The Sweet Escape

Known Issue

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About

Made for Gameboy Jam 12, this project aims to provide a spooky adventure through a haunted house with a focus on puzzles, stealth and maze-like exploration. Playing as a trick-or-treating kid trapped in a haunted house, your goal is to sneak through the house to find your escape! Enemies will steal your candy upon discovering you, until you have none left... Doomed in this eternal loop of terror, can you find your way out of this haunting nightmare?

How to Play

• Move your Trick-or-Treater around the house to find candy, keys, and stairs to new levels
• Pickup candy (with A Button) to gain "health" 
• Enemies will steal your candy upon detection until your supply runs out!
• Push boxes and solve their mazes to progress through new areas, and use the keys you find to test and unlock doors
• Use stealth to sneak behind the enemies or hide behind furniture before they detect you!

Controls

Gameboy Input	Keyboard Input
D-Pad	WASD
A Button	J
B Button	K
Start	Enter/Return
Select	L

Re-mapping keys on the keyboard is supported! Instructions on how to do so are as follows:

• Enter options page on main menu
• Scroll to the control you wish to change and select with A Button
• Hit the new key to remap to (cannot remap to a key already bound to another command)
• Reset all mappings to default with Ctrl+Alt+C

Credits

CODE: Shredder.ct
ART: Biggus, Tim Conceivable!
MUSIC, SOUND, LEVEL DESIGN: amannis623

Bittersweet palette by Porcirelius