Project Anomaly: Urban Supernatural Investigator - DEMO

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Welcome to the Anomaly Research Institute, investigator!

Intro

Project Anomaly: Urban Supernatural Investigator is a 2.5D first-person adventure mystery game where you play as an investigator who solves cases by taking pictures of cryptids, urban legends, & mythological creatures as well as befriending them in an open-world environment inspired by late 1990s - early 2000s cartoons & Y2K retrofuturism. 

A discovery-focused light-action narrative game with an emphasis on taking pictures & reading character dialogues as well as research entries to solve cases. The game is structured in short 6 minutes of gameplay in every investigation shift where players accumulate incremental research progress throughout investigations.

Demo Gameplay: 1-2 hours of content. Based on a thesis project about Exploring Virtual Photography for Interaction Design, Narrative Device, & Educational Tool.

Features:

• 🔍 Solve curious & intriguing cases from simple everyday tasks to mysterious complex tasks by presenting pictures to clients & taming anomalies!
  
• 📷 Take pictures with The Beholder, a special camera that can see anomalies which might be invisible to the human eye!
• 👻 Discover 22 anomalies that are based on cryptids, folklore, & mythological creatures around the world and tame 11 anomalies by understanding them in a conversation!
  
• 🌆 Explore East Borough, a colorful neighborhood in New Noir at 4 different times of the day which includes dawn, day, dusk, or night!
  
• 📃 Gather clues by interacting with fun characters to solve cases from interesting lab members to locals in East Borough!
• 🛠 Acquire Beholder upgrades, such as camera storage extensions, new filters, & accessories to help you solve cases in your investigations!

Future Plans:

Guaranteed

Current Demo Updates: 

• Bug fixes
• Controller support
• Accessibility support
• Mac & Linux builds
• 3D models & Postprocessing polishes
• Sprite updates
• More character inspection dialogues
• New secret content 👀

Full Release (TBA): 

• 5 new levels that spans across all boroughs in New Noir!
• New Anomalies, Characters, & Cases

Less-likely-to-be-guaranteed for Full Release (TBA)

• New collectibles: In-game cursors & wallpapers
• Mystery Builder: Create your own levels, cases, anomalies, & characters
• Interdimensional Anomaly Community: A community where players can play & share their levels

Credits:

Created, Developed, Designed, & Written by Adlan A. Ramly

Special Thanks:

Composer & Additional 3D Artist: Hanifa Ammar Amani

Programming Advisor: Ulisses D'Ávila Nascimento

Japanese Language Advisor: Keita Ohshiro

Additional 3D Assets [CC-BY 3.0]: Google Poly, poly.pizza, Smithsonian Institution, POLYGON City Pack, Low Poly Modular Sci-Fi Models (Quaternius)

Additional Sound Effects  [CC-BY 3.0]:  Freesound.com

Current Limitations:

If the game stops working or the save files are corrupted, go to the app data directory and delete all the files here: C:\Users\*YOUR COMPUTER NAME*\AppData\LocalLow\DarkScience\ProjectAnomaly

If you encounter any undocumented problems, please send a message to us with the subject (PROJECT ANOMALY - BUG REPORT: *Your bug*) to adlanarvyanda@gmail.com which includes your specs to be for our future iterations of optimization. Please note that the development is currently handled by one person & please be patient for bug fixes & optimization updates. We apologize for the inconvenience & we will optimize the game to more devices as more testers play the game :)

This is just the pilot episode, everything that you see in the demo here might change in the final version because nothing lasts forever.

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Any likes, shares, & constructive messages are highly appreciated as it only costs 0$ to be nice to us. Feel free to follow us on Twitter at @DarkScienceLabs & @adlanarv for more updates. 

Enjoy & have fun investigating! :)