Tonic

A tonic for your problems? 

Tonic is a short visual novel puzzle made in RenPy. We hope you enjoy! 

Note about gameplay and accessibility: 

The background visual and music are crucial to uncovering the true ending of this game. The SFX act as an additional hint, but are not 100% necessary. For accessibility, if you are unable to listen, we have provided a screenshot of the first page of our score. If you are unable to see the background visual, we have provided a detailed description of the image below.  

Created for the O2A2 game jam, Tonic includes the following: 

• Under one thousand words of storyline (not counting short repeated segments, it was like 996 or something?) 
• One title background 
• One game background 
• One menu background 
• One sprite 
• One sound effect 
• One original music track 
• Five endings 

Credits: 

• Coding: lcpianoman
• Story: lepeachdebob 
• Art and Music Creation: lcpianoman and lepeachdebob 

Description of background image: 

There is a wide shot of a small, shabby theatre, digitally drawn. It is slightly dark and overshadowed, as though not properly lit up. The ceiling, floor, and walls are all a shade of blue. From right to left, there is a stage with a square hole in the middle that leads to darkness, a draping red curtain that covers just about the entire backstage, save a small sliver of darkness in the farthest corner, and on the folds of the curtain spell out the letters "L" and "A". In the middle, there are rows of seats — the fold-up kind — and on the back wall are two white, marble (?) pillars. To the right, there is a second floor shown by a gray, concrete (?) box above the lower ceiling. Nothing above is visible. On the closest end of the left side are 3 doors, with an overhead sign saying "WC" in green. On the farthest end is a water fountain, with streaks of rust, and a tattered poster hanging above it. An overhead sign notes "EXIT" and includes an arrow point outward, in a direction that is not drawn on this background.