Faye Freelance: Rebel Reporter is a Metroidvania / side-scrolling action adventure video game developed and published by J.H.

About

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.

Key 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
• Over 20 types of enemies to battle and interview
• Several bosses with special characteristics and mechanics
• Over four 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 Development

This game is solo-developed by J.H., with music by Jared Emerson Johnson and mixing / sound effects help by Julian Kwasneski at Bay Area Sound.