Phasmoscope

Dearest Miss Haller,

Welcome to your first assignment as a Ghostbutler. In the included travel case you will find your train ticket and the latest model of the agency's phasmoscope. These "ghost spectacles" will allow you to see the malevolent spirit haunting our client's farmhouse. Your job, of course, is to remove this ghost. Don the spectacles when you arrive, and I will share further instructions via Marconi wave.

Your devoted employer,

Lady J. Athorn     
— Ghostbutlers, E.C.A.

Instructions

• STANDARD FIRST PERSON CONTROLS (wasd  + mouse).
• CLICK to interact with objects.
• SPACE to fire the phasmoscope's ecto-blast.
  
• SHIFT to crouch and crawl.

(Don't worry, the game will explain all of this stuff!)

Theme

• THE THEME of this jam was "spectacle" ... which I interpreted into the game's central gadget, your "ghost spectacles". 
• THE CHALLENGE was "art, style and visual design," so I focused a lot on the look and feel. 
• MY MODIFIER was "more is more" ... which inspired the idea that to banish a ghost, you must summon several more. During the game you will gather five benevolent ghosts to remove the evil one.

Credits

• Made in a couple of weeks for GDKO 2024, though a lot of the code was working from prior jams. :)
• Game, code, writing, 3D models, phasmo shaders, and graphic design by me, HugBug. This is a homebrew WebGL engine, so please let me know about bugs or poopy frame rates.
• Photos licensed from DepositPhotos, though I did use AI to make one image I couldn't find decent stock art for, and I found a few historical documents on Google image search that I used as base-art for photoshop illos, like the train ticket and true crime magazine.
• Voice over and video by ElevenLabs and HeyGen.
• Music and sounds licensed from Pond5 and FreeSound: rock, crunch, spell1, spell2, spell3, spell4, poof, printer, machine, machine2, circle, circle2.

 

 Thanks for playing :)