The Glitching Graduation

Concept

This project was developed as a game for AdvXJam and the theme of this jam was "A Good Time." I collaborated with writers, sound designers + artists and we agreed to make a visual novel in Unity that would center on young adults going through a timeloop around their graduation day.

Implementation

We agreed to use Unity as the game engine and Pixel Crushers Dialogue System as the interactive dialogue tool because I had prior experience with it and I knew that if something were to go wrong during development, I could get it fixed since the tool has detailed documentation and excellent customer support. This was my first time using the Visual Novel framework, a visual novel template that is included with Dialogue System that comes with a main menu and a menu panel to easily allow saving and loading.

The default template comes with two subtitle panels to fit two character portraits but the Visual Novel framework is very customisable so I made the game to have five subtitle panels so it can fit all of the four character portraits and one invisible portrait for the narrator.

Credits

• Toyin Ariyo - game designer, scripter + story editor.
• George Larkwright - writer.
• Andrew McKissock - writer.
• Eliana - sound designer.
• Amanda Parker - character artist.
• OpenGameArt (frances) - background art.

Status of the game

Right now, the ending is very rushed (prose is used to show ending instead of dialogue) as I had to submit a completed version of a story at the deadline. However, I plan to refine the ending in the near future. You can download the game here.