SCREAM JAM 2024 gHost's Choice -
There’s a lot going on in this visual novel! The game’s split-screen visual approach creates a great marriage of imagery and text, and conveys the split attention of Serenity, a character pulling a rough all-nighter. Over the course of one night, Serenity is trying to juggle finishing a midterm anthropology paper, keep tabs on her partner, Connor, stay awake, and talk to an online stranger. The narrative is open-ended at many stages, in terms of Connor’s loyalties, the nature of Serenity’s own behaviour, and the true intentions of the increasingly disturbing online stranger, Hoot83. The game has excellent pacing as it culminates the slow night into one that is turning wrong fast.
Thank you for submitting Night Owls to SCREAM JAM 2024, and congratulations on being selected as one of the ten gHost's Choice entries for the jam!