Shadow Registry

Your address is a shadow. Your first shift starts here.

🗂️ Welcome to an impossible little office, where a turn of the lamp can change who has the right to walk through a door. You are the newest clerk on the night shift: untangle strange claims, collect the evidence, and return to the counter for that final stamp. Behind the neatly filed papers, something doesn't quite add up.

🕯️ Light, shadows, and paperwork

Rotate lamps, adjust their range, turn mirrors, and open screens to route each shadow into its rightful place. Overlapping claims put both registrations into dispute. Switch case files, find a permitted route, gather valid evidence, and stamp your approval. Later cases make the order of your paperwork matter.

Your shift includes

• 10 cases, from The Wandering Address to Midnight Audit, with puzzle rules introduced gradually.
• A dimensional opening before the menu, then your clerk's First Day when you choose New Shift.
• Three story interludes you can skip or revisit.
• Optional Case 1 guidance, enabled by default; toggle it with F1.
• Undo and restart, so you can reconsider an idea.
• English by default, with an in-game Thai switch.
• Saved case completion and unlocks. An unfinished puzzle's exact state is not saved between sessions.

Take your first shift

Choose New Shift to begin. Walk with WASD / arrows or click the floor. Use E at service points, Tab to switch files, Z to undo, and R to restart. Space / Esc skips opening scenes.

This is the current 10-case demo, still in development. Feedback is welcome. ✨

About the development

Created with AI assistance. AI tools helped with programming, dialogue, and selected original graphics, including mirror and screen sprites. The work was reviewed, refined, and checked during development. External assets retain their separate credits and licenses below.

Credits

• Office art/characters: Modern Interiors — LimeZu, free non-commercial version. This prototype is non-commercial.
• UI: Paper Pixels — VEXED, CC0.
• Music: “Dark Portents — Mysterious Traveler,” Abstraction / Benjamin Burnes, Music Loop Bundle, CC0.
• SFX: 400 Sounds Pack — Chequered Ink, creator's asset license.
• Pixel font: Silver — Poppy Works / Wolfgang Wozniak, CC BY 4.0; modified as Registry Latin Pixel.
• Thai font: Chakra Petch Project Authors, SIL OFL 1.1; adapted as Registry Thai UI.
• Original additions: AI-assisted device graphics, project-authored warp visuals and procedural warp audio.
• Engine: Godot, MIT. Detailed licenses accompany the project.