Break the circle was created as a Bachelor project in Game Design at the University of Applied Science in Berlin. Supervised By Prof. Sebastian Stamm and Florian Grolig. Devellopment time spanned for two and a half month.
This atmospheric Horror Game makes a dive in the subject of abusive relationships. Revisit how the protagonist got here and wander through the deepest areas of his thoughts.
This Project led me into new experiences such as being a team leader, working in a professional environment for the characters voice in collaboration with Kyanite studio and Léa Marriage, and collecting personal statements of victims of abusive relationships to ensure the best depiction possible.
Here is a Gameplay of my game by CJUgames. I was especially happy about the very positive reception I got not only from him, but from the comment section as well. This was a great moment of achievement for me, due to the amount of people talking about their story and agreeing that the game depicted this perfectly. Not only that, but one person even stated that the veiwing of this gameplay made him/her realize that their current relationship was an abusive one and that they had to make a change.
Credits:
- Art, Design, Story, Project Lead: Maximilian Pichler
- Coding: Niklass Hassman, Maximilian Pichler
- Sound Design: Hamid Bennacef, Théo Clavel, Maximilian Pichler
- Voice Actor: Léa Mariage
- Vocal recording & mixing Engineer: Timon Ruffert (Kyanite Studio)
A huge thanks to:
- Prof. Sebastian Stamm (Supervisor)
- Florian Grolig (Supervisor)
- Kyanite Studio (Recording Studio)
- Fel Perez (Music)
- UE-Berlin (University)
