
Ghost & Found
Play as teaching assistant Jessica Tayhew-Mann as she explores a spooky house looking for the one kid who didn't make it back to the school bus.
A short and silly point and click visual novel adventure around a collaged-together haunted house.
Best enjoyed downloaded... Like, seriously. Technically it can be played in browser but the load time of the images.... oof.
Made for The Worst Game Jam 3, "Hold Your Ghouls Close" - special thanks everyone in the TWG community for the encouragement, and especially to Taras for organising, and to the guys at Video Game Podtimism for the theme!
Music
All photographs sourced from Public.Work or Unsplash. Huge thank you to the photographers. The following handles belong to accounts on Unsplash whose work is either featured or was heavily considered:
tama66, oljamu, alschim, yapics, patryksikora, edoering, savvas_kalimeris, pino_rumbero, johnn21, declansun, syahrilfdilla_id, your_scorpion, numoonchld, cjohnson9, martincasagrand, carmeladp57, pafuxu, namaskarmianish_, wolfgang_hasselmann, gionsnow, dhaval, hs_gestaltung, gwendal, matthewbrowne, goody71, kristopher2482, cedricletsch, mederafael, hesterquiang, zapiatkina, ericpxl, samyurt, xuan_ma, shinok, rouichi, mishotek, daniela_wolfvok, gottfriedfjeldsaa, usinglight, bhurnal, wegenerb, steffen_l, dylanleagh, nick_brookenheimer, austin_7792, tjalondo, yanots, nampoh, alexandrelallemand, dmialaev, anniespratt, donjaywiz, thmsvrbggn, wayneadeklerk, vs15000, tuyuloveu, ikocs, purzlbaum, sonu_kmr
Music is Fantastic Dim Bar by Incompetech
Everything else, Haunthony included, by me.
Published | 4 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Author | CroppedCircles |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Made with | Ren'Py |
Tags | Comedy, doodle, Funny, Ghosts, Monsters, No AI, Point & Click, Short |
Comments
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this is so fun, i really love your sense of humor and whimsy and how it comes through in every part of your games. the kids names made me laugh immediately, along with the absurd spooky-funny sawed off bus the kids are all patiently waiting in (???), but then moments like the teacher giving her compliments to the pianist haha. i LOVE this idea and was super impressed with the map--the care and (again) whimsy with which you built it out made it so fun to poke around, while also being sort of intuitive what might lead to what, making the size of it all that much more manageable. great game!!! looking forward to the next tc creation!
oh my god thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed it - you’ve mentioned pretty much everything I was aiming for lmao so thank you!! I’m excited to work on the next one, I’ll try not to disappoint 🫡
Oh wow, as someone who is bad with directions AND paranoid of getting jumpscared in creepy games.. this was pretty intimidating, and yet it turned out to be a kind of pleasant little exploration through a really weird and interesting place. I may play it again just to stare at all the different locations on display, and the writing didn't disappoint either. I was looking forward to seeing what you made this time cause I really enjoyed your alien game. And this one had me laughing as well, but also holding my breath at some of those creepy places. Freaking Haunthony...
This is so kind thank you! I'm really glad it wasn't as daunting as it seemed :¬) Freaking Haunthony........
I LOVE this!! The idea of using free/stock photos for each room is so genius, it was so fun to click through the mansion and get a surprise each time. TBH I just started wandering the mansion at some point ignoring the story lol.
Thank you so much! I knew I wouldn't have time to make all the rooms so I had to get creative with it. I'm also really glad you enjoyed just exploring. The game was originally focused around that and I think having to cut a couple characters makes it feel a bit more linear so I'm really happy it's still fun just to explore the house :¬)