The Black Rose is a first-person, psychological horror experience set in a bar named 'The Black Rose'.

You, the player, are going on date, but as it turns out, the bar is a lair owned by a demonic creature who punishes people that commit infidelity; your character being one of them.  

Over the course of the game, the player will discover their own dark secret as well as the true nature of the bar by interacting with objects, exploring and discovering notes.

Sound Design: handled sound design, music composition and audio scripting

Gameplay Scripting: I helped to build gameplay events and did assisted with UI scripting.

Project Owner: helped to manage and guide the team's priorities and layout of the project schedule.

Themes and Key Words: Dating, Demonic, Infidelity and Ominous

Our primary goal was to build a narrative based horror game that didn't rely on jump-scares and that focused more on story-telling and atmosphere to unnerve our players.

One of the events I designed was the 'Man Encounter'.

The player encounters a man who is standing face to the wall.

His unsettling breathing noises and glitchy animations create a sense of unnaturalness and unease.

When the player is close enough, the lights above him go out and he vanishes. The experience is intended to be unexpected and act as the starting point where the player really starts to have more direct encounters with the supernatural elements of the bar.

The Ambience Manager uses coroutines to control fading layers in and out between as the player walked between different rooms

The Music Manager held all the functionality for playing and fading music layers. These were mostly called from event triggers

Random audio container that takes in an array of audio clips

There were many issues with the Resonance Audio Plugin. As a solution and additional challenge, I wanted to build my own reverb behaviour, using a lerp to smoothly change between reverb states.

I setup a list of float variables to represent parameters on the reverb filter components that I wanted to change between rooms. 

Using a coroutine, I then lerped the current value to the desired value.

Functions above will call this coroutine, inputting the correct values.

Trigger boxes are then set at the entrance of each room to call the transitions when the player enters them. 

This project was our introduction to the agile work method. 

Every morning, we would start with a stand up, detailing what tasks we worked on yesterday, what we are going to work on today and if we have any blockers.

We all agreed to flex hours of 10:00 - 16:00, however were encouraged to work roughly 6-8 hours a day (unless sick or had urgent matters to attend)

To help organise the project (once our game direction was settled) I set up a game sequence board to propose to the team, detailing what each loop could contain. Information ranged from assets,aesthetics/feeling to events and specific behaviours that we needed.

A project schedule was also laid out, along with a priority list for the last two weeks of our polish stage. 

We were also constantly iterating on this as the project's needs changed over the weeks.