COOKING FOR WILLIAM
Video game, visual novelYEAR 2023
ART DIRECTION, PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT Mélanie Courtinat, Nino Filiu, Pierre Moulin
MUSIC Yatoni
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The game is initially presented in the parodic form of a simplistic, casual cooking game, in which we help Marie, a jovial and naive NPC (Non-Player Character), to prepare dinner for her husband.
Quickly bored, the player finds himself tempted to install another game instead, in this case a horror game, Forest of Fears. As the second game gradually replaces the first, the latter becomes populated with monstrous creatures and elements from another register. These “guests” are gradually interfering with the cooking narrative and disturb the main character, who finally breaks the fourth wall, begging the player not to delete her.
The visuals, entirely created with the assistance of artificial intelligence, prove as often to be very effective in generating archetypes.
