Hey hi!

I'm -hexcavator-. For the last month and a half I've been super lucky to work with Elijah Forbes on B-Sides, a short point & click adventure game about Zee, a non-binary college student on a road trip home who gets stranded overnight in the nowhere town of Paradise. Before long, Zee finds themselves entangled in an eye-opening story of doubt, self-discovery, and the paranormal, all centered around a mysterious disappearance ten years earlier.

You can download B-Sides free for Windows or Mac here: https://ottomaddox.itch.io/b-sides

We also made a quick trailer to give a sense of the game's style and tone!

Design-wise, we tried to preserve the look and feel of "classic" adventure games while keeping our interface as accessible and minimal as possible. We wanted the story and characters to take center stage, so we focused on conversation and exploration to drive the plot forward rather than complex puzzle-solving.

The creation of B-Sides was supported by the Hand Eye Society and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival via Comics X Games, an annual exhibition and jam featuring collaborations between game developers and comic artists. In addition our itch page, you can check out the rest of the jam games and TCAF as a whole via the links above.

We're super excited to share what we've made, and we hope you'll spend some time exploring Paradise and getting to know Zee!

Thanks so much!