Promptasmagoria: A Puzzle of Weights

Opus 5.5 made a 90s FMV horror adventure game with me.

A playable parody of 1995 FMV point-and-click horror, in the style of Phantasmagoria and The 7th Guest. You play as best-selling author Claudette. She goes looking for her next story in the abandoned AMODEI Manor, where an eccentric and reclusive billionaire mysteriously vanished years ago.

In the age of infinite aesthetics I’m ever more interested in styles that came from hard constraints. In the 90s, American companies could leverage B-movie actors for the adventure genre, and that b-movie, low-quality acting fits current video outputs perfectly.

I made this to show how well the mechanics and aesthetics can be replicated into a coherent shape, if you know how the originals worked. I don’t plan on actually making a full game. These games died for a reason; they were just a cool novelty of the time. My main goal is to show how many ancient aesthetics can now be revived.

This is just a demo, since it’s expensive to make. Too niche for most people, but I loved the original!

A parody. Voices and likenesses are AI-generated. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Play the demo at fmv.pleometric.net ↗

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