HyperLove (Demo)

An interactive story about your therapist who is also a robot of your dead husband.

HyperLove is a story of a relationship that is old and new. A copy of an original. An original of a copy. A love letter to first generation hypermedia.

This demo is a submission to the 2022 AmareJam.

Features

• Act 1 (and a small taste of Act 2) of a visual novel.
  
• Choices big and small, with 1.5 endings.
  
• 1 handsome artificial intelligence to befriend - or not.
• A solo passion project born from a love of retro computing and the foundational work of Susan Kare and Bill Atkinson.
  
• 16 colors!
• I hope you like dithering.
  
• Portrait artwork created by a Generative Adversarial Network. AI creating AI. So meta!
  
• Background art sourced from public domain photos.
• Select atmospheric webcore music from the talented Oliver Buckland, used with kind permission. Thanks Oliver!
  
• A bunch of references because I am very smart.

Content Advisory

This visual novel explores themes related to mental health and loss, and contains specific references to grief and depression.

Once you’ve played the demo, please let me know what you think with this short survey. I’d really appreciate it!