Let’s Play: The Shining

Play Online (HTML5, not mobile-friendly)

Download for Mac

Download for Windows

Description

Originally released on 22 April 2015, Let’s Play: The Shining is based on Stanley Kubrick’s movie The Shining, which was in turn based on Stephen King’s book The Shining. It was written in Haxe using the HaxeFlixel library. The music and sound effects in Let’s Play: The Shining were made with a combination of bxfr, Bosca Ceoil, and Audacity. The graphics were made in Pixen.

In June of 2022 I was finally able to convince HaxeFlixel to rebuild the game as a browser-friendly HTML5 version. Nice!

Press

Let’s Play: The Shining was covered on Kill Screen, A. V. Club, Madmoizelle, Warp Door, FREEINDIEGA.ME,  iHorror.com, Forest Ambassador, Games Radar, International Business Times, and Madmoizelle.

Exhibitions

It has also been exhibited at GAMERZ 2015 (here is a video of that).

Documentation

• Check out the code repository (includes the original HaxeFlixel project and a new one I’ve been using to update the exports to HTML5, Mac, and Windows)
• Read the design journal to get some insight into what I was thinking about while making the game
• Download the the original .swf file if you want

License

Let’s Play: The Shining is an open source game licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. You can obtain the source code from its code repository on GitHub.