Help Mark Escape

Help Mark Escape is a virtual visual novel style experience being prototyped by a team of students at Abertay University for our client Embodied Self Defence (https://embodiedselfdefence.com/). 

Developed over 14 weeks for Abertay University's 2022 DES310 module.

The player by default experiences the story as Mark, he/him. The player will help Mark navigate through branching narratives based on real survivors' stories, learning from their mistakes made along the way while in a safe environment. The player will improve their ability to recognise potential red flag situations, trust in their gut instinct and detect potentially harmful behaviours. Honing their intuition in order to avoid these kinds of dangerous scenarios in real life.

  

Primarily you will use your mouse on PC to navigate by interacting with the narrative and dialogue boxes, choice buttons and the scrolling arrows!

On mobile, there are some handy dandy gestures which you can use to access certain menus and enter any red flags you encounter during your playthrough!

Arizona Brodie - Storyline and Narrative
Mona Bozdog - Academic Mentor and Supervisor

Spicy Space Chickens

Robyn Crawford - Producer and Lead Environment Artist
Charlotte Wilkinson - Team Lead, UX Designer, UI Artist, Technical Artist
Liam Rickman - Gameplay and Narrative Designer, Gameplay and Levels Programmer 
Alessandro Loddo - Graphics and Mechanics Programmer
Lochlainn Brindley - User Interface and Mechanics Programmer
Paige Wilkie - Character Concepts, Character Artist
Jake Greenwood - Environment Artist

Outsourced Assets

Ross Kirk - Audio Design

KorgMS2000B - Button Click Sound

Mixkit - Red Flag Sounds

Fonts

Doctor Glitch  

The Bold One 

Howling Nightmare

“Chunky Chickens” custom font by our Technical Artist/Animator Charlotte Wilkinson