A downloadable game

Sempre: always; consistently. — used to indicate that a specified volume, tempo, etc, is to be sustained throughout a piece or passage

Alroy Redd leaves his part time job at the mall and gets stuck in an elevator with three strangers. As they worry about what to do, he sees the people with him start to glitch and become distorted. All while a mysterious voice screams at him to be careful...

Features:

  • point and click escape room FUN
  • morse code
  • Generate ConclusionsTM mini-"game"
  • 3 bad endings, one TRUE ending
  • animated sprites
  • property damage
  • 6 proper CGs, 4 lazy CGs and a True Ending Movie :)
  • a ghost???

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Art, Writing, Coding:

no_xiruo

Writing, Audio Editing:

mikoori

Additional Audio Aid (AAA):

zaerin

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Music:

FelidaeMelody

Link to Sempre OST Playlist

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Voices:

Ghost ............................... MJ Chestang

Alroy .............................. Zach Clemens

Calypso .......................... Phebe Fabacher

Callum ................................ Ren Alberg

Erica ............................... Elissa Park

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Character Design:

xiruo  (Ghost, Alroy)

 mikoori  (Calypso)

nicc  (Erica)

zaerin  (Callum)

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Resources Used:

Drag and Drop Tutorial

Wave Shader

Glitch Effect

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Additional Notes:

  • This game has a lot of screen glitches. They aren't super eye-strain-y but if you are sensitive to those sorts of things, please be cautious!
  • Yes, there are minor jumpscares. No, they are not good or scary.  (lmao)
  • Minor blood
  • Game has about 15,700 words and takes around an hour to complete.
  • It could take much longer or shorter depending on how good you are at puzzles :)
  • If you are stuck,  click here for access to a cheat sheet!

If you run into any issues or spot any spelling mistakes (there will probably be many) please DM me @no_xiruo on twitter!

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I've been making fixes to the game as Spooktober begins. If you run into an issue, try redownloading the latest version ;;7;;

Log:

  • fixed music being super quiet
  • fixed issue with callum's expressions being wrong
  • fixed issue where sprites weren't talking during a specific section
  • fixed the cipher answers and images (man)
  • typos

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Also included in the DL files is a zip folder with sprites, logos, banners, and CGs. They are there if you want to use them for streams, thumbnails, edits, or whatever! (Some of them do contain spoilers, I put the spoiler-y things in separate folders)

Also, by the way, Sempre has it's own category on twitch! So if you're streaming there, you can properly categorize the game!!!

You're free to do anything as long as you aren't making and selling physical merch out of them. (keychains, t-shirts, etc.)
Or like... AI art and art theft but I would hope that's a given :P



StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Authorxiruo
GenreVisual Novel, Puzzle
Tags2D, Escape Game, Horror, Mystery, Point & Click, Singleplayer, Voice Acting

Download

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Sempre_Images.zip 50 MB
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Sempre-1.2-mac.zip 160 MB
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Sempre-1.2-pc.zip 166 MB

Comments

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Erica was the real mvp of this game

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(Copied from my Spooktober game jam page comment to help this game with Itch.io's algorithm!)

I had a lot of fun with this title! I'm a sucker for small puzzle games - and investigating the elevator to help everyone break free was really engaging for me (even if I needed to use the cheat sheet to understand some of the in-game mechanics).

The ending sequence was beautifully done too. I'm definitely taking notes from it for my own work.

Thanks for making this!

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Thank you!! I'm glad you had fun playing! And I'm glad the cheat sheet was useful! SKFJLGHG

I had my friend test this game, but she's also a seasoned escape room pro so maybe it wasn't the best bar to look for LMAO

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So much to coment on this one.

First of all, elavator scape? COUNT ME IN. Then, not only voice acting, but voice animations and idle animations as well? Animated glitches? Videos? Scenes? Boooooom!

Puzzles? How many? Just keep them going! For real, the amount on puzzles on this game was insane, it took me a while to properly win it. I had to check the guide to find the cd, because quite honestly I was clueless about it lol, but besides that, all others I managed to get them!

The art was gorgeous, and every character design so good! Can't imagine how long it took to do ALL THE DETAILS in Calypso lol

Now, the story? So well developed, the characters all so vivid and with clear personalities, the hints at Alroy's memories, all unfolding slowly and precisely? Incredible, and the main plot behind the main plot? Gorgeous, and (in the happy ending at least) quite fullfilling after being stuck there fighting puzzles.

The music sat in the back, chilling just to keep you entertained while freaking coding in paper the message, only to do it going letters up instead of letters down, and then realizing you had every help in game. For real, never ever decoded a morse AND a caesar code (didn't even knew the existance of the latter) but hey, here I am now!

So congratulations, I EVEN GRABED PAPER AND PENCIL for this game, and it was worth every second of it lol

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oh my gosh LKSFJGLKSJ THANK YOU

I keep telling myself, "Ciphers are fun right?? Let's add them in game!!" Only to realize lots of people don't know what they are LMAO

I'm glad you enjoyed the game! It sounds like you had a blast :>
And I'm glad the puzzles were cool and interesting enough, HSLFKGJSH yay!!

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I’m always a sucker for the “strangers stuck in a locked room” genre. This one had lovely artwork, an intriguing story, and fun characters that all had very distinct vibes. Thanks for making this <3

Thank you for playing! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! ;;7;;