bonesmeal

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this is the link to our official YouTube channel!

click it to check out some OST of our game!

[bonesmeal]

this is the link to our official YouTube channel!

click it to check out some OST of our game!

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our little Isabell is done!!

look how cute she is!

we need to animate her now so she can walk around town looking for clues with Skelly!!

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EVERYONE MUST LOOK AT THIS AMAZING PIECE OF ART ONE OF OUR ARTISTS DREW OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH

(SUPPORT US ON KOFI TO MAKE OUR GAME COME TRUE!) https://ko-fi.com/bonemeal

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The actual story

Okay so I realize that the first "story" post didn't tell you guys a lot about what our game is about

Let's change that shall we?

SPOILER UNDER HERE!!

Okay, so the game starts with a scene in a forest and a background voice talking about being lonely and doesn't remember much about their life.

The scene cuts short when an alarm clock starts to sound in the background waking you up.

In the first playthrough, you control a young teen called Matias.

Matias goes around their daily life, helping their mom and taking a stroll around town.

After that, Matias and the player decide to go to the forest to think and maybe find some cool mushrooms.

After maybe getting a little too deep in the forest, you start to hear a voice coming from the ground.

When you look down, you see a human skull… well, most of it. And the skull is talking to you.

Before the skull can actually explain why and how it is talking, Matias gets scared about it, kicks it out of panic, and runs away to their house.

The next day, still haunted by the image of a human-talking-skull, Matias decides to go back to the forest to convince themselves that it was some sort of dream or maybe some weird hallucination.

Spoiler! It was not.

After his better judgment, Matias decides to hear the skull out and ends up giving him the nickname of Skelly (there is an option for the player to give the skull a name but is still in development, there is a certain undertale reference if you name the skull sans or papyrus).

Skelly ends up telling Matias that some of his parts (part of the skull and jaw) are missing but that he still can feel them around town.

Skelly ends up asking Matias for help to recover his missing pieces.

And Matias says no.

After some more convincing from the player and Skelly, Matias ends up saying yes and decides to help Skelly out.

After finding a good chunk of his parts scattered around town, Skelly starts to remember some of his life when he was alive and ends up going to the realization that he was probably killed, but he doesn't remember if it was by accident or intentionally.

After finding his jaw, Skelly remembers his age and real name… but with this information, you piece together that Skelly was a kid that disappeared when most of the adult NPC were young, and that means that one of the people you know in your life was the murderer that killed Skelly.

Now with this information, you have to try to find out who the killer is, but before you can start your new quest… Your game crashed and closed.

If you restart the game, you play from the beginning not as Matias but as Isabell!

Relive the same story but as a different protagonist, but remember, you are not Matias anymore.

The people around town will act differently around you because "You" are a different person.

Some NPCs that helped you as Matias could be your enemies as Isabell and vice versa.

While Skelly is sitting in the forest, confused about what happened and why he doesn't remember his name anymore… but he does remember Matias and their little adventure and is very confused about why there is somebody that is certainly NOT Matias picking him up from the ground.

The player has to work with Skelly and Isabell/Matias to solve the mystery again and try to figure out why the world started again.

All of this while interacting with unique NPCs and finding a bunch of references to games we love around town and the forest!

If you wish to help us make our game real, please consider buying us a kofi!

When we get a demo for the game, we plan to release a Kickstarter to make a full game.

Please join us on this adventure!

[bonesmeal]

The actual story

Okay so I realize that the first "story" post didn't tell you guys a lot about what our game is about

Let's change that shall we?

SPOILER UNDER HERE!!

Okay, so the game starts with a scene in a forest and a background voice talking about being lonely and doesn't remember much about their life.

The scene cuts short when an alarm clock starts to sound in the background waking you up.

In the first playthrough, you control a young teen called Matias.

Matias goes around their daily life, helping their mom and taking a stroll around town.

After that, Matias and the player decide to go to the forest to think and maybe find some cool mushrooms.

After maybe getting a little too deep in the forest, you start to hear a voice coming from the ground.

When you look down, you see a human skull… well, most of it. And the skull is talking to you.

Before the skull can actually explain why and how it is talking, Matias gets scared about it, kicks it out of panic, and runs away to their house.

The next day, still haunted by the image of a human-talking-skull, Matias decides to go back to the forest to convince themselves that it was some sort of dream or maybe some weird hallucination.

Spoiler! It was not.

After his better judgment, Matias decides to hear the skull out and ends up giving him the nickname of Skelly (there is an option for the player to give the skull a name but is still in development, there is a certain undertale reference if you name the skull sans or papyrus).

Skelly ends up telling Matias that some of his parts (part of the skull and jaw) are missing but that he still can feel them around town.

Skelly ends up asking Matias for help to recover his missing pieces.

And Matias says no.

After some more convincing from the player and Skelly, Matias ends up saying yes and decides to help Skelly out.

After finding a good chunk of his parts scattered around town, Skelly starts to remember some of his life when he was alive and ends up going to the realization that he was probably killed, but he doesn't remember if it was by accident or intentionally.

After finding his jaw, Skelly remembers his age and real name… but with this information, you piece together that Skelly was a kid that disappeared when most of the adult NPC were young, and that means that one of the people you know in your life was the murderer that killed Skelly.

