NIGHTSHIFT

TO PLAY

  1. If this folder came as a zip, unzip it first.

  2. Double-click PLAY.bat.

  3. Your browser opens the game. Leave the black window that PLAY.bat

     opened running while you play, and close it when you are done.

  4. To stop, click quit on the title, then click it again. If your

     browser keeps the tab open, it says so: close the tab yourself.

  Use Chrome or Edge, and wear headphones: the game tells you where things

  are by sound. The title's music may wait for your first click or key:

  browsers keep a page silent until then.

  The game plays in its window. For the whole screen, tick "play

  fullscreen" on the title; "leave fullscreen" on the pause menu (Esc)

  takes you back out.

IF WINDOWS STOPS IT

  If you see "Windows protected your PC", click "More info", then

  "Run anyway". Windows says this about any script that came from the

  internet, Google Drive included.

IF PLAY.BAT WILL NOT START

  The game has to be served, not opened. Double-clicking index.html does

  not work, because browsers refuse to load a page's scripts, textures and

  sounds straight from the disk. Any local web server run in this folder

  will do instead:

    Python:  python -m http.server 8765    then open http://localhost:8765

    Node:    npx serve -l 8765              then open http://localhost:8765

PLAYING TOGETHER (CO-OP)

  Two players, each on their own PC, each running this same folder. You

  both need the same build: if one of you has an older zip, the game says

  so and will not pair.

    1. Both of you start the game and pick CO-OP on the title.

    2. One of you clicks HOST A GAME and reads out the four-letter code.

    3. The other types the code in and clicks JOIN.

    4. The host picks the night. Each of you clicks BEGIN; the night starts

       when you are both in.

  The game finds your partner through a free matchmaking server, so both

  PCs need the internet. It carries no voice: talk over a call. Press V to

  ping: a ring marks the spot you are looking at, for both of you, and on

  the map.

  To try it alone, open a second browser window at the same address, host

  in one and join your own code from the other. Keep both as windows side

  by side, not tabs: a tab you cannot see stops running.

  Nothing pauses in co-op. Esc opens the menu and the night goes on without

  you.

  Caught, you go down where you fell and cannot move. Your partner can bring

  you back: they stand over you and hold E for ten seconds, and letting go

  starts it again. While you are down, SPACE shows you your partner's view.

  If both of you are down at once, the night is lost. If either of you gets

  out through the exit, the night is won for both.

  Only the host moves the two of you on to the next night.

SAVES

  Your settings, the nights you have reached and the tapes you have heard

  are kept by the browser for the address you play at. PLAY.bat uses

  http://localhost:8765 every time, unless something else is already

  using that port.

CREDITS

  CREDITS.txt lists the models the game uses and who made them.