Do You Want To Continue?

A 500-word experimental visual novel about becoming and unbecoming, forced reincarnation, death of the self, delight for what you have, grief for what’s been lost, and potential for what you could be. Explore what it means to carry on with the evolving coexistence of fear and joy. Contains a healthy blend of whimsy and existential surrealism.

> Written and developed by echoinglight + art by Sunfluer!

Created for jamsepticeye - Sean + DuckyDev 5-day Game Jam collab 2025. The theme is "Death is an Opportunity."
CW for death (obviously) and what inadvertently turned out to be a depiction of attempted suicide.

[ NOTE THAT THERE IS MUSIC, BOTH IN THE MENU AND IN-GAME. Ren’Py in browser apparently might be a little slow in getting it loaded. If it doesn’t start in a couple seconds, try going to Preferences and activate then deactivate Mute All. ]

This is my first ever game! :') Both first attempted AND completed! It pained me to not simply bury myself in writing a normal novel, and instead keep the dialogue as simple and shortform as I could stand to give me time to learn a new program, but I’m still proud that a story came together. It's not perfect, but it EXISTS, and that was the goal!!

Thank you so much to my beautiful wife, Jack aka Sunfluer, + my stellar best friend, Ray, for all the love and support. It was the idea of showing a finished project to you two that made this possible fr fr fr ;-;

And of course- thank you so much to Sean and DuckyDev for hosting this Game Jam. I've been interested in game development for years, and somehow this event actually got my ADHD brain to take the steps to endure the pain of learning, create chaotically, and end up with something to show for it. If either of you actually see or play this, I appreciate everything you do and I just hope you enjoy my weird little guys!

Created using Ren'Py on the Steam Deck/Linux + art in Procreate on iPad.
(....in two days.)

Assets used:
My wife's incredible and so generously donated artistic talent!! :) by Sunfluer
Analog Ambience Synth Music by Voltz Supreme
UI buttons | Sound effects pack + GLITCHES by kasse
UI Sound Effect Pack No.1 by TRMakleSoundie 
User Interface Sounds (Minimal) by pelatho
Free Sky Backgrounds by Free Game Assets
Kinetic Text Tags Ren'Py Module 2021 by Daniel Westfall
Pixel Fonts by Lil Cthulu

> 2.0 update on last day: 
redid + vectored ALL the art to maximize game resolution. 
5 new hand-drawn backgrounds.
Added music and SFX (from free-to-use assets).
Added text VFX. Added intro screens.
Compiled distros for all platforms.
1.0 version still available for download!