Hill House

Hill House is a short Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA), text-based game where you explore an old manor to find why you were summoned there. The gameplay focuses around making choices via onscreen buttons which impacts how the story unfolds. The game has multiple endings and can be played multiple times to get a better grasp of the overall story.
Jam year: 
2021
Diversifiers: 
Next Slide Please
Platforms: 
MS Windows, Mac OS X
Technology Notes: 
Microsoft PowerPoint, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications, was cut in the final version)
Installation Instructions: 
  1. Download the .zip file containing the presentation and extract it to your desired location
  2. Open the presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint and begin presenting from the first slide
  3. Follow the instructions included in the game (you can access them by clicking the "Instructions" button on the title screen)

Notes:

  1. If your system uses multiple monitors, a second text box may appear behind the orignal. The game can still be played in this state (the second textbox has no funtionality)
  2. The file is in .pptx format and requires no macros to be played
Credits: 

Design: Joseph Lutz

Writing: Joseph Lutz

Source files: 
Game Tags: 
Casual
Point & Click