Audition Tapes

Dear Bethen High Students,

Despite what many of you are saying, I am not a bigot. To support the change that your student council fought for, I am accepting MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS for after-hours auditions and will choose ONE LUCKY STUDENT to perform as our new mascot, Bryson the Bison.

• BRING A VHS CAMCORDER with you and have it recording the entire time you are at the school. If you don't have a camcorder, you can get one from Timothy at the AV Club.
• DISTRICT CELL PHONE POLICY is clear. Anyone found with a phone on school grounds will be eliminated from competition.
• ARRIVE ALONE. This is important. I have to evaluate everyone in private.

YOUR COACH,
JERRY KECK
September 5, 2006

Inspired by the true, unexplained disappearance: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethen_Three

INSTRUCTIONS

• CLICK THE VIDEO TAPES to start the game.
• MOUSE to look around ... especially behind you! ESC to get your cursor back.
• ARROWS or WASD to walk. Double tap UP or W to run.
• LEFT CLICK to interact.
• HOLD SHIFT to crawl.
• YOU GET THREE TRIES to solve the game. 
• THERE ARE TWO ENDINGS depending on your success. Good luck, kid!

THEME and LIMITATION

• The THEME of this game is LIFE. I'm not gonna explain too much about how that was woven into the story, but play the game and you'll see it.
• The LIMITATION for this game is MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS. The story has multiple protagonists who filled out applications to make audition tapes. Whoa, so creative! Hahaha. :)

CREDITS

• Design, writing, code, 3d art, textures, graphics, video editing, and VHS shader by me, HugBug. Made in about a week for Major Jam 6. (Ah, erm... I DID submit a couple of days late, to be fair, and I swiped a bunch of the code from past jam projects, but all of the game + story + art was done in a brief whirlwind of caffeine and sleepy blinks.) This is a homebrew WebGL engine, so please let me know about bugs or poopy frame rates. :)
• Photos and videos licensed from Deposit Photos. I used AI to generate the character portraits and some short voice snippets so they wouldn't be from real people. Noa edited the game trailer!
• I blatantly stole a few seconds of news anchor clip from the youtubes. Copyright King5 in Seattle. I tried to find stock footage and it all looked so fake! Eventually I'll switch it out for something more legal or try to get permission. Please don't hate me.
  
• Music and sounds were also licensed ... got 'em from Pond5 and FreeSound: heartbeat, vcr, static, struggle, struggle2, fight scene, fight2, rustling, running, running2, hiss, jump scare, whisper, carpet, keys, rattle, slam, laugh, steel, bolt, growl, growl2, cratebreak, rattle, metallic.
• Killer voice acting by Noa and awesome Fiverrs Carissa F. and Tj Trueh.

THANK YOU ALL for PLAYING :)