ACHROIA GRISELLA

The predator in the beehive

 

It has been 5 years since ▬▬▬▬ Icarus was isolated from the world. while the shutdown managed to save the city and its population, the then-beloved mayor  leader kept it going with no further explanation, leading to a dramatic increase of inequalities, corruption in law enforcement institutions, and leaving the poorest with little to no access to vital resources.
 
The wealthiest and the skilled can earn a living by working for the city. Doing.. things. (No one knows what the workers do. You go to the upper city, the money goes to your family. That's it).
 
The rest is just a nuisance in their system. Keep in check, don't ask for anything, but most importantly : do not dispute the law. Goodbye fair trials, hello execution or deportation. Hard to accept for an ex lawyer.
 
It all went so fast. Shutdown, no jobs, Reed joining the forces, Kara... I managed to save her mask tho. 
1312, it's called. It can gather all available CCTV footage of the past days for a location, and reconstruct the exact scene as holograms. She built it to spy on whatever is happening inside the upper city Hive , and that got her killed.
 
Me and Reed have been trying a different approach, but it'll take some time before he can give me access to every CCTV we need. In the meantime, I found out that this ability can help people right now.
Find a shady accusation, help the victim gather evidence of their innocence, convince the cops to make a trial, win, run away before whatever money pig was involved kills me for revenge. Simple huh? Yeah, sure. It was. Until I found KID.

"What's a phoenix that keep's on burning ?"

"A fucking Moth"

Thanks for reading ! 
This game was my entry for the 2025 Unity Game Jam, as my first (well, and a half) game ever. I'm a full time AR/VR Unity developer, so this was more of a tools and medium discovery than an Engine lesson :)

I initially planned on so many "little" things : storyboard, cinematics, an investigation gameplay followed by a trial gameplay, cool dialogues...
... I ended up spending 10 hours on assets gathering and world building LOL. So there it is : no cinematics, no trial, dialogue-ish exposition, and a smaller investigation loop :(

But hey, 'twas fun! Who knows, maybe i'll finish this one day...

- Sashell

KID'S ASSET WAS GENERATED WITH AI, DUE TO A LACK OF TIME. If you are a 3D artist that could fit the style, feel free to contact me.