Within the Walls: Extended [Horror][Paranormal](Canceled)

[asatiir]

I've been lurking in the forum for a while, asking quite noobish questions for help (been getting loads of help from many kind users too). I thought it would be a little rude not to interact with you fine folks further, so I thought I'd share my current project with you.

A while back, I built a horror text adventure for game jam on Twine called Within the Walls (available here). Due to constraints, time and software limitations, I was forced to shorten the script.

Story:
You wake up in a dark place far away from home and followed by an unknown evil throughout. As you try to escape this nightmare you slowly uncover the origins of the place and the horror that stalks you.

I am now rebuilding that text adventure on Renp'y with a few extra features:

- Visual and audio assets (the original game is completely text).
- Revised puzzles and inventory system.
- several refinements in the writing (including grammatical and spelling errors).
- Arabic language (as the game was intended to be in Arabic in the first place but deemed difficult on Twine).

It's a fairly large project, even for one that is based on a text adventure, but I feel it is quite doable.

Screenshots: Soon!

Current progress list:

• Short story text
  
• Figure out inventory system.
• Original game text
• Short story graphics
• Original game graphics
• Audio

I've been focusing on finishing as much as I could since last week, so I'm hoping to finish at lest a good portion of it soon as this is something I'm doing on the side besides my day job (and a main project that I'm working on with a team).

[cesullivan]

I took a look at your original game. It will be interesting to see how it translates into a graphic format. Maybe you can show us some screenshots soon? I'd like to see it ^_^

[asatiir]

Thank you! I plan to start on the art once all 3 scripts are done.

[asatiir]

Got the inventory issue sorted out with the help of Alex. Unlisted in my to do list, Donmai gave me a good solution for controlling rollbacks in the game.

Thanks!

[asatiir]

Minor update, I finally got a temporary game over screen for the death bits. I also realized some of the passages need a few touch ups, but it's looking better than before!

[Mistik]

Just played the original game.

Is there no way to survive yet?

It has an ominous vibe so far. Even more than graphics this needs eery music.
Good luck on your game creation venture

[asatiir]

Thanks!

Yes, there are actually 5 endings besides the several death sequences.

[asatiir]

I'm almost done with the script of the original game, due to time constraints and my daily life, I might have to delay the extra "extended" story in a later update.

[asatiir]

I've been busy with other things for a while but I have been working on some of the graphics of the game now that the text and code's first phase is done, here's some to show:

[Cafechan]

Wow, the art looks incredible! So fresh and unique. I like the light coming through the door slats... so pretty.


I'm looking forward to this. Suspense lends itself well to VN format so it's nice to see more people utilizing that.

[asatiir]

Wow, the art looks incredible! So fresh and unique. I like the light coming through the door slats... so pretty.


I'm looking forward to this. Suspense lends itself well to VN format so it's nice to see more people utilizing that.

Thanks! The original game's was inspired by graphic adventures that transitioned between text adventures and point and clicks (namely Uninvited and Shadowgate) which have similarities to VNs in some way, so it kinda made sense to make it the way it is as a VN