MEADOW.exe (2D Psychological Horror Game)

MEADOW.exe (2D Psychological Horror Game)

Project Overview

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 colourful, 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 Someone 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 the discord.

PLEASE HAVE: DISCORD AND ACCESS TO GOOGLE DRIVE. IN YOUR AUDITION YOU SHOULD ADD YOUR DISCORD, NOT YOUR EMAILIF 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.

  • Due to the nature of the game and content, we ask that anyone joining be over the age of 18


If you have any questions feel free to message me on Discord: someoneontheinternet916
THIS GAME CONTAINS: SUICIDE, MENTAL PROBLEMS, SLIGHT CURSING, FLASHING LIGHTS, AND SLIGHT GORE!!!

Latest Updates

  • Thank you for the interest! Deadline extended for Coders

    Hello. The Circus of Life Someone here.

    The first deadline has concluded. We have gotten an immense amount of interest from many talented people and want to thank each one of them for their submissions. If I have not come into contact with you, please add me on discord at:

    someoneontheinternet916

    Until then we are still looking for coders to bring this game to life. If you or anyone you know dabbles in coding with RPG maker then please send them here. We would very much appreciate it.

    Hope to see you soon and thanks one more time.

Project Roles: Writer Coder Concept Artist
Writer
Writer Writer
Writer
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: EclipseAndAHalf Melonade77

You will be in charge of writing a final script and/ or plot line for the game as well as writing dialogue for the characters and NPCs. You will have either one or two other writers to help with progress and to keep things going smoothly in case one of you guys is busy.

Language:
  • english
Other info:
  • plot development
  • character writer
  • *Say something you think would fit*

Coder
Artist Artist
Coder
open
Deferred: Agreed Amount

You will have one of the most important jobs of all, you will be bringing our creation to life! 

You will be using RPGmaker and Pygame to bring it all together.

You will be working with possibly 3 or 4 other people to help tackle this rather sizeable game. 

Language:
  • english
Other info:
  • rpg maker engine
  • Coding experience
  • *Say something you think would fit*

Concept Artist
Artist Artist
Concept Artist
closed
Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Mitch

You will be creating early concepts for the game for the other artists to use as a baseline for the final design. You will have another person to help out.

  • *Say something you think would fit*

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