Wide Opened Eyes by nzgiije

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made by nzgiije for LD31 (JAM)
---CONTROLS---
Movement: WASD
Lantern direction: Arrows


They afraid of the light.
So your only weapon is a lantern.
Monsters don't move while you looking at them.
Find way out. 


Note: 
To make it in time, we had to cut a lot from our game. But still hope you will enjoy it.




---CREDITS---

Artsiom “grlmc” Hlushchenia - graphics, sound, design
Andrei “nzgiije” Tsukanov - code, design


Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.58 219
Audio(Jam) 4.00 40
Fun(Jam) 3.45 206
Graphics(Jam) 4.05 148
Humor(Jam) 2.38 604
Innovation(Jam) 3.25 365
Mood(Jam) 4.21 16
Theme(Jam) 2.20 995

Feedback

stasss
09. Dec 2014 · 02:30 UTC
Incredible atmospheric, brilliant work. Very solid, keep going work this game has a future.
kaa
09. Dec 2014 · 10:03 UTC
Good entry, very a atmospheric
Wayward
09. Dec 2014 · 10:04 UTC
Very nice graphics and sound
Kaijuu
09. Dec 2014 · 10:04 UTC
Really spooky game! So much like it
Demy
09. Dec 2014 · 10:31 UTC
Ok, you gave me nightmares. Very nice sounds + graphics combination. But sometimes the main character doesn't want to go up or down for no reason, so you need to move around stairs for a while to make him use it.
Again, great atmosphere.
Nuclear Napalm
09. Dec 2014 · 10:32 UTC
Daaaaamn, that was creepy, but so awesome! Mood is fantastic! Great job!
Hellequin
09. Dec 2014 · 10:42 UTC
Awesome concept! I love the lights system and all! Very addictive!
semdog
09. Dec 2014 · 10:45 UTC
I've always hated big purple things that run after me. Thanks for that :(
but great game! Real sp00ky and atmospheric. Nice job
sathorn
09. Dec 2014 · 10:53 UTC
Wow, very nice atmosphere! Unfortunately though it's pretty buggy. Sometimes the character doesn't move or moves out of the map or the alien sound stutters. Also it doesn't match the theme too well :) But still, really good game.
oatsbarley
09. Dec 2014 · 13:00 UTC
Wow! Perfect atmosphere and great use of the audio, screenshakes, etc. for effect. It's impressive that you came up with something that's genuinely scary in the space of an LD.
JoshuaBurr
09. Dec 2014 · 13:02 UTC
I loved it.
RyanNielson
09. Dec 2014 · 13:03 UTC
Neat game, looks and sounds great with some genuinely scary moments. Great use of screenshake as well!

Just a quick big. You're able to clip through the locked doors if you walk into them and look in different directions quickly.

Regardless, great game. It's really hard to do horror in 2D and you nailed it.
oh_andrej
09. Dec 2014 · 13:06 UTC
It's like a minified 16bit Alan Wake. Very creepy with terrifying (in a good way) sound effects. A bit hard to orient yourself, but I guess that's the point :D

Doesn't really fit the theme I think, but nonetheless enjoyable.
resty
09. Dec 2014 · 13:16 UTC
good game, i dare not play it ...
CustomPhase
09. Dec 2014 · 13:58 UTC
Wow, it looks and sounds amazing. Not a big fan of a gameplay though. It needs some sort of map, cause its too easy to get lost
Zayron
09. Dec 2014 · 19:20 UTC
Awesome Job! Last time I had this feeling I was playing “F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon”. But it did not fit the theme very well.
Neil
09. Dec 2014 · 19:27 UTC
Great game. Great atmosphere. Was happy to be able to finish it in the end.
Groydis
10. Dec 2014 · 10:24 UTC
I jumped the first time I got attacked, Brilliant, Lots of atmosphere. Great Job!
cabezotta
10. Dec 2014 · 17:22 UTC
Nice entry! Spooky!
Si1ver
10. Dec 2014 · 18:34 UTC
Awersome horror atmosphere and really cool pixel graphics
I think that I could not sleep tonight...
whitematterteam
10. Dec 2014 · 18:36 UTC
Very good game! Sometimes the ladders don't work for some reason so you have to go back and forth and retry. Great game after all!
Yarek
10. Dec 2014 · 18:40 UTC
It's a cool game but it has a few bugs. Sometimes he wouldn't use a stair without reason and sometimes I could walk through a close wall. But anyway I like to play atmospheric games like mine :)
Blister
10. Dec 2014 · 18:40 UTC
Really great game with Great ambience
harley77
10. Dec 2014 · 18:41 UTC
Great entry!
Headmade
10. Dec 2014 · 23:04 UTC
Ob boy the audio really makes the atmosphere work, good job! I also like the pixel art. Overall a good game.
Arkrothe
11. Dec 2014 · 18:03 UTC
Super creepy O_O... The first few times when the monsters got spotted were quite terrifying moments.

