Last chance, if anyone’s willing to “beta test” the story for my #Playdate horror scavenger hunt game and read through the script document. It goes to recording soon.

OUTSIDE PARTIES is nearing release! #IndieGame #HorrorGame #horror #gameDev #OutsideParties

CALL FOR TESTERS for #OutsideParties, my #Playdate horror game. A “hidden-picture”/“Where’s Waldo”-style audio/image scavenger hunt (no time limit) across a large panoramic image you can zoom & pan. Not suitable for small children: scary sounds/images/vibe, some violence, and a slow pace requiring lots of gradual exploration of the image. The pieces are coming together towards release at last!

(Testers must promise not to reveal any spoilers to others.)

Teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoV-zXigJtg&t=88s

Italian physicist Cristina Roccati (1732–1797) developed a method of astral travel via an intricate throne that extracted human blood, processing it using refracted sunlight and carefully crafted runes. She discovered a vast eldritch realm she called “l’Esterno”: “the Outside.”

Abandoning her work late in life, she began obsessively making images of “le sfere nere”—mysterious “black spheres” that terrified her. What are the sfere nere? We may never know. #playdate #outsideparties #horrorgame

I wanted to add a little grain to OUTSIDE PARTIES (when fully zoomed in). I didn’t want a fixed unchanging texture, but nor could it be random (which would “sparkle” when you crank). Solution: slice up the noise image in a deterministic way based on the view coordinates and current zoom. Modulo (remainder) does the trick of choosing a pseudorandom flip for each slice.

Here it is, with a test “doodle” added to better show the slicing. It only LOOKS random.
#playdate #outsideparties #horrorgame