.
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This was such an interesting story. I managed to get the true ending on my first try (woohoo!), and then went back to get the bad endings. I love the concept of her just trying to remember what happened, and feel so hopeless when trying to explain what she believes is the truth. The voice acting was also great!