Isa

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Chris Perry and Isa Murray

This session, Isa focused on digital art and developing a horror game through empathy, curiosity, and imagination. To do this, he created a short video game that explores the horrors of being a blue-collar worker in an exploitative environment, and needing to clean up other people's monsters. He created this game in Unreal Engine on his own, apart from the environmental assets, and wrote a short script of a radio interaction that provides context and world-building for the player without being too expository. Isa seems to have the initiative to have done this entirely independently. In the future I would challenge Isa to expand out of his comfort zone, and lean into the themes and resources made available to him through the studio. Keep at it, Isa!

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Isa Murray

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This project aided me in the growth of my digital artistry and coding skills. I feel my writing skills were also reinforced with the incorperation of literary assignments and the prioritizing of game narrative in the design of the game. I am proud of my result from this studio as I had never experienced game design from a narrative standpoint, and feel that the focus on the narrative concept greatly aided my direction and artistic prowess when tackling this project.

Still is a game designed with an unreal engine within a world inspired by the comic Stand Still Stay Silent. This game focuses on realistic visuals joined within simple game mechanics such as stealth and sound interpretation and an intertwined story narrative covering an adoption of existing media. Feedback was incorporated through mid-reviews, and Still was submitted to Scream Jam 2023. This project focuses on intriguing visuals and an in-depth story element while retaining the dynamics and intractability of a normal game.

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