Phasmophilia

My entry into GMTK Game Jam 2023 

"Roles Reversed" - you play the ghost in a game loosely based on Phasmophobia.  Your haunted home is invaded by ghost hunters.  Avoid the traps they place, and attempt to reduce their numbers when you enter your hunting phase.  Written from scratch in 2 days, so don't expect a whole lot!

Controls:

Up / Down / Left / Right on keyboard or gamepad.  

Press Back / Esc to trigger the game restart / exit menu.

Tasks:

When you are in your haunting phase, you can see the ghost hunters moving around the house, placing traps (black squares).  You can scare the ghost hunters by moving close to them - they will eventually turn white with fear, and run outside to their van to restore their sanity.  

If you trigger a trap, you will loose vitality.  Too many traps and its game over.

Too much close contact with the ghost hunters will increase your anger.  Eventually you will flash red, right before you enter hunting mode.  In hunting mode, you can only see the contents of the room you are in.  If you find and touch a ghost hunter, they die, but also hunting mode will end - for now.  Get all the ghost hunters to win the game!

Note:

There is a game here, but it badly needs balancing.  There is also a nasty bug with collision detection.  Also no sound :(  Maybe I'll update in the future?

Attributions:

- Urizen 1Bit Tileset
  vurmux
  https://vurmux.itch.io/urizen-onebit-tileset

- Pixeloid Font
  GGBotNet
  https://ggbot.itch.io/pixeloid-font

Cover art attributions:

- Phantom Fingers (font)
  Chad Savage
  http://www.sinisterfonts.com

- 32x32px static Spooks \ Ghosts
  TearOfTheStar
  https://opengameart.org/content/32x32px-static-spooks-ghosts

- Thick Fog
  LFA
  https://opengameart.org/content/thick-fog