螢幕判官 Behind the Screen
18Light Game Ltd. · 2018 · Indie, RPG, Puzzle, Action RPG, Puzzle Platformer
PC
Very Positive83% · 244 📈 Making a comeback 92%
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About 螢幕判官 Behind the Screen
“Behind the Screen” is a game includes various elements such as puzzles, stealth modes and fighting that you can easily handle. Most stories are inspired by actual historical events of Taiwan. If you dig deep into our stories, you will find that it’s not just an “easy game”. Although players can finish the game in about one to two hours, the real thinking challenge will still goes on after you solve it.
In “Behind the Screen”, players will explore deeply into the memories of a suspected murderer’s life, in order to dig out the real truth. The whole storyline is set in 1970s when Taiwan just got rid of Martial Law Period, and Internet hasn’t widely known nor used. Through this game, you can experience how media destroys a person under the help of audiences, which echoes with the meaning of it’s Chinese name: “Screen Judges”. Without witnessing the truth, everyone could be a judge hide behind the screen, unfairly judging others’ crime by one-sided words.
We used a surrealistic picture book art style inspired from old Taiwanese hand-drawn color advertisements and posters. During those times, painter blended reality and imagination to create a realistic style that mimics photos yet is different from traditional oil painting, thus making a picture book style art with great allurement. This delicate and vintage style will bring you strong feelings about Taiwan’s old period, which is absolutely worth experiencing.
＊Spending over one year of developing, there are many hidden metaphors and chapters in this game for players to discover.
＊This game reflects our world. Player will continuously experiencing events related to issues like media abusing, stereotype, etc.
＊Using lots of Taiwanese style elements in the game, which provides you a great chance to glance Taiwanese culture.
18 Light, an independent game studio founded in 2012 by a bunch of college student in their apartment on 18th floor. Our motto is, “Give you an extraordinary journey in a coffee time.” And every game we made is about an adventure. We insist creating games that enable players to share fun and to discuss the story with each other. We blend social issues on our game plots, so besides entertainment players can enjoy our deep stories. In the future, we hope we can change the world through our games.
In “Behind the Screen”, players will explore deeply into the memories of a suspected murderer’s life, in order to dig out the real truth. The whole storyline is set in 1970s when Taiwan just got rid of Martial Law Period, and Internet hasn’t widely known nor used. Through this game, you can experience how media destroys a person under the help of audiences, which echoes with the meaning of it’s Chinese name: “Screen Judges”. Without witnessing the truth, everyone could be a judge hide behind the screen, unfairly judging others’ crime by one-sided words.Art style:
We used a surrealistic picture book art style inspired from old Taiwanese hand-drawn color advertisements and posters. During those times, painter blended reality and imagination to create a realistic style that mimics photos yet is different from traditional oil painting, thus making a picture book style art with great allurement. This delicate and vintage style will bring you strong feelings about Taiwan’s old period, which is absolutely worth experiencing.
Game features:
＊Spending over one year of developing, there are many hidden metaphors and chapters in this game for players to discover.
＊This game reflects our world. Player will continuously experiencing events related to issues like media abusing, stereotype, etc.
＊Using lots of Taiwanese style elements in the game, which provides you a great chance to glance Taiwanese culture.
Development group:
18 Light, an independent game studio founded in 2012 by a bunch of college student in their apartment on 18th floor. Our motto is, “Give you an extraordinary journey in a coffee time.” And every game we made is about an adventure. We insist creating games that enable players to share fun and to discuss the story with each other. We blend social issues on our game plots, so besides entertainment players can enjoy our deep stories. In the future, we hope we can change the world through our games.
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This short narrative-driven game about a boy growing up in 1970s-80s Taiwan offers a well-crafted story with an appealing aesthetic and creative use of varied gameplay mechanics to serve the narrative, earning praise for its meaningful themes and emotional depth. However, players are divided on value, with complaints centering on its brevity (around 2 hours), repetitive combat that relies too heavily on luck, somewhat flat character development, and a price point that feels steep for the playtime, with many suggesting it's better purchased during sales.
A uniquely presented interactive short story about a boy growing up in Taiwan around 1970-1980. The gameplay set pieces, while basic, are meant as narrative devices, and do a pretty good job as such. Whether you find the core theme/message worthy or not, is a different question entirely. I'd rather recommend it than not.3 found this helpful
What a unique short indie game! Loved the boss fights and the art style. I wish it was longer :( Had a lot of fun 🥰1 found this helpful
Really nice short game with a cool aesthetic. The story is very well put together and pretty engrossing. There’s a few different game mechanics in there that are easy to get acquainted with quickly. Overall it’s a short well put together game. However, the fighting mechanic really lets it down. Fights are very repetitive, while a hit landing or a blow being deflected seems to be down to luck more than anything. If the fighting mechanic was improved it would really bring up the whole game.
The graphic is cute, Story is nice but it is short and end fast. Total 3 chapter, 3 type of play method include puzzle / action for each chapter. Playtime around 2 hours not include all achievements. How to judge and what is the truth is the question to ask. Meaningful game but i hope to have more answer than question. Recommend for puzzle and short story lover. Suggest get it during discount period.
250 ntd左右的價格對 1小時的遊玩體驗來說 實在太貴了 (橫向對比其他 rpg maker視角遊戲) 人物刻劃扁平 所有角色都只有 單一面向的性格 配樂還過得去 合理價格落在70 ntd左右 參考 老奉毊的 除靈系列
I liked this game a lot more than I was expecting to. Honestly from the pictures, it just seemed like a bizarre fantasy game with a very imaginative child protagonist, but the story is much deeper and darker than what I had imagined. The story has you experiencing the formative memories of a convicted murderer, but you learn that the story presented is not what it seems to be. And the main character's life had been a series of unfortunate tragedies. There is a constant theme of abuse within the relationship of the protagonist and his father who is both emotionally distant and abusive. Each section of the game deals with a different period of the child's life and your method of progressing and the game play itself changes. It's a very neat concept and eliminates a feeling of repetitiveness you may get from similar types of games. You grow attached and you want to see the hero become successful and overcome all the difficulties you faced. It's an unfortunately grim game but well told and worth playing.
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