Making Room?

Making Room? is a short psychological horror visual novel about Var and her roommates, Dre and Spoo. With rent due and the apartment flooding, Var writes a job on an old chore chart to get them to help. The roommates want to put down the mop and speak, but they seem unable to understand what is happening or refuse. As water threatens Spoo’s music equipment and arguments fill the apartment, the chart proves to be more than it seemed, setting the three on a strange course.

The story

The leak keeps worsening, the landlord is not answering, and the roommates face resentment, unpaid rent, coercion and the fear of losing the only home they can afford. You follow them as they investigate the chart and choose Var’s responses and decisions. Seven choices lead to three endings.

Presentation

The story is told through animated character closeups, diorama rooms, stark paper inserts and shifting camera compositions. Music and authored sound cues accompany arguments, discoveries and changes of scene.