Shadow Tag

Student Entrant 2016


SCHOOL
DigiPen Institute of Technology
CREATOR
DigiPen Student Griffin Dean

Description

Shadow Tag is a competitive split screen first-person shooter in which you can only see your opponent's shadow. Featuring a unique blend of stealth, parkour, gunplay, and bizarre humor, the game is easy to learn but hard to master. Shadow Tag supports local play for 2 - 4 players. Grab your controllers, your friends (if you have any), and the biggest screen you can find; it's never been more fun hiding in the dark.

Shadow Tag is a student solo project. It is a split screen competitive shooter in the guise of a lighthearted party game. The game strives to make the first-person shooter experience thematically friendly to newcomers by defusing the aggressive competitive energy traditional shooters tend to cultivate. This is done without sacrificing the game's high skill ceiling and competitive gameplay. Shadow Tag started as a side project; people enjoyed playing it, so I kept working on it. In truth, it has always been a passion project. I made Shadow Tag because I love working on it. Love makes you do strange things. At first, you think you're making a four week prototype. Next thing you know it's four in the morning and you forgot to sleep again. You're shivering in your unheated garage, recording the strangest dialogue you've ever written in the most bizarre voices you've ever made, and scared to death that no one will find any of it funny. I can't lie: it was a blast. I hope you enjoy playing Shadow Tag as much as I enjoyed making it.


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