Afterparty

*****Afterparty***** is a game created and developed by Night School Studio. The game was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC via the Epic Games Store on October 29, 2019. It was released on the Nintendo Switch on March 6, 2020.

## Official Description

In *Afterparty*, you play Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there’s a loophole: outdrink Satan and he’ll grant you re-entry to Earth.

Milo and Lola are now dead, thirsty, and roaming the streets of Nowhere, the outermost island of Hell.

**It’s time to:**

1. Go on the best bender ever
2. Party with dangerous demons and the not so dearly departed
3. Best and impress Satan’s Monarchs to gain access to the big guy
4. Drink Satan under the table

What adventures will you stumble through in the underworld? Every step is up to you. Time to go on the best bender ever, uncover the mystery of why you’ve been damned, and drink the big guy under the table.

### Features

* **Party as two best friends:** Control Milo and Lola with an intelligent conversation system that changes the story and your relationships based on every decision. Uncover their personality quirks and foggy history during the wild events of the night

* **Drink for your lives:** Hell bars offer a variety of libations, each with different Liquid Courage effects to imbue Milo and Lola with specialized dialogue options and abilities

* **Demonic activities:** The underworld’s pubs are packed with drunken games to pass the time. Beer pong, dance-offs, karaoke and chugging competitions all mesh with the dynamic dialogue system for a seamless narrative bender

* **Change Hell forever:** Players’ actions won’t only affect Milo and Lola, but also the people and places of Hell. Finishing a quest on one island might result in the total destruction of another

* **Flirt with Satan**

* **Explore an interconnected network of underworld islands via the River Styx**

* **An original soundtrack by** scntfc (OXENFREE, Sword & Sworcery)

## Cast

* Janina Gavankar as Lola
* Khoi Dao as Milo
* Dave Fennoy as Satan
* Ashly Burch as Sam Hill
* Erin Yvette as Sister Mary Wormhorn
* Jackie Tohn as Onoskelis
* Sarah Elmaleh as Apollyon
* Paul Bates as Asmodeus
* Jon Lipow as Beelzebub

Also featuring:

* Paul Bates
* Paul Bellantonni
* Allegra Clark
* Shaun Conde
* Sarah Elmaleh
* Giselle Gilbert
* Cissy Jones
* John Lipow
* Stefan Martello
* Alanah Pearce
* Griffin Puatu
* Eli Schiff
* Armen Taylor
* Erin Yvette

## Trivia

* *Afterparty*'s main menu screen and its camera transitions were put together by Bryant Cannon, who utilized "overpowering bloom, extreme shallow DoF, and an absurdly low/canted camera angle." His demonstration of the menu can be viewed here; an overhead view of the transitions can be viewed here; and the reflection probes used to create the reflections on the ground can be viewed here.
	+ One optimization made to the menu was the removal of eye/eyebrow textures from humans, which normally cannot be seen due to the depth of field effect unless the game's graphic quality is set to "Very Low."
* *Afterparty*'s logo, which makes use of chromatic aberration, was designed by logo designer Diana Kwok. Its icon was designed by Claire Chen (who had no prior experience with creating logos in the past) and implemented by Diana. Early concepts of the icon can be viewed here.
* *Afterparty*'s fire effect was created for the game by Joe Gatling via "playing with noise textures and the Unity shader graph". A short video of how the shader works can be viewed here.
* A base behavior and behavior registry to control scene flow in *Afterparty* was programmed by Aaron Cheney. Images depicting how the program works can be viewed here.

## External links

* Official Site
* Steam
* Twitter
* Facebook

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://nightschoolstudio.com/press-kit/
2. ↑ Tweet by Bryant Cannon
3. ↑ Tweet by Claire Chen