Development News
This is Kevin
May 11th, 2023
Jane is no longer alone: Introducing the man (boy) himself!
There was lots of stuff happening under the hood for this dev blog so let's do something different: Let's finally talk about what. is. Project. Kevin.
The Premise
Project Kevin is a cooperative action horror puzzle game. The game place s you in the shoes of your younger self, and on this night your best friend Kevin has run into one of the oldest, spookiest houses in town. He dared you to follow him, and since he hasn't come out yet, it's time for you and your friends to save him!
The House
In Project Kevin, it's you and your friends against The House. Every time you enter The House, the game will generate a completely new building for your to explore. The rooms, puzzles, and dangers of the place will never be quite the same. In fact, your actions in The House will directly affect how it's world unfolds before you!
Your main adversary in Project Kevin
Kevin enjoying The House's accomodations
What's in The House?
The House has a bad reputation, but no one is quite certain if it is truly haunted or not. But if there WERE something scary in there, it would ALSO be generated anew each time you play. The behaviours of any house inhabitants would never be exactly the same as they were before, leaving you and your friends to figure out how to survive... or perish.
But of course, that's only IF there were something scary in The House.
But what's the point of the game?
Survive! If you can get Kevin out of the house, even better. If all of your friends survive too, great!
Your parents will give you your allowance in the morning after each session. It just so happens that the better your night was, the better your allowance will be! You can't tell your parents exactly what you were doing last night, but you CAN spend your allowance on equipment that will help you out the next time Kevin gets you all into trouble.
When does this come out?
That's the big question! For now, I am keeping most of the timeline information to myself. Those of you who subscribe to the newsletter will have a few extra juicy secrets about the timeline, but nothing is set in stone yet. There will a free, single player, playable demo well before any sort of launch though, so stay tuned if you want to get your hands on that!
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