Scare Maze 2

VGDC Spring Game Jam 2022 (1 month)

Game Description

Scare Maze 2 is a remake of the game jam game, Scare Maze, from Fall 2020. It is a top-down 3D survival game, in which the player must possess objects throughout the levels in order to scare the people wandering through your maze. You must be careful to avoid the flashlight of the NPCs otherwise you may die and they escape through the gates.

I was team lead, and programmer for this project.

Ghost movement
Ghost possession
Ghost scaring
Coding of all possessable objects
NPC sight
Menu system
Level transitions
Audio implementation
Ghost animation implementation

Roles

Takeaways

This game jams theme was "Recycle", which was with the goal of giving people the opportunity to revisit/remake old projects. Scare Maze is something I have been wanting to revisit for a while since I believe we missed a lot of its potential on the initial creation, especially with NPCs lacking any real goals. With this in mind I wanted to recreate Scare Maze with improved AI so that they are trying to escape the maze, by using a key found within. Having that solid base in the original Scare Maze game, made implementation of this game a lot easier, and allowed me to see how far my programming has come in the past year and a half since the first Scare Maze game.