Deduction Game - The Boy Who Cried Wolf

A first-person survival deduction game where players must distinguish various creatures in the darkness while managing bonfire resources and trust.

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Dec 20, 2025
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A first-person survival deduction game where players must distinguish various creatures in the darkness while managing bonfire resources and trust.
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Survival Game
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Overview

A first-person survival deduction game created with a 4-member team in Unity 6. Players survive a long winter night by identifying approaching creatures—sheep, deer, or wolves in disguise—while managing bonfire fuel, torch light, and villager trust.
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Role: Gameplay Designer, System Designer, Programmer, GDD editor
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Timeline: Nov 2025 — Dec 2025

Design Goal

  • Create a high-pressure identification loop where silhouettes, eye shine, and movement cues matter.
  • Integrate resource management (bonfire fuel) directly into deduction difficulty.
  • Express the theme of “trust and responsibility” through mechanics that punish misjudgment.

Challenge

How do we design a system where the player must:
  1. Identify creatures through our tutorial
  1. Make binary high-stakes calls of (Wolf/Sheep)
  1. Won’t be overwhelming or boring

Progress

1.First Edition of Game Loop Chart
notion image
  1. Team Log & Trello Board
Team Log
MEETING #1 - 11/09/2025, 7:00 PM ---------------- ATTENDEES Brigham, Ricky, Arno, Zhengyu WHAT WE DID BEFORE THE MEETING Brigham: Thought on ideas Ricky: Thought on ideas Zhengyu: Brainstorming, Thoughts on ideas Arno: Thought on ideas WHAT WE DID DURING THE MEETING Went over the assignment deta...
Team Log
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSberTlti3vFYXffJBzUznWU5cQ5EFGQiRDtsZNUsTs/edit?usp=sharing
Team Log
Project 3-The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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Project 3-The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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Project 3-The Boy Who Cried Wolf
  1. Pitch Slides & Doc
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Pitch Document
Team - WolfBoy Introduce the game title/name. The Boy Who Cried Wolf Give a broad view of the game. Clearly state the genre (or mixture), who is the player, and what they are trying to accomplish (game objective). If you have a main playable character you could start from there. A single-player ...
Pitch Document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15cIVfg5eteWGZyZKoKa4FnqBJI4wsghsiRgZ7zcGwww/edit?usp=sharing
Pitch Document

Solution

Images
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ScreenShots
 

Final Gameplay

The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Available for Windows
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
https://sunny3zz.itch.io/the-boy-who-cried-wolf
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Video preview

Outcome & Impact

  • Produced a polished playable vertical slice in 4 weeks.
  • Received highly positive feedback for atmosphere, tension, and visual clarity.
  • Game successfully expresses themes of trust, responsibility, and fear of misjudgment.
Design and evaluation report GSND 5110 Project 3
The Boy Who Cried Wolf Design and Evaluation Report Arno Wu, Brigham Boice, Ricky Wang, Zhengyu Jin Evaluation Report Last updated: 12/7/2025 Table of Contents: Introduction Data and Equipment Playtesting Results Analysis Solutions Appendix 1. Introduction 1.1 The Game The Bo...
Design and evaluation report GSND 5110 Project 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tbYXV_lShnvARiIUcfwK48ehM9Q86E5OfZpaHTnGsvg/edit?usp=sharing
Design and evaluation report GSND 5110 Project 3

Tools

Unity 6, C#, Git, Visual Studio, Figma
 
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