CORVIDAE
Written on May 10th, 2023 by Jake Wylykanowitz
Crowfolk Marketplace Concept Art by Tian Yang, environment artist (@ven.the.plant on Instagram)
Creative Director
Game Concept
A biology grad student is mysteriously transported to a world full of anthropomorphic crows, observing and interacting with them in order to find a way back home
- A first-person adventure stealth game inspired by speculative fiction, abandoned structures, and real-life studies of corvid consciousness
- Play as a human anthropologist named Aria, who is sent 50,000 years in the future to a strange world created out of the ruins of various time periods
- You are not alone: This new world is populated by giant mysterious creatures evolved from crows and magpies
- As you explore, you study the Crowfolk, slowly piecing together their culture, history, and Aria’s place in the world
- However, studying may not be enough: She may have to become more like the Crowfolk in order to survive
Crowfolk Concept Art by Cainina Sablan (@chookatten on Instagram)
- CORVIDAE was a long-form directing exercise for USC’s Directing for Video Games class (CTIN 480).
- I worked to create a large amount of documentation about the game, including location scouting, prior art exploration, visual references, and screenplays for sample cutscenes
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