Premise:
Phantom Felons is a 2D side-scrolling adventure game where you play as Sketch, a gender-fluid human prisoner that finds themselves stuck inside a penitentiary in the Spirit World. Along their journey in this haunted realm, they search for answers as to what really happened to their deceased father while looking for a way to escape this strange dimension. Will some friendly ghosts be able to aid them in their quest, or will the murderous phantoms get the best of Sketch and keep them stuck in this world for eternity?
Role:
This is a group project for my Game Workshop I and Game Workshop II classes, a result of two semesters worth of work.
Contributions:
- I worked as the lead programmer in my group, specifically I implemented the movement and attacks of our bosses alongside a simple inventory system and basic enemies.
- Additionally, I wrote the dialogue for our characters and composed prisoner files and other dialogue for collectible items.
Screenshots:
Sketch’s inner thoughts regarding a photo they find of them with their father. Their inner thoughts reveal how they entered the Spirit world and emphasizes that Sketch loves and misses their deceased dad.
Sketch’s conversation with a ghost named Glitch establishes her as a friendly presence in the prison while foreshadowing the sadism of the first boss in the game, The Warden.
Sketch stumbles upon the prisoner file for Glitch, revealing quirky information about her to flesh out her overall character.
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