Team Wasabi member feature: Michelle Vinall

This post is a little late but better late than never!

One of our original Team Wasabi members was recently featured in the UK Neo Magazine dedicated to anime, manga, Asian film, games, life style and culture (issue 105 to be exact!).

You know what else? Hungry Whispers was mentioned too! Our goal in JDWasabi Studios is to primarily work on awesome projects and use it as a stepping stone into a creative career. Having Michelle Vinall featured in print and knowing that Hungry Whispers has helped somewhat, is a wonderful achievement.

As special thanks, JDWasabi Studios is proud to do a little feature on Michelle Vinall's work in celebration of our team member's success! With some words on her Team Wasabi experience...

“Working on Hungry Whispers was the best step into the industry I could have hoped for. It pretty much simulates how the game industry functions, just with a looser time limit and you don't have to specialize in one area, you can explore whichever one you're interested in. Not only that but the team itself are like-minded, friendly and supportive and genuinely take interest in your ideas and suggestions. It's as ideal an game company as you could want and has become the shining star of my CV - it's thanks to Hungry Whispers I got my internship at another game company. All in all, it's just perfect! ^^” - Michelle Vinall Dec. 2012

Be sure to check out more of her artwork on her main website: www.michellevinall.com and deviant art at lubrian.deviantart.com! 

Congratulations again Michelle! Here's to Team Wasabi!

-Wasabi

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-Wasabi

About Hungry Whispers

It has occurred me to me that I have not yet written about Hungry Whispers itself.  Here's a little blurb.

Hungry Whispers takes place during the time of 'Ghost Month': a period in which it is believed that the dead roam the earth among the living for a month before they are sent back to Hell.
You play the role of Dr. Yu Ling who had accidently killed a young patient under his care and is on indefinite leave to mentally recover. Things take a sinister twist when he finds that his sister Kemi disappears which begins his search to uncover the mystery of her disappearance  However the more he uncovers, the more he finds that he may not be entirely safe either...

The game itself takes inspiration from many games such as Hotel Dusk, Phoenix Wright and Silent Hill.  It is also greatly influenced by the Asian Horror and the Chinese Ghost Month/Festival which is celebrated in many different parts of East and South-East Asia.

I find that Halloween has been done to death so I wanted something new to work with in horror terms. Hopefully everyone will enjoy the full version as well as the journey in reaching our goal of completion.

Hungry Whispers is a work in progress project produced by Team Wasabi of JDWasabi Studios and Art.Unanimate. We are a bunch of artists who are united by our desire to someday work in the Games Industry.  Our goal is to use Project Whispers as a stepping stone in achieving that dream.

-Wasabi