The Art Collector

Project Summary:

The Art Collector is a point and click, narrative-based, murder mystery game. The player follows a young art collector visiting an old Victorian house in search of beautiful artwork to add to her collection. However, as time passes, things begin to go awry inside the old house.

Features:

• a visual murder mystery
• search for clues in the Victorian house
• uncover lore and history
• take a wrong turn, and your fate is doomed

Team Contributions:

Annie Durbaca: [Artist] Annie was the main character artist. She created the title screen, made textured paintings, animated some cutscenes, and also contributed to backgrounds.

Angela Medina: [Narrative Designer, Artist, Audio Design] Angela was our narrative designer, audio designer, and also worked as the background artist. She created and planned the entire storyline, contributed to some paintings, and made most of the interactable objects.

Elisa (Lizzy) Gonzalez: [Artist] Lizzy was the character artist for all the NPCs. She designed and drew the supporting character cast and animated some cutscenes.

Iris Shea: [Programmer, UI Designer] Iris was the lead programmer and UI designer. She was in charge of implementing and creating the functionality of the project and made the UI elements as well.

Third-Party Contributions:

Background Music: Ofelia's dream by Bensound

Painting Frames: Pixabay