PRECINCT 20: Dead Strange

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:17 am

The secret project I and Richard Bayliss have been working on has now come so far that I'm prepared to tell you something more substantial.

- The title is "PRECINCT 20: Dead Strange", based on a series of short stories under the same title (Google them).

- You play a police detective hunting for clues in a series of murders with possibly supernatural causes.

- You encounter vicious street gangs, wild packs of dogs, sewer rats, and some mysterious beings that like to lurk in the shadows.

- You can go from one location to another by selecting different pathways in the game.

- The goal is to collect all the clues (and survive) to get a password to the ending. Depending on how many clues you collect, you will either unlock the good ending -- or the bad one!
- The ending is a separate load -- and a mini-game in itself (actually TWO games, the Good Ending and the Bad Ending, depending on which password you unlocked in Part 1. )

Screenshots (not the final version):

hammerhead · Post by **hammerhead** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:25 pm

Great use of colour, very noir

Lasse · Post by **Lasse** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:29 pm

Excellent depressive / horror / noir mood in the backgrounds, and a great concept which certainly hasn't been overrepresented on the C64! And it isn't a platformer

Are you using sprite / background priority so that player & enemies will walk behind those foreground objects?

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 3:30 pm

That's right, the game uses foreground effects (signs, lampposts, crates, trees, etc.).

Also, the foreground is used as a "raster" to make the player character walk into shadows:

merman · Post by **merman** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:35 pm

Fascinating, look forward to playing it!

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:10 pm

NOTE: If you want to sponsor this project, please do so through Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/ARYngve

(I already have one Patreon sponsor, but I need more to afford making games in the future!)

NM156 · Post by **NM156** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:39 pm

Looking great Alf, especially those shadows

And the player goes underneath them?

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Tue Oct 24, 2017 5:24 am

Yes.

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:20 am

More screens from PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE.
(You will just have to imagine the creepy sound FX and Richard Bayliss's haunting, moody music...)

Please sponsor this horror-game project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARYngve

Lasse · Post by **Lasse** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:35 am

Creepy! Shadow looks very good on the player, now understood how it's being applied

smila · Post by **smila** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:52 am

like the look of this one

Carlos · Post by **Carlos** » Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:39 pm

Is this game a SEUCK based creation?

OmegaMax · Post by **OmegaMax** » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:06 pm

Carlos wrote:Is this game a SEUCK based creation?

I know right,his games don't look seuck based.

Alf Yngve · Post by **Alf Yngve** » Mon May 21, 2018 9:54 pm

A quick update...

The game is still being worked on. I have made lots of improvements to graphics, level design etc.

Richard Bayliss's music for the game is appropriately spooky and inspired by John Carpenter (as I requested).

Also, the short stories that the game is loosely based on have now been released as a real book! (Google the title and find out...)

Lasse · Post by **Lasse** » Tue May 22, 2018 10:22 am

Excellent, found the book & stories!

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