About The Narrows

This is part of a bigger project, The Midnight Detective Club, which is a supernatural teen detective mystery focused on the disappearance of a 1980s synth-pop band. The Narrows will eventually be part of the Night Shades section of the game. Night Shades is intended to be a comic annual in the style of Misty comics, and pulls together various supernatural aspects of the game. It also links the history of the band with the card games and broader supernatural world the bigger game exists within in. In this case, the ghost story is focused around Love Lost Meg, who appears in one of the card sections.  I also wanted to make the bigger game as diverse as possible, so it's also a lesbian love story. I decided to make each section of the game playable in itself, but with clues in there to help pull the whole mystery together. This game is also a prototype of the interactive comic sections of the game. It's ended up more like a comic photo story - the sort of thing that might appear in Jackie Magazine - but it's a work in progress and we'll see how it develops. Eventually I'd like to have visual links rather than text to move the story along. I also created  a tool to easily load in new stories, rather than having them coded into the game engine itself. so that will make it easier to develop new sections of the game like this.