Visual Novel Concept Screens 1

Here are the first two parts of the mid-term project: The menu screen and the game over screen.

The Crossing (Tentative title) is a horror visual novel/ choose your own adventure game inspired by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the horror anime Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, and to an extent the web series Marble Hornets. The main menu was mostly inspired by Higurashi's habit of doing close ups on the eyes of the characters which is used for a disturbing effect during a lot of the more unsettling scenes. The eye in the center combined with the splatters and red lighting in addition to do some dark edges on the side makes the composition look dark and unsettling, in the tradition of standard horror movie posters and covers.

The Game Over screen was more inspired by the Resident Evil games, whose death screens have a similar feel to them. Since this screen would only load in the event of the death of the player character, the splatters are much more prominent, and would make it the goriest screen in the game as due to the nature of the gameplay most of the violence would take place off screen and be implied in reactions and descriptive text.