Explore a world where the only way you can perceive your environment is through audio queues.
Stab in the Dark is a first person shooter game for the visually impared. The brain child of ScreamingHawk and foo, Stab in the Dark offered a chance to play with Unity and create a multiplayer, multi-platform game with an emphasis on sound. With the lack of visual cues, you have to rely on your sense of sound to navigate the map, avoid environmental hazards and find your opponents.
Stab in the Dark is a work in progress, however it is constantly being improved. A number of features are listed below.
- Ability to Host and Join a game using an IP address
- Level selection
- Environmental effects
- Taunts
Planned features are located in Issues, and tagged with Enhancement or Feature.
Upon opening the game you will be introduced to Heather, the game menu AI. Heather will assist you in selecting options in the menu by reading them aloud. Navigate the menu using up (W), down (S), select (left click) and back (middle click).
Hosting a game will allow you to play a game with your friends!
Joining a game will allow you join a game hosted by your friend!
Entering this menu will allow you to select which level you would like to host.
In the game, your goal is to kill the other players by stabbing them. To do this you have to use your sense of sound to navigate the map, avoid hazards and find your opponents.
Use WASD to move around the level and Left click to slash with your knife. You can also taunt your opponent by clicking the mouse wheel.
As opponents join or respawn, you will hear the woop sound.
There are a number of levels available for play in Stab in the Dark, each with their own hazards and play style.
The original map, Bunker, is a T shaped room with a large window looking out of a beautiful sea view. There is a leaky pipe at the bottom of the T. There is a small forest at on end of the T's cross and a fire pit in the top corner of the other side of the T's cross.
This map was primarily used for testing purposes.
Fire Pit is a square room with a leaky pipe in the center. The room has four fire pits equally spaced around the room. There is a small forest of trees in each corner.
The number of fire pits in this map promotes a stealthy play style with minimal movement.
- Game Sounds sourced from freesound
- Voices generated using text speech
- Sound Editing: Jared Standen
- Developers: Michael Standen and Jonathon Shields