{"id":102782,"date":"2019-10-30T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353129"},"modified":"2019-10-30T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:14:00","slug":"watch-afterparty-director-adam-hines-break-down-the-games-drink-fueled-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/watch-afterparty-director-adam-hines-break-down-the-games-drink-fueled-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Afterparty director Adam Hines break down the game&#8217;s drink-fueled design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the GDC Twitch channel, Night School Studios cofounder and game director Adam Hines dropped by to discuss the design and development of <a href=\"http:\/\/nightschoolstudio.com\/afterparty\/\"><em>Afterparty<\/em><\/a>, the studio&#8217;s follow-up to the 2016 spooky adventure game <em>Oxenfree<\/em>. It&#8217;s a comedy game that mixes choice-driven storytelling and a unique drinking mechanic to fuel players&#8217; journeys out of hell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hines, who co-founded Night School with his cousin Sean Krankel, had a lot to share about the lessons learned from making <em>Oxenfree <\/em>and the Mr. Robot mobile game <em>Mr.&nbsp;Robot:1.51exfiltratiOn<\/em>. In particular, he broke down some parts of the writing process, how the team approached creating a vivid art style on a low budget, and how the studio is thinking about keeping its doors open while shipping small narrative games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a <em><strong>hell <\/strong><\/em>of a good conversation, one you can now watch in its entirety in the video above. For more game developer interviews and select GDC talks, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitch.tv\/GDC\">follow the GDC Twitch channel.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the GDC Twitch channel, Night School Studios cofounder and game director Adam Hines dropped by to discuss the design and development of Afterparty, the studio&#8217;s follow-up to the 2016 spooky adventure game Oxenfree. It&#8217;s a comedy game that mixes choice-driven storytelling and a unique drinking mechanic to fuel players&#8217; journeys out of hell.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}