Press Play

TW: Profanity

In our first horror game, we present:

Press Play 

You just settled down after moving into a new place. You've started noticing VHS tapes scattered around your apartment. They're calling to you. What are the mysteries that lie behind these tapes? 

Submission for Scream TV 2024.

Summary

• Scour the apartment for hidden VHS tapes.
• Play the tape and watch the TV from the couch (Press E to interact, pick up the tapes, carry over to the TV, interact and sit on couch to watch).
• Each tape has a unique story and mini horror game. Can you survive? (Spoiler: no)
• Custom game mechanics for each level, from the snowy woods to the spoopy warehouse.

Controls

Movement - WASD

Drop item - G

Pickup item - E

Flashlight - F

Escape - Close note

Spoilers:

If you want to know how to play the game, and are having a hard time figuring out, here are some hints:

- For the apartment, you have to find tapes and bring them over to the TV.  Watch them by interacting and sitting on the couch

- For the woods (Tape 1), the clues are the notes. There's a note in the cabin which hints where you need to go (north from the cabin), a note at the pit which hints at feeding the pit. Follow the blood trails from the pit to find the deer, drop them in the pit.

- For the warehouse, you have to turn the lights on. The fuse box is in the office that is at the other end of the warehouse from where you spawn in.

- You cannot survive either of the levels, which is in line with found footage horror. The goal were the scares within each tape. Tape 1 has  some scares triggered by dropping the deer into the pit. With each deer, you get a unique scare. Similarly with the warehouse.

Credits

Game programming and animation by: Nashmia Riaz

Game design and writing by: Emily Moruzzi

Additional game design by: Michael Grimmloe

With special thanks to: JovianThunder and vortami

Attribution

Warehouse and apartment assets taken from Unity asset store.

Art assets from freepik

Sound from freesound.org