THE PROTOTYPE
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
EPILEPSY WARNING
Rapid changes in visual stimuli, including sudden shifts in brightness and color (from black to neon blue). Also contains unsettling imagery, loud audio, glitching text effects, and references to kidnapping.
CONTROLS
Left Click - choose choice
Right Click - preferences
Mouse Wheel - rollback
This game uses the auto forward feature to progress text.
Meaning, you DO NOT have to click to progress the story.
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BEFORE YOU IS THE PLAYTHING PROTOTYPE.
HE IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER COMPANION.
999 total words
15 minute playthrough
Partially voice-acted
One ending
The Prototype is a short, analog horror-inspired kinetic visual novel made for O2A2 VN Jam 2023, a micro jam with strict asset limitations and a 1000 word limit.
CREDITS
One Director, Artist, and Writer
rainslices
One Editor
Allie Vera
One Programmer
Marina
One Voice Actor
Seven Acosta
One Music Track
Happy Birthday (1964) by Bernadette Caroll
One Sound Effect
Audio Stimuli by rainslices
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Development log
- 1,000+ Downloads! Thank you so much!Aug 06, 2023
- Build Update: ThePrototype-1.1Aug 04, 2023
- I Finally Get To Write A Postmortem!Jul 31, 2023
Comments
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O jogo é bem interessante e com um plot twist que me pegou de surpresa.
Very disturbing. Also, never working for Pandæonium Technologies Inc. Again. Should've seen the OBVIOUS RED FLAG.
We really need more high effort visual novel horror games like this
Very intense and atmospheric horror game.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME SAD, BUT IT DID. I WAS LITERALLY SOBBING PLEASE LET ME TAKE HIM HOME I FEEL SO BAD MY POOR NICK OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH
Honestly one of my favorite horror games i've played, good job!
Very intense, opressive and creepy game.
The Prototype is an amazingly eerie short horror game that really proves that you can do a lot, with very little (and I do mean that as a compliment 😁). When I play horror games, atmosphere is typically what I’m looking for and Rainslices nails this in spades. It’s creepy and unsettling, yes, but also has a lot of mystique with a dash of uncanny valley added for good measure (thank the creepy puppet for that 😆). Overall, fantastic game! Can’t wait to see what else you bring to the genre! 👏
If you’d like to check out my play-through, please click the link below 👇
Cool game
Great game with a great story! Here is my reaction to this game
You, my good sir, have done a great job! It was disturbing all the way through. I saw similarities to FNAF animatronics assessment, and it's just perfect!
wow this surely was something, I didn't read the one ending part so i went through and sped through trying to get an all not-normal response run but realized nothing changed. Was a good game will be coming back with my gameplay in a future!
Loved it!
weird game, disturbing, i leave my gameplay in spanish
this was the most distiurbing game ive ever played
Might want to add an epilepsy warning on this game.
I'm pretty sure I've never seen a game quite so likely to trigger that as this game.
Yeah, I kinda wanted to try this game, but two minutes is enough to give me a headache.
I'm out.
added the warning, thank you for this!!
Saw a youtuber playing this, they only got one ending and didn't really talk about it, but wow...the message of this game hits deep for me. Disturbing yet really amazing piece of art.
I made the mistake of playing this at 11:48pm with a phobia of mannequins. As soon as I saw the prototype i alt+F4'd out of that faster than i ever have
Y'know, think it's gonna be a hard pass on buying a plaything prototype for Christmas 😂
I liked the overall atmosphere of this game and has a cool story that really ties it all together. 7.5/10.
scary game, 10/10
i think hes cute!
The Prototype
Hi I'm trying to install the game on Linux but I'm having trouble figuring out how to install a tar.bz2 file. Can you please explain to me how I can install it?
gunzip, or 7z programs should work. You don't install it, you unpack the archive and then run the program from within the unpacked folder.
fucking scary dude
ofc it has to be winrar i just wanna play this game so badly but my winrar expired years ago and i can't get a new license
I really enjoyed this experience overall and think this is a super amazing concept.
sobbing i feel so terrible for them
It turned out to be too good... I've never felt so anxious.
this game is pretty freaking scary
gave me goosebumps and I love it!
Please check out my gameplay!
when I downloaded the game, it said "Suspicious FiLe Blocked". Is that bad, did I download the wrong one???
your browser is just being sus of downloads, dw it’s safe lmao just press open file to bypass it !
INSANELY GREAT GAME! Incredible job guys!