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UNDER MAINTENANCE

INTRO

This game was created by just one person using REN’PY and Beepbox for the melodies and effects; there may be small OR BIG issues that I didn’t catch in time!

Credits to Wattson for sharing their text techniques!

This game includes translation into two languages: English and  Spanish (for now!)!!

This novel contains an endings screen.

WARNING!!

Currently ONLY the prologue of Under Maintenance has been uploaded, however, this visual novel doesn’t have too much to do with the “real” story, which will be the long one that comes after the prologue.

This novel was made to introduce myself to a different visual aesthetic for novels, this being my first full-color visual novel...
It’s true that the story itself isn’t really my usual style, and honestly I’ve thought that maybe I should’ve uploaded the real story first and then the prologue HAHA, but I think showing who Jaime was before... what is to come, is something that can help me.

It’s a more everyday-normal type of novel.
It doesn’t really follow the style of Yes, I'm alone since the horror is scarce, BUUT this is because, as I said before, it’s a colored prologue experiment for a bigger story that I want to present to all the people who follow me and want to know more about my more personal projects.
Although I don’t expect this novel to succeed at first, quite the opposite, I expect it to reach very few people, but hopefully once I upload the VERY different second part I hope that  people will become interested in checking out the prologue... 

ABOUT

In this current prologue, we play as Jaime, a guy who recently graduated in electronic engineering and is going to spend Carnival with his classmates.
During this, you’ll have to choose (within the limitations of what Jaime himself would do) which other “friend” you go with. You have a socially conflictive personality, so you’ll run into many problems in what could have seemed like an ordinary everyday kind of day like any other...
But everything ends up having consequences that will be shown in the future...'

CHARACTERS

All of these characters can be seen fully colored in my Toyhouse! 👉 Toyhouse

  • Jaime
  • Rocco
  • Yaiza
  • Paula
  • Roussient

MATURE CONTENT +16

This prologue contains scenes of facial disfigurement! They’re only momentary, but if you’re sensitive to that kind of content, you should keep it in mind before playing the novel, strong language, drug references and violence (there may be additional warnings in the full story.).

Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorMourner
GenreVisual Novel
TagsIndie, No AI, relationship, Ren'Py, Romance
ContentNo generative AI was used

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PROLOGUE-1.0-win.zip 146 MB
PROLOGUE-1.0-mac.zip 154 MB
PROLOGUE-1.0-linux.tar.bz2 138 MB

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I really loved the true ending of Jaime’s story, and it gave me an idea for a possible future story 👀

Spoiler ahead!!











I was thinking the main character could be a new volunteer at a hospital, and she gets assigned to Jaime after his accident. At first, she knows nothing about him or his past. To her, he’s just a patient who survived a terrible accident and is trying to recover.

But as she spends more time around him, she starts noticing strange things about him and the hospital. Jaime becomes increasingly bitter and hostile toward people, and she slowly realizes that his biggest obsession isn’t just recovering from the accident — he wants his old life and his old self back, no matter what it takes.

The more she investigates his past, the more disturbing things she discovers about what happened before the accident and the people Jaime hurt along the way. Eventually, his desperation could become so extreme that he might be willing to make a deal with something supernatural if it meant getting his old body and life back.

I think it could work really well as psychological horror, where the supernatural element isn’t immediately confirmed. Maybe Jaime really did make a deal with the devil… or maybe he has simply become so desperate and obsessed that he’s willing to believe he did.

I’d love for the main character to slowly realize that she isn’t just taking care of a victim — she may be standing next to someone who is willing to do absolutely anything to become the person he used to be.

This is just one of the ideas I had after playing the game, but I have a lot more ideas that could fit Jaime’s story 👀

OMG, THAT’S SUCH A GOOD IDEA!! I actually already have Jaime’s post-accident story written, but the hospital idea would definitely work really well as a story set in between! Thank you so much! ^^

I can't wait to play this!

tqm

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MUCHAS GRACIAS!!