Sleepy Time by SkyWolf

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made by SkyWolf for LD30 (JAM)
Lore:
This is Sleepy Time, a time where your little sister gets her well deserved rest; but unfortunately she has no toys with her, so she will have nightmares, bad nightmares.
The house gets strange when she has nightmares, it fills with monsters and you have no way to kill 'em, you can just try to keep them away.
This will end only when you'll bring all her toys back. That and only that will stop the connection between the real world and her nightmares' one.

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Info:
Hello everybody, SkyWolf here, i wanted to try to partecipate in a jam with a 2 men team and i decided this was the time; i asked my good friend Eclipse to jump on board with me, and he gladly accepted.
Even though we're only able to join the jam because we've worked in team; we've self-imposed all the other rules on us, including but not limited to, the time limit of 48h.
All the process has been streamed on http://twitch.tv/akaSkyWolf (http://www.twitch.tv/akaskywolf/c/4980786).

You can also find us on Twitter @akaSkyWolf and @WaveringRadiant, come and follow us.
We hope you'll enjoy our game! Take care and keep jammin'!

PS: we advise you to use a 16:9 resolution, we did screw up a little with 4:3 >_> sorry about that.
PPS: Mac and Linux builds aren't tested, please confirm if they work or not. Thanks a lot.

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Controls:
WASD to move
SPACE to pick up and throw stuff
SPACE/R when prompted to start/restart the game

Ratings

Coolness 95% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.87 59
Audio(Jam) 2.76 486
Fun(Jam) 3.60 92
Graphics(Jam) 4.52 21
Humor(Jam) 2.79 235
Innovation(Jam) 3.73 76
Mood(Jam) 3.80 83
Theme(Jam) 3.69 130

Feedback

SuperPokeunicorn
25. Aug 2014 · 04:14 UTC
This is fantastic! Great art and original gameplay. What more could one ask for?
handkor
25. Aug 2014 · 04:15 UTC
This is excellent. Really like the art style.
Eclipse
25. Aug 2014 · 07:44 UTC
@WaveringRadiant here: Thanks a lot guys! :-) We had a lot of fun doing this and streaming the whole process on twitch
Tovip
25. Aug 2014 · 07:50 UTC
That art style is really really awesome but I think it sorta looses it's touch with objects that are closer to the camera and you can see it's 2D-ness.

also I think some spooky ambient sounds are the only thing the game needs to really solidify that creepy 'walking around the house at night' feeling.
dsoft20
25. Aug 2014 · 08:47 UTC
Nice entry!
Great art style!
Hypnohustla
25. Aug 2014 · 09:14 UTC
So moody! The monsters move too damn fast for me! I keep getting killed. :D
Mixing 2D and 3D was a weird choice but I didn't let that bother me that much. Overall a really nice idea and the gameplay worked very smoothly. :)
McFood
25. Aug 2014 · 09:15 UTC
That was horrifying, brilliant stuff.
I love the art style.
bogdanmaier49
25. Aug 2014 · 09:24 UTC
Amazing art, amazing gameplay. 10/10 from me.
Druid
25. Aug 2014 · 09:31 UTC
FUUUU Another game better than mine :D .. Anyway. I really like art! And everything else!
Hamsternator
25. Aug 2014 · 09:41 UTC
This is way harder than I thought it would be =D
With a bit of spooky ambience and some way to run from the spooky things this would hit the jackpot for me =)
simileinchen
25. Aug 2014 · 09:54 UTC
Art Style and Mood are awesome!
naksrifati
25. Aug 2014 · 10:02 UTC
Realy good game. The art style is awsome, and the overall idea two. The difficulty is a little to high, the monster are too fast. I like it!))
Toestee
25. Aug 2014 · 13:25 UTC
This is absolutely amazing, I love the art style and the world switching, mechanic. I would definitely play an expanded version!
43iscoding
25. Aug 2014 · 16:30 UTC
I didn't read description. Sooo, I almost shit my pants >_<
RawboSaurX
26. Aug 2014 · 19:46 UTC
Absolutely love the style of this game. The 2D sprites in a 3D environment works really well in this case. I especially like the shadows. Was not expecting the monsters, so that made me jump off my chair a little bit. Everything but the music, which is non-existant, seems pretty polished. Great work, guys!
havana24
27. Aug 2014 · 12:17 UTC
The graphic is lovely and the game is smooth!
AmmoreChicks
27. Aug 2014 · 14:07 UTC
Excellent game! Cute charcters...
Razoric
27. Aug 2014 · 17:13 UTC
This game is great. Love the art!
MechanicMoon
27. Aug 2014 · 17:17 UTC
It is a bit strange but has very good design and interesting
Nuclear Napalm
27. Aug 2014 · 17:23 UTC
The art-style is really cool, but the game itself is so fast-paced and hard!
borgi
27. Aug 2014 · 17:47 UTC
I like the graphics style and I find the theme implementation interresting!
esayitch
27. Aug 2014 · 19:44 UTC
Holy shit this thing is terrifying... really scary. I loved the atmosphere, sfx, and mostly the graphics. It felt like some enemies were too fast and made the game a bit unfair, but overall very good. Liked it!
🎤 SkyWolf
27. Aug 2014 · 19:48 UTC
yes, sadly we didn't had much time left for tuning the game better and can be a bit unfair sometimes if monsters spawn too close, we had to keep a <48h limit. Glad you liked it, and found it scary :D
Boberro
27. Aug 2014 · 19:52 UTC
gorgeous
Hairein
27. Aug 2014 · 20:16 UTC
Very good graphics and style! The controls were also very easy to learn and the game performed well on my box. I think there is potential for more here and it's good to see what was done in the short time available.
kirbytails7
28. Aug 2014 · 07:07 UTC
A bit jarring at first, but a nice little game.
AortaStudios
28. Aug 2014 · 08:51 UTC
That artwork! It's beautiful! Great submission, although... it did make me a little sad that I could throw a NES around ;) but seriously YOU NEED TO CARRY ON MAKING GAMES!
rustybroomhandle
28. Aug 2014 · 08:53 UTC
Really nice. Love the art style, and good concept for the theme. Well done!
simplesmiler
28. Aug 2014 · 08:58 UTC
I like it very much.
MintArcade
28. Aug 2014 · 09:03 UTC
Great art style. Nice game
INC$D021
28. Aug 2014 · 10:11 UTC
Amazing.. Love the graphics, the game is a bit.. just a tiny bit hard.!!! :)
Lots of stars from here.
SwiftIllusion
28. Aug 2014 · 23:20 UTC
Super adorable art direction :D, the 2d art was really cute, a great aesthetic all around. The only thing is gameplay wise I wish you had some way of getting a head