Description
Entangled Souls is a story-driven 3D puzzle room video game for PC which utilizes horror and quantum elements in the design. The protagonist is a female soul, ripped from her human body by a secret organization who are experimenting to release souls and spirits from the human bodies. The player controls two different characters, a witch and a scientist, who are entangled together through parallel universes. Player needs to solve puzzles, swap the soul between these two characters and utilize the light mechanic to advance in the game.
How to play the game?
The game supports mouse & keyboard and controller. Players are exploring the environment and they try to find a way through the level by solving puzzles. The puzzles are mainly related to the character swap and light mechanics.
How was this game made?
This game was developed during the Quantum Games 2022 course. Our team consists of five members and we had a good mix of different kinds of expertise in our team which created a solid base for the project. We started to brainstorm right away and we found the idea for the game pretty fast. Our game was ambitious from the beginning and therefore, we decided to use third party assets in the project as well. We planned and designed a good amount of content for the game, however, we needed to leave some parts out of the game because of the tight schedule.
How is this related to quantum?
Entangled Souls takes inspiration from quantum and uses the theme in the narrative and gameplay. Additionally, the game utilizes quantum physics in the puzzles and mechanics.
Tools
Audacity, Blender, Gimp, GitHub, Google (Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides), Photopea, Photoshop, Unreal Engine 5, VSDC Video editor.
Credits
TEAM
Tuomas Lundén – Game Designer, Level Designer, Writer, Producer
Peppi-Lotta Saari – Artist 2D & 3D, Animator, Voice Actor
Vardaan Sahgal – Quantum Expert, Puzzle Designer
Mirva Tapola – Music & Sound Designer, Artist 2D
Timo Tiippana – Lead Programmer, Level Designer, Animator
ASSETS
UE Marketplace:
Dungeon: Infuse Studio
Lab: SilverTM
Voice recording: Teemu Halonen
Background music Tracks 1 and 5 from Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails | https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
The Old Pumpkin Patch by Darren-Curtis | https://soundcloud.com/desperate-measurez Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sound effects www.zapsplat.com www.freesound.org Air Conditionder by JonathanTremblay | https://freesound.org/people/JonathanTremblay/sounds/254779/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Page turn 02 by Koops | https://freesound.org/people/Koops/sounds/20236/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dripping water by Spooky Modem | https://opengameart.org/content/dripping-water Slowed down and cut from the original Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ UI www.opengameart.org