Midnight Customers
Writer
Midnight Customers is a narrative driven horror game where you play as an unwitting gas station clerk working the graveyard shift. Discover the mystery surrounding the gas station and weird and inhuman customers come in.
Expected Release Date: Spring 2022
Team Size: 8
Platform(s): PC
My Role
For Midnight Customers, I am working as a writer. My responsibilities include creating the customers that come into the gas station and writing conversations between the customers and the clerk.
Dialogue
In Midnight Customers, a big focus of the gameplay stems from our unique checkout systems where the player gets to converse with customers in a branching and bottlenecking dialogue system while simultaneously checking them out. The player will have three dialogue options to choose from, with a silent response always present. The silent response occurs automatically when the dialogue timer runs out.
Cat Food Checkout
This conversation is an example of one of our "Normie" customers, a customer that isn't important to the story. The goal with this conversation was to make the player go "Wait, what?" afterwards.
Man on the Run
This conversation is the first part of a minor storyline you can come across in Midnight Customers. A man comes into the gas station and seems a bit suspicious as well as casting suspicions on anyone who may be coming to look for him.
A Real Cop?
This is the second and final part of the storyline shown above. A cop comes into the store looking for someone the player has seen, and the player has to decide who to trust.