Hello everyone! Happy to announce that we're finally releasing the demo for After School Afterlife.
It has taken awhile with the project being on hiatus for awhile due to Sunny and I (happysquared) working on a separate game (Rusted Moss) that saw a 2023 release with multiple updates after that delayed our full commitment.
After School Afterlife has been a huge passion project of ours. We wanted to use our cultural backdrop (we're both Singaporean) to tell a fantastic tale of exploring a Peranakan mansion while encountering spooky ghosts and delicious cuisine. We seldom see our local culture serve as a setting and think there's a lot of fun South East Asian folklore to explore!
We've certainly had fun introducing Singaporean culture to our non-local teammates, Hokori and Riuku. (Riuku was not a fan of irvin's fish skin...)
Our family has also been enthusiastic about sending us pictures for our photo references. Hope you enjoy the sneak peak into the full game and we'd love to hear your feedback!
Our family sent us so many pictures (most of them of food) that I can't include all of them here. Still, it was a nice feeling seeing how excited and supportive they all were even though they don't really play games!
(I admit I was delighted to surprise my non-Singaporean teammates as to what our local ice cream sandwiches are like.)