Enough With Living as a Hero

This demo was created for the Spooktober 7th Annual Visual Novel Jam!

༒︎༻Story༺༒︎

Ten years ago The Great Demon Lord was slain by the legendary hero, Helio, who reclaimed peace in the Rhitheos empire after years of war and strife. However, the hero who fulfilled the prophecy to restore peace in the lands has since died after the final battle, never able to see the lasting impact of his actions...

Until now. Ten years later. In the room of a mage in training. 

Waking in an unfamiliar room with a second chance of life after death, a contract between two souls is hastily made by the hands of a young necromancer.  The hero now finds himself in a bind (literally), and must overcome his own challenges to figure out his purpose of being resurrected. 

༒︎༻Characters༺༒︎

༒︎༻Features༺༒︎

• This demo features a narrative driven story with ~10k words of content 
• An original soundtrack
• 2 CGs and lively cinematography
• The homoerotic tension of an undead hero and the puppyboy necromancer who summoned him 

༒︎༻Team༺༒︎

• Game Lead, Writing Director - Aurelia
• Game Lead, Character Design, Sprite Artist - Astelus
• Scene Programmer, Producer - alien_bluez
• GUI / Scene Programmer - z04
• GUI Artist - Roh
• Sprite & Mini CG Artist - Akairosu 
• CG Artist - artofminmini
• Background Artists - kirbymania,  Soup
• Scene Writers - Calix W.,  Deniz G. Lerosi,  Sno
• Editor / Proofreader - NightLight
• Composer - Ryan X. Messcher

༒︎༻Resources༺༒︎

• Programming: Wattson's Renpy Auto Highlight, Wattson's Ren'py Kinetic Text Tags, Gabmag's Sprite Entrance Animations for Ren'Py, Kia's 1080p Image dissolve transitions,  Fenik's Image Tools for Ren'Py, Fenik's Easy Blinky for Ren’Py, TheOMinute's Ren'Py Accessibility
• SFX: zapsplat, pixabay

This  game is a work in progress! If you enjoyed, please feel free to comment down below. Thank you so much for playing, and we hope you enjoy the rest of our game as we continue to build it!