Terrapin Crossing
A downloadable game
Note: This visual novel is for non-commercial purposes only. It's a test project I made to learn Ren'Py and to share with prospective collaborators. If you'd like to support creators, please check out the links of the artists and musicians who made this work possible below!
Sally Entwhistle feels like she's waking up from a nightmare. After years of struggling with mental health issues, crippling indecision, and a difficult stay at an inpatient facility, she's finally made it to college and started putting her life together. She thinks she's found a fresh start in developing her friendship (and possible romance?) with her roommate, Marika. But things change when her ex-boyfriend, Danny, enters the picture. Now Sally feels torn between the two. Who should she choose? Does she have to choose at all?
Terrapin Crossing is a short dating sim visual novel made in Ren'Py. It has several possible endings depending on choices you make throughout the story. While most will take you to a predetermined ending, there is one "good ending" that can only be accessed by reading all the way to the end. How do you get there? Well, guess we'll find out!
This game features...
- A female protagonist
- Two love interests
- Five possible endings
- Length: ~10k words
- Playtime: 1 hour
Content Warnings: References to past suicidal behavior and ideations, depression, OCD, swearing, hostile romantic breakups, mild sexual/romantic references.
This is my first-ever visual novel project, so I'd like to extend a warm thank-you to all the amazing artists and musicians who produced the art and sound design used in this VN. Credits are below.
| Writing and Programming | LadyStrangeDev |
| Character Design and School Backgrounds (College Pack) | Puppetbomb |
| Music and Sound Effects | "Cute Creatures": Geoff Harvey "The Flashback": Grand_Project "Sad Thoughtful Serious Piano": Ashot-Danielyan-Composer "Cafe Music": Music_For_Videos "Embrace": ItsWatR "Tense Music For Tense Scenes": Universfield "Telephone - dial and call -ring": ShidenBeatsMusic All others produced by Pixabay open-source |
| Additional Art | Box Turtle: Deedster Lake Backgrounds: Sigelus Forest Background: Kimikage Hiroyu (キミカゲヒロユ) Cafe Background: LisadiKaprio Phone and Icons: OpenClipart-VectorsOpenClipart-Vectors, Clker-Free-Vector-Images All additional image editing and creation done by LadyStrangedev, with Figma and Gimp |
| Font | SFCartoonistHand-Bold by ShyFoundry Fonts |
Download
Install instructions
Download from the .zip file, extract, and play from application.
Development log
- Update: Transition Bug Fixed, Font ChangedJan 07, 2024
- Terrapin Crossing: A Dating Sim Visual NovelJan 07, 2024
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So I had to play through this because I found it through Puppetbomb's pack, and this was too cute! All of the characters had their own personalities, and there was so much dialogue that either made me smile or feel so much for them. Sally is an adorable protagonist, and I love that during the choices you make, you can see just how her mental state is changing and how she really feels. I couldn't play through any of the other endings after I got the Good Ending because it was just that.. well, good!
There was a part though during the scene where Sally and Danny are going to the lake after reuniting that I believe the coding got a little screwy because it kept displaying Sally's name when Danny was speaking. But otherwise? I had a ball, and was fully immersed the whole time!
Great job!