IMPOSTOR

Thanks so much for checking it out! And for sticking around to see all the endings :3

I'm still hoping to remake this someday in the engine I use now since the one I originally used to make this was a bit clunky, haha. Not sure when I'll get around to it, but I'd like to have it on Steam someday.

Cheers for all your kind words <3

I'm probably not going to be able to help much, but I'll repost the other comment I put on the guide to the same question >.<should have the It can be a bit clunky though >.< If it won’t work, you might have to reload an older save or something :( 

Sadly, the engine I used to make this years ago was a bit dodgy, which is why I switched to something else after x3

Thanks for checking out the game btw! :3

This is the copy/paste comment:

I’m not really sure if I can help because it all worked when I tested it years ago, and I saw some people play through it on YouTube and complete the puzzle >.<

Unfortunately, I can’t even take a look at the files cos this project is so old I don’t use the same engine anymore + I lost the original project files years ago :( 

I do hope to completely remake it from scratch in the engine I use now though at some point :3 With any luck, that will make it less clunky! Cos the engine I originally used to make it was kinda buggy >.< That’s why I switched to something else after I finished Impostor, haha. 

Thank you for checking out the game though :3 And sorry I can’t be of more help >.<

(edit: also, this probably still isn't of much help... but if you do happen to press 1 wrong button during the puzzle, anything you press after that will be automatic failure pretty much >.<

So, for example, you press 'K' first, it will buzz for wrong, you then try to press 'I', but that will still be wrong because it's already looking for the 'M' at that point rather than the 'I'. If that makes any sense.

Basically, you have to get every single one right in the right order. If you click 1 wrong, you would need to reload from a point before the puzzle began and start again or it will always end as failed >.<)

Hehe, well, I’m glad you had fun with this one too :3 Thanks for playing it <3

Glad you had fun with it :3 Thanks for checking it out! Definitely gotta get round to remaking it someday now that I’m using a different engine! Hopefully, I can make it less clunky, haha.

Woo! Thanks so much for playing ^-^ So glad you enjoyed it!

Honestly, there's a lot more than that which could have been done better really x3 including the UI appearance in general, haha. It was all very rushed since it was made in just under a week, and it definitely shows x3 I had hoped to remake it at some point in the engine that I use nowadays cos that would help with some of the clunky issues from the old engine + I could make it look a bit better aesthetically overall now that I have a lot more experience making games! The trouble is that there is never enough time to do everything I'd like to T_T haha.

Hey hey! Well, that's great to hear :3 Thanks so much for playing and I'm glad you guys had fun with it :D

It seems like so long ago since I made it >.< haha. It was put together in a big rush in around a week for Scream Jam a few years back. It's in dire need of a remake really now that I use different software to make stuff cos I know this old thing is a little buggy here and there!

That makes me really happy to hear you like the title screen :3 I had very little experience with UI at the time of making it since I'd only released one other game before this one. I tried to do something simple but effective. Because of only having around a week to write up a script and make the whole thing, I didn't really pay too much attention to any of the UI just because I knew there wasn't really time to try and make it look pretty, haha.

It's interesting that you mention Doki Doki considering I've still yet to play that one myself! But it's not the first time someone's mentioned it in relation to this project, haha. I've managed to largely avoid spoilers for the game so far in case I do end up playing it at some point, so I don't know for certain what the link between the two would be, but I've heard things about Doki Doki without seeing total spoilers that I wonder if that's what it could be, haha. I won't say what it is here though for fear of potentially spoiling this x3

What I can say though is that the project was largely inspired by a mixture of my love for psychological horror, and the fact that I had recently listened to an episode on Darkfield Radio called Double! I'd been a Darkfield fan for a little while, and Double was extremely interesting to me. It's probably still one of my favourites from the Radio series, though, I've only listened to each of them once since they're pay per show and I'm not rich, haha,, so it's hard to say for sure! It's not the first time I had come across Capgras delusion in media though.

At the time, I had joined Scream Jam pretty late. I'm a huge fan of Halloween and spooky season in general, but that year we were in the midst of lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, which meant Halloween was essentially canceled>.< I didn't want spooky season to pass me by without any sort of celebration, so when I came across Scream Jam and saw it focused on creating horror games, I leaped at the chance to give it a go! It's just I was kind of late to the party, and since I knew I only had about a week to create and submit something by the jam deadline (on a truly terrible, super slow laptop, of all things xD), I knew I had to keep the scope as small as possible!

