A downloadable game

You return by train to your sleepy coastal town, only to find it upturned by an arrogant, ambitious property developer and his plan for a new luxury hotel right on the seafront.

Talk your way through the town's eccentric inhabitants, to try and find a resolution to the crisis and bring the whole community together (or at least most of it, you're not a miracleworker).

Download

Download
ByTheSea.zip 67 MB

Install instructions

Just unzip and Play!

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I can’t play Windows files on my machine which is unfortunate because your description and screenshots are intriguing. Clearly a lot of work went into it.

thanks for your comment! I've taken the suggestion and uploaded a WebGL build as well, which can be played in browser: https://jonwhiteley.itch.io/by-the-sea-web-version

Thanks, Jon. I was able to play the web version just now. Impressive that you were able to do so much with world-building, user interface, character movement, AND storytelling in a jam weekend! If you wanted to keep pushing this, you have such a great base of elements. And a story of place, people, and change is always so compelling.