Wormhole: A Murder in Worm Blood
2019 Undergraduate Senior Art Thesis
I wrote all of the code and created the art uniquely for this project, a demo of what will eventually become a completed video game
Below are the designs for the four main characters, Fig, Ned, Ranger, and Snerm, respectively
The characters are all parasitic worms, housed in the corpses of various animals. Despite this they lead relatively friendly and peaceful lives.
The main building design: Fig's flowershop, housed in a hippo skull
Each component of the background was layered on individually, in order to implement parallax scrolling, as seen individually above and combined in the finished product below
The promo pictures of the characters, used as vinyls for the art show my project was included in
Ranger's spritesheet, demonstrating his idle and walking animations
The final product, a brief game demo
The end goal is to have the player explore the same series of events from the perspective of each individual character, later to be uncovered that the characters are retelling their individual stories to the police. Each is riddled with inconsistencies and biases, and it's up to the player to decipher the truth from the lies.
That being said, each person is retelling their truth as they truly believe it, a statement on perspective and empathy.
Music credits:
"Dreamlike" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Dreamlike" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Arcadia" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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