Play Dead

Play Dead is a 2D isometric puzzle game. Styled around film-noir, the game is about a detective dog named Gruff, who investigates the murder of Peepers the opossum within an eerie mansion.

The game involves Gruff, and eventually Peeper’s ghost, traveling through isometric rooms. The player, controlling one character at a time, will have to complete puzzles (such as pushing statues onto pressure plates to open doors) to navigate throughout the mansion and find out who murdered Peepers.

Play Dead is made in the Godot Engine 4.6. It was developed by a team of 4, over the course of 3 months for a school project. It's currently available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 

Key Features

• On-the-fly character switching between Gruff and Peepers’ ghost
• Puzzle-solving escape rooms
• Jazz music

Controls

• WASD to move
• E or Space to interact with switches and proceeding through text box dialogue.
• Q to swap between Gruff and Peepers
• Escape to pause the game
• F11 to toggle fullscreen

Running on Linux

Currently, Linux Mint is the only play-tested distribution, but theoretically it will work on others. To make the game runnable, open a terminal and enter: 

sudo chmod +x ./Play_Dead_000_Linux.x86_64

(Replace "000" with the version number of the executable) .

If using Steam's Proton with the Winx86 release, use Proton Experimental! The game will crash otherwise!

Credits

STEVEN H. (GAMEO) - Producer, Assisting Programmer and Artist, Sound Designer

ROBERT E. (BLUEZOOLITE) - Lead Programmer

PAIGE S. (PIESOUL) - Lead Sprite Artist, Character Designer

NICK W. (DISORVO) - Room Designer, Lead Narrative Director