My main piece for the oneway.exe fanzine!
I wanted to draw Trio8 getting their happy ending in their home for three 💕And I think the only people who can really be trusted to be witnesses to their ceremony is RT, watching politely from outside the chapel. Protecting their happily ever after from the outside world 😌
I thought maybe some users here might be interested in this! I've been enjoying participating in it but I don't think very many people know about it.
There's an indie horror puzzle game on Steam, oneway.exe: Module 1.0. It tells the story of a three-person game dev team called Trio8, who were developing a crossover horror game using a bunch of characters from in-universe horror media, like slasher movies and youtube webseries. During development, something happened between the three of them, and one dev brutally murdered another, filmed the whole thing, and uploaded it to the internet. It became a huge spectacle, and no one really knows the actual motive behind the murder, so the narrative became a bastardization of what actually happened. The last surviving dev effectively disappeared, so no one got his side of the story either. You play as that dev, now trapped in the corruption of the game they were making, and somehow having forgotten what happened between the three of them. You have to go through their game, and the devs desktop, to piece together the story and figure out what happened, and what, if anything, you had to do with it.
The ARG takes place outside of all of that, and focuses on a group called The Restoration Team, who is working to restore and preserve all the work the devs did before, and including, their unfinished game. The Restoration Team intends to squash the rumors and assumptions that spread around after the murder, and wants to treat the deceased, and still living, devs with the respect they deserve. There are multiple in-universe websites, that Trio8 originally made for their game, that The Restoration Team are trying to preserve, as well as some of the dev's personal websites. The Team has their own website too, where players can ask them questions. The websites are updated periodically, and have a ton of lore by themselves.
But the vast majority of the interactivity in the ARG is in the oneway.exe discord server, which has in-character channels dedicated to interacting directly with members of The Restoration Team. The conversations matter, and the team remembers what's been discussed and what users have said, and will react accordingly. Users have tried messing with them in the past and it took a while for the server to get back into their good graces, they still bring up some of those things to remind us not to take their trust for granted, lol. Talking with them sometimes reveals new info about Trio8, but also gives us insight into the Team as a whole, their stories, and their possible role in Trio8's story as well. There's a bell tolling for The Restoration Team for sure, but we don't know what or why just yet.
I just think it's such an incredibly fun and in-depth game and ARG and wanted to share it with people who might care! lol
Here's a link to the game's lore-focused trailer, it includes some hints about the ARG as well!