Mystery Manor 

Game description/ features 

Mystery manor is a dark style horror/thriller style game, which is based in a olden day manor style house, the main story line is that the player is trapped within the house with their goal being to find the keys which are hidden within the rooms in random locations in order to progress through the house, but the player must also be aware of the enemy which is located within the house and will be after the player, the player can only survive a certain amount of hits from the enemy before death so this mixed with the game theme and background music help to build the fear and tension within the game I was hopeing to achieve. 

The game has a number of different features that I designed and programmed.

Working on/off flashlight 

Key locked doors 

Intractable keys 

Dark style theme 

Interactable enemy with follow and attack mechanic 

Working HUD 

Pause menu 

How to play/ controls 

The controls in my game are fairly straightforward for most pc users as I wanted to try and use  generic keys from other games in order for the player to be able to adapt quickly and have no issues with the controls, so for the walking I chose to use the basic W,A,S,D which is the same for almost all pc games which is why I chose it, to turn the flashlight on and off I chose to assign it to the F key for a few different reason the first being it’s easily for the player to activate while walking around and the F key symbolises flashlight, next I then decided to assign the key and door interaction the key bind E as this is also an easy button to activate while moving while also being a fairly common key within pc games. Overall with my controls there were two main objectives I was trying to achieve the first being simplistic key binds which are easy to pick up and the second one was for the player to be able to access all of the button and react quickly when needed within the game as with the enemy always following you the player in some situations will need to be able to press multiple button at the same time which is why I made sure they were all spaced closely to each of. 

WASD – player movement 

F – flashlight on/off 

ESP – pause game.

E – pickup key/ open and close doors 

Mouse – players vision 

About the team This project was a solo project that was created and designed solely by myself, my main area within the games design area is either 3D creation or scene creation as these are two areas I enjoy working within and have a genuine interest in but also am looking Into potentially going into this area after university, when it comes to playing games there are a few that stand out as my favourites games are two both phasmophobia and Csgo, with my game being influenced by the style and design elements of phasmophobia this was mainly cause of the ways they build fear and tension in the player which is what I enjoy within horror games.

How to install

Once you have downloaded the zip file you will need to select the whole file and extract it all, once this is done if you click on the file that says mystery manor the game will then run. 

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