#iristoid

[archeia]

[iristoid]

God's Specimen Box

In prismatic refraction, strip bare their souls And show me the shape of the human heart.

Download Link: https://iristoid.itch.io/gsb

A game heavily inspired by MILGRAM project by Takuya Yamanaka and DECO*27.

The world is not as it once was.

Daemons roam the surface as though it was always theirs, staking claim under the guise of cohabitation, and humans find their institutions slowly eroded by daemon control. Commerce, agriculture, and even medical have come under their jurisdiction.

At the forefront is the prestigious Eirene Institute, a new age of mental healthcare. 

You are the Shepherd—your job is to assess poor souls in need of succor and determine if they are a fit for the Institute.

At least… that’s what the humans know.

How you define your role is up to you alone.

🐑 2 playable protagonists

🔑 4 sinners to assess

🔒 Multiple endings

👁️‍🗨️ Interrogation simulator

🎵 Original soundtracks & partial Voice acting

🖼️ Illustrated CGs, characters, and original backgrounds.

📖 40k+ words.

‼️ This game contains sensitive content that may not be suitable for all audiences.

Strong Language

Mentions of Drug Use

Flashing Lights / Eye Strain

Mental Health Institutionalization

Religious Symbolism and Demonic Ideologies

Themes of Manipulation, Confinement, and Abuse

Player discretion is advised.

🚧 More sinners to interrogate.

🚧 Fully voiced gameplay, including interrogations.

🚧 More art. More endings.

[archeia]

Kira-chan :3

[archeia]

Morning Star

[iristoid]

Hello everynyan! We released a new game development tool!

Spritesheet Companion is a free, browser-based tool for game developers and pixel artists to quickly rearrange, combine, and preview/save sprite sheets and animations. No installation required - everything runs locally in your browser. Your images are never uploaded to any server.

You can use it over here!

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Devlog #1: Fixes, UI Overhaul, and New Sinners on the Horizon

Good Day Shepherds,

💌 Thank You for 160+ Downloads!

This is Archeia reporting in. 🫡

Seeing so many of you enjoy the weird little world we built has been surreal. Your comments and bug reports have been incredibly helpful — every bit of feedback helps us make the next update even better. We are also very happy and grateful for the donations. Thank you very much for supporting us, especially since this is our first Ren’Py game!❤️💙

I took a day off, only to dive right back into development the next day — determined to squash those bugs as quickly as possible. One thing led to another, and, well… I’m still deep in the throes of game development. We’ve only been using Ren’Py for about 2–3 weeks, so this has been a huge learning experience! Help… me… I’m still in the box… 📦

🗺️ Roadmap…

Currently, we’re still unsure when we’ll be able to release patch 1.0 but my goal is at the very least November to December.

After Version 1.0 we would like to release a new batch of sinners for the complete experience.

🐛 About Those Bugs…

We’ve seen reports about players getting stuck in loops or being unable to finish certain routes — and we’re on it! There are a lot of bugs related to story progression that we are aware of and I’m currently working on redoing all of them due to the nature of our game. Additionally, we’re fixing more behind the scenes:

A bug where Shepherd got into a coma for a thousand years before perishing as a result of their power abuse. 😔

We noticed a weird quirk with Ren’Py’s blur effect — sometimes setting it to Blur 0 doesn’t actually clear the blur completely. To fix that, we’re adding extra checks so the blur will properly reset to 0 every time.

🔍Mysterious Bugs and Features…

There are some bug reports we received that we can’t seem to replicate no matter what. Here are some of them to let those who encounter the same issue know we’re on it!

Our daughter, Rais Wyne, would sometimes gain superpowers and jump off screen. The power of love is truly a mystery.

When music is playing, some of the voices would become quieter. I’m not sure if this is a Ren’Py feature we’re not aware of.

‼️New Content…

Here are some of the new content we’re planning to release with the patch.

The Nuiquarium.

Release Hajime Nakajima’s route.

Release Gunnar Shirai’s route.

Release a mysterious route.

Keep endings now have surprises with them.

More interludes for more Shepherd content.

More Rais Wyne CGs.

Extras will contain Ending List per sinner, Gallery and Music Player.

If October-cham and EJ-cham are free we’d like to have new tracks and sounds!

🧪 Improvements…

The UI was not finished by release and it had been my primary focus from the moment I resumed development. We'll have more information later once the patch is released but some of them are:

There are framerate drops when interacting with UI parts on some PCs. I converted some of the .webms to frame by frame PNGs hoping to alleviate this issue.

Keyword Display takes too long to proceed and now requires player input to exit. It also has a new animation when it disappears.

Skip and Auto texts in Quick Menu now have a display and color change to indicate they’re active.

Finished and fixed all the Codex screen bugs and features.

Finished and fixed the Title screen’s navigation menu. It no longer glitches out, has new options and text descriptions. For those with the same issue, removing size_group "navigation" fixed it for us.

Finished the missing features from the Options menu such as the sliders.

💌 Workflow Improvements…

This isn’t directly related to the game release, but I’ve built a few utilities to make development smoother. Positioning dialogue used to take a lot of time — but after learning more about Ren’Py, I finally created something to make that process much easier!

🎤 About Voice Acting…

We’re unsure when our voice acting director and voice actors would be free but we hope to have a fully voice acted game.

Thank you again for playing and supporting God’s Specimen Box.

— The God’s Specimen Box Team

[archeia]

Ryota and Kira gets Ice Cream!

Kira by Me! Ryota by Hannatokki

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Echo-chan by Tofuxen. Hanae-chan by Ryuuen.