I've been making games in my spare time for almost eight years now, but I seem to have a chronic fear of the publish button. To get over it, I spent a few weeks in December taking part in a visual novel game jam. The result?
Sovereignty is a short (<30 min) point-and-click visual novel in which you are tasked with exploring the residence of three people, and piecing together the story behind the killing of one of them. You can play it in your browser, or download it for Windows.
I wanted to make a game that played with some conventions of murder mystery stories, and of mystery visual novels specifically. Figuring out the truth behind this mystery will require more than just solving the case that the facts present to you. Pay close attention, and you may just be rewarded.