we're hosting an UMI PLUSHIE campaign with makeship! ꉂ(°□°˶ )
this is a limited opportunity to have your own umi to perform rituals in the comfort of your home. hope you can help us make the plushie come true! the campaign lasts 10 DAYS ONLY~
˚₊‧꒰ა ₍ᐢ. ̫.ᐢ₎ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚
We are happy to announce a new contest where you can write a short stories about Rental!
The short stories may be a maximum of a 100 words, inspired by a writing contest that is held in our city in Chile
Rules and submissions on the Animita server linked above ^^
new RENTAL contest in our discord server ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )
1. We'll have 2 winners, one will be voted among the devs, the other will be chosen by popular vote on our discord server. Each winner will get a 15.000CLP/15USD STEAM giftcard as a prize.
2. All mediums are permitted: digital, traditional, pixel art, 3D, plasticine, etc. NO use of AI though.
You don't need to be a skilled artist to participate ^^
3. No NSFW. You can have blood for spookiness but no outright gore.
4. Send your submissions through the fanart contest channel on our discord server. Feel free to post them on the Artwork tab on Steam too, if you like.
5. Deadline is 15 April 23:59, Chilean time (19:59 PST). Winners will be announced on that week.
Any entries that don't follow the rules will be disqualified.
Have fun! ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა Please make something that you enjoy
i love the vibe of Rental, it looks like scary animal crossing! can you tell us more about the game?
thank you! :)
rental is our first incursion into horror as a team, since our other, main label is about cozy games. it had an unexpectedly great reception on itchio, so we wanted to update it to be lonely house's first official release. we're very happy with the reception it's got now, too
as you can see, our style of horror ends up being pretty silly and comedic too, and we wanna continue exploring this duality.
some little fun facts i can say are
-many of the assets, including all the religious objects and the house itself are taken directly from pictures of the beach house where we gathered to make the game. the owners were very religious and some of the decorations bordered on bizarre.
-while there's no plan to expand rental any further, the protagonist, umi, may be making an apparition in a future game (kudos if you find a certain artwork that contains her)