Sunshine and Terror: Say Cheese

Game Name: Sunshine and Terror: Say Cheese (Horizontal Slice Prototype)

Developer: Daniel Wakefield

Summary:

Sunshine and Terror: Say Cheese is a first-person adventure/thriller game that focuses on finding and capturing pictures of monsters in the areas around Sunshine City to increase the player’s reputation as a photographer and to increase the ranking of the Sunshine and Terror Newspaper. The game allows the player to hunt each monster and take pictures of them using any technique they feel like using. As the monsters get progressively more challenging to find or take pictures of, the player can adjust their gameplay strategy to achieve a desired outcome.

This game’s thriller aspect of trying to find dangerous monsters and potentially being chased and attacked by the monsters paired with the semi-realistic graphics can be particularly attractive to teens and fans of the experience. Once the main story has been completed and all the monsters have been captured, the player can have the option of redoing all the previous levels to get a higher score on each monster using tools and tricks only available later in the game. 

How to Install and Run:

Unzip the Build Folder and Run the "Say Cheese.exe"

Note: Build Platform is Windows

Notable Bugs:

- On Scene transitions, the cursor will stay unlocked. To fix this, just open and close the escape menu by pressing escape twice, then click the left mouse button. The cursor should disappear from there.

- If the player enters the forest scene too early, the terrain collider may not load in time and player will fall infinitely. If this happens, just close the game and restart. (Planned fix: a loading screen that confirms that the forest environment is fully rendered and loaded before doing the scene transition)

- Occasionally, Monster may get caught on bumpy terrain

Features:

-Player Movement

-Multiple Scenes and Semi-Realistic Environments (City and Forest)

-Ability to Interact with specific objects

-Ability to take pictures with an animated camera whenever the player likes (Camera behaves like a real camera and makes a shutter sound to indicate that a picture was taken)

-Menus that display the controls, a bestiary, as well as the options to return to the main menu and exit the game

-A teleportation UI that players can use to travel to different Environments

-A monster that the player has to find and run away from as it will chase the player if they get too close

-Indicators to help guide the player

-A results page that displays the 3 latest pictures that the player has taken

Controls:

(Also found in the control menu throughout the game)

Movement: WASD

Interact: E

Sprint: Shift

Jump: Space

Zoom-in with Camera: Right Mouse Button

Take Picture with Camera: Left Mouse Button

Open Main Menu/ Close all Menus: ESCAPE

Open Bestiary: B

Gameplay Order: (Don't Read if you wish to experience the game first)

- Go to Office Building with Indicator

- Talk to the Boss

- Press [B] to learn about monster

- Go back to the street and interact with van to go to the forest

- Find the monster and take picture of it

- If monster starts chasing, run back to the van

- Go back to the city and view the results

- Prototype ends