Controls

Menu: Up/down arrows to move, Space to select.

In-game: Left/right arrows to turn, Space to fire.

Story

When the moon is full, they hunt. Anyone caught out is likely to be torn apart. Nothing can keep them away.

Nothing, that is, except you, your werewolf-proof bunker, and your semi-automatic shotgun loaded with custom silver-tipped slugs. As you watch the moon rise, be on the lookout for survivors trying to make it to safety, and be ready to protect them. Their lives depend on it.

Theme

This game was written for GitHub Game Off 2020, where the theme was “Moonshot”. On the literal level, it’s a game about werewolves that come out on the full moon, and you have to shoot them. Figuratively, trying to save hapless people from your bunker is something of a moonshot—an ambitious and perhaps impractical goal.

On the meta level, this whole project is a moonshot. I’m a high school teacher on the back end of my 30s; despite grand intentions, I haven’t made anything more than a flimsy prototype of a game in many years. So, making a game in a month? Learning a new library to do it? Sign me up!

You can judge for yourself how successful I was. Yeah, it’s very buggy; yeah, the “placeholder” art never got upgraded; yeah, the “Options” menu doesn’t work… But I did it.

Credits and Licence

Copyright © 2020 Tim “Perey” Pederick.

Code is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0 or later. Sound and graphics are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. Individual assets may also be under other terms, listed below.

Engine: Phaser 3 by Photon Storm (MIT License).

Music: “Horror Soundtrack - amb_01” by Kenten Fina (CC-BY 3.0). “Haunted Woods” by Michael Klier (CC-BY-SA 3.0).

Sound effects: “Dog Bite Sound” and “10 Guage Shotgun” [sic] by Mike Koenig (CC-BY 3.0). “Wolf Howling Yipping Sound” by Daniel Simon (CC-BY 3.0). “Wolf Monster Sound” by CaveboyTup (CC0). Bunker door sound created from “metal_12” and “metal_08” by rubberduck (CC0). “Wilhelm Scream” courtesy of the Internet Archive (public domain).

Art: “Full moon” by dimitri (public domain). Game Off logo by Lee Reilly.

All other art and code is by me.