Night Shift
Department of Digital Media Design, Ming Chuan University
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Nowadays, in a high-pressure and fast-paced society, young and middle-aged individuals are often caught in a cycle of overwork and emotional suppression. In recent years, governments have promoted mental health support programs, including free counseling services, indicating that such psychological stress has become a widespread and important issue. This project is inspired by these realities and aims to use games as a medium to help players see and experience these often-overlooked inner states. Night Shift is a 2D side-scrolling game that combines action gameplay with psychological symbolic storytelling 2D side-scrolling action game with psychological symbolism. Players become an overworked soul, falling into a world shaped by stress, addiction, and confusion, and reflect on modern life and mental health through combat and progression.