Vestigial Growth: a glitch & garbage showcase of ShelfLife

Join us for a silly exploration of bugs and glitches from our detective adventure / dating game ShelfLife: Art School Detective! ShelfLife has been a project long in the making, which means dormant entities lurk in our project files. We will be discussing how ShelfLife: Art School Detective has evolved from "walking simulator" to "queer art school mystery romcom" -- and which forgotten features became vestigial along the way! We'll share insight into our project, exploring how necessary evolution in our game design guided us to a clear vision. What happens when we visit forgotten areas from an ancient prototype? How does our current build cope when we reintroduce deprecated systems? This session will explore the iterative (sometimes chaotic) nature of indie game development.