Sightless Highland Franchise

**Sightless Highland** is a free multimedia franchise of psychological horror developed by SH-Team that began in 2020. Franchise include various comics and video games.

Franchise received its name from mountain range, which is located near the Calm Glade town, where takes place the franchise's main project, "Jameson's Door" (with its so-called arcade version, "SH-Demo").

## Warning!

Sightless Highland is a franchise intended for older audiences, and that covers many mature and adult-oriented subjects and topics. In many instances, there is gore and depictions of graphic and violent content. Sightless Highland Franchise in general is rated 17 years and older.

## Theme

The franchise in some way affects the moral qualities of people, somewhat hyperbolically ridiculing them. In addition, many projects are set up to evoke one or another reaction in the audience (the most obvious is the search for sexual themes where in fact there is none, and so on), which can be interpreted as a "detector". It is important to bear in mind that not everything that is in franchise projects is interpreted in only one way - as a rule, there are no answers in the projects themselves, and their search is what motivates players and readers to continue to enjoy what the developers offer.

## Development

Since the franchise is not a commercial product, games and so on do not have any specific development team, because anyone who wants to help the project can become one. Game development is a matter of desire for everyone, and in fact, no one seeks to make money on franchise products.

### Games

* *Jameson's Door*
	+ *SH-Demo*

## Story

The main setting is Calm Glade, a small town in Europe. It has always been known for the low level of culture among the population, and even with the advent of the 20th century, little has changed. The archives of the city contain information that on the site of the town was a valley stretching at the foot of a mountain range (known as Sightless Highland), and a large trade route passed through it, but in fact no one stopped here for a long time, until in the middle of the 15th century political refugees set up camp, and over time, all kinds of people began to flock here, as a rule from the kind of robbers and bandits - as history has shown, in this wilderness no one bothered them here.

The franchise is characterized by the fact that in fact the action of many projects is not limited to one city, for example, the most famous character - Jameson Saunders - was originally born and raised in one town, then traveled a bit and finally settled in Calm Glade town. Other characters also operate in one way or another in other places.

## Gameplay

The main video game projects of the franchise can be conditionally classified as three-dimensional adventure game with elements of survival horror. The fight with monsters is usually not the main thing, unlike such famous video games as Resident Evil or Silent Hill. The puzzles are also not the main detail, so it's something in between.

The main focus is telling story to player and giving him hints about certain aspects of the plot. For example, most items have absolutely no meaning in the gameplay, but they are important in the context of the story.

Of the features, one can also note the complete absence of medicines, since the games are designed for the player to use the save/load function often, and also because the monsters are not as dangerous as is customary in the genre. Roughly speaking, the gameplay can be described as a casual adventure that does not try to give players a challenge.

Besides, there is no such thing as an ending tree - i.e. games always end in the same way, but with understatement, which should cause the players to feel understatement and thus everyone can have their own interpretation of the final.