Otherside Studios Development Team

The Night Hood is an ambitious independent game project focused on creating a cinematic, realistic, story-driven open-world experience in Unreal Engine 5. The game follows Michael as he becomes The Night Hood, beginning with a focused New England prologue centered around Michael, Kailey, and the events that shape his transformation. After the story transitions to Los Angeles, the game expands into a full open-world experience involving crime, investigation, combat, exploration, and Luciano Varelli's criminal empire.

Our goal is to combine the cinematic storytelling and character development of a major narrative-driven game with the freedom and immersion of a large open world.

We're interested in connecting with passionate developers and artists, particularly:

- Unreal Engine 5 programmers
- Gameplay programmers
- AI programmers
- Technical artists
- Environment artists
- Character artists
- Animators
- Level designers
- VFX artists
- Cinematic/Sequencer artists
- UI/UX designers
- Sound designers and composers
- Other developers interested in contributing to an ambitious indie project

The project is currently being developed as an unpaid volunteer collaboration during the early development stage. Contributors will receive appropriate project credit, and any future compensation, revenue sharing, or other arrangements will be clearly established in writing before commercial production. Our intention is to build a strong founding team, create something we can be proud of, and use the resulting vertical slice to pursue funding and transition the project into a professional production. If you're passionate about Unreal Engine 5, realistic open worlds, cinematic storytelling, and ambitious indie games, we'd love to hear from you.