Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners VR

Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners was a VR game shown at the Cal Arts Digital expo and planned to release online on May of 2018, but development on the game was halted and eventually scrapped. In 2019, many of the characters and settings from the VR game were reworked and incorporated into the miniseries of the same name and its follow up film, Barber Westchester.

Development
In a May 2020 livestream, Jonni Phillips revealed that the game was conceived and developed as an exercise in character design, with each of the game's many 2D characters being visually distinct and created from different sets of geometric shapes. This principle was carried over into the subsequent miniseries and film.

Plot and Gameplay
The game's original plot centered around a man who was born from a stork bringing the bag of him in the house and had no parents at all. Now he has to transform the filthy house he has been living in all his life into a college, and he has to learn to truly fall into place. The man has to find the residents of the town if they want to go to the college or not.

Gameplay would consist of players navigating the 3-dimensional game world, entering the various houses in the titular town of Des Amato and encountering their various inhabitants which would be represented as 2D animated gifs in Jonni Phillips's hand-drawn style. In each house, players would be confronted with a question or dialogue prompt. Answering correctly would allow the character to ascend and join the player's roster. Answering incorrectly resulted in characters descending into hell.