
Star Ring Convenience Store
A downloadable game
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 Capulse Silver Award and $1500 grant
Controls
Movement/Interaction: Left Mouse Click
Menu: Right Mouse Click
Our Team
Chronomad Productions:
Production: David Liao Jeffery Xue
Narrative Design: David Liao (Lead) Sherry Xie
Programming: Leo Ji (Lead Programmer) Jeffery Xue David Liao
Art Team (Concept Art, 2D visual, 3D modeling): Kazama(Lead), Jacky Huang, Pika
Chronomad Support:
Promotion: Mengfan Huang
Audio designer: Eby Lei
Special Thanks:
Sean Bouchard - Advisor
Updated | 23 days ago |
Status | In development |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings) |
Authors | David Liao, TalkingChicken, Mengfan Huang |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Detective, Horror, Narrative, Singleplayer, time-loop |
Development log
- Sloan GrantApr 26, 2022
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Great game