Uncanny

UNCANNY

Somebody in this crowd isn't human.

You're a surveillance officer on a balcony above a busy city plaza, with a pair of binoculars. Intel says androids are hiding among the citizens, and they're trying to hack the plaza terminal.

Your job is to watch people. Study how they walk, talk, dance and blink. Whistle at the crowd and see who looks up. Drop a coin and see who notices. Put some music on and see who can't keep the beat. When you're sure, tag them.

But be careful. Some citizens are just weird. The man marching in perfect straight lines might be ex-army. The woman who ignores your whistle might be wearing headphones. Zoom in and read their file before you tag anyone. HR has been very clear about this.

How to play:

• Watch the crowd from your balcony and look for anything that's not quite human.
• Poke the crowd: whistle, drop a coin, or start the music, and watch how people react.
• Zoom in to read someone's dossier and study their face.
• Tag the androids. Tag a citizen three times and you're fired.
• Stop the hack. If an android finishes hacking the terminal, your shift is over.

Stare at someone through the binoculars long enough and they'll notice you. Most people wave, get flustered, or shake their fist. Some just... stare back.

Controls:

Mouse	Look around
Right mouse	Zoom in with the binoculars
Left mouse (while zoomed)	Tag a suspect
Q	Whistle
E	Drop a coin
F	Music on/off
Esc	Free the mouse (press twice on the title or report screen to quit)

Features:

• 10 shifts, plus an endless mode for high scores
• 11 android tells to learn, one new one per shift, with innocent citizens who copy them
• A crowd that lives its own life: phone calls, selfies, gossip, arguing with the vending machine, dancing, sneezing on each other
• Big googly eyes, so you can actually see who isn't blinking

Engine and tools:

• Unity 6.3 LTS (6000.3.24f1)
• AI coding assistant, did most of the programming on my own but did get some assistance from AI.

Unity packages:

• URP: post-processing 
• Shader Graph
• Cinemachine: Balcony and scope cameras, camera shake |
• AI Navigation: Plaza NavMesh
• UI Toolkit: HUD

Third-party assets:

• Odin Inspector and Serializer
• Feel: Game-feel feedbacks (hit stop, slow motion)
• Sidekick Characters | Synty Studios: All crowd characters, face poses and blendshapes 
• Polygon Generic | Synty Studios: Plaza environment, buildings, roads, sidewalks, trees, statue, props, sky.
• POLYGON Prototype | Synty Studios: Props (microphone stand, cones, flags, car, trees) 
• Omni Animation | Opsive: Idle, walk, run and crouch animations.
• Human Animations | Kevin Iglesias: Idles, walks, talking, waving, emotes.
• Mixamo animations | Adobe: Dances, talking, phone, pickup, surprise, android shutdown, drunk walk and more.

Audio:

• GameBurp: purchased years ago, used for all game sound

Original work:

• All gameplay code, data, UI layout and styling, the outline shader, cartoon eyes, level layout.