House of Berluscont
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A 3D dithered horror game I made (solo) in just 10 days for Scream Jam 2020. Won both the "Enjoyment (Best Game)" and the "Story" categories, thanks to everyone who voted!
Play as a detective called to the Berluscont family's manor in anticipation of a murder that is about to happen. Investigation is very free-form and both the world and the dialogue dynamically adapt to the discoveries you've made and conversations you've had. Combines visual novel dialogue style gameplay with simple clue-finding puzzle elements.
IMPORTANT: Screenshots and videos of this game can have strange artifacts in them resulting from compressing the dither effect -- these shouldn't be present during gameplay.
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Credit:
Almost no assets / SFX were created by me -- they are royalty free / Creative Commons Zero assets I acquired (from Mixamo, CGTrader, etc.), I just put them together to make a house and a game :)
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awesome game
My computer is having a lot of trouble running this, which is a shame because I love the visuals.
Dang, yeah I didn't have much time to make this run efficiently. Is your main issue with text scrolling by extremely slowly? I know some people have issues with that since it's tied to framerate.
Let me know, it probably wouldn't be much trouble for me to add a post-jam version of the game with reduced graphics requirements and no text scroll ^^
My main issue was that the game keeps crashing, but I was having framerate drops as well.
An interesting game. Loved the story and the atmosphere and the old school detective work.
For a first game jam game, this was really promising. Really nice art direction, some funny moments, and a fun plot to follow along with. Would really love to play more from you some day!
This really was a treat! I'm wary of mysteries because I feel like they're usually an excuse for creators to feel smug about how clever they are, but this experience really was catered to the player and I had a fantastic time playing it. Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it! This is a really solid playthrough. I think you're the only person I've seen the diviner call an "ace detective" on their first try. There are a lot of opportunities to mess that up and have him call you incompetent... :)
It definitely did end up way more mystery than horror -- originally it was going to be scarier but I kind of doubled down on the mystery in the end and now it's just a bit unsettling.
Very interesting, great aesthetics, can see why it placed the way it did in the Scream Jam 2020 rankings! Congrats on 1st in Story and Entertainment (both!)!
Glad you liked it, thanks so much for trying it out!
This was one of my favorite Jam entries!
I can confirm that the Linux distribution does, indeed, work.
Neat!