IRONMOUSE GAME JAM WINNER 2024!!!

(Game Jam can be found Here)

The Premise

Follow Mouse's singing to find the fragmented souls that appear as props from popular musicals. Then return them to their rightful place, before you lose your soul as well. 

Every play through is unique including scares, pickup locations,  and antagonist difficulty. 

Team

• Rearana/Regaliarose - 3D Artist/Technical Artist   Twitch Channel
• Watermyolon - 3d artist/Character Artstation
• Roger - Programmer
• Smashy - Concept Art
• Jae - Sound Designer
• Uncle Skeleton - VA  Twitch Channel

Why This Game

Since the game is realistic horror, we wanted to come up with an idea that showed our love for Ironmouse. Her love for Opera and Musicals was the driving force behind the start of this game. 

While the initial plan has changed greatly since August 1st the one thing that was clear was we wanted to use Mouse's singing and sound to create an atmospheric sound based game. 

We then also used musical scenes from some of the Mouse's covers and did the research to try and recreate things in the world. 

We also knew from the start that we wanted the main menu to use Mouse's Rendition of Ave Maria ,  which came out better than imagined.

That being said, just roaming and listening to Mouse singing  was not enough for the horror. We ended up adding a roaming entity as the antagonist. 

We also knew at the beginning we were making a maze-like system, and thus the scale and size needed to be significant enough to accomplish this. Luckily the reference of the opera house used was mostly symmetrical so we were able to build the structure in a modular format. 

The end result turned into a winding set of rooms, hallways, and dead ends. The opera house uses blueprints from the Budapest Opera House in Hungry which was recently remodeled and has lots of references to look over.  While the level is mostly a block out of everything it has a lot of architectural properties that added to the creativity of the design. Building the maze that it is now. 

Contribution

Everyone equally contributed in the design of the game and over time it was modified to fit the fun and narrative of the game as needed. 

Story

      A long time ago the Queen of Hell, Satanas, was a star performer at one of the greatest opera houses in hell. Her captivating performances made it renowned all across Hell. It was, at least, until she stopped performing... Due to her sudden and strange disappearance, the opera house began losing visitors until it was merely a husk of its former glory... However, because she put her soul in every performance, fragments of her soul were left behind. For years after she left, the opera house fed off those fragments, which in turn created a sentient entity. It lures souls with the stolen voice from the queen herself as it slowly gains its audience back, becoming relevant again. There was only one problem, the audiences became lost souls, trapped and never able to leave the opera house ever again.

 - This is what happens when a part of hell is abandoned for as long as it was.