Welcome! I'm Scruffles, and I have a story to tell.
Detached is a lewd psychological horror comedy dating sim that touches on mental health, illness, and spookies.
It follows the life of Daine, a 25 year old man that is just discovering what it means to actually live, his road to recovery, and discovering himself.
Of course, not everything is as it seems as there are many players out there, both in the Plane of the Mundane and the supernatural, pushing and prodding him down the gentle stream of fate. One of these players is you, the Hand of Fate.
Changelog:v0.4.2 - Public release!
4 Main Events
1 ???? Event
2 Zeke Events
5 Generic Events
Zeke’s ‘The Hideout’ generic is now playable after the event ‘I Like You’, in tandem with Rose’s.
14, 485 Words
534 Renders
4 new songs
Reworked event colours for QoL reasons
Green is for events triggered by calls. The other colours remain the same (Purple = lewd with choice, Red = lewd without choice/Lewd choice made in Purple Event, and Blue = Non-lewd choice made in Purple Event).
In the event that a call event leads to lewds, Green takes priority.
Also, because I am a liar and it was requested, there is now an additional explanation for all of this in my in-game blurb at the beginning of the sandbox.
Added in scroll bars for events and hints for easier navigation.
Fixed Rose’s Bar generic event render to the correct one. Previously had Lupe’s.
Daine no longer steals Hanako’s line in the ‘Courtesy Rounds’ event.
New songs have not been added to Zeke’s Jam Session. For whatever reason, it crashes when I add them, so I will hopefully have that figured out by 0.5.0.
Fixed the Back button in Audrey's Lewd screen
Developer Notes:Detached is a project that I never thought would ever be conjured up by me.
I've been into writing and drawing since elementary school, often drawing comics, writing short stories, and being on roleplaying forums. These were basically all staples of mine all through school.
A particular genre I've always been fascinated by is Fantasy. A dream of mine is authoring a series of Military Dark Fantasy novels based on a long running roleplay rich with lore I had amongst a group of friends through middle school. Something I actually started, but unfortunately sits shelved for the time being.
No matter what I'm doing though, whether it's focusing on my art or my novel, I usually end up finding writing prompts and just throwing out a quick mini story here and there, or texting my friends with absurd imagery through words, all of which usually sit of the line of insanity and horror.
But then, I saw that there are people that genuinely enjoy absurdist existential content like that. I've come across other games that aren't afraid to tickle that horrible little corner of heavy story telling, that aren't afraid to play with your emotions like some kind of sick and twisted pervert, that aren't afraid to write a story that makes you feel conflicted on how you should feel about ejoying your time reading it.
So I thought, "Why not try and make something with this weird writing style I use to meme on people?"
And thus began a project that I never thought I would make, and would never have thought in a million years that I'd make it as far as I have.