The Exchange
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A short narrative game where you make choices by making sacrifices.
WARNING: THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE NARRATIVE GAME!
You are a student Exchanger, possessing the magical ability to sacrifice beloved possessions and release their innate properties and effects. For your final test, you've been sent to live in a humble farming town for a year. Use the Exchange to help the people there... and test the limits of your power.
I really bit off more than I could chew with this one, and ran out of time before I could finish anything close to a satisfying story. I'm really happy that I was able to finish the engine and scripting "language" in 48 hours, though. Hopefully you can get a sense of how it plays from the 10-20 minutes it takes to finish.
Done in Unity/C#. Also used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Audacity. Fonts are Ghibli by Eyad Al-Samman and Colus by Stan Partalev. Card images were made by mashing some of my own photos and tons of open-license photography together... hopefully that's a good enough derivative. I was going for kind of a DeepDream-meets-Dixit kind of look.
A short narrative game where you make choices by making sacrifices.
WARNING: THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE NARRATIVE GAME!
You are a student Exchanger, possessing the magical ability to sacrifice beloved possessions and release their innate properties and effects. For your final test, you've been sent to live in a humble farming town for a year. Use the Exchange to help the people there... and test the limits of your power.
I really bit off more than I could chew with this one, and ran out of time before I could finish anything close to a satisfying story. I'm really happy that I was able to finish the engine and scripting "language" in 48 hours, though. Hopefully you can get a sense of how it plays from the 10-20 minutes it takes to finish.
Done in Unity/C#. Also used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Audacity. Fonts are Ghibli by Eyad Al-Samman and Colus by Stan Partalev. Card images were made by mashing some of my own photos and tons of open-license photography together... hopefully that's a good enough derivative. I was going for kind of a DeepDream-meets-Dixit kind of look.