BATHROOM GURLS (2023)

BATHROOM GURLS (2023) is a short high school project made by Shannon Wang, Sunny Huang, and Minsui Tang, with strong Unity contributions from SwiftKraft.

This was my first time using Unity and it was pretty rushed for the deadline. As this project has not been completed after its submission, it is very unfinished + glitchy --- only has half-assed "boss battles" implemented, soundtracks fsr not stopping, like literally no settings/UI, and if you die you have to restart the entire game... but enjoy what we have I guess :) oh yeah, that "coming to steam 2023" thing in the summary video ... long story short it was kind of a joke

This game tells the story of 4 girls who initiatally disliked each other, reluctantly going to a field trip to their school's only bathroom. Throughout their adventure, they set aside their differences, realizing they've only "hated" each other for petty reasons. As us three developers were all high school girls, we have resonated with this theme throughout our social lives growing up, as the problem of internalized misogyny has been a huge obstacle in our girlhood. Some girls have grown with the toxic mindset that other girls are "competition". BATHROOM GURLS explores the consequences of that narrow mindset such with self-destruction, loss of self-identity, and the missing out on strong female friendships. Ultimately, the game outlines the importance of the "girls supporting girls" culture rather than "girls putting each other down". 

[ PLAYMODE CONTROLS & MECHANICS]

- WASD or ARROW KEYS to move

- MOUSE1 to dash

- 1 to switch to CECILE, MOUSE0 to shoot projectiles. Your shooting cooldown is 1 second.

- 2 to switch to LILITH. MOUSE0 to swing her bat.

- 3 to switch to ATHENA. MOUSE0 to give the player a temporary shield for a few seconds. You can only activate this ability upon switching to ATHENA for at least 2 seconds.

- 4 to switch to LEAH. MOUSE 0 to shoot a paint beam that does a lot of damage. You can only activate this ability upon switching to LEAH for at least 10 seconds.

- ESC to pause during PLAY MODE. Press ESC again to unpause

[ VISUAL NOVEL CONTROLS ]

- MOUSE0 to advance in dialogue

- MOUSE0 or MOUSE1 to skip dialogue

- CTRL to fast-forward dialogue

[ CREDITS ]

Shannon "Alyelle" Wang - Director, Thumbnail Artist, Player Sprite Artist, Soundtrack Composer, Programmer, Scriptwriter. Listen to the OST here! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5LDaKVL3jSTc22QNPlD7KSj8hHvA_bFo

Sunny "Sunnie" Huang - Visual Novel Character and Background Artist (essentially drew everything visual novel-related), Scriptwriter

Minsui "Jenni" Tang - Background Sprite Artist, Scriptwriter

SwiftKraft (volunteer) - Programmer + Thank you for teaching me Unity!