Depiction of Pleasure
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
The world is flooded with a deathly addictive substance. The arrival of a creature speaking a strange language disrupts the struggles of a king and his loyal follower. Will they discover the nature of the creature and their world?
Depiction of Pleasure is a fantasy adventure story about indulgence, language, and how we view ourselves. It contains partial nudity and no explicit material, however you must be 18+ in order to play. It currently sits at 9k words which is about an hour read.
All 74 sprites, 24 backgrounds, the 30 special assets, the 8 CGs with 115 variations, are hand painted and recorded and available in the devlog.
Check out these other projects that the creators have worked on!
phwog (Writing, art, music, programmer) : BLUESKY
https://echoproject.itch.io/echo
https://echoproject.itch.io/a-role-to-play
https://keithballard.itch.io/since-november
wyatt (Editor) : BLUESKY
https://stringzerovn.itch.io/string-zero
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Development log
- Final Jam version uploaded!15 days ago
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I love everything about this. I love how unapologetically weird and horny it is. Love the characters, the humor, the world. It's evangelion meets my likes on twitter ( when I had a twitter ) and I live for it. I didn't know I needed this but now I cant help but crave for more. Stellar experience!
Just got done reading this.
I. Love this. I love the way it plays with being a VN in such beautiful and funny ways. I could gush for hours about this VN. I love the world despite the horrifyng sand everywhere.
I dont even want to spoil anything incase somone reads this before playing but, oooh, I feel like I have to talk about some of the end so be warned about reading the rest of this.
The bad ending is so tragic and how its shown is soo good and amplifies The Big Cute Bat(cause im terrible with remembering names) as a character.
The other ending is both silly and what I think has a hopefull future despite it ending on a cliffhanger that makes me sooo curious and wanting more. Theres so many other questions I have too about the green stuff the owl showed cham what other kind of relics exist out there. What other kind of things this world has. Its just inspiring and I'm excited to see what you do next!
Is the promised July 1st version out already? If not, when will it be?
Got a little hiccup but it should be out by tomorrow latest!
Nice!
There are two types of "what the hell happened" in a story, the one that doesn't make sense, and the one where I think I am the one at fault for not understanding. This is the latter, as I really love what you made here and I know there is something I far beyond what my mind went to. I look foward to the final version, I want to understand it all!
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This is an absolutely wild and unhinged ride that manages to pack a ludicrous amount of well-considered ideas, gripping visuals, and brilliant comedic timing into a tight, fast-paced hour of IntrigueThrillThrillGlory.
I cannot wait to see what you’ve got in store for the polished-up final cut and whatever you end up working on in the future.
AH this means the world coming from you!!! Thank you so much for checking out our game. Big fan of your work as well.
Heads up. The hyperlink that's supposed to lead to A Role to Play leads to Echo
Thanks for the catch! It's fixed.
Mwah mwah, your art is gorgeous as always, and there’s an intense and very appreciated level of effort in depicting things visually in this VN. The setting is interesting, and I would’ve loved to learn more about it than what could be explored in a jam entry.
On that note, the scope of the story also seems to have been far too ambitious for the limitations of the jam. There’s good exploration and built up intrigue of things such as the lord’s relationship with Cam, the mechanics of the owl’s whole shtick, and both Cam’s and the wolf’s addictions. But for that screen time, seemingly important things like the other monks of the castle, the owl, and the workings of the apocalyptic scenario falls to the wayside.
The crunch in both real development time and in-universe time (It takes place in about 4 or 5 days I think?) made the latter half of the story rather dissonant. I find the climax to be weightless and lacking in cohesion with the narrative that was built up thus far, which is a shame because the prose and execution of a lot of individual scenes can be thrilling. The connective tissue just isn’t sturdy enough to bring it all together.
Thank you so much for the insight as always iegs! You have no idea how useful they are! Will be taking this into consideration for the final edits.