Your ultimate goal is to investigate the disappearance of your neighbours, scavenge for upgrades and weapons, and find other useful items in your quest to take back Havenview from the alien invaders. The player sprites were all identical in the demo, but the final version will enable players to choose between different characters. In the PAXAUS demo, it was super easy for players to drop in and out of the experience whenever they liked.
While it's possible to play Havenview as a solo player, the game actually supports up to six players. Ian was on-hand to step me through the demo at PAXAUS, and I was impressed by how much of the game's mechanics were on show given that the entire project is barely six months old.
Havenview is the debut game from Vikingsholm Studios, currently a two-man team consisting of Ian McArdle (lead developer and co-owner based in Canberra) and James Murlin (art and design lead and co-owner based in San Francisco). With your family still out trick or treating, it was time to step out into the night and find out what was going on. Unlike previous years, though, it was getting quiet outside and there were sounds of sporadic gunfire in the distance. Here's the official synopsis: It was a cool Halloween evening, late October 1993, and as the people of Havenview were out trick or treating, you had been putting the final touches onto your Johnny Lazer space costume. At least, that was the plan, until your sleepy little town became ground zero for a massive alien invasion. You are an ordinary kid in an ordinary neighbourhood and you're going out trick or treating with your friends. Havenview, by virtue of its setting and the way its mechanics are contextualised within that setting, delights in the interplay and tension between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Those lights at the end of the street - the ones that are growing larger - are they just car headlights? Maybe we should hide in the bushes it could be a flying saucer hovering down the street, ready to whisk unsuspecting children away. Suburban paths are punctuated by overhead street lights that cast little islands of safety amid the enveloping darkness. Sights that are ordinary - even mundane - in daylight hours take on an eerie mystery at night. There's something magical about exploring the suburbs at night, especially as a kid, and especially on Halloween. When I first spotted Havenview at PAXAUS, it immediately evoked memories of growing up in the '90s. Havenview, which was first playable by the public at PAXAUS, poses the key question: What would you do if aliens invaded your hometown on All Hallows Eve? Stranger things It's a very specific itch and one that Havenview by Vikingsholm Studio looks poised to scratch. The feeling I'm talking about is best expressed by movies like Hocus Pocus and video games like EarthBound (okay, the latter isn't really about Halloween.but it certainly has that "kids discover something bizarre and dangerous in a slightly off-kilter American town" vibe). It's the idea of something truly otherworldly happening in a quiet little town. And of course, you can expect our team to mark the spooky season with a range of stories on horror classics, both old and new.īut there's another side to Halloween that has always intrigued me.
This is the time of year when I love delving into my favourite horror games (I'm sure I'll do another playthrough of P.T., which still resides somewhat safely on my ageing PS4).
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