𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞

In a world of secrets and sorcery,
your choices have the power to shape reality!

Welcome to The Thinworld Phantasy, a land of peril and adventure, where ghastly goblins and wily wizzards do battle in fungal groves! Through this project I've hoped to achieve the tone and feel of classic adventure games, with the accessibility and casual gameplay of many modern games. 

All the content on this page was created for my final university project, for which I delivered an animated trailer, mock-ups for a mobile adventure game, and a single-player adventure zine! There's more coming soon, so stay tuned!

Check out the animated trailer down below, where you'll be introduced to the first Thinworld adventure: The Last Bile Lord. Harkening back to the rotoscoped fantasy films of Ralph Bakshi and incorporating visual ideas from classic computer games like Castlevania and Drakkhen, I wanted to transport viewers to a weird fantasy world that still has a sense of humour!

One of the most important aspects of the project is the look, feel, and gameplay of the mobile game. I wanted to capture the essence of old-school open-world games like The Elder Scrolls and Drakkhen, while updating UI to create an accessible and modern experience, an open-world adventure game that can be played easily on-the-go!

As well as several static mock-ups I created two pieces of video content, which can be viewed below! In one scene, we see the player use their ingenuity to avoid a tough battle with an ogre who guards a cave, and in the second the player fights the gatekeeper of an ominous citadel...

These mock-ups were created to identify and explore the visual style of the game, and follow on overall narrative or story. When developing this project after graduation, encounters like these will make up much longer storylines and fully-fledged adventures. As they've been designed to look retro on a mobile screen, they look a little crunchy on larger screens, so keep that in mind when watching them!

As a part of The Thinworld Phantasy I also created a single-player 'pocket adventure' called The Last Bile Lord, wherein you will make decisions throughout the fungal groves, to bring about a new age of bile unto these lands or to cast that ancient lineage into darkness! 

These zines have been commercially printed and are able to be purchased down below. They will not be restocked or reprinted! Although I really enjoyed creating this zine, it's not the direction I want to take The Thinworld Phantasy in. In future, I'd like to create game manuals for each Thinworld adventure that work both for tabletop adventures and as guides for the mobile games.

To flesh out the project concept, I also put together the cover spreads of two more 'pocket adventures', Flight of the Goblin Queen and The Wolf Creep's Curse.

I'd also like to thank the following individuals for their contributions and feedback on the project:

• Ste Furey - Acting as The Last Bile Lord
• Victoria Hill - Product Photography
  
• Harry Millichamp - Target Audience Feedback
• James Millichamp I - Target Audience Feedback
  
• Roger Millichamp - Target Audience Feedback
• Alexander Sankey - Music Composer
• You! - For Being Great :)

I'll be exploring and expanding this project more over the coming months and years. I'm hoping to release a series of cross-platform games with accompanying adventure zines. This page will be updated with any new information, so if you're interested in the project come back later and see how it's developed! In the meantime, if you like the vibes and idea of this project, you might want to check out my table-top game CYST!

Thanks,
Jamzilla <|:^D