SYNOPSIS:
ShelfLife: Art School Detective is a Mystery Adventure Game featuring a cast of loveable weirdos! Befriend and investigate 7 potential suspects. Use psychic powers to astral project into their artwork and learn their secrets. Unmask the mysterious ART KILLER that’s terrorising your campus!

STORY:
Follow the story of Johana: a Psychic Art Student who has been framed for the murder of seven artworks. Team up with Yamato, the school Security Guard, and help Johana investigate 7 potential suspects, each with their own motives, agendas, grudges and secrets. But time is short, and if Johana can't find the REAL Art Killer in 14 days, Cruston Beaux-Arts Academy will be demolished and rebuilt into a disgusting Water Park! Johana's future is on the line, so uncover the Art Killer, clear their name, and save the school they love!

GAMEPLAY:
ShelfLife: Art School Detective is a 2.5D adventure that emphasises relationship-building, exploration, and psychic powers. Assume the role of Johana, a lazy but well-meaning Art Student who has been framed for art murder! Build connections with 7 potential suspects over 14 in-game days. Astral project into artwork to uncover secrets from characters’ subconscious. Collect clues & evidence to build your case, and unmask the mysterious Art Killer before time runs out.

DETAILS:
ShelfLife is a coming-of-age LGBTQ+ mystery featuring pixel art and HD ‘toon graphics, currently in development for Windows and Nintendo Switch. ShelfLife is set in 2012 during a post-earthquake period in the fictional New Zealand town of “Cruston”, and explores themes of gender, coming-of-age, identity, self-expression, capitalism, commodification, rebellion, and the paranormal.

Through receiving funding from the Whakawhanake Te Ao Niko Interactive Development Fund via the New Zealand Film Commission Fnife Games have been to bring the storyworld of ShelfLife: Art School Detective to life as proof-of-concept demo. ShelfLife: Art School Detective is currently in development for PC and Nintendo Switch, for a 2025 release date.

|/| ShelfLife: Art School Detective on Steam ⫸

SYNOPSIS:
A story-driven GameBoy game about an emo teen in 2007 with a HUGE gay crush on his best friend! Explore, puzzle-solve and button mash your way through gratuitous dialogue in this GameBoy adventure about awkward teens!

STORY:
Small Town Emo follows the story of Ken, a seventeen year old emo with an awkward crush on his goofy best friend; Fergus. In the lead up to a costume party, Ken and Fergus spend the day loitering around their small New Zealand town. Can Ken find the courage to confess his feelings, or is he doomed to have depressing song lyrics as his Messenger status for the rest of eternity?

GAMEPLAY:
Small Town Emo is a romantic walking simulator with a healthy dollop of mid-2000's awkwardness! Take control of main character Ken, and guide him through a series of small town New Zealand locations rendered in pixelated GameBoy-style graphics. Talk to characters, solve simple puzzles, make (occasional) dialogue choices, and explore! Navigate through the complexities of a teenage crush, and let the story of this small town emo kid unfold around you.

DETAILS:
Small Town Emo is a queer coming-of-age romance story set in small town Aotearoa. It explores internalised homophobia, "bromances", early internet/emo culture, and queer teen identity. Small Town Emo was selected to participate in Pride at Play; a curated exhibition of LGBTQIA+ games from Oceania and Asia Pacific presented in association with St Kilda Film Festival and Monash University.

Small Town Emo was also chosen to be a part of the 2023 Queer Games Bundle, an annual Pride Month initiative to raise funds (over 200,000 USD!) directly for queer creators. Additionally, Small Town Emo won the ‘Narrative’ and ‘Diversity’ prizes at the 2023 New Zealand Game Awards. Small Town Emo’s full release for PC and Analogue Pocket will be early 2024.

|/| Small Town Emo on Steam ⫸