Game designer Pippin Barr has released a short browser game titled Let’s Play: The Shining that looks like it was created for the Atari 2600. Based off the film of the same name, the game goes through some of the main events from the film, such as Jack Torrence bouncing the rubber ball off the Overlook Hotel walls, Danny riding his tricycle through the hotel and running into the Grady Twins, and more.
Barr states via his website:
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.
I ran through it and actually found myself getting slightly creeped out. There are some definitely jump scares, so even though you think you know the film you should still give it a playthrough.
You can play the game here and watch a trailer below.
