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Casey Mackin

Corporate Grief

Class of 2025 Games & Playable Media

What is Corporate Grief?

Our thesis is a turned-based RPG that tells the story of an average yuppie who receives a fax from “Destiny” requesting he ‘save the world’. On his boss’ request, he embarks on this unwanted adventure to do just that. It is your job to get him through the work week surviving the chaos of the life of a hero. Waiting for him is a colorful cast of heroes, villains, and everything in between. So, get

Meet the Team

Casey Mackin

Aspen

PIXEL ARTIST

MUSIC

Hi, that’s me! I’m making all the pixel art game assets such as backgrounds and character animations and helping with story writting and logo design where I can!

Despite not being a senior in our class, or even a TCNJ student, Aspen has been awesome and writing and produced Corporate Grief’s amazing music!

My Portfolio!

Liz Polilli

DESIGNER AND STORYWRITER

This guy wrote the entire story behind Corporate Grief, designed all of our characters and designed user interface. (This guy fixes everything!)

Portfolio!

Leo Melendez

Murph

PROGRAMMER

ASSISTANT PIXEL ARTIST

When Corporate Grief needed a hero, and none of us knew how to code (nor wanted to), Leo stepped in and offered to code our entire game out of the kindness of his heart (or boredom).

Murph animated our opening sequence to corporate grief and will continue to help with additional pixel art in the near future of Corporate Grief.

Our Protagonist

The main character of our game is a middle-aged man who has been working at The World LLC. for as long as he can remember. Despite this fact, he has no real clue what they do, yet, he is still interested in the concept of moving up in the company. His push-over and accepting attitude leaves him often with a handful of tasks he would prefer not to do. Receiving that fax was no different as his boss

FreeThinker

The second main character is a high-energy and motivated young adult heroine by the code name Freethinker. She has only just started her hero journey but she is eager to make a difference. However, she has a big problem when it comes to her information filtering. Freethinker seems to accept any news as truthful even if it has blaring inconsistencies. This has led her to some strange conflicts that

Paper Wasp

One of the possible heroes in the game is none other than Dr. Malcom Practice, a genius entomologist with a fascination for wasps in particular.

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