chromophilia

This game is made as part of the Cambridge Game Jam 2025.

You play as a bunny in a maze separated by planes and you must try to escape, but the bunny's vision is limited so you must instead use sound and color to find your way, linking to the theme of 'Synesthesia'. There are doors of colors which you must navigate to and unlock via sound cues. There will be sounds from 3 different instruments that correspond to three different colors, with each door having a secret color the player cannot see, but can deduce by the instrument played when the door is highlighted and once deduced correctly, can be opened. You must slay enemies along the way in order to escape!

Features: 

Randomized maze generation algorithm which ensures that the game is "fun" i.e. the maze will be non-trivial and stimulating and has been developed to ensure that every maze is solvable and has a path through the 3 planes to the exit.

The tones associated with each colour is generated by an algorithm via cumulative phasing with filtered noise for vibrato (3 instruments associated with each colour) and realism.

The player's vision and light uses ray-tracing to detect collisions and replicate realistic vision. The ray-tracing and lighting was done manually as pygame does not support it

There are also path finding algorithms used for the enemies to find the player, and to determine the closest door to the player when highlighting doors.

 All logic and processing is done in numpy and pygame with no additional library usage.