Soulstation
Description (IGDB)
A visual novel between fear and love. Follow Kin as it falls deeper into a rusty world that will one day eat it whole. Will you get on board? An atmospheric audio-visual narrative of a child who boards a train to the afterlife. Will you give in to reality? Or crawl your way out? In this beautiful dusk, you need only open your heart.
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A visual novel between fear and love. Follow Kin as it falls deeper into a rusty world that will one day eat it whole. Will you get on board?
An atmospheric audio-visual narrative of a child who boards a train to the afterlife.
Will you give in to reality? Or crawl your way out? In this beautiful dusk, you need only open your heart.
Learn the meaning of this world, listen to the neurosis in the background radiation, and forget how to absolve yourself. Foster your comfort pain, and grieve for the last time.
Become a human, an object, or the nothing in-between, and let go. Don't forget your ticket (or your name), and you may have a chance to solve the mystery of this place and its inhabitants.
soulstation features no branching narratives or dialogue choices, tracing the genealogy of denpa sound novels of the '90s and 2000s.
Featuring:
1000+ backgrounds: Photos from our world
100+ Songs: Haunting sounds from polygon cove
10+ hours of playtime
A second scenario, from rileylessthan9
Hand-drawn characters
A new history, reality, and truth
Neurosis, Paranoia, Absolution
Scenario from polygon cove and rileylessthan9
OST from polygon cove
Artwork from stargrrl
Voice from eliva
No AI was used in the creation of this game.
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Mises à jour et Actualités
devlogue jun 29
hello big world! it's a big rainy rainy where I live and I decided to go to the library to play old MMOs! I like the rain and I like to feel cold and wet like natalie imbruglia. my head is spinning because ive been looking at screens a lot lately, especially yesterday - when I finished soulstation! yup that's right :) we're good to go - I'll see you all August 13th, when the full game comes out.I guess that makes this the final devlogue... I'll miss writing these im sure :) they were one of my favourite parts of making soulstation. in the end I like the game more than I even thought I would, and I was able to do a lot more than I imagined ! so of course my lesson to everyone here is to at least try making something - you'll probably end up somewhere good regardless :)and with the announcement of soulstation, I will also reveal the sister album '21st century trauma addict'. it comes out August 13th too ~ though many songs are already in the game.the intro movie to soulstation will also be uploaded to the net today ! the vocals were sung by my friend em (I maybe even mentioned her before... wait yeah she was giving me those t-shirts that time) and another em played the flute !! if you like the music of soulstation, a lot of my music is similar! feel free to listen while you wait for the full releasei'm polygoncove, it was nice to meet you- gray ☆
devlogue jun 5
good news ! the game is finished (sorta)!right now I'm working on the soundtrack (very important) and we'll do some bugfixing I'm sure ! but yes everyone lets jump and celebrate yaaaaay! were making it in time....let's talk about music! it's what I do. actually to be 100000% honest I kind of made this game as a pretense for making music ? half and half... game music is very specific (I believe it's more than the genres that inspired it) and the framework of soulstation gives me lots of chances to make the type of music I wanted to but didn't have an impetus... isn't that strange though...usually if left to my own devices I would write lyrical songs with guitars and structures and excruciatingly personal words... but I dreamed of making a shop theme for an RPG.... for some reason it felt so hard to write a song like that without having a real purpose for it . well maybe you think that's weird but unfortunately I operate under many such restrictions (it's okay I free myself when I remember) . anyway maybe now you understand kin a little better . . . I still haven't made a shop theme.... maybe I should add a shop to ss (NOT HAPPENING)that's the other thing with this music! it's surprisingly hard to write VN music ~ i feel like a lot of what I write is too jarring and takes you out of the scene... I'm not sure how games like umineko incorporate trance music without distracting me from reading, but I feel like in soulstation it's hard to read and listen to the complex music I've been making (so I'm trying to simplify it)... but maybe that's just because I'm focusing on it ...I'm sure you know (it's the case for all art I think) but it's so hard to feel how your creation really feels for an audience . . .we are so skewed.... perhaps I should talk about the companion album to soulstation? there's a vocal album coming out around the same time, similar to that one MOTHER album ! it's using vocal versions of SS songs and some new stuff :) I made both projects at the same time and they're both focusing on the same feelings/concepts. . . it's called \how does rust sound? how does time sound? how does decay and rot sound? I'm asking myself these questions while making music . i want it to feel familiar and warm but not human . did you know? metal doesn't make a noise until you interact with it- gray ☆
devlogue apr 25
right now I'm watching an elderly woman sweep leaves in this park. with a bamboo sweep. I didn't have enough money on my travel card for the bus to the museum of contemporary art so I'm walking. . . it's a nice day don't worry :)but this elderly lady... let me try and read her jacket.. it says something like silver person center? let me research it… oh it's like a volunteer program for the elderly who want to be more active and help the community!!! that's good I was kind of worried she was sweeping leaves just to get by. this dog over here is staring at me so intently... if youre in the park and look around it's crazy how many people are in the same place but not communicating. We're all in this same environment and aware but too embarrassed to talk. well I'm mostly scared of people until I remind myself not to be, maybe others are the same ...kin is like this a lot ! it's really nice writing a character with a flawed worldview, from their pov. I get to play around with perception and lies and expectations... one of my favourite things about visual novels is the timing of the text! maybe you noticed in the soulstation demo that other characters continue to speak without clicking, but when kin is speaking the player must click to continue each sentence.I initially did that to help you feel more like kin - putting in more effort to communicate with the world. but it also means I can give different characters slightly different voices by making them speak slower, or pause longer between sentences. or maybe they'll surprise kin by suddenly speaking without waiting!!!when people say visual novels are just books with images I think they must not notice how much thought goes into time. I'm a musician by heart, and I think of most things through the lens of music: which is a time-based art form. you have to think about tension and release, and how your body and heart are feeling, what they're anticipating and what they want to hear. coding soulstation feels like this to me at a much (MUCH!) longer timescale.do you ever feel like some days your eyes defocus all the time unless you're actively focusing? I think it's more a tiredness thing than having poor vision for me, because it only happens some days. I sort of have to remember to look at things actively. even though it's uncomfortable.... it feels uncomfortable to purposefully focus again after defocusing right! does anybody know why? so don't forget to not be scared of people. and to focus your eyes:) let's start there todayit's the 2 year anniversary of when me and my best friend decided to tell each other we really love each other. we made this game studio together, and we're making soulstation together. it's really nice to starstep our feelings into something real we can hold. maybe a lot of art is when you turn your feelings into something real that's step 3 for today- gray ☆
