The Overtaken

“Sometimes, I become the ghost.”

You play as a Portuguese person living in England, in a world where every person is tethered to a ghost. What happens when said ghosts become a danger to you, and only you. Can you continue living with a dangerous being following you for the rest of you life?

Features:

Play as a girl, boy or non-binary

Romance whoever you like despite gender and how many you like

Build your character with personality

Study for your GCSEs (with a twist)

Go on little escapades with your friends

Try to get along with your sister

Much more

Dominic/Dominique 📚

Gentle and shy but also very patient, Dom doesn't use words very often, they prefer to let actions speak for themselves. Even though it may seem that they prefer to be alone, they actually enjoy being around people a lot and wishes they had more friends. Likes the occasional debate and is very strongly opinionated about roleplaying games. 

Lewis/Louis 📷

A dreamer at heart and unrealistically sweet. Lou may flirt a lot, but is anything but a player. They enjoy nice feelings and they like giving them to people, no ulterior motive needed. They dream of seeing the sky in every region of the world, and they appreciate pretty things, as they will admit. Unable to lie and able to jump in head first, Lou lives in their own world. 

Arcadia/Archibald ⚽️

Your high school crush. Archie is very good at what they do, which is sports and driving people wild. They're nice and all but what they have in obvious physicality, they lack in brains. Oblivious to a lot of things, Archie is also very simple, they like sports, dogs and really cheesy jokes. An easily lovable but irritating person that can come across as spoiled/whiny.

Imogen/Immanuel 📻

A... classmate of yours, that took interest in you and has not left you alone since. They want to befriend you and probably have a bit of infatuation with you. Ima is kinda crazy. They actually don't quite fit with any of your classmates, and use weird ice-breaker facts to weird people out, you still don't know if it's on purpose or not. Besides that, Ima has a taste for the technological and likes to tinker with stuff, something like a mad scientist.

Charlie/Charlotte/Charles 👻

A bit of a prankster, likes to mess around but is actually very nice. They have an eye for the smaller details and love the drama of things, like fashion and gossip. Overly-sensitive and a professional coward, they get distracted very easily and like complaining about things that are easy to fix. Enjoys the sunlight and feeding ducks; though they can't do that as much.

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Demo Link: https://dao-pen.itch.io/the-overtaken

Hello, I have unfortunate news to pass. Due to some personal complications I have now to take a break from this project and focus on finding a job and making money, at the risk of becoming homeless. I hope everyone understands, and I hope to return to The Overtaken when I’m better prepared to indulge myself in my writing.

5 Things You Never Get Tired of Writing

Difficult Relationships - These are so common in real life and it make me sad that in fiction, most relationships are either perfectly or follow its typical pattern. So, writing relationships that make people feel all sorts of way, especially when they themselves don’t know it, is great! Relationships are dynamic after all, and not perfect.

Mood Aesthetics - I don’t know how to describe this. But those scenes that you can perfectly envision it in your head, with some sort of aesthetic, and music, that overwhelms you with feelings, and overtakes your brain like a memory. It is a bit surreal, but I kinda like making them.

Indescribable Feelings - I mean, they’re hard to describe, and even impossible, but using the right words, you can try to replicate that feeling onto the readers, and I think that’s fun. They’re not easy emotions like sadness, happiness, love, fear, they are just things that we feel that we have no words for, but we know that we feel them.

Dialogue - A lot of these go hand in hand, I like writing emotions and characters and relationships, and that includes dialogue. I’m not very good at writing descriptions of any kind, but when characters talk to each other, speak about what they feel or see or think, that I like very much. Communication is a something I admire a lot.

Found Family - I guess this is more of a trope than a “thing” but I don’t think I have ever written a story that doesn’t have it. There’s just something about it that brings me great comfort, and I want my readers to feel it.

5 Things That Make You Happy

Being alone in my room and listening to music.

Saying hi to animals, i know they can’t say hi back but it feels polite!

Naming my plants and pretend they have whole human lives! I have this cactus named george, he is trans and married happily, he really likes pong :]

Really long videos about things that i like.

Starting new ideas (even though I know I shouldn’t)...

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