Ever since I started making Pixel Art, I had always wanted to create tangible stories and worlds just like the ones I had experienced within some of my favourite pieces of media. Of course, at the time I lacked both the experience and the perspective to achieve this. Yet, this desire continued to grow within me and soon I began actively designing and writing characters.

During my Third Year of University, I was presented with a dilemma, which was what I wanted my Final Major Project to look like. I knew it needed to be something uniquely my own, that fulfilled all of my creative desires, but also be something that could be developed and iterated upon for an entire year. In the end I decided to make a game, something that became possible thanks to GB Studio, a Free-to-Use, Open-source game development engine for games that could run on original Gameboy hardware.

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I knew that some of my more tangible writing projects I was working on at the time simply wouldn't work within both my own limited abilities and the restrictions present within the engine. So I reached back into my bag of existing artworks for inspiration. Ferris Himura, originally just Ferris, was the third character I ever made with Pixel Art and one I had grown quite attached to, she had various different iterations over the years. I felt that this was the perfect time to give her a story and world.

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As the project developed I realised that that characters that I was writing contained tangible aspects of myself, and my understanding of my neurodivergence. I chose to lean into that idea to make the narrative of my game a way of communicating those realities though fun characters and emotionally resonant scenarios.

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At the end of my third year, I was able to create a full, playable demo for Episode 0 (A pre-story chapter) of Ferris' story containing two main scenarios and at least twenty different named characters to interact with within a limited open-world. ​Whilst I have released a demo build of -Episode 0- it is by no means finished and I am still developing story ideas and characters within this world as a result a lot of what is here is subject to some amount of inevitable change.

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With that being said, what follows is a introduction to the current outline, characters, world and a link to play the demo of Episode 0 now at: https://ozychlyrus.itch.io/part-time-miko-episode-0