SLEIGHT

Description 

The audience sees everything the spotlight touches. Everything else is up to you.

SLEIGHT is a stealth-puzzle stage show. You are a stage magician performing ten classic illusions in front of a live crowd, with one spotlight that wanders the stage on its own. Every trick has two halves: the part the audience is meant to see, and the secret part they must never catch. Show the empty box in the light, then slip the rabbit in while the light is looking elsewhere.

You control the magician's body and each hand separately. Walk the stage, step forward or back between lanes, reach with one hand while the other keeps hold of a prop, and hide things behind cabinets, screens, curtains and your own body. If the spotlight lands on the secret, the trick is blown.

The crowd's patience is always running out. Finish each act fast for a bigger time bonus, then take your bow when the final curtain falls.

The programme

1. The Rabbit
2. The Flowering Hat
3. The Floating Lady
4. The Substitution
5. The Still Rain
6. The Invisible Card
7. The Water Vault
8. The Mirror Split
9. The Golden Transfer
10. The Vanishing Vault

Every act opens with a short demonstration on an old TV set showing how the trick is done. Watch it, then do it yourself without getting caught.

Controls

• A / D: walk left and right
• W / S: step towards or away from the audience
• Arrow keys: move the active hand
• F: switch between left and right hand
• Hold E: grab and hold a prop (let go to drop it)
• Space / Enter: skip the demonstration
• P: menu / pause
• R: restart the act after a failure

Keyboard required. Best played full screen.

Scoring

Every second of patience left when you finish an act is worth 100 points. Your best score for each trick and for the full ten-act show is saved.

Credits

Made for a game jam with Unity 6.

Music: public-domain and CC0 recordings from Wikimedia Commons and Musopen, including works by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Chopin, Grieg and Beethoven. Theatre applause from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Animal sound effects were synthesised for the game.