Wallace

A short first-person horror game built on a task list. You're watching your neighbor's house for the night. Give out candy to trick-or-treaters — or don't, but leave the lights off. Take care of their very special dog, Wallace. Keep the front and back doors open for visitors. Do your tasks or die. Wallace is a real dog, by the way. WASD to move, Left Click to interact. Volume up.

The design document, under the working title Night With Wallace, builds the horror out of obligations that compete for the same pair of hands. There are chores to finish before the family gets home — laundry, washing and putting away the dishes in an Overcooked style, taking the trash out to the backyard. There is Wallace, who needs feeding and letting out, and who makes trouble when he is ignored: knocking things off surfaces, biting light bulbs, moving the candy bowl. And there is the door, where trick-or-treaters want the right amount of candy and will not wait for it.

Sound is what the document asks the player to manage those three with. Wallace barks when he is up to something, and the bark is both the warning and the clue to where he is — ignore it, and you no longer know what he has done or where. The doorbell and knocking pull you to the front of the house. The consequences stack: a visitor kept waiting too long cuts the power on the way out, sending you to the generator, and Wallace grows far more aggressive in the dark; let his needs build up and he kills you.

That is the design as written. The playable build carries the core of it — candy at the door, Wallace’s care, a house that goes dark, and a task list you fail at your peril — and this page does not claim the rest of the document’s list shipped.