House Whispers

Your uncle and aunt moved away a decade ago; you decided to buy their property to lease. You go in to inspect the house, but strange whispers and apparitions fill the empty corridors. Find your way to the source and put an end to it all, if you can...  

 

Developed during 'My First Game Jam: Summer 2023'. This game jam ran for 2 weeks. 

https://itch.io/jam/my-first-game-jam-summer-2023

How to play

Keys: 

W - Move forwards 

A - Move left

S - Move backwards 

D - Move right

Space bar - Jump

Mouse - Move left and right for camera movement 

Left mouse click - Click on menu buttons

P or ESC - Pause game

Credits

Game developer - Emma McCaw 

Credit to Epidemic Sound - 

Evil Spell Voice 1: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/D4cxwwtoLY/

Evil Spell Voice 2: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/t3Bqrul6GC/

Evil Spell Voice 4: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/FeixafXhMv/

All modular assets and materials are used within the Unreal Engine 4 starter content. 

Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Version:  4.27.2

DevLog

Features:

- Doppler effect 

- Fade Material based on Camera Distance

- Spline path

- Kill Zone that teleports the player back to the platform they jumped or moved off from. 

- Disappearing ghosts through box collider

- Visual and auditory guides (mainly visual guides for players who either have an auditory impairment or choose to play the game with no audio.)

- Main menu

- Pause menu

- Win menu

- Secret message hidden somewhere in the house

Bugs found and squashed

- A bug where the win screen appears for no reason during gameplay without the player initiating the trigger. This bug appeared 3 times out of 10 times during gameplay. I toggled the win screen actor's physics off and increased the size of the trigger box (that triggers the win screen widget). 

- A bug where some of the widgets were visible when the game's level opened. I fixed this by adding an 'Event BeginPlay' node in the level blueprints and hooking it up to a 'Set Visibility' function node with the 'In Visibility" set to Hidden. I then connected the widgets variables into the 'Target' node hook in the 'Set Visibility' function. 

Note: This is a prototype and still may have bugs. I have fixed all major bugs in this game, but there might be minor bugs still noticeable in the game.