Digital Slipstream

This game was created by the Project and Portfolio VI: Game Design - Online team, "NeptuneGoblin."

Our game tells the story of Rin, an early 20s woman with a knack for hacking. The setting is 20XX, but a mix of “cyberpunk” and “modern-day”. Characters have futuristic looking guns, everyone wears portable glasses that serve as HUDs for computer-type tasks, etc.

One day, she receives an e-mail from her closest friend, Faye, with a message that reads:

rin i dont have time to explain but get this file to the paper or something. lewmo is creating something evil with MY resea

While the email hinted at an attachment, there was none to be found. Worriedly, Rin attempted to call Faye’s personal line but got no response, and calling her office phone resulted in a “number not found” dial tone error. Scared for her friend, Rin decided to go to Lewmo Industries, where Faye worked, to find out what happened.

As soon as she hands her ID to the front desk clerk and states her business, she is apprehended by security. Discovering she is strapped to a gurney, she’s led down into the facility’s bowels, before being transferred to a large, upright device. An imposing, shadowy figure warns her that she shouldn’t have come here before a headset-like device is lowered over Rin’s vision.

After some time passes, Rin is able to see the cyberspace sprawled out in front of her — a desolate area full of broken-down buildings, glitches in the space, and half-deleted programs. In the distance, a giant wall looms, and beyond that, a massive tower, pulsing with energy, that stretches up through the cyberspace heavens.