Shadows of Them
A short psychological game highlighting mental illness, grief, and drink driving.
Shadows of them is a first-person psychological horror game where the player must navigate a series of challenges, guiding a mother through her grief after the loss of her family. The game takes place in a metro station where the character is stuck in a seemingly endless loop as she struggles to cope with her grief.
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As a team of 8, we developed this game for our first development module, ‘Hello World’. This module tasked us with developing a walking simulator, and we created the entire experience from the ground up in just six weeks including ideation, script writing, sound design, music composition, quality assurance testing and release. One of the major coups for the project was getting Janine Cooper-Marshall, the voice of Great Western Railway, to record lines for the train announcer in the game.
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Shadows of Them was named as a finalist at the Indie Showcase at Develop:Brighton 2022, Europe’s biggest Expo for game developers, the only student game to be selected for competition.
