Project Serum
Online multiplayer party game. Injections, mutations, regret.
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Project Serum is an online multiplayer party game set in a hospital that has completely lost track of its inventory. Grab someone. Hold them down. Watch what the syringe does to them.
It's the simplest pitch in the building: one hospital, a lobby full of people, and an unlimited supply of extremely bad medicine. Everyone is holding a syringe. Everyone is a target. Nobody is having a normal shift.
No combat trees. No meta-progression to explain. If you can understand "don't let them get you", you already know how to play — which is the point. It's built to be understood in ten seconds and clipped in thirty.
The whole loop, three beats long.
Pick a victim. They already know. That's half the fun — the ten seconds before anything actually happens, where everyone is screaming about doors.
Hold them down while the syringe empties over about a second and a half. They're mashing to break free the whole time. Sometimes they make it.
Then they have to live with it. A giant head in a narrow corridor is a genuine tactical problem. Slippery feet are worse.
A sample from the mutation pool.
Involuntary. Loud. Moves you backwards.
Steering becomes a suggestion rather than an instruction.
Doorways are now a puzzle. So is everything else.
You have somewhere to be. You will not be getting there.
Random, uncontrollable, and it gives away your position.
The pool is still growing while the prototype is being tested.
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Mad Craft Studio is a one-person studio building small, loud, deliberately-made games.
The mark is folded paper: precise, angular, put together on purpose. That's the studio. What I put inside it is another matter entirely — which is roughly the arrangement I'm going for.
Project Serum is my first title. It won't be the last.
Online multiplayer party game. Injections, mutations, regret.
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