Wayward Woods

Wayward Woods is a visual novel about a group of kids exploring the purportedly haunted woods behind one of their homes. Players must manage the varying personalities and expectations of the different group members to ensure the group sticks together.

This project was created by Sam Sobel (Galatine2546), Nitesh Sridhar (Peanutscratch), and Luxin Cao (LinuxtheOS) as an assignment during the USC Interactive Media and Game Design graduate program. It is built in Unity 2020.

All three developers worked on the game design, with Nitesh as the Lead Designer. Lead Programmer was Sam, and Lead Artist was Luxin. The majority of the writing was done by Luxin and Nitesh.

The build has now been updated to reflect changes made before submission to USC Games Expo 2022.