Escaped Chasm
Escaped Chasm is a 2019 adventure game developed by "Undertale" artist Temmie Chang. It was released on her birthday on the independent video game site, Itch.io, as freeware and marks her debut as a video game developer. The game depicts themes of abandonment, depression, and surrealism. The game is loosely based on Chang's short film, "Dwellers of the Mountain's Forest," and is the first installment of her series, The Dwellers Universe. The game received praise from players for her video game debut and Fox's musical score. It has a 4.7 star rating with a nearly  thousand reviews, making it the second highest rated RPG Maker game on itch.io behind "Lonely Wolf Treat". An indirect sequel, "Dweller's Empty Path" (also known as "Escaped Chasm 2"), with Game Boy-style graphics, was released on July 10, 2020. Plot. The story follows an unnamed lonely girl, who creates drawings of monsters and lives alone in her house with her dying pet snake, Melody. Without her parents, she decides to explore inside the house and starts writing a diary. On the second day, she meets a strange man with a demonic appearance named Zera, who warns her that  the house is slowly descending into chaos. Escaped Chasm has four different endings, which players can get depending on what choices they make in-game: Developments. Chang developed the character sprites and tile design for the game in only five months, alongside her friend Toby Fox and James Roach, whom she has worked together with on previous works, like "Homestuck" and "Hiveswap". She also worked alongside RPG Maker programmer Archeia, who she worked together with for two games as a bitmap font programmer using the RPG Maker game engine.