"The Influence Of A Mother In The Lives Of Her Children Is Beyond Calculation."

"The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

Presenting: That's My Boy

Ever since he was young, Riley knew that he wasn't normal. Psychiatrists tried to give him every diagnosis under the sun, peers looked at him with fear and disgust, and his mother literally hung herself in his bedroom. Mothers of normal kids don't do that.

But as a young adult, Riley's beginning to turn a new leaf for himself. His best friend Amber is the most cheerful person on the planet, his coworker Ollie is pretty cool, and he even has an apartment! That means something in this economy.

But one day at work, Riley finds himself with a strange book; It calls out to him, alters his perception of reality, and it looks brand new despite the contents being at least a few hundred years old.

Riley has found himself one of the few copies of what's known as The Doctrine, a book filled with demonic secrets, satanic rituals, and most importantly the secret to resurrecting the dead, and he plans to use it for his mother.

It's exactly what she deserves.

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That's My Boy is a visual novel, but doesn't center on romance. The main story is a tale of horrific traumas and a victim's gruesome outlets.

That being said, there are two potential love interests in the game: Faust, a flesh and soul-eating demon with a demented sense of humor, and Amber, Riley's bubbly best friend with a brain as big as her personality who also has a few secrets of her own...

The game largely falls under the slasher genre, with elements of demonic, supernatural, and analog horror.

Grab onto your axes, friends, and get ready to enter a bloodbath, because Riley won't stop until he has what he wants, and Faust is hungry...

(Find it on itch.io right here)

Development Status: Pre-Production/Pre-Alpha (Unreleased)

...I haven't even finished act one of this game and I'm close to 1000 lines of code...

it took me a long while to find it but yeah, I had a character defined with g ;-;

Thanks for helping me out!

oh dear god I need help

If anyone who knows ren'py can help me figure this out I'll be in your debt forever. The game runs fine but if I try to open the gallery then an error occurs.

I've been trying to figure this out for hours and something always goes wrong

"We need more weird queers!" Y'all can't even handle a trans man going on an axe-murdering spree and topping a demon.

I just realized what day it is today so I'd like to wish a happy Friday The 13th to Jason Voorhees, the first transmasc ever <3

I'm close to done with the first "chapter" of That's My Boy, but I'm getting a little burned out and uninspired at the moment which makes sense cuz I've been working on it for like a month straight.

So of course my adhd brain decided that not doing something was highly illegal, so now I'm working on another horror game. ;-;