Phantomware 0 started with a simple idea: what if a normal night at the office slowly started getting weird? The project is built around that idea, with the player working late while strange messages, glitches, and events begin appearing around them. As the game progresses, the computer becomes more than just a prop and turns into an important part of the gameplay and story.
While working on the project, I focused on building the gameplay systems and making the different parts of the game work together. This included player interactions, the computer and UI systems, enemy AI, scripted events, dialogue, pacing, and various gameplay mechanics. A lot of the work also went into figuring out how to make the horror build slowly instead of throwing everything at the player at once.

The project is still in development, so Phantomware 0 is also an ongoing experiment in figuring out what works, testing ideas, and improving the game as development continues.