But after a while they started bugging out or something and 3-4 kept getting caught on the same causeway simultaneously. It would be a lot more awesome if they were a bit sparser, but chased us more actively.
thopis
12. Dec 2014 · 12:39 UTC
Great atmosphere!liked the mechanics with the rotating head/flashlight!
codehugger
13. Dec 2014 · 14:58 UTC
Awesome game :) Scared the bejesus out of me! Keep up the good work.
Team Flashlight
13. Dec 2014 · 15:56 UTC
Basically it is like a maze game, but your idea of using lantern makes the game different from traditional maze game. I like your music which successfully make the game quite scary. The game could be better if there is something that can indicate player's progress or a minimap.

You may come to try our game "Flashlight", which has similar mechanisms that the only weapon of player is light and monsters afraid of light.(Though it is more in an arcade style.)
benmcnelly
16. Dec 2014 · 07:03 UTC
Very polished! Keep it up!
ButtonMasherBros
17. Dec 2014 · 16:55 UTC
Psst - you are in todays Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNWAVXTiJ0
yodamaster
17. Dec 2014 · 17:45 UTC
Quite scary ...
AxeTheory
17. Dec 2014 · 19:17 UTC
right when I thought I couldn't find the exit, I did. Yep I jumped the first time I died.
Jishmael
17. Dec 2014 · 21:48 UTC
Damn this is an awesome game :D How did you achieve the headlamp effect on that? ive been trying to get that effect in Unity for a while :/
abdurrahmankh
18. Dec 2014 · 03:30 UTC
great atmosphere, and horror! nice mechanics, but the only thing I didn't like, is you have no idea where you are at, its all the same, and I did not understand how the doors get open.

so the maze itself is not that good, but over all this is a great work.
grlmc13
18. Dec 2014 · 11:40 UTC
Thank you, guys for your feedback. You are awesome. ButtonMasherBros, thanks for review I laught my ass off ))) Yep, it's a lot of bugs in the game. Feel sad about it.
Elendow
25. Dec 2014 · 12:56 UTC
Very nice atmosphere, like the concept. Good job!
gameattack
25. Dec 2014 · 14:27 UTC
Very good game. It has a very strong impact.
Rick Hoppmann
25. Dec 2014 · 21:23 UTC
Unity web player does not support Linux.
BlackBulletIV
26. Dec 2014 · 22:53 UTC
Holy shit, this scared me a couple times. Excellent mood. A bug I noticed was where the monsters were just within range, the musical "hit" would trigger many, many times.
Dans17
27. Dec 2014 · 02:17 UTC
Very good atmosphere. I just wish there were more indications as to where to go instead of blindly wandering around a maze.
InfectionTeam
27. Dec 2014 · 12:03 UTC
We really like the atmosphere of this game, the idea to mix atmospheric soundscape with sound effects to make something musical it's very nice!
ArcturusDeluxe
28. Dec 2014 · 22:52 UTC
Great sense of mood, the alien popping out at me made me jump a bit. Nice pixel art, and great audio work too.
indie4fun
29. Dec 2014 · 19:53 UTC
Love the animations and the "aliens" glitch! Good athmosphere!