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Game Link
https://yumeindie.itch.io/tagbalay
Game Description
Tagbalay is a first-person social and survival horror game about a son navigating his way through his mother's debt and the people around him.
Game Controls
The game can be played with mouse only or with touch.
Game Engine
Godot
Filipino Elements
The game is fully voiced in Hiligaynon, a language widely spoken in Western Visayas, which is one of its strongest Filipino cultural influences.
The game explores Filipino themes such as living paycheck to paycheck, inheriting debts and problems from previous generations, and the social obligations that come with being part of a close-knit community. It looks at how these obligations can pressure people into supporting a community that may provide little help in return, while also contributing to each other’s struggles and eventual downfall.
Through these themes, the game explores the tension between family, community, obligation, and survival, while portraying how the very relationships that bind people together can also become the source of their collective downfall.
Assets/Credits
Renson Nicor - Voices/Sound Effects
Josh Reuven Mission - Music Composition
Rommel John Panal - Art
Jude Timothy Joshua Bomban - Programming
Asset Attributions
Main Menu Slums - Sky Adubal ( https://www.artstation.com/skysprojects )
Original Filipino House Concept Art - Jana Simeon ( https://www.artstation.com/jdrsimeon )
The full cast is featured in game.
AI Usage Disclosure
The game contains Generative AI vocal enhancements from Voicemod in some voice lines. All other assets, including the original clips, belong to their respective creators.
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