Blink Episode 1: Breaking the Ice

We highly recommend you download the game for the best playing experience, but have provided a web version for the jammers who prefer convenience over quality.

You play as Blink, regular college student by day, and teleporting sidekick to the telekinetic superhero Force Master by night. But you can't get ahold of Force Master since your last mission, and criminals are still on the loose! Can you defend the city without your mentor's help?

Blink Episode 1: Breaking the Ice was made for NaNoRenO2022, and functions as the first episode of a series that we may or may not continue to write.

Features

• roughly 8k words all told
• one ending
• superheroes!
• street thugs!
• a supervillain?
• the beginnings of a mystery...

Characters

Blink (pronouns choosable):

The sidekick-turned-main-character of this superhero visual novel adventure. They have the ability to teleport themselves a fair distance away based on line of sight. The disappearance of Force Master has hit them hard, but they're not going to stand by and let mysteries go unsolved.

Force Master (he/him):

The classical Paragon of Good hero, famous for his telekinetic abilities and ability to hover effortlessly above the ground. He's gone missing recently, leaving the defense of Amber City on Blink's shoulders.

Frigid Fox (she/her):

An ice powered supervillain with a penchant for anything beautiful or powerful. She has a long history with Force Master. Who knows how she'll react to his disappearance...

Credits

Jazz: team lead, background artist, game programmer

Inky: character artist

Marionette: UI artist and programmer

Rae Machado: writer

Crystal Ball: writer

Neverdusk: composer (soundcloud) (soundtrack)

Sound effects and some textures used in background art sourced from pixabay.com.