About the Team
We are a small indie team (*moonlighters) of friends. We started off making education games with the OGRE3D engine back in 2005 (college days) and pursued NSF grants - it didn't work out. After college, we continued to live our lives dispersed across the U.S., celebrated marriages, changed careers and had lots of children - along the way we picked up the Unity3D game engine. 8 kids later, our moonlighting finally led us to create Descent of Man - a game our children can't play.
[Footnote *: Moonlighters are crazy people who work full-time jobs completely unrelated to the game industry, but still make video games because its something to do outside of working all day and raising progeny].
About Descent of Man
The idea for Descent of Man started back in 2014. We wanted to create a game where the enemies hunted the player. Our inspiration was the short story "The Most Dangerous Game". The original concept was actually designed to take place on an island - as you can tell some things have changed...okay a lot changed.
Fun facts about Descent of Man:
- The guards use Bayesian Inference (its worth a google) to decide where to look for the player. As the player interacts with the environment, the enemies will see the changes and use the information to search for the player.
- The enemies will fight each other if they encounter enemies of a different type - the player can force these encounters.
- We really are a horror game that uses STEALTH as a real mechanic. You have a detection meter and everything.
- The guards can see your flashlight, so watch where you shine that thing
- We have some pretty cool puzzles
- The story is historically inspired by the American eugenics movement from the 1900s. Google some of the names of the characters in our game, you might learn something bizarre!
- Not a walking simulator