By The Ocean
By The Ocean was my Master’s thesis which I spent the majority of the 2020-2021 academic year designing. It is a narrative platformer about a boy trying to save his mother and sister in a post environmental apocalyptic world. The protagonist sees aspects of our normal world they can barely imagine, and in doing so, finds solace in death. Although the main character dies as soon as the game starts, that does not preclude them from going on a journey that changes the way they view the world.
Gameplay
Music
I had the goal of creating environmental music which invokes the beauty of the environments they were based on. I tried to avoid using common tropes associated with these environments in favor of melodies and instrumentation congruent with the feelings evoked by them.