The Dealer is a virtual reality game where you deal poker in Purgatory. A resting place for souls caught in the limbo between Heaven and Hell, imagined as a giant, slimy casino. All the players at your table are dead; some of them have been for centuries. Each of them had to earn enough money gambling to buy into this prestigious poker game — the one that decides their fate. Anyone who wins a game of poker gets passage out of Purgatory. As the dealer, you are quite literally dictating a game where people play for their eternal souls.
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Programming, Design, Sound / Daniel Kimsey
Programming, Design/ David Frisch
Writing, Design / Taylor Cyr
Art, Design / Anuva Aranee
Umbral is a surreal single-player puzzle game that explores the interactions of shadow, light, and space. Its world is governed by its own logic and rules.
Players navigate a cube through an increasingly complex series of abstract shadow patterns toward an end goal. The cube must be at the correct position in all axes to enter this goal. The ways in which the shadows fall across the cube and its faces dictate the axes upon which it may move.
When one of the cube's dots is within a shadow, it will activate and light up. An active dot allows movement along a shadow in either of the two axes in the plane it exists upon.
Made in collaboration with Shelley Chen, Qiu Sun, and Kevin Zeng
Full of pirates, romance, and high-seas adventure, Sundered Hearts is a tabletop roleplaying game with an irreverant tone and a focus on musical improvisation! To have any real chance of success, players must describe the actions their characters take through song. Featuring a rotating storyteller role, the game rules comprise only two pages to make pick-up-and-play as easy as possible. Best played with copious amounts of alcohol!
Made in collaboration with Mary Kenney