Super Super Rok

Super Super Rok is an interactive comic I created as my graduation project at Warsaw School of Advertising in 2017. In 2013, Riot Games published their Spirit Guard Udyr motion comic (unfortunately, the original interactive version has been taken down) to promote a new skin for their League of Legends champion Udyr. It made a big impression on me; I wondered how it was made. A year later, I was a student at my new school; one day we were asked about the topics of our graduation projects - just the very first ideas. I still remembered Riot's motion comic and I wanted to do something similar. I was still clueless when it came to "how" and a fair amount of googling had not helped me much. I found, however, a few interacive webcomics that featured branching storyline and let the reader make choices from time to time, which was basically what visual novel games do. What is more, at the time I could name a few visual novels that didn't have any choices - the player's role is just to click through the linear story with no gameplay at all (this is actually a subgenre - kinetic novel). Realizing that there are games strikingly resembling interactive comics and interactive comics strikingly resembling games made me raise two questions: where is the line between the two, and, can I use a game engine to create my project? It turned out that, with some tweaking to the code, I could - so I did. Ren'Py, an open source visual novel engine, turned out to be pretty easy to work with; the Python-speaking community was there to help with more advanced changes, too.

The comic itself is a keepsake for me and my friend, Nira (the redhead also called Stefan), to remember the great times we've had together during a year we spent as flatmates. Initially we were going to create the project together; eventually each of us made a piece of their own - I produced the comic, she created an animation - on the same topic.

The project is available in Polish only - but it still has homemade pictures and music to be enjoyed! Kudos to my friend Matt for helping me with arranging, recording and mixing.

Created with Ren'Py and Krita.