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General Controls: WASD, SPACE to enter, Q to exit, and E for inventory
HEART realm controls: WASD, Left click for attack, right for special, and scroll middle to scroll through inventory, double click to use item.
A game of split worlds, gameplay, artstyles, and music. Two completely different games, running alongside each other, in the Heart and Mind Realms.
Do you feel disconnected? Does the way you experience reality on a daily level conflict with the way you think? Do you feel incomplete? Our society, our culture, and our minds have been split into two. The MIND, and the HEART, truth, and values. These two essential halves of life have been torn apart, and set against each other. This is why many have sought after love and emotion, and lost reality, and many have sought truth, but lost relationship. This creates an inconsistency in one's life that many cannot live with.
Split explores this divide, and takes it to another level. Split is at its core, an RPG. It is inspired by the likes of Earthbound, Cave Story, and Undertale. Undertale is the single largest inspiration for one main reason: choice. No other game have I ever played that has made me feel so in control, and so responsible for what happens in the game. I seek to use this atmosphere of choice and consequence in a completely new direction. I also seek follow in the footsteps of these game's quirky humor, and relate-able characters.
Split has two different battle systems, one for the mind, and one for the heart. The one for the Mind is similar to Undertale, where you have to carefully execute each of your turns, and base your actions upon the enemy you are facing. However, to make it even more tactical, all of the bullet hell sections have the player placed upon varying grids, forcing them to measure each move carefully. Each battle within the Mind realm is sees the player duking it out using various appeals and strategies with his "enemy", using appeals, debates, and tactics to win the battle. Then, the Heart realm is an open dungeon-crawler/bullet hell system, all about fast reactions and using various abilities according to the type of enemy. Your attacks use different emotions, like anger, compassion, or other uses of the Heart to defeat, and ultimately help, your opponent.
The two worlds out of battle are also vastly different, with the Heart realm being full of fantasy and color, and the Mind realm being black and white, and set in a dystopia.
Finally, I will be updating with more pictures, news, and information about Split, so if you want to contact me, email me at [email protected].
Also, my very good friend Max created the soundtrack for this game!
Yours,
Chris #rpg #undertale #textadventure #retro #other #adventure
