12 ABROAD ST.

12 Abroad St. is a textual adventure game with ASCII visuals. Dive into the city of Seaforth and attend a party thrown by old friends. Play as Charlie, progress through your birth city, stumble into weird places and meet singular characters. Your possible actions are determined by verbs you can find and store in your inventory, and that you can also merge to create new action verbs, thus giving you plenty of other opportunities. Will you touch the window? Flirt with the tree? Open the dog? That’s up to you. Choices can, or not, have consequences and lots of narrative branchings are to find by replaying! 12 Abroad St. is an invitation to think about langage, feeling of discrepancy, and above all the quest of meaning and of identity within a not-so-coherent world.

Within a 9 person team, I work as a Narrative Designer and Writer, collaborating with another Game Designer on more systemic questions.

You are put in the shoes of Charlie, a person coming back to their childhood seaside city for a highschool reunion party. They do not want to be here, but they promised an old friend they would come anyway. Indeed, Charlie is in a transitory moment of their life, where they feel like they’re a failure and well behind everyone their age : coming to that party is putting them right in front of their failures by seeing how well everyone else has done so far. Reluctantly, Charlie rediscover the city they were so sure to remember, getting lost while trying to find their way to 12 Abroad St, where the party is happening...

This project started during our second year of master at CNAM-ENJMIN, and we’re still currently in the conception phase. Keep an eye for the game's lastest updates by following our LinkedIn Page !

You can download 12 Abraod St.’s demo directly on its Itch page, and you can wishlist it on Steam to support us!

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