Find the notes. Uncover the truth. Survive the shadows

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Description

A Slenderman fan-game, made by an indie game developer where the mechanics are similar but not identical, and the psychological-horror story is original.

About

Explore the dark mysteries of an abandoned hospital built during the war deep within a haunted national park. Something sinister lurks within—waiting and watching your every move. Piece together the story of a mysterious family: one mother, eight children, and countless secrets buried deep within the shadows.

Playtime

Speedrun: about 10 minutes

Completion: about 1 hour

100%: about 2-3 hours

Size

Download Size:

1.39 Gigabytes

Size on disk:

1.51 Gigabytes

Features

• Running
• Lantern usage
• Notes
• Doors
• An optional puzzle
• A Stalking AI that gets more aggressive as you progress
• A Weeping Angel AI
• Collectable writings
• Options with keybind remapping
• Achievement system
• Multiple difficulties
• Modifiers
• Cool atmosphere
  

How and why it was made

I started developing this project when I had about 2 weeks of experience in game development. This is the game that started my dev journey. I got my idea from a Youtube video that attempted to recreate the original Slenderman. The day I wanted to learn how to create a big project, without any idea of what to attempt to do, I remembered that video, and I knew I should try that too. So I started, learning from scratch every single feature I wanted to add. I gave myself one year to attempt to fully finish the game, from mechanics and story to even publishing it. Did I succeed into making it good?

DEVLOGS ON THIS PROJECT

Guide (spoilers)

• When camera glitches for a second, look around! Normally, you should look in the direction that creates static on screen. That is unless you start hearing loud bangs. In that case, quickly look away!

• In the hospital keep looking at the brown woman to make her stand in place.

• In the hospital's altar, use the newspapers from the table to order the events in the pictures.

• When navigating around, find maps that tell you where you are! Using them, find yourself on the map from your notebook and see what interest point you want to go to. Using your compass (North -- UP, West -- Left, East -- Right, South -- Down) go to that spot and find the note. Collect all 8 pages and return to the car!

Logs

• Made a map
• Added all main mechanics except AI
• Made the atmosphere better
• Added camera effects
• Added note textures
• Optimized the game
• Quality of life changes
• Added main menu
• Added achievements
• Added weeping angel AI
• Added options
• Added starting map
• Added cutscenes
• Added collectables
• Added loading screens
• Greatly improved the atmosphere
• Added the stalking AI
• Improved the stalking AI
• Added subtitles
• Greatly improved hospital look
• Finished puzzle
• Added all modifiers
• Added Keybind Remapping
• Optimized
• Cleaned project
• Fixed the rest of the bugs
• FINISHED GAME
• LAUNCHED GAME

Version 1.0.1

Lowered game size

Improved performance