Hide and Creep

Arrow keys or WASD for movement

Find your friends and avoid the monsters to survive

Play with SOUND ON (ideally with headphones)

Made in one week for Brackey's Game Jam 2022

Theme - "You're not alone"

I wanted to play with that feeling you get in the dark when you sense someone else might be following you.

At first I tried 3D and just added a spotlight to a 3rd person character controller and put it in a free scene I found on Unity asset store. Then decided to simplify and go 2D because of the time constraints of the jam. 

The basic movement was from a YouTube tutorial I did a while ago, it's since been updated and the new version is here: Tutorial 

The sprite sheet was the one recommended from the tutorial: Dungeon tileset

The sound effects are what really creates the atmosphere and they can be found here: horror-sounds

I used 2D lighting for the first time which wasn't easy to get to work with the shadows and the tilemaps but I stumbled upon this asset; Shadow-caster, which kind of worked. It's not perfect and the torch sometimes shines through walls, but I didn't have the energy to fix it at almost 7am on the day of submission after pulling an all nighter to get the game finished. 

I actually had major issues trying to get the game to work after building it. It was working fine in the Unity editor but it wouldn't get past the splash screen in the build. Eventually I figured out that one script was trying to access the screen fader before it was instantiated in the scene. Once I fixed that, all was well.

Bugs to fix:

- Replay game button always loads easy mode instead of previously played difficulty

- Shadows not always working

- Hit box for hiding characters needs to be bigger

Improvements / features I didn't have time for:

- Character animation

- Create different levels with different locations, i.e. house, forest, shopping centre etc.

- Create proper hiding locations; in a wardrobe, under the bed etc.

- Health system with powerups