House Call

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Made for the 32-Bit Game Jam 2020 and renovated for the 32-Bit Holiday Jam, House Call is a nostalgic horror game made in the style of the PlayStation 1 genre classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. You control a psychic medium named Delphia as she explores a haunted house and evades ghosts. Now available for PC and Mac!

Controls and How to Play:

Explore the house and find skulls to win.

• Hold the X or Circle button, or the space bar to see ghosts. 
• Move and turn with the D-Pad/joystick, or arrow keys/WASD (tank controls)
• R1 and L1 or Q and E to sidestep. Both at once quickly will execute a quick turn.
• Hold L2 or Ctrl to duck 
• Hold R2 or Shift to sprint
• While using your Second Sight, press the Square or Triangle button, or press the F key to talk to spirits.

Full story:

JUNIPER HOUSE
MIDDLESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA

The house has been empty on and off for nearly ten years now. There’s interest, sure, over the years, but eventually it always landed back on the market. I’m sure you’ve heard in passing, It’s become quite the impossible project, passed from desk to desk until it finally landed in My lap. Previous owners cited frightening noises, and there were rumors even of previous agents going missing after selling the property. Utterly ridiculous but..... 

I want a professional opinion. Something to have printed out to hand to the more superstitious buyers. I made a call to a friend of a friend in city who’s handled “supernatural situations” like this. It took some coaxing, but tomorrow afternoon, Delphia Jones is headed to Juniper House.

Acknowledgements:

House Call was made with Godot 3.2 and Blender 2.9. 

This project was made possible by excellent tutorials from miziziziz, GDQuest, Emilio, Garbaj, Game Endeavor, Pirate Chip Games, and Royal Skies LLC. These creators and many more have made easy learning materials for game development free to the public, and for that they have our deepest gratitude and respect. Go check out their channels!

All House Call art assets made by Archie and Katy Brown. Sound effects from Freesound.org .

Music by Nicolas Jeudy and DARK FANTASY STUDIO (licensed purchased through the Humble Indie Bundle)

House Call by Slowed Minds 2020, 2021

Changelog:

• ver. 0.6.9:
  various bugfixes to enemy detection and pathfinding

ver. 0.6.0:
all movement and turning speeds tweaked

ver. 0.5.0:
player model and all animations upgraded
new control scheme - added running, ducking, sidestep and quick turn
new death system implemented - ghosts now stop and stab at the player instead of just flying around trying to grab you
enemy ai adjusted to suit new behavior
added tutorial skull and two more normal skulls in the house (now seven skulls total)

ver. 0.4.0:
bug fixes, collision areas altered

ver. 0.3.0:
visual improvements to skulls
enemy and skull placement adjusted
movement speed glitch on first floor ghost fixed

ver. 0.2.0:
resolution scaling fixed

ver 0.1.0:
initial release