joe, let it go.

Check out the trailer for Chapter 1 of the game I've been working on! It's a murder mystery visual novel, and I did the character designs and character sprites/character artwork. The game's a part of Next Fest right now (June 15-22), and Chapter 1 will be released at the end of August!

Back with another, but instead of “What it ALMOST looked like,” I changed today’s post to “What it WOULD have looked like.” Let’s talk about Ship of Shadows, which oddly, we’ve never discussed here. 🧐

Abbreviated as SOS, this was planned to be HeR’s 3rd installment of the Dossier games. It was announced to the fandom and already in the works, when suddenly, fans were notified through a forum post that the game would be delayed, only for the current CEO (Stuart Molder) to announce the discontinuation of the series in a press release. According to the press release, Molder stated that fans did not believe the games were up to the standards of their other work and that they wanted to continue to invest in their games that spoke well with fans. Blogposts would later confirm that HeR would not continue pursuing this series, but @story_retold did bless us with concept art of the box game. And I went pursing online to find several sites that had “lost media” from the game. These are concept art images that never made it to our computers 😭😭

Many fans speculated the game was much further in production than led to believe by HeR, as evidenced by the art that leaked. The characters had names, art drawn, environments created, and even a few puzzles already coded and developed, but apparently, “only the bones of it.”

Charlie:

Nancy:

Harper:

Dagny, who was supposed to have been kidnapped:

Nancy:

The prairie dogs: