The camera
Get this into your hands.
In 'The Empty Halls', you are given a custom built VHS camera, specially designed and supplied by the mysterious higher-ups at the Prism™ Company. Your task is to step through the threshold and explore the unknown.
The higher ups want you to record and document various anomalies and levels. The specifics of what they’re looking for are given to you as 'missions' through a custom VCR setup.
This VCR setup allows you to play back your recordings and will tell you if you've completed the assigned mission. If you have, a new mission will be assigned.
- 01Step through the threshold and start exploring.
- 02Record different levels, anomalies and whatever else you find.
- 03Play it back on the VCR to see if you completed the mission.
- 04Get a new mission and go back in.
The levels
Not quite here.
Not quite there.
The Empty Halls is a VHS analog horror exploration game heavily inspired by the popular online idea of liminal spaces. If you don't know what liminal spaces are, they are transitional areas that feel "in between" - not quite here, not quite there. Common examples are places like empty office buildings, underground car parks, abandoned shopping centres or dark play areas.
Almost all of the levels/spaces I have made are based around the online community wikis for the 'Backrooms'. I used these different wikis for reference images and descriptions of what each level looks like and what it contains.
There is lots to explore and I am really excited to share my creation with all of you!
Level 0 Yellow Wallpaper Backrooms Halls
Tape storage
Vault Vision
Vault Vision is the machine you put your tapes into so they aren't left littering the halls. The screen tells you what is on each tape: how long it is, how much of it you have used and which events the tape has seen.
Development clips
The tape library
These are clips I recorded while making the game. Pull a tape off the shelf and it will play.
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