Read this entire description as it has things of expectations and ideas for the auditions. Additionally each voice with accents should be soft accents and not going heavy on them.
INTRODUCTION
MEADOW.exe
A surreal, glitched sanctuary built by a child’s mind made to feel soft, safe, and manageable... but it’s falling apart quickly.
Inspired by: Omori, Undertale, The Bunny Graveyard, and FNaF: ITP.
Core Premise:
You’re a kid 14 years old.
Burned out, overworked, emotionally neglected, overwhelmed by school and personal pressure. You collapsed at home and fell into a coma not from violence or drama, but from complete emotional shutdown.
This place the MEADOW.exe world is your brain’s final emergency system: a colorful, cartoon-like coping mechanism that mimics a game.
The glitching? That’s reality trying to break through.
The animals? They’re aspects of your emotions.
The puzzles? Internal walls you put up to protect yourself.
You are trying to survive your shutdown.
Visual Style:
- Top-down pixel art
- Each zone is stylized based on memory/emotion, warm pastels, glitchbloom, and corrupted static palettes.
- "Memory cutscenes” are pixel art animations.
- Realistic overlays (eyes, clocks, objects) glitch into the world as memories resurface
- UI glitches: menus crack, save files rewrite, error popups appear as part of the story
- Each character looks like a human mixed with an animal.
Gameplay Flow (Linear-ish)
- The world is structured like a daily loop of peaceful gameplay:
A. Walk around
B. Talk to friends
C. Do cute mini-games
- But, as you explore more and activate "flowers" (locked memories), things warp:
A. New zones open
B. Dialogue shifts slightly each day
C. Mini-games gain wrong inputs, glitchy rules
D. Safe areas stop being safe.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Once the deadline is met, it'll take a day or two or potentially even a couple of hours for everyone to be accepted. To those who are accepted, you will be sent a friend request in Discord by Nickolas/MoonLight to be invited to the Discord Server, where the real magic can start. We will be using Google Drive as our main source of files and storing, you will be submitting tasks by Discord but some tasks will be put/assigned on Google Drive. We will have a list of all the tasks we need for the game on a website called Trello.
PLEASE HAVE: TRELLO, DISCORD, AND ACCESS TO GOOGLE DRIVE. IN YOUR AUDITION YOU SHOULD ADD YOUR DISCORD, NOT YOUR EMAIL/TRELLO LINK (THAT WILL BE NEEDED AFTERWARDS) IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO GOOGLE DRIVE THAT CAN BE FIGURED OUT.
WHAT WE ASK OF YOU
Make sure to have fun, of course, we want people to have fun and not be burnt out from this project if we all have fun that is how we can make something truly great for all the consumers.
For VAs please submit clean recordings without the noises of air conditioners in the background, and no fans, it's alright if you use noise reduction but not too much so that we can still have quality. We also recommend having a prosumer microphone and not using such as a phone, just for quality reasons.
Please over time keep the voice you had in mind for the character the same, just so the idea of the character does not change.
We have ideas of potentially stretching this game out for multiple chapters, so we want to cast people who can stick with us for a while. We want to have casts that can stick with us over the years. Additionally be sure you have the time and the ability to stick around, as if you cannot even stand for the first game then it would only lead to hurt us.
Additionally please have a Discord and you must include that in your application. Additionally in the Discord server, we'd like it if you could participate and get to know everybody to make the work experience smoother and to make everyone much more comfortable.
WHO ARE WE?
I am Nickolas Bogert or MoonLightX1, I am the founder and lead developer of the branded studio, "LunarTech Studio" (the Studio behind the upcoming, horror game called 'Starry Station'). I strive to bring people together to make amazing products and games. View all links of LTS.
If you have any questions feel free to message me on Discord: moonlightx1
THIS GAME CONTAINS: SUICIDE, MENTAL PROBLEMS, SLIGHT CURSING, FLASHING LIGHTS, AND SLIGHT GORE!!!
