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The Big Burger 3:00AM Experience

Project Overview

  • Dialog Focus Visual Novel

  • Late 2023

  • Ren'Py (With images made in Unity)

  • PC​​

  • Solo Project​​

    • Wrote narrative storyline and
      character dialog​

    • Created visuals

  • Play Now HERE!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Some of the Dialog With a Picture in the Background

​The Big Burger 3:00AM Experience is a short visual novel I made in late 2023. To create it, I used the visual novel engine Ren'Py, along with images made using posed VRoid Models in Unity. My goals for this game were to tell a tight condensed story with a lot of narrative in a short amount of time, and to mess with player expectations.

Title Screen

Subverting Expectations

​The game essentially works on the concept of subverting expectations. The game title implies a goofy, silly game and though the story does have funny moments, it takes a more serious tone near the end.

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The storyline involves two friends going to a cheap burger restaurant at 3:00AM. One is more optimistic, and expects a bunch of crazy hijinks to happen, just like the player might. However, she becomes frustrated as the night is mostly normal. The player takes the role of the other friend, making choices that can change how the night plays out, potentially confronting their friend's trauma or collapsing the friendship.

Player Clicking Through Dialog

Creating The Visuals

Beyond the story aspects, I also wanted to test how much I could push the visuals given my limited assets. The game's visuals use custom character models made with VRoid studio, which were then posed in Unity, where I took screenshots of them. I then imported those pictures into Ren'Py.

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I had to figure out the process of doing this as I went, and used several different software programs in the process.

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Here is a video overview of part of the process I used to create the 3D models for this game and others like it.

The Game Can Be Played On Itch.io here:

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