Devil's Tuning Fork (v1.0)

DTF is one of the 10 IGF Student Showcase winners! Download and play v1.2 of the game free at http://devilstuningfork.com What if you saw the world with your ears? Inspired by M.C. Escher's classic optical illusion and the echolocation of dolphins, Devil's Tuning Fork challenges you to explore a new mode of perception through sound visualization.

This is gameplay footage from Devil's Tuning Fork, a game created by the DePaul Game Elites team at DePaul University's College of Computing & Digital Media in Chicago. The team was selected by our Game Designer in Residence, Alex Seropian. The game was chosen as one of ten winners of the 2010 Independent Game Festival Student Showcase. http://www.igf.com/2010/01/2010_igf_r...

The Story: As a mysterious epidemic causes children everywhere to fall into comas, one child wakes up in an alternate reality. It is up to this child, the player, to determine the cause of the epidemic and save the other children trapped here. By way of the devil's tuning fork, a magical instrument that allows the player to perceive sound waves, the player must find all the children and successfully escape this alternate reality, thereby waking up from the coma.

The offical DTF website is at http://devilstuningfork.com

Also visit our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Devils-...

Find out more about the DePaul Game Development program at http://GameDev.DePaul.edu

The DePaul Game Elites:

Project & Tech Lead - Jay Pecho
Producer - Matt Lazar
Art Lead - Richard Kossak
Visual Design Lead - Kyle Sullivan
UI & Cinematic Designer - Dennis Coveyou
Story Lead & Artist - Ari Flesch
Artist - Ashley Ruhl
Artist - Michael Tisdale
Programmer - Nathan Anaman
Programmer - Diego del Pozo
Programmer - Ivan Nikitin
Audio Designer & Programmer - Johnny Owens
Music Composer & Programmer - Kevin Geisler
Level Design Lead - Tony Perkins
Level Designer - Travis Hernandez

The gameplay video was edited by DGE artist Ashley Ruhl.

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[PompyThePig]

Only two problems I had with the game.

One is the inability to change graphics options, but considering the whole just being released, I realize that it will later be implemented.

Bigger issue for me though was the mouse sensitivity.

I felt like I had to move the mouse for years just to get it to go somewhere. There really needs to be a sensitivity option.

Other than that, good concept, but I don't know how well it works. Pretty good overall so far though.

[DePaulCinema]

There's a new version available that hopefully will take care of the problems you're experiencing. Version 1.2 of Devil's Tuning Fork can be downloaded from website (see the video info).

The new version upgrades performance, enables full-screen play at multiple resolutions, and features a number of audio and art improvements and additions. It also eliminates the mouse sensitivity problems some players reported.

Please keep the feedback coming, it's extremely helpful.

[kaj dijkstra]

wauw nice, These sounds does remind me of zelda twilight princess the dark part :P

[mij194]

Download a program called Wine, It's free and it makes .exe files compatible with Mac and Linux. That's what I used to play it on Mac.

[Donovan Crafier]

Daredevil edition (?)

[Mattia Fusco]

Fucking creepy

[Yeqin Zhao]

pretty cool game, i beat it in an hour though, not that hard

[NekoEspada]

fucking hell, I thought I was gonna have a seizure