Gossip Game

NanoReNo jam 2024

A five-minute goofy interactive story, inspired by the infamous Gossip Girl.

(You really don’t need to know the series, you just need to enjoy gossiping…and who doesn’t? <3)

It’s your first year at Gossnitch school… You meet your eccentric classmates, and find a glittery phone in your locker!! Will you be the next gossip girl?

Features:

• Five minutes max of playtime 
• Choose your name/pronouns !
• Dialogue interactions with (more or less) cool characters
• EVERY gossip you spread (or don’t spread) leads to a new route!!!!
• 8 different endings (2 bonus endings “mortal gossips”, 5 good endings, and 1 bad ending that you can get anytime you’re not gossipy enough ;) )
• very gay
• y2k girly pop references, because it’s funnier
• Your gossip phone even includes a minigame!!!

The first game of two little French fellas, excuse the occasional typos :>

Characters:

UPPER EAST SIDERS (living in Nyuyork) : 

SOREN VAN DER TREE (they/he, 20)

Code name: S.

A golden retriever charismatic himbo.

BLAST BRIDGOF (he/him, 20)

Code name: (King) B.

Sassy cold bitch: a brunette Malfoy.

LOWER EAST SIDERS (living in Broukleen) :

DANY BUMPREY (she/they, 20)

Code name: Weird Girl.

Eat the rich, and write fanfics.

JEN BUMPREY (any pronoun, 18)

Code name: Little J.

A people pleaser, with a hidden emo potential.

Considering the short notice, we couldn’t write aaaaall the gossip that we had in mind, and the dating part is not that important. If we continue this project, this will probably change. In the original idea, there were 8 gossip rounds (instead of 4 here), but since every gossip leads to a new route… Yeah, it would have been hell to code. Maybe next time ? ;)

Warnings - game contains:

• Swearing
• Mildly suggestive content
• Mention of death/murder
• Drug addiction (or is it just powdered sugar?)
• Monarchy

Story by Lou Cender. 

Art by etiennz.