Paralysing Obscurity

A point-and-click inspired 2D narrative driven game with a cute and cozy art direction. Developed initially for Game Dev Local's Game Parade 'Spring' Jam.
Now in further development outside core commitments.

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Key Info

Genres: Supernatural, Visual Novel, Fantasy

Development Cycle: 6 Weeks

Engine: Ren'py / Platform: PC & Mac

Roles: Art Director, UI Designer, GUI Programmer & Producer

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CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

UI Design

I worked to create a variety of UI elements to fit the darker, gothic but also sleek theming for this visual novel project. Working alongside the main developer to implement the UI assets and elements and create additional scripted screens or adjust scaling and layouts of text and menus with Python, and ensuring we had all needed additional assets to support and enhance the player's experience. I also created the Title-Logo for the project, alongside various promotional graphics for socials.

GUI Programmer

I worked in Visual Studio Code to customise our Ren'py projects GUI implementation using python. I worked with the base scripts for options, screens and gui, as well as on custom screens such as our gallery, to customise and fine-tune our project.

From creating a separate state using conditionals for the main_menu vs game_menu layouts, allowing our title screen splash art to take centre stage by creating a bottom centred hbox layout. To adding in accessibility options to the options page as a sub-menu tab, and making adjustments to the layout of various screens, and layouts for our in-game text and choice boxes, and the text within them, as well as the quick menu itself. I also created a custom blinking animation through code with alphas that plays after the project's into cutscene animation.

After demo release, I continued to work on refining the project, changing and unifying text scalings throughout our menus, adjusting layouts for the menu elements. I also customised our gallery screen to give it the same visual details as our save/load screen with frames around the thumbnails, before also adding in an additional sub-menu system to allow for categorisation of the unlockable key art, CG's and animations throughout the game.

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