Monoyellow Madness
A downloadable game for Windows
You just carelessly and accidentally no-clipped out of reality and landed... somewhere weird and unnatural. Your task: survive and escape Backrooms.
I hope you will enjoy walking (and sometimes panic running) simulator with major focus on level generation inspired by well-known in certain circles picture and description. Please note it is my interpretation that goes in decidedly different direction than majority of lore surrounding Backrooms.
One level. One entity. Just you and progressing monoyellow madness. It is all about experience.
This is hobby game - it was made as way to learn Unreal Engine for myself. Somewhere on the way things got a little out of hand and this learning experience became full-fledged project.
This is 1.1.0 release. Game is considered complete. Any future releases will be only for fixing bugs and/or optimizations.
Please note that due to it's nature (procedural generation and fully dynamic lights) game is not suitable for low end computers.
Features:
- Level 0 - one that we all know and love.
- Procedurally generated area - every run is unique. Most complex algorithm for single level generation used among Backrooms games.
- Infinitely large area to play on.
- The longer you are exploring, the worse it gets.
- Deadly hide-and-seek with Entity.
- Items that will help in your journey.
Contact:
- I have discord server MaderLand. It features devlog, so if you want to track progress of game development, join!
- I am also on general discord server dedicated to Backrooms r/thebackrooms and on some other Backrooms-related servers.
Download
Install instructions
How to run game:
- Download game - it is single compressed exe.
- Copy it to where you find convenient and run exe. This will unpack game into it's own directory.
- Enter that directory and run Backrooms.exe. That's it - no further installation needed.
Note: Windows might complain about unknown exe. It is normal, ignore it and continue. I am not going to pay into their racket scheme.
Development log
- Version 1.1 of Monoyellow Madness is released!Jul 31, 2022
- Work is going on for version 1.1.Apr 16, 2022
- Release of Monoyellow MadnessOct 10, 2021
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Thank you!
Never looked for meaning in carpets more in my life...thank you for that moment
You are welcome!
Thank you! It was interesting to see someone's else perspective on my game.
Nice to meet you buddy. You are kind as well. I liked to chat with you. I am poor oldman but I confess I want see your art conceptions on sell. You deserve the best things. Here the long playing channel and your own list :D
MonoYellow Madness List
Thanks again!
Video in link above was made with game running on Linux and using wine. It is not native, intended environment and I still find amazing that game runs at all on different operating system.
This is important note, because Windows game executed in Linux looks differently than same game executed natively in Windows.
Yet, but the winehq is approaching the native dlls and phyX. I was reading about it right now. How to import Windows dlls and library onto .wine/ directory. I guess my weak hardware not allow something, but wine-stable not allow any of the UE4, that require dotnet Frameworks and this cancel dlls in stable version. Thanks to reply I like to chat with you. Although I guess in few time ahead we will runs properly UE4 and others. I have another issue I studying - some games have a "movie" into assets like TVs, for example, and these sometimes take us a hint or password hint (I trying fix in The Mental Hospital: Child Of Evil), there e need use some VHS tapes, and these implements doesn't run properly, some stay white screen others black screen, I hopefully this is a issue in iso game. Because the time playing keep in 00:00 time, since I play the tapes .
Here, the Linux config. All linux users know it, perhaps. But if you need to show to Steam when you offer Monoyellow Madness there, you can show to add also in Steam Proton (linux). They have a great wine mod there, if it runs here, there much better. This is my short channel:
Thanks for video! I see Unreal Engine games compiled for Windows can run under Linux (via wine) surprisingly well.
Lighting does not work correctly and looks like wine can't deal with shaders that use absolute world coordinates (this is why you cannot see much of floor or ceiling), though game is still playable, if harder as it is darker.
I suspect many hallucinations won't work properly and this is why you were confused about "white screen". At least effect when you are close to Entity seems to work correctly.
Nice. Yeah, I had some stuttering when I was under chase. But I guess because my hardware is weak (in laptop), the heat increased working, and to turn sides was hard, but I liked. The floor is different? Man, I liked those "glitched floor" in my version. I tried to guide by floor (dark green and lightening green) and by molds. hahahaha I always thought "I reach some molds, right next part we getting into darkness". I didn't understand why I touch in blood stain? Jeez, I thought when I pressed 'E' in fresh blood stain "Oh my! We're already dead!Of course, we are stinking blood now, the entity pretty sure can smell fresh blood!" The blue screen. Is it the entity teleporting? Well, I loved, your concept of Backrooms is far most elegant, most fancy of them all. I will bring more. I found a abyss! hahahaahaha Jesus I thought that was the exit! :~D kkkkkkkkk I adore it!
Buddy, your Backroom conception is the best backroom I found. I had a just little trouble to fix the mouse sensitivity. I tried to down sensitivity and when I tap "remember my choice" ( I guess), that keep too sensitivity. The door escape or windows. Are that the white glass windows? I will record, my laptop is weak, so with record together maybe we miss some frames. I usingLinux to runs, may be it would be low my record. But deserve, I liked a lot. I supper recommend. I love that jump mechanic in some low-walls, it save me sometimes. I want know once more about. May I ask you? What happens when we keep ourselves hidden, come to me a white screen and I reappear few minutes later in same place, but not exactly in same spot. Why it happens? Is it some "retry" or something like that or a partial wins? Well, I told to much. It's a very positive thing. Because if I didn't like, I would just say: "Okay. Playable. Here it goes" e video linked below. Congratulations, 5 stars. You deserve go to Steam, GOG, Epic Games and much others web stores. 5 stars. I will sleep a bit. As soon as possible I'll bring a video. Sorry, my native language is portuguese. AMAZING GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your kind words! I will check mouse sensitivity options.
About white screen - you probably mean one of hallucinations that can happen to you during run. It is just that - hallucination. Nothing special happens to you if you remain hidden in same spot for long time.
Buddy, this is THE BEST Backrooms I have seen. I will love shoot many try gladly. I will try to bring to you at this morning. The link is from odysee. Itch page don't make to that platform a thumbnail playable. I think I can understood. I was idle hidden in corner, but the entity was breaking many things around, so the screen turn with and I thought that happened because I was too close the entity and within dreadful I began temporally unconscious, walked unconscious and when I came back I was near the hid spot, but no exactly at same place. I appreciated. You deserve offer your excellent game art and challenge to some web store. Your profit doing this game is flawless, congratulations! I will record right now. I ask you: "Should I make how runs your game (intro) in linux?" I think it would serve to show another linux users and some web shop the game runs properly to both system - Windows and Linux. The Steam web store like this, because they can offer the game in Steam and Proton. ;) Nice to meet you. I love conception, It remind to me a SCP Containment Breach a little bit. It lovely.
Of course you can record game playthrough and post it on youtube (or any other video sharing platform of your choice).