about the project

ORISON is a long-term personal project that I work on in my free time. The game is a minimalist experience that involves making incense to summon a variety of spirits, who have their own different personal tastes. I challenged myself to use only solid black and white, with no transparency. Instead, I used halftones to convey value and to transition elements in and out in place of opacity. All of the sound effects are my own foley work. I also built a small procedural poem generator to accompany the spirits. You can play it now in your browser at the link at the bottom of the page. Please be warned that this game will not work on mobile!

Built with GameMaker Studio for HTML5

Music by Matt Eyles