The Last House

Roles: Systems, Gameplay, Level design and Set Dressing

DESCRIPTION:

The Last House is a First-person Point and Click Adventure game. The game takes inspiration from Silent Hill's PT. The development of The Last House was to demonstrate an interconnected system. The player starts inside a house that loops. The player cannot escape the house. Every time the player exits the house, the player re-enters the house. The objects in the rooms change for every loop. Events are triggered dynamically, causing spooky things to happen in the rooms.

Year: 2021

Platform: Windows

Genre: First-person Point and Click Adventure

Engine :Unreal

Brain of the system

Brain Door sending loop level to other objects

The game has one brain controller door that controls everything in the game.

The brain sets the game loop state.
Depending on the loop state, events trigger
- Some events sequential triggers after interacting with specific game objects.
- For example, in loop 2, the key is found on the ground. After interacting with that key, a book falls and triggers physics for newton's cradle to make a sound.
The brain door triggers, re-locates, and spawn actors based on loop level.
The brain even controls the power supply of the house that makes the lights flicker or switch off or put them in a damaged state.
Loop 3 A time code spawns a time code. It is needed to set up a clock in the house. Setting up the clock adds blood decal and triggers a cut scene.

Mechanics and Gameplay

Player and camera movement:

The player moves from one position to another by clicking the mist vapors.
The camera pans from the current location to the clicked location by finding the world locations of the mist.
After the movement the camera locks on a set perspective.

Object highlights and Interaction

The world is filled with interactable objects.
When player hovers the mouse on to the interactable object, the object is highlighted.
The player can click the object which will bring the object in front of the camera. The player can click it back to put the object back.

World Narration:

When the player interacts with objects a dialog box opens up telling a narrative through the player's perspective.
When player interacts with the world objects, sometimes lights flicker, spooky sounds play, objects move suddenly.
At a certain point, the entire room changes with blood splattered around.

Doors:

In the game, doors play an importent role with the world events and narrative progress.
The player is stuck in a house and on exiting using the final door, the player respawns at the level beginning and the world will reach next stage.
During the 3rd stage, the game is at the ending with a puzzle clock.

Final Puzzle and cut scene:

In the 3rd stage the player will find a note near the television that says a specific time.
The clock will have its hands glowing showing the point of intrust.
The player has to set the time as described on the note that will play a loud sound and trigger a cut scene.
A hound will come of a room and kill the player.
The has a tragedy game ending matching the story.