Game Title: The Listening Maze
Playable Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-listening-maze/id6763250828
Platform: iOS (add appropriate flair after posting)
Description:
The Listening Maze is a spatial audio maze game where you navigate entirely by sound. You're dropped into a pitch-black maze with no visual map, your only tool is echolocation. Tap to send a sound pulse into the darkness, and listen for the echo bouncing off the walls. A quick echo means the wall is close. A slow echo means open space ahead. You turn, ping, listen, and build a mental map entirely in your head.
The game uses Apple's HRTF spatial audio rendering, so with headphones, echoes actually come from the correct direction in 3D space around you. There's also haptic feedback, different vibration patterns for walls, collectibles, and the exit. It features 120 campaign levels across 6 difficulties (from 4x4 beginner mazes to 14x14 shaped mazes like crosses and diamonds), a daily challenge with Wordle-style shareable score cards, and an endless mode with increasing difficulty. Best experienced with headphones and closed eyes.
Free to Play Status:
* [x] Demo/Key available
(Free: 20 beginner levels + daily challenge. Full game: $1.99 one-time unlock — no ads, no subscriptions.)
Involvement: I'm the solo developer, handling everything from game design and audio engineering to programming and App Store submission.
