The Sweet Escape
Made for the Gameboy Jam 12, this project aims to provide a spooky adventure through a haunted house with a focus on puzzles, stealth and maze-like exploration. The rules of the GB Jam were simple: create a game with no more than 4 colors in the style of a Gameboy with a theme of "spooky" across multiple design categories.
The Gameboy Jam is a reoccurring event hosted on itch.io, which showcases the historical design and technical restrictions of the machine while challenging modern designers to fit a certain theme into their timed competition. This year offered 8 days from theme release to final submissions. Check out more games from this Jam here!
Playing as a trick-or-treating kid trapped in a haunted house, your goal in this game is to sneak through the house to find your escape! Enemies will steal your candy upon discovering you, until you have none left... Doomed in this eternal loop of terror, can you find your way out of this haunting nightmare?
Gameplay Demo Video
Original Music Samples
All music and sound effects operated within Gameboy technical specifications. Only four tracks were used at a time, with the waveform frequency range and overall sound capabilities matching the style of a Gameboy. No modern synthesizers or plug-ins were used, only an Analog Synthesizer operating with a single waveform for each channel.
Sweet Escape Title Theme
Ghost Boy Haunting
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