DESCRIPTION

Heat of the Moment is an intense, fast-paced game where you must make quick decisions to escape a burning house. As you pass through scenes, you will find items that open up new options and encounter characters like the arsonist and the assassin.

Each run will result in one of 21 possible endings. The game is highly replayable and I encourage replaying it many times to see how many different endings you can get. It also features a cross-game storyline unlocking new items, characters, scenes, and endings.

RECEPTION

This project received a 1st mark for its nonlinear story, item management puzzles, and scene parsing system facilitating modding. It won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2022 University of York Interactive Media Showcase.

DEVELOPMENT

This was a 1st year university project developed over the course of 3 months in Processing. Scenes were rendered in Blender, pixel art was made in Aseprite, and sound effects were made in Logic Pro (mostly with Massive) . It was primarily inspired by early dungeon crawlers, Ape Out's art style, and narrative in games like Katana ZERO.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, macOS
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Author	Elliot George Mann
Genre	Role Playing
Tags	Escape Game, Exploration, Fantasy, Fast-Paced, Horror, Multiple Endings, Pixel Art, Point & Click, Short, Time Travel

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Comments

Snickidy Snik1 year ago

i love this :)

Levont2 years ago(+1)

A choose your own adventure with items that may carry over to the next run. Great idea on that. I enjoyed it. I only wish there was some sort of marker that showed what ending you got. But beyond that, nice job.

Here's my channel for other games I have played. https://www.youtube.com/c/Levont

Elliot George Mann2 years ago

Thanks for playing!

MrDreaming2 years ago(+1)

That was a really unique experience ! You don't see too many games like this and i'm really glad i got to play it. There's so many endings too which is great for replayability. Awesome job !

I made a video on your game if you're interested :)

Elliot George Mann2 years ago

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed. Thanks for playing and making a video!

zzzlaud2 years ago(+1)

This game was a ton of fun! I got stuck really badly trying to figure out how to get the key and ended up doing some unethical things to find some of the other endings but I'm glad I did because this story takes some very strange turns. I couldn't find all of the endings but I think I found most of them.

My favorite ending is definitely the explosion/revenge ending, it's sweet payback for always showing up to annoy me.

Thanks for making games!

Elliot George Mann2 years ago

Thanks so much for playing and making a video! I'm glad you were able to figure out hacking when you got stuck. I tried to make it pretty easy for players to go in and mess around with options and scenes however they wanted.

As for the clock, you basically have to find your past self from the last game. They only appear AFTER you have the clock and move from scene to scene in the exact same order you did last game. The "Wait longer" option makes it a little easier to pin them down. From there the cross-game progression continues with the arsonist.

Thanks again for playing!