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Funeral Home

Project type

Game Design, Level Design, Programming

Date

September 2024 - April 2025

A survival horror zombie game where time stop when the player stops moving. A showcase of level design and programming.

The Funeral Home Showcase (Click for Sound)

A small video detailing the design intent and challenges of The Funeral Home

Do You Have the Will to Survive?

The Funeral Home is a top-down survival-horror game where time stops when the player stops moving. Players must strategize by using the items around them along with their environment to avoid the undead and escape the Funeral Home.

Early Prototyping

Originally we had a very different idea for The Funeral Home. It would have had proper puzzles and be more akin to Resident Evil or Silent Hill. However, we decided to focus more on the zombie survival gameplay due to project scope.

Design Process

We had a lot of required documentation for each milestone of the project. We had to write out our MVP, design intentions, included features, playtesting reports, and individual team contributions. It was a lot, but it taught us how to write better documentation.

Milestone 1 Progress Video

We also had to make a video summary for each milestone. Here you'll see our progress on the game after working on it for 6 weeks.

Playtesting

During the project we conducted extensive playtests to see if our game was in a good spot. We made a playtest protocol to ensure that all playtests were conducted the same and the same types of data were extracted from all players. We also set up telemetry logging within the project to measure each players statistics after they had finished playing.

Good Findings

Though we were relatively confident in our games ability to be fun, it was still nice to get a lot of positive feedback.

Bad Findings

Games can always improve and get better. The majority of fixes suggested by players were small quality of life improvements that were not super hard to implement.

Milestone 2 Progress Video

By milestone 2 (14 weeks spent working on the game) the project was in a great spot, and the game had included all the features the team wanted.

Final Game

After a long while, the game was done. Here's a full playthrough of it.

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