Striatum (tuxdb.com)

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oh Noooo...

you overslept for the Party didn't You?

why are you Always doing things like that?

how Are you going to get ready in Time?

What are you looking for?

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Explore your apartment as you desperately try to get ready for a party. Navigate multiple rooms, and distractions in your preparation quest. Collect over 100 unique items to discover the ultimate inventory for party preparedness. Chat with your friends along the way on your new and smart phone. Discover unique events and interactions, complete quests, and discover the countless secrets of Striatum.

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Features

A retro first-person point-and-click PC adventure game with a colorful and surreal mid-90s low-poly 3D style.
Race the clock to prepare yourself for a party. Navigate competing distractions to be as prepared as possible.
A lovingly handcrafted open-apartment environment full of interactions and hundreds of unique items to collect.
Branching pathways and dialogue, multiple ending scenarios, and secrets to unlock encourage multiple playthroughs to discover everything.
An in-game smart phone interface. Have branching conversations with your friends to influence your relationship with them, keep track of important tasks, and find out all of the other amazing things technology can do for you!

About development

So my girlfriend and I have always wanted to do game development. We had both done our own solo projects and got experience separately over our lives, but about a year ago we finally started working together, doing a couple smaller game jam projects.

The last one we did looked like this:

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It's called [u]Look: A Game! and is up on our itch. [/u]

We challenged ourselves in so many ways to finish that game. It was our first 3d project, and that in itself was intimidating. In the end, we had a short concept piece in which you explored your apartment, collecting items to get ready for a party. And that was about what it was.

But we had more ambitious plans, so when we completed the game jam, we didn't feel done. It wasn't everything we knew it was supposed to be.

So we continued where we left off, and started development on [u]https://store.steampowered.com/app/3680870/Striatum/"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Striatum [/u]:

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We spent over half a year pushing ourselves to learn and grow our skills, and keep coming back to this project everyday (as two ladies with adhd, that is especially challenging). We are getting close to it being fully complete, and there will be a demo up in time for Summer Next Fest on steam.

We now have a fully explorable apartment full of hundreds of items to find, collect, and interact with. There are multiple npcs each with their own branching dialogue paths, accessed through the medium of an in-game cell phone interface. The cell phone outputs notifications to the game screen and has additional apps inside.

We've challenged ourselves to make as polished an experience as we can, and I don't think either of us imagined we would have come so far at the start of the project. We've made something we think is good, and is special to us, and no matter what, is very us.

If you have at least 15 minutes, and a love for strange point and click adventures, please consider checking out the demo when it's out, and if you enjoy it, we hope you will wishlist and return for the full experience.

[u]https://store.steampowered.com/app/3680870/Striatum/"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Check out Striatum here [/u]

~ Mia Malaise

[ 2025-06-09 22:17:32 CET ] [Original Post]