Awee thank you for the lovely praise it really means a lot :) Very happy your happy with the game ^.^
With the visuals we achieved this through a filter, we thought it would help keep the style more consistent since we pulled some items from free unreal marketplace packs and wanted a old Christmas movie feel like with "The Snowman" (1982). We had a few more rooms planned but time constraints axed them but I think that helped me place more emphasis on the layouts! (The talk function tied into some of the scrapped content actually haha but still found a few uses for it).
Once again thank you xD I have lots of fun making cutscenes so always try to include them and love scenes that tell their own story when you look at them!
The music was by a friend called Edmund, he did a wonderful job :) He works with myself and Anish on a few other projects including a horror game we did on here (Halloween Night 1999). I asked him for the "Father's Song" to do a single repeatable pattern thing in the most confusing way possible (I'm not music literate haha!) but he did a really beautiful job.
With the puzzles I expected the combination puzzle to be a bit harder actually but I did mean to colour the turn pieces puzzle a bit more dramatically but... forgot... >.<
Ah yep the gameplay xD Doing a point and click in unreal was a "fun" experience to say the least haha!
And thank you it was a pleasure to be your Secret Santa for 2021 and again sorry about the lateness but glad it was worth the wait for you! :)
Thank you and a happy new year to you too! :)
From Stuart and Was a Horse Productions