Hey everyone! I'm super excited to announce that Chapter 1 of I SCREAM is completed! Of course, there will be many improvements both to this and future chapters, but overall, I'm happy with the results!

Statement from FunDi: “Thank you for checking out my new game I SCREAM. This build covers the entire Chapter 1, where you meet the cast, and make initial choices, the full weight of which you will realize in Chapter 2. Even if the user feedback leads me to redoing Chapter 1, let’s make this game awesome! Let me know what you love and hate! Created solely through the Patreon support.”

Let's see what everyone else thinks, and if I didn't mess anything up too badly! But before that, mandatory self-promotion!

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Download:

Download on Itch.io: https://fundigames.itch.io/i-scream

Overview:

2046, post-WWIII nation. You spent your childhood locked in the basement. After the rescue, you ended up at the Institution for Abused Children and befriended its outcasts. A day before leaving, your friend committed suicide... Why are you still able to see her?

Synopsis:

You were born in an Asian nation-state, created from the pieces of the world after WWIII. Confined by serial killer parents, you spent seven years in a basement with no contact with the outside world. When they were arrested, you were moved to the institution, where you made friends with four girls and one boy.

The most bullied children.

Your group planned to leave the facility as soon as all of you turned legal age, and requested a transfer to the university. On your long-anticipated day of release, Saya, one of your friends, committed suicide.

Why are you still able to see her... and hear her screams? What do you really know about your friends?

Characters:

Protagonist: Antihero

Diagnosis: Derealization Disorder

The  protagonist is the child of serial killers, notorious for preying on  wealthy parents and keeping their kids alive. His life in confinement  over seven years has left him suffering from derealization disorder,  feeling isolated from his thoughts, feelings, and environment and  operating only by instinct. Never having interacted with anyone except  his captors before coming to the facility, he is unable to understand  what motivates him or how his actions affect those around him. Though  unsure what loyalty is or why it exists, he is devoted to his friends,  which makes them forgiving when he does bad things. More often than not,  his peers view him as an antihero. Instead of being the one in need of  protection, his group serves to protect others from him.

Rika: Exercise Nutjob

Diagnosis: Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Rika  is a driven girl, with an intense and obsessive love for sports. Her  body dysmorphic disorder has caused her to become highly focused on the  way she looks. Rika's emotional distress and trauma often manifest as  physical symptoms, leading her to exercise obsessively in order to keep  the pain at bay. She is physically stronger than most boys her age, but  due she was cast away from those around her as a physical nutjob. Rika  believes that if she ever stops exercising or gains weight, her mother  will come back to kill her.

Akane: Paranoic

Diagnosis: Capgras Delusion, Erotomania

Akane's  paranoia has been diagnosed as capgras delusion, convinced that those  closest to her are impostors out to cause her harm. This has led to  possessive jealousy and a willingness to resort to violence in order to  maintain the tight-knit group. She believes strangers desire her and  will take advantage of any sign of weakness on her part. Therefore,  Akane stays close to the Protagonist, believing that someone as cold and  detached as him cannot be easily replaced by an infiltrator.

Yoko (and Toko): Actress

Diagnosis: Dissociative Identity Disorder

No  one knows which version of Yoko is the true one. All her friends know  is that she has a dissociative identity disorder with two distinct  personalities, both extreme. Her friends use the names Yoko and Toko to  differentiate between them. Yoko believes she is in a dark reality show  and only does what she thinks the viewers would enjoy. Toko has a  Stockholm Syndrome-like dependency on her older sister, who abducted her  after murdering their parents. Whenever Toko has control, she can only  think about what her sister would want and suffers anxiety attacks when  she realizes her sister isn't around.

Saya: Ghost

Diagnosis: Cotard Delusion

Saya  is a small girl with a cotard delusion, thinking she is already dead  because she cannot remember anything before arriving at the facility.  She joins the protagonist group in order to avoid being bullied, too  scared of the pain that would come from standing up for herself. As  everyone's friendship grows and they get closer despite all the trauma,  Saya feels incredibly guilty for having deceived them by her inability  to remember her own. The guilt has driven Saya to commit suicide, one  day before the group is due to be transferred to the university, not  wanting to poison their relationship any longer.

Kaori: Teacher

Diagnosis: Hyperthymestic Syndrome

Kaori  is a teacher at the lowest rank university of the nation-state, which  was established to give students from the bottom of society some basic  education and keep them away from other areas. Having grown up in the  Children's Institution, Kaori eventually became a teacher, believing  that only someone who had been through what she had could fully help  those in similar situations. However, due to her hyperthumestic  syndrome—which makes her an academic genius—Kaori struggles with  flashbacks depicting her painful past in every excruciating detail. When  these resurface, they make it hard for her to regulate her emotions and  can cause her to become uncontrollably depressed.

Arina: Councilor

Diagnosis: Impostor Syndrome

Arina  is a physician and psychatrist by trade, known on the medical scene as a  bottomfeeder who only helps those at the bottom of society. She has  made it her mission to care for the most difficult cases in the  nation-state, leading her to become a counsellor to the children's  facility, university and communities of society's rejects. It is  uncertain what motivates Arina, but all she knows is that she's an  impostor who doesn't deserve anyone's respect. Since everything she puts  her hands to usually turns out for the worse, she sees herself as a  useless existence, and hopes that even a fraud like her could really  help someone.

Niko: Crybaby

Diagnosis: Pseudobulbar Affect

Niko  is the only bro you have, but he's not of much use. He suffers from  pseudobulbar affect, a disorder that causes him to cry or laugh out loud  when faced with intense emotions. With his delicate attitude, Niko  fails to confront any conflict and needs other people to step in and  help him out. Due to his good looks and personality, Niko would likely  be successful if he faces the outside world independently, however,  without the help of the group, he will almost certainly be taken  advantage of. As a defensive mechanism, he completes any favours for his  group, no matter what-to be of any use.

Karin: Stalker

Diagnosis: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Karin  was the chief bully in the institution, and her attention had been  directed towards the Protagonist's group for some unknown purpose.  Driven by extreme narcissism, she and her peons stalked anyone who  seemed to threaten her. This led Karin to develop a compulsive desire to  break apart the close-knit group of friends. Learning about their  transfer to university, Karin secretly applied to follow them without  telling her group. For reasons unknown, she decided that she would  pursue them into their new lives.

Warmly,

FunDi.