Now with this information, you have to try to find out who the killer is, but before you can start your new quest… Your game crashed and closed.

If you restart the game, you play from the beginning not as Matias but as Isabell!

Relive the same story but as a different protagonist, but remember, you are not Matias anymore.

The people around town will act differently around you because "You" are a different person.

Some NPCs that helped you as Matias could be your enemies as Isabell and vice versa.

While Skelly is sitting in the forest, confused about what happened and why he doesn't remember his name anymore… but he does remember Matias and their little adventure and is very confused about why there is somebody that is certainly NOT Matias picking him up from the ground.

The player has to work with Skelly and Isabell/Matias to solve the mystery again and try to figure out why the world started again.

All of this while interacting with unique NPCs and finding a bunch of references to games we love around town and the forest!

If you wish to help us make our game real, please consider buying us a kofi!

When we get a demo for the game, we plan to release a Kickstarter to make a full game.

Please join us on this adventure!

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this is the beta song for our game Bonemeal! this is supposed to play when you are near a certain location that I'm sure yall can figure out by the name of the song lol

if anyone has tips for improving our ost they are pretty much welcome

(the song was made using FL studio 21)

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meet another protagonist

she is also a protagonist in our game bonemeal

(i thought Matias was the protagonist?)

she is cheerful and full of life

kinda of a goody two shoes but we love her for it

she is 14 years old when the game takes place

now it's time for some fun and not-so-fun facts!

she loves to read! what a bookworm!

a little bit shy when meeting new people but still willing to lend a hand (let's hope this doesn't give her trouble in the future!)

she uses she/her pronouns

has a sweet tooth, especially for chocolate!

she is an only child but would love to have a younger sister

both of her parents are doctors so they are extremely busy!

she gets bored easily so she likes to go to the forest to find treasures!

she had never find something of value though

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meet the protagonist!

here we have Matias!

they go by they/them and are the first protagonist you play in our upcoming game "Bonemeal"

Here are some fun (and not-so-fun) facts about them!

they have a good relationship with their mother and big brother but they haven't seen their father in a while

their favorite color is green (all of their room is greenish)

they are 16 years old when the story takes place

their brother left for college so you will not see them in town (or will you?)

even though they are well-loved at home they can't help but feel lonely so they usually go to the forest to think (I wonder what will they find there?)

they have ADHD

sometimes they feel like they only occupy space and nobody would notice if they left town

they do not know what they want to do in the future

wishes to leave the town they grow up in to see the world and maybe find their place

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Greetings adventurer

hello everybody, my name is Pokake, and I'm the programmer of the game "bonesmeal"!

I'm a solo developer and I have been working on this little game for a while now.

now that I presented myself you may be wondering...

what is bonesmeal?

bonesmeal is a new indie RPG in development that takes inspo on games like Undertale, Hollow Knight, Omori, Zelda, and more!

what is bonesmeal about?

you play as M̵̺̮̻͆̈́̉a̵͚͓̗͓̎̿͒̋t̷̼́̆͘i̷̡̠̗̗̅̌͆a̷̬͛̾s̸̝̙̍̚ ̴̼̞̊̃̀͜͠

you play as į̵̮̃͐͋̚s̵̡̟̪̆̐ͅa̴̻̠̩̋b̸̮̖̈́̃̈́͒e̷̝̖̻̠͗̽ļ̸̧̰̀l̴̫͔̉́

y̸͓̖̮̞͐͌̓õ̶̯͚̥͌͑͘ụ̵̭̙̍ ̵̡̡̫͎̿͋̇p̶̭̖̓͝͝ͅľ̸̹̝̣̮̓a̴̰̞͉̋ý̸̟̘̍̀͌ ̷͇͖̈́ǎ̴͖̚s̶̡̩͒̓ ̷̢̨̂?̶̤̅̋́̈́?̷̧̛͂̑͐?̵̡̯͋̀́͜?̸̡͌̂

you play as Matias a citizen of a town, somewhere...you don't remember...

actually, you don't remember much...

what I was saying again?

a yes, į̵̮̃͐͋̚s̵̡̟̪̆̐ͅa̴̻̠̩̋b̸̮̖̈́̃̈́͒e̷̝̖̻̠͗̽ļ̸̧̰̀l̴̫͔̉́ or it was M̵̺̮̻͆̈́̉a̵͚͓̗͓̎̿͒̋t̷̼́̆͘i̷̡̠̗̗̅̌͆a̷̬͛̾s̸̝̙̍̚ ̴̼̞̊̃̀͜͠ who found me in the woods?

I don't remember...

is difficult to talk without a jaw...or part of my skull

what was my name again?

I just remembered that I was playing near the cliff or it was near the town convenience store?

Everyone was so happy and then everything faded to blank

when I woke up (when did I fall asleep) I was alone in this forest.

I remember the fluffiness of caterpillar's bellies and how weird it felt when they crawled into my eye socket.

I can feel my missing pieces in the town, somewhere.

they are calling for me

I need them to be whole again

I need them to remember

what shall I do when I remember?

I honestly don't know

shhhh. somebody is coming...I wonder who will find me this time?

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(The next post will meet the characters!)