STAR RING - Overview

A supernatural adventure game about working for a living and being stuck in a time loop with a serial killer. Amo, working her first night shift at the Star Ring Convenience Store, needs to use a unique deduction system and work with eccentric customers to unravel the source of the time loops and deeper conspiracies in this store.

Content

Interesting characters! Industrial Spy, Shaman, AI, and more, working with these  eccentric customers to unravel the source of the time loops and deeper conspiracies in this store.

 Instead of separating investigation and reasoning into distinct phases, our Mind Palace system integrates deduction into exploration.

Our Mind Palace also embraces wrong answers by offering unique narrative content that reacts to player misinterpretations, turning failures into unexpected discoveries.

The game features no highlighted investigation points—almost everything can be examined, but there are no strong prompts or guidance. Exploration is entirely driven by the player's curiosity.

Is still in development, but we have cute and stylized graphics.

Award

2022 NYU Sloan Grant Honorable Mention for its depiction of how neural implants could shape our society. 

2024 IBM Time Capsule Mini Grant for games that have a special vison of the future society.

2025 IBM Time Capsule  Silver Award and $1500 grant

2025 Coreblazer Student Game Development Contest Best Narrative Track Finalist 

Controls

Movement/Interaction: Left Mouse Click

Menu:  Right Mouse Click

Our Team

Chronomad Productions:

Game Design: David Liao & Jeffery Xue

Narrative: David Liao & Sherry Xie

Programming: Jeffery Xue 

Art: Kazama

Chronomad Support:

QA: Mengfan Huang