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What's going on with Roxy?
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Sift and sort your way through Roxy's cluttered desktop to uncover the truth! Roxy's Windows is an interactive story based game where you're free to take things at your own pace; learn more about Roxy and her friends through the files on her computer, organizing them as you please.
Created as a part of Stepford's Mobile Game Jam, this game can be played entirely with touch controls on your mobile device (or left clicking with the mouse if you're on a computer) If you spend enough time exploring, you might even be rewarded for your efforts!
---CONTROLS---
Tap/Click to open a file
Hold and Drag to move a file
*Text can be sped up by tapping to get to the next line of the file
-- SOUNDTRACK --
If you loved the soundtrack, check it out here on Spotify!
-- OPEN-SOURCE CODE --
-- PATCH NOTES --
The changelog was getting a bit long for this section, so it's available for viewing here!
If you have any technical issues to bring up in your review, please let me know what device and browser you're using! That makes it much easier for me to track down bugs.
Known browser issues:
- Opera GX on Mobile: Incompatible on Newgrounds; users will likely run into "unable to load file Build/Build.framework.js.br" error. Please play the Itch.io version if you use Opera GX. The reason for this issue is that Opera GX is unable to load in a file that appears only in the compressed version of the game (which appears here on Newgrounds), whereas the uncompressed version that's on Itch.io doesn't have this issue. The content between both versions is exactly the same, but Itch.io is only compatible with the uncompressed export.
NOTE: Audio won’t work on iOS devices, we’re still working on fixing this issue. Please report any other issues you might find - some are known and will be fixed in an update after the jam's judgement is complete, but others we might not know of!
Intrapath responds:
Look Ma, I'm on the internet!
jesus i was scared out of my life when its just pure silence and then the music with DARKNESS starts up outta nowhere, good game anyway
edit: the song was the game over chime i think, and GOT DAMN
Intrapath responds:
Yeah, in hindsight, a fade would've been much cleaner. Either way, thank you for playing!
Bleak-Creep responds:
Did you see an ending play or was it just black? Caus there should be a little ending clip that plays there. If not, and you wanna see it, I could send it to ya!
Too many text files, i think it would be better if you can scroll the text instead of seeing it appear linee by line, it takes a lot of time, it makes me nervous >:v
Intrapath responds:
Yeah, that's one of those UX things I've got conflicting feelings about. I do like the drama/suspense of having it revealed line by line, but it can get frustrating if you've seen it all already, and probably not that realistic - whose OS does that but Roxy's, eh?
Bleak-Creep responds:
Scrolling could be nice, but we felt like it’d be easier to read having it be a line at a time (along with adding a certain level of suspense there as well)
First timer here, I made a pixelated heart shaped desktop art with all the pngs & files (Even used the recycle bin too) So when our heroine comes back to check out, she will <3 it~ (A very creative & heart warming game indeed, for that I sincerely appreciate all the hardwork that had put into this! Props to you all for this amazing & surreal experience!!! :3_/)
Intrapath responds:
D'awww, that's so sweet, I love that! And thank you for playing!
Bleak-Creep responds:
Awwww….she will appreciate!
Thanks for playing and I’m glad you enjoyed! :)
I really love this story, its honestly just great, the characters feel real, it made me want more. Plus the music slaps so hard. The only downside is that we never learn who carl is? Maybe I'm just dumb and i missed something but who is carl lmao.
Also we never really get a definitive reason for why Roxy ignores every single one of her friends, obviously its everything building up, but ARGHH everything is so well written I genuinely feel for these characters. I hope if Roxy was based off of a real person, that they're ok now. Really good, surprisingly engaging.
4.5 "That's it!??"'s out of 5
Intrapath responds:
Hey, thank you for playing! Bleak really did an incredible job with these characters, it's such a joy to be a part of a project that people were able to relate to so deeply.
Bleak-Creep responds:
Thank you so much! Carl is supposed to be the name of Roxy’s mom’s boyfriend, but it’s never really explicitly mentioned anywhere.
Roxy isn’t really based on anyone, but I did a lot of extra backstory stuff before I actually started writing any of the chatlogs to help make sure she felt as authentic as possible, and then her friends personalities just kind of evolved on their own.
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4.03 / 5.00
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- Aug 15, 2022
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Frontpaged August 25, 2022
