Afterlife: Into the Shadows

Introduction

This is a linear, story-driven, psychological visual novel style game, confronting the shadows of grief and depression, their impact on the mind and the people involved, and discourse about death and life after death.

This is a proto-demo submission for the Halloween 2024 Game Jam (hosted by me). It's very very short. However, development will continue after the game jam.

The contents and nature of Afterlife might not be for everyone, as it contains sensitive topics (to some).

Personal Note

I had every intention of completing the game before the deadline, and actually had the time to do so. However, as is often the case, things don't always go according to plan.

I've been unwell and suffered three losses in a short amount of time, which meant I just couldn't concentrate on this game as much as I wanted to. I still had to go to work, but spent a lot of my free time convalescing to take care of physical and mental well-being first.

Rather than not submitting anything at all, I decided to still submit what I had "as is". The game and its progress was originally much longer, but I had to remove an awful lot of content because the Game Gremlins couldn't be whack-a-moled quickly enough!

Post Development

I have every intention of developing this game to completion after the jam. It's become a "special project". And I'm going to take my time on it, creating all custom game-exclusive assets, fleshing out the story, and adding more interaction (such as a To Do/Tasks list), books to read, city maps, and so on.

The project's progress will be logged here and (more comprehensively) on my GameJolt and SubscribeStar pages.

Thanks for Playing!