A BELFAST-based video game design company is preparing to release a new game in which players receive the help of Oscar Wilde's ghost in solving an occult spy mystery.
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries will be launched this month by Outsider Games, five years after the company decided to bring the project to life for players.
The game is based on a comic book from Dublin publisher Atomic Diner, which was first released back in 2011. The story was the brainchild of creator Rob Curley, and the new game imitates the 1920s jazz era style of the book, with players solving mysteries through 'point and click' gameplay.
Players take on the role of heroine Jennifer, who can communicate with the dead, and who attempts to summon her father's ghost after his death but instead brings back the spirit of Oscar Wilde, with whom whom the game's lore states her father had an affair.
The game's description states that Jennifer and the ghost of the famous Dublin playwright, who died in 1900, "investigate an international mystery, discovering a trail of murder and revolution that leads them into conflict with secret government organisations and a British occult spy network".
Outsider Games founder Stephen Downey said remote designers working across the north in locations including Belfast, Lisburn and Lurgan helped bring the adventure to life.
Mr Downey provided the art and lettering for the original comic series.
"I started turning the graphic novel I worked on into a game over five years ago and it's finally finished," he said.
"Even while drawing the first panel, I knew the murder mystery plotline and melancholy story would make a perfect point and click adventure, and started the long process of adapting the story, with the goal of aligning investigative gameplay with the design language of comics."
The game will be available on the Steam platform on October 18.