JoyMasher Rises
Hello y'all!
We love horror movies and it really haven’t occurred to us making anything in the genre before until being taking part in this Jam. After starting playing a bit with the concepts, we though “Man, why we never did this before?” but actually we discovered that a bit later when we created many great game concepts and couldn’t decide between them.
After a hard time picking, we end up with the high-school-thriller-on-an-Halloween-nigh scenario we named The Killing Moon. The game follows three protagonists, Ash (Ashley) J. Raimi, Barbara Romero and R.J. MacCarpenter, who are friends during a Halloween party in their high school. Every things feels like just another stupid school party until lights start to fail and weird things happen. Like, really weird shit.
You will play with one protagonist in each game chapter. Each character will add his or her own outlook on the events that takes place in that peculiar night. We choose and isometric perspective to help in the finding and combining hidden objects and the game will flow mostly like and adventure game, such as The Dig, Clock Tower and Machinarium. The ambiance, on the other hand, will be much more on Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
Level design is quite non linear and many times you will find and item that can be used to open a complete new path in a past room. Also, some routes are only unlocked by one of the characters and once they are opened, they become available to the forthcoming characters. This is a rough sketch of how maps are growing to be:
We opted by as late 80’s and early 90’s horror ambiance just because we thought it would be cool. Also, many of our favorites horror movies are of that time, but this only helps explain why it is so cool.
Since we really, really love horror movies we decided to homage some movies and directors with the characters names and if you like horror movies too, you will probably spend some time trying to guess who is who. I won’t spoil any of their origins, good luck finding them out!
