As Long as We're Together

A story about sacrificing your health, values, anything all in service of the one you love the most. It would always be worth it.

A game where you must control two characters at the same time to solve puzzles and escape. There is a slowdown function to help you out in combat scenarios. If either character dies, its game over.

Warnings:

Written descriptions of violence. Light horror including body horror. Contains a non graphic implication of self harm. May have some flashing bright colors at some parts.

Currently a prototype/demo so there’s a number of unfinished assets and loading screens are not implemented yet. This demo only covers a portion of the story.

Keys:

WASD to move Lea.

MOUSE to aim

LEFT CLICK(if you have a weapon and ammo) Lea Attack

F to interact in both cutscenes and interactables– look for the blue upside arrow for interactables

T to swap to a weapon

R to reload

Hold SPACE for slow mode

RIGHT CLICK on objects/near enemies/location to have Sera interact/attack/move. Sera can only interact with some objects.

CTRL to make Sera return to Lea. Currently she does not automatically move past obstacles, so you may have to swap views to her to open doors/lift up doors/etc.

G to swap views between the two characters.

ESC to access the pause screen where you can see the inventory and use health items, change key configuration, adjust game options, see game tips, save/load game.

Note that the save function does not currently save moved platforms. Additionally key configs are not saved right now, so they’ll reset after you close the game.

If your system is on the lower end consider moving the scaling slider in Options all the way to the left.

Camera Controls:

U camera zoom

J camera zoom out

I camera rotate upwards

K camera rotate downwards

Q camera turn left

E camera turn right

Game Tips:

Sera mutates further with each hit given or taken. Slow her mutation with inhibitors

Look carefully for the blue upsidedown arrow. Items might be hidden in random places.

Sera breaks defenses, Lea does more damage on broken defense. 

Sera one-shots stunned enemies

If either character loses all health/mutates, its a game over.

Try having Sera interact with different objects, its the key to solving some puzzles.

Be careful when entering new rooms. You don’t want to be caught with only one character vs a bunch of enemies since you’ll waste resources.

You can’t see what’s in a room unless either character is in the room.

Enemies can open doors. If you can see them, they can probably see you.

Minimum System Requirements:

Ryzen 5500u APU or above will run this pretty smoothly

Vulkan support. Generally modern hardware past 2017 has it as long as you have updated drivers. Check if you have it by going here: https://docs.vulkan.org/guide/latest/checking_for_support.html

8gb RAM

2.5gb of hard drive space

Suggestions/feedback/you just want to see what I’m doing

Contact me via my Discord: SnowballPtarmigan

Or follow me on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/potatoptarmigan.bsky.social

Troubleshooting:

The mac and linux builds are currently untested.

For mac you will need to get around the permissions issue.:

Right-click (Control-click) on the app icon in the Finder window and select Open from the menu.

Click open and enter your password.

With Linux you may need to open the terminal, navigate to the ALAWTLinux folder and use
chmod +x ALAWT.x86_64 (allows for executable permissions)
then run ./ALAWT.x86_64

There might be some driver issues with certain AMD gpus especially if they came preinstalled on your system.

If you run into crashes, try updating your drivers directly from AMD. https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html

Credits:

Programming/Art/Animations/Writing/Music: PotatoPtarmigan

Office chair edited from: Nenki1989 on Turbosquid

Microscope edited from: lionclaw0612 on Turbosquid

Skeleton edited from: 3dAssetForge on Turbosquid

Playtesting by RocGameDev

cc0 sound effects from freesound.org

additional sfx from GameMaster Audio