Tonight, you are not alone.

Sure, your friends are with you. Or at least, they were with you. They're around somewhere. But there's something else, too.

The statues have never looked so alive. Have there always been this many of them?

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Petrified is a multiplayer survival-horror game. In each round of Petrified, up to fifteen players can join in as Mortals, while one additional player is selected to be the first Watcher; the Watcher must seek out the Mortals, moving only when they are not looking, until it is ready to strike. Each attacked Mortal becomes a new Watcher, cursed to seek out more Mortals until all are converted or day finally dawns. The Mortals must try to evade and defend until dawn, and their struggle will grow ever more desperate as more and more players fall and join the opposition.

Petrified is under development using Valve Corporation's Source SDK; it requires Half-Life 2: Episode 2. The three developers - Skyler Clark, Chris Drouin, and Matthew Fabian - are students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, persuing an Interactive Media and Game Development undergraduate major. Petrified itself is a Major Qualifying Project - a capstone project intended to highlight the skills and talents of graduating WPI students.