Bladebait Bog

My team of 9 students started our semester breaking out into smaller groups to ideate potential game concepts. During this process, we half joked about creating a "fishing horror" game, and all rapidly became interested in actually pursing the concept for the rest of our semester.

Journal Entries:

The Journal Entries provide a separate narrative than what the fish will tell the player, but their collection still works towards the player's progress. When writing journal entries, we wanted to capture a feeling of mystery, by showing the perspective of a researched named Gilbert, who had previously explored the waters and disappeared.

I wrote the second half of the Journal Entries in the game, and was afforded the opportunity to portray Gilbert's rapid descent into mania over his self described "rapturous" discoveries.

Ending Cutscene

I created this interaction using Unity's Timeline feature, and aimed to create a simple yet effective moment that would both make the player think and uncomfortable by using only sound and the visuals of the game's UI. 

Upon reaching the very bottom of our play space, the player's agency is taken away as their controls cease to function, and the entire game except for the depth UI fades to black. Then, in a break from convention, the player's boat icon moves down towards the hook, implying that the player has met their fate by being dragged towards whatever lies at the heart of the bog.