Producer, Writer, Designer, Composer
May 2024
Get to Know the People Around You
Know Your Neighbor is a narrative-driven walking simulator where experiencing trauma is just as overwhelming as you'd imagine. Explore a twenty-four hour snapshot of three characters' lives, all playing out in front of you at the exact same time. Know Your Neighbor is designed to be played by rotating one's monitor vertically, so that you can peer into the apartment complex these characters live in.
Interaction Excerpt #1
Combined Interaction Excerpt
Interaction Excerpt #2
Once Your Neighbor, Always Your Neighbor
• One final project as a send off for my time together with two close friends in my undergraduate games program.
• An opportunity to create a game that combines all of our unique skills: dramatic, poetic storytelling abilities, inventive mechanics and abnormal ways to engage with interactive experiences.
Centering Design Around Themes
• Gameplay crafted to be purposefully overwhelming, forcing players to engage with all three character's plots at the exact same time, controlling their movement as one.
• Designed around a vertical monitor to simulate peering into the personal lives within an apartment building.
• To flesh out the intricacies of this world in preparation for a TTRPG zine, I created a narrative design document.
When characters interact directly with one another, their colors converge, forming a secondary palette!
Tools I Used
Google Docs: writing dialogue scripts
Adobe Photoshop: pixel art assets
Unity: developed in engine
MuseScore: composed title screen music
