Interactive Digital Narrative

An Emerging Media Design and Development Master's Program solo project

After Us (2026)

After Us is an interactive digital narrative coded in Ren’Py. The story takes the player through a world where robots have wiped out all of humanity except their brains. This story is meant to show the importance of emotion, memory, and connection. The game is a solo project including coding, narrative writing, system logic development, UI design, and character artwork that will reach it’s first polished draft after 16 weeks.


Play Online:

alware120.itch.io/after-us

After Us descriptive poster
After Us scene with characters

Story UI

This is an example of what the game's interface looks like. The text appears upon clicks to advance.

Sprite State

This is Number 82, a main character. This image is an example of one state of 82's character called upon depending on player choices throughout the game.

After Us character angry sprite state
After Us character artwork

Character Contrast

By exploring a part of the game, extra scenes are played with characters who don't fit into the original world. This is the main character of that storyline, Mara.