The House

The House is an exploration puzzle game with psychological horror elements.

I made it for a university assignment over the course of a few weeks. I had no previous experience with Twine.

It is loosely based off of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, namely his short story The Picture in the House.

It also draws inspiration from games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent by Frictional Games and Resident Evil by Capcom (though I had no experience with the franchise until I was already well into this project; I was surprised to see how similar it was).

I composed the soundtrack myself. I recorded a few different piano tracks and then layered them over one another, arranging them out of sync so that no two loops were the same. I also used a distortion pedal and a beat-repeater to add randomised glitch effects.

The game was intended to have more chapters, but limited time and a restricted word count made that impossible.

Content warning:

The game includes textual descriptions of phobias, gore, and violence against corpses. 

Enjoy.