A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

Blanche is a puzzle-solving adventure. The player responsibly washes Blanche, a child's plush squirrel doll, in the washing machine. This proves disastrous for Blanche, who vows revenge.

Unique Features:
+ Written in Rust using the ggez game library. To display video, it uses mpv (and the mpv Rust library).
+ Utilizes video and photography to tell a story as the player explores and solves puzzles on Blanche's cell phone.

Team:
Dan Wilhelm - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwilhelm/
John Grace - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-grace/
Aries Serrano - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aries-serrano-1783a713b/

Assets:
+ All video, photography, images, and voices are original.
+ Blanche is a dog squeaky toy created by BarkShop (purchased during the game jam).
+ Boom sound: https://freesound.org/people/bareform/sounds/218721/
+ All music by Kevin MacLeod:

Professor Umlaut, Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Download

Download
pc-blanche.zip 111 MB
Download
mac-blanche.zip 99 MB

Install instructions

PC: Run `blanche.exe`
Mac: Run `blanche`    (macOS Mojave user? See below.)**

Keyboard only.
+ Press ESC or BACKSPACE to go back.
+ "Shutdown" exits the game.


* If videos do not auto-play, they are viewable in `resources/videos`.
** macOS Mojave users - See a black window when the game starts up? Please move the window slightly to display the game. The latest version of SDL (2.0.8) contains a bug that prevents initial rendering in macOS Mojave. (We included a custom nightly build of SDL to hopefully prevent this.)

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