Antigone Will Take The Stairs Today
CONTENT WARNINGS: strong language, murder, suicide, incest, substance abuse, domestic violence, implied child abuse.
Antigone has lived in Thebes Towers all her life. It's been a perfect little family: her, her parents, her three siblings, all at the very top of the apartment block. But the spell's been broken, and her world's come crashing down. She's found out the truth about her father, her parents are dead, and her brothers have followed them into bloody demise - one a hero, one in disgrace. The funeral's tomorrow, but only one brother is due to be buried. So what of her other brother?
There's only one thing left to do: roll up her sleeves and bury him herself.
Playtime: 30-40 minutes.
Controls: Use the arrow keys to move. Use the enter key to interact (objects, decorations, people). Find your brother. Bury your brother.
THIS GAME FEATURES:
- Twelve floors of Thebes Tower to explore or ignore as you see fit. Plus a basement.
- Many residents of your apartment complex who won't help you at all.
- A blind seer (there to cause problems)
- Your uncle (terrible)
- Your sister (useless)
- Your aunt (even worse)
- Some familiar godly faces.
- A very draggable corpse.
Created for CLAN1001's Digital Project assignment.
Music isn't original to this project, but is mine. Find more on my Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
Sound effects sourced from FreeSound.org.
Thanks to Yanfly, Galv, SumRndmDde, Iavra, TheoAllen, DaedraKyne & TwentyFree for various plugins and modifications to RPGMaker MV.
NOTES FOR PLAYING: You can play in-browser, or download the game and play it from your computer. Downloadable versions for Windows and Linux available, but you'll have to install the accompanying font for the dialogue to display properly. Browser game may lag slightly when loading, but should be fully functional.
The intended font for the game will also not be active in browser unless you download it and install it (sorry!), but it doesn't make the game nonfunctional if you don't want to do it, just a bit strange to look at.
IF YOU'RE HERE FROM A FUTURE CLAN1001 CLASS: Hi! :D! Good luck on your own digital project. You don't need to go as hardcore as I did; I'm just an overachiever.
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Install instructions
Download and unzip! Windows and Linux versions available. Please also download and install the font file, for best possible playing experience.
Development log
- thank you!!Sep 28, 2023
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I was blown away by this game. It was a fantastic adaptation of the play and a really excellent look at grief. Antigone's anger and impulse to shut down conversations as soon as people apologized for her brother's (singular very noticeable) death was very raw, and the level of the building where her only response is not to care hit hard.
this is amazing. I love antigone's defiance. This game perfectly captures the anger she has.
i grew up loving greek myths, and the story of oedipus and of his children, of antigone, always made me feel a certain sort of emotion when i read them; i think this game just does a great job at capturing the weird sadness/melancholy? (not sure what to call it) of the myth
extremely well done
good job good job what a wonderful job
I have to say, this game is so good what the hell?
ive loved greek mythology since i was a kid so finding this game was a real gem!
even without knowing anything about greek mythology, least of all antigone, this was amazing, great job
this was so good wow
Kittyeden this was a saddest rpg maker game i ever play it almost makes me cry it almost did
cough cough omori
oh my god that was fantastic
god i honestly cant get over the stroke of simple genius that is portraying thebes as a decaying apartment building, let alone everything else. beautiful
Well, I guess there was something wrong with their family. This story was indeed tragic.
Man.
God. God. What a wonderful adaptation.
This is so good! Antigone has always been one of my favourite tragedies and you adapted it so well. Great work ♥️
Really really enjoyed this. Absolutely gorgeous art and the dialogue was so real and cutting. Fantastic adaptation
A gorgeous adaptation of Antigone, I love this very much. It's a short one but I really do have to take a break in some places because how heavy ... (and borderline oppressive) the atmosphere is.
Recc'ing this VN here on my Twitter, I am looking forward to more of your works!
Haven't finished the game yet, but it's great! Also, is Annie dating her cousin?
edit: finished it. what an ending. I'm not that much of a greek mythology geek, so i don't really know the characters.
Yep, Antigone and Haimon are cousins, both in the original and in this adaptation. As he says, there's something seriously wrong with this family...
this was way more tragic than i was expecting.... loved it.
This was absolutely perfect. I'll be thinking about this for ages.
this shit had me tearing up in a call with some friends this is amazing
i know a little bit about greek mythology and get a few of the references
this is so sick :)
Thank you so much for trying it despite not knowing much about Greek mythology/tragedy. It's completely surreal to me that you went and made an entire playthrough video - seeing a less knowledgeable-about-the-play reaction was really interesting and absolutely great. Can't express how much this means to me.
This was also my first real experience of Antigone. I'm pretty sure I've read the Wikipedia summary at least once, but this was still effectively blind. It seems like a very worthy adaptation.
(I am, admittedly, largely taking it as a caution against living in an apartment with so much mold and possibly heavy metal contamination that it gives everyone a mental health crisis. Side effect of the remarkably clever idea of making them landlords.
...and also of adapting the presumably-traditional ending, rather than "hello, fire department? So, my uncle has barricaded everyone inside the building, and promised to kill me if I bury my dead brother. Can you come break the door down?")
This comment made me laugh. You're absolutely right: there's mold, metal contamination, and there is definitely a gas leak in Thebes Towers, and all of those things are at least 90% responsible for the plot occurring. (The other 10% is Creon. It's always Creon's fault.)
an incredible adaptation of antigone. absolutely loved it