With Double fresh in my mind, I thought I'd bounce off of that and just run with it. It was only thanks to my amazing voice actor friend, Anthony (who provided the voice for one of the male characters and found the actors who played the others) that I was able to pull it off in time :3

I'm not really sure you can consider any of the endings good ones really x3 but there are definitely some that are better or at least a little less bleak than others, haha. Honestly, it's been so long since I made this that I can't actually remember what's supposed to happen if you solve the puzzle other than that it is supposed to lead to one of the better endings if you do solve it successfully, and lead to one of the crappier endings if you fail to solve it >.< But I do remember it was a little buggy in general. Not just during the puzzle but for other parts of the game too! I would have fixed stuff like that, but I made the whole thing in under a week on this AWFUL laptop that pretty much died shortly after the game was uploaded xD And being the idiot that I am, I hadn't backed up the files either T_T 

I do want to remake it in the new software that I use these days because a bunch of the little niggling bugs in it were down to stuff that was broken in the old engine I used (one of the main reasons I stopped using it, haha). But yeah, with it being a fairly short game, it shouldn't be toooooo bad to remake it from scratch. It's just finding the time to actually do it, haha. I wasn't really expecting it to get many plays, so it was super low priority x3 But now whenever I see that someone has played it, I sorta feel like I should push it higher up my to-do list cos I know how buggy and hastily put together the whole thing was, and I would prefer to give players a better experience :3

Anyways, thanks so much for checking it out and taking the time to comment ^-^

So glad you had fun with it :3 Thank you for the kind words <3 Psychological horror is my favourite genre of horror ^-^

Hehe :D

Oh, well, that's interesting :o I wonder if that's the reason someone was unable to get a different older game of mine to open! It was my first game they were having issues with, and both that one and this one were made in Tyranobuilder, which I no longer use because I got fed up with various bugs in the engine and lack of updates x3 I'll have to see if I can find them and tell them what you did in case it helps them get the other game working!

Thanks for letting me know :3 I know those 2 games are old now, but I didn't realise they were so out of date that they have compatibility issues, haha.

xD

So glad you had fun with it :D The jam I made it for was sort of a last-minute decision to jump in and make something spooky, haha. It was a 2-week jam, but by the time I wound up joining, 1 week had already gone x3 And I was trying to think what I could make in a week when I remembered this creepy short audio play that I listened to about a person with Capgras syndrome, so I used that as inspiration :3

Nothing changes in the dialogue or anything no matter which version you pick :3 It's literally just the voice acting that's different. Well, and the sprite, of course, haha.

Trust me, I would love to have written more dialogue cos dialogue is my absolute favourite thing to write, hehe. I just didn't have time cos I had to come up with a script in like a day x3 and then spend the rest of the week putting the game together on my awful potato laptop that almost died in the process xD

I'm glad you enjoyed it still anyways :3 Thanks so much for taking the time to play and comment with such kind words :D

Thanks so much for checking the game out! Glad you had fun with it :3 

Yeeeeah, the 'good' endings aren't really all that good x3 I guess it depends on perspective, but they're all kinda bleak, haha. 

Sorry I'm so slow to answer your question anyhow >.< I just haven't really been on my PC this month. I'm typing this now on my phone. But yeah, I kinda wanted to leave it up to the player to decide which ending they think/would prefer to be the truth, so in the end, it's up to whatever you want to believe. However, that one ending in particular where you get that little bonus scene when you reopen the game is absolutely suggesting that the player is the impostor :3 You don't have to take that particular ending as the truth though. 

I haven't had a chance to watch the video properly yet, but thank you so much for playing! :3 And glad you enjoyed it ^-^

Glad you liked it :3 And don't worry about money x3 you should treat yourself instead ^-^ Thanks for playing! 

Glad you enjoyed it :3 It was made in a pretty big hurry since I only had 7 days to come up with something and finish it, but it was a lot of fun to work on (even if I had to make most of it on my awful laptop that was so slow to use I wanted to throw it out the window xD) Thanks for taking the time to check it out and leave a comment!

Haha, well, I'm glad you liked it :3 It's a little rough around the edges because of the jam's time limit + that was the last thing I made in that engine before finally deciding to switch to something else after tiring of all its bugs and stuff that were never fixed >.<

I wanted to try and go for a more sorta unnerving/disturbing psychological vibe with it. Again, without the VA, it just wouldn't have been the same, and I'm so grateful to Anthony for helping me not only with his awesome voice acting but also in putting together a cast for the game for me at super short notice. I owe all the voice actors a lot!

The audio in one ear trick is something I started trying to include in stuff as soon as I started making VNs because I had previously listened to a lot of drama CDs that utilise dummy head mics. What I would give to be able to afford to buy dummy head mics for any of the Vas I work with xD They're crazy expensive, but they capture sound in a super realistic way. Imagine the speaking in the ear in Impostor, but like 100x more realistic, haha. All I can do is try my best to sort of replicate it! It works best if I ask a VA to whisper certain lines, kinda like with ASMR stuff I suppose.

Fun fact, the idea for it came from me learning about the condition called Capgras Syndrome/Capgras Delusion.

I'm hoping to make a game for a different spooky jam this year, but it'll be a very different style I think!

That's really sweet of you to take the time to drop by and let me know :3 Thank you!

I did manage to find out because one morning I woke up to find that my dev page views here had gone from less than 100 to thousands overnight xD I was very, very confused as to what on earth could have caused it until someone sent me an email with a link to the video, haha.

It's amazing what a huge difference it makes to have someone popular like that sharing your stuff because I'm very social media shy, so I'm terrible at promoting my games and I'm still a relatively unknown dev x3 That was a really lovely surprise!

I'm really glad you enjoyed it :3 thanks for taking the time to play and comment! I hope you enjoy my other stuff too :D