Paradigm - a pattern

The Emperor sends out 12 letters to 12 animals to be a part of a mysterious new council. Upon arrival, 13 animals show up instead.  Suspicions and doubts are thrown left and right as the group of animals work to figure out who the outlier is and overcome their misguided perceptions of each other.

Features:

• 5 different murder mystery cases!
• 5 "Endings" and 2 True Endings 
• Fully Voiced Segments!!
• Discussion Minigames and Multiple Choice Questions!
• Investigation Segments with different partners each time!!
• Way too Many Words for Comfort (about 49k words total)
• 11 Proper CGs with variations and 3 Lazy CGs
• slight homoromantic tensions
• A Chinese Republican Era Theme
  
• Zodiac animals personalities are as "lore accurate"  :)

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Art, Writing, Coding, Dying:

xiruo

Editor, Assistant Artist, Bone:

Zaerin

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Writers:

Tianna Ebnet

Ramona Gore

Jazz

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Assistant Character and CG Artist:

Taeaart

Assistant Artist (Chibi Heads):

Mikoori

Background Artists:

Annie Wu

loopycubes

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Composers:

October Williamson

Lucero Martinez

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Audio Lead:

*Phebe Fabacher

Audio Editors:

Ho San Cheng

*Hayden Davis

*Ralph Villegas

*Nickolette Kong

*With  Very Berry Studios

Sound Designer:

MilkaGoat

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Voice Actors:

Ren Alberg ...................................... Cat

Eric Wheeldon ..................... Emperor

Sam Grace......................................... Rat

Harold Ingram.................................... Ox

Kaylee Dankese ............................ Tiger

Wish Utaite ................................. Rabbit

Angie Min..................................... Dragon

Elissa Park ...................................... Snake

ZoraLune ......................................... Horse

Luke Avon ....................................... Goat

Vanessa Benoit.......................... Monkey

Rain Lefever ................................ Rooster

Huy Pham ......................................... Dog

Charles Nguyễn .................................. Pig

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Additional Resources Used:

Renpy Auto Highlight

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Additional Notes:

• Content Warnings For:
  • Murder and Related, Blood, Drowning, Burning Alive
  • This game is NOT gore heavy, CGs are relatively tame other than blood and bruising.
• Minor Jumpscares
• Minor Flashing Lights/Sudden white screen

This game is LONG... at around 49K words.  I will make an ending guide if needed, but I'd say for the most part it's not hard to get to the true ending.

If you run into any problems with the game, leave a comment here or DM me on twitter @no_xiruo!!