Version 0.3.1 - Mechanics showcase

Enter Poppy, your perpetually peppy member of an idol unit. She lives the normal idol life, as one does. And yet a single chance encounter is all it takes to disturb her agency's sleepless secrets.

Idoll is a top-down/2D/pixel/horror RPG, with a few sprinkles of comedy. Uncover the secrets of the idol agency by investigating the environment, conversing with characters, and most intuitively, by switching out your eye!

Made during ACM Studio's SRS2023!


Team Idoll

Team Leads: Alexander Chen & Ray Hsiao
Writer: Louise Lin
Composer: Alvin Liu

Visual Artists
Amber Jiang = Protagonist & Companion
Yolanda Xing = Janitor Concept/Sprite
Jeffrey Huang = Character Portraits
Serena Tie = UI Design

Programmers
Victor Chinnappan = Movement & Collision
Evan Cheung  = Interactables
Andrew Zhu = Inventory
Joshua Ahn = Eyeball Scripts
Kyle Yang = Yarnspinner & Companion

Additional Programmers
Florence Zhao, Polly Ren, Darren Chui, Felix Peng, Ki Riley, Joyce Chen


Known Bug List:

  • Dialogue system is broken on the WebGL version -- please download the game!
  • Pressing Load without a save file will softlock the game. If this happens, reset the browser page!
  • Lots of other save-load bugs

Debug Controls:

  • 'o'/'p' = quick-save/quick-load
  • '6'       = enable/disable broom
  • '1'/'2' = switch equipped eyeball

Download

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idoll_v0.3.1_win.zip 47 MB
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idoll_v0.3.1_mac.zip 58 MB

Comments

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Interesting. Due to the game's early stage in development, I can't really grasp what is happening in the demo. Perhaps later updates could better flesh out what the story is supposed to be about. Good job.