Making Tea At The End Of The Universe
When everything ends, where do immortals go?
...that's a heavy question, so let's just have tea.
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Meet a cast of quirky characters and find 6 endings and 3 mini-routes in this little bitsy game, made for the June bitsy jam with the theme "heat death of the universe".
Content warnings: cursing, mentions of suicidal ideation, and allusions to death (and other similar "end of the universe" types of topics)
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Credits:
- Hacks by Borksy
- Image conversion by Pixsy
- Tiles adapted from works by Victoria Lacroix, Teaceratops and Reesma
No music for now, though I may add some later! I had trouble getting bitsymuse to work for bitsy 8.0.
Comments
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For a story about the end of the universe, this game is surprisingly calm. Cozy, even. It really captures the dream of spending your life thinking about writing happy songs and drinking tea with friends. T
he two endings I got (1 and 4) were both very sweet. Harlan's speech about perfection was just what I needed to hear. Thank you for making this game.
Thank you! I'm glad the vibes were cozy despite the theme. Honestly, the perfection speech is something I needed to hear too, and I was trying to internalize it as I wrote it, haha. Thanks again!
I get that feeling of trying to internalize something as you write it. I'm writing a story right now where I'm trying to do the same thing!
Despite the existential panic of immortality coming to a finite end, I couldn't help finding the game super cozy. The game had a great cast of characters and the humor had me laughing a lot. I also loved all the tv ads XD.
The isometric graphics were also an impressive feat. Really gave the sense of 3D depth.
Great job!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you found the game cozy, despite its setting. I'm super happy that the 3D depth I was gunning for translated well. Also, I had a lot of fun writing those TV ads :P
It's a very good game, a quite good idea with the different paths, the different tasks, and the different endings. Could you please tell us how to get Ending 2?
Thanks a lot!
SPOILERS:To get Ending 2, choose to help Lieb (the mushroom being). Then, when you go outside, exit the map through the bottom, below the rocks. You'll meet a new character. Talk to them, and at the end of the game, you can choose to go outside to have tea with them.
Aaah, very clever and tricky! Thanx for the information!
Lovely little existential moment shared between neighbours!
Thank you so much!