The Man In The Window Demo
Gameplay
The Man In The Window is the story of a young boy who finds a new storybook in his room late at night. Reading it told about a monster that wants to play, and once you ask him to play he will appear. Being lonely in a horrible family the young boy asks to play only to find out this monster is not here to be friends. Now having to have his older brother and survive the night this boy must play the games of The Man in The Window.
Credit:
Xander Hacking: Player character/Mechanics, Monster’s look, lighting, UI, audio, and Map Design.
Benton Holmes: AI programmer
This project was a horror game idea from last semester of a monster I created nicknamed “The Man In The Window” Which is a terrifying blob with multiple heads coming from its blobby body that in the original game didn’t do anything, but I like the idea so much I wanted to design a game around the idea. While Designing this game I found the interest of using a kid’s toy as the main ability of the main character so designing a flashlight that with one click works normally and with the other plays a joyful kid song that tells the player if the monster is near by which I found terrifying. With these two mechanics we designed a simple MVP in Unity’s universal render pipeline to test out some lighting ideas and the outcome was this demo which we hope to flesh out.
