Coming soon

About This Game

Faye Freelance: Rebel Reporter is a brand new NEWSVANIA coming out in the year 202X. Set in the year 27XX, play as Faye Freelance—rebel reporter—in her journey to expose and overthrow the genocidal PRESIDENT CAPTAIN EVIL. Features stylized pixel-art aesthetic and hand-crafted animation.

Currently in active development.

Features

• Faye Freelance combines the nostalgic charm of pixel platformers with the spirit of Journalism in a stylish twist. Face your foes not with guns and blades, but with pen and ink as you navigate a post-modern-day / post-cyberpunk / post-futurist-civilization AMERICA.
  
• Discover unique pen nibs, inks, trick pens, and journalistic combat techniques as you explore Capital City
  
• Use a handy camera to stun your foes and snap pictures
  
• Switch out your nibs on the fly to change up your style
  
• Discover journalistic tools and techniques to navigate the world—such as a pen that allows you to write on walls
  
• Set your styleguide with unique vocabulary words that alter and customize your gameplay experience
  
• 20 + types of enemies to battle and interview
  
• Several bosses with special characteristics and mechanics
  
• 4+ areas to explore with their own aesthetic, features, and stories
  
• Meet unique characters throughout your adventure as part of an extensively written story

Story

In the year 27XX, the newly elected PRESIDENT CAPTAIN EVIL has declared all NEWS to be illegal. The ensuing massacre leaves millions of Americans dead—killed for possessing, producing, reading, or taking any part in the NEWS. In this dark time for the country, a few surviving journalists seek to undermine the president's tyrannical rule. Faye Freelance, rebel reporter, arrives in AMERICA, having successfully avoided death at the hands of all the president's men. Magic pen in hand, she's ready to face the president and take him down.

About the Development

This game is solo-developed by JH, with music by Jared Emerson Johnson & mixing/SFX help by Julian Kwasneski at Bay Area Sound. It is in active development; if you'd like to support it, feel free to wishlist this game! JH will be updating this page with news (and more screenshots/videos) regularly, including any potential crowdfunding plans.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

There is an incident of mass death that is referenced; the aftermath is shown, but there is no depiction of gore or excess. This incident is referred to throughout the game.

There is also a depiction of a decapitated robot body early on.

There are several depictions of guns and gun use throughout the game. Their usage does not include explicit imagery or gore.

There is usage of poorly-made Nazi imagery--to clarify, it is not presented in a positive light, and the game takes a stern, firmly anti-Nazi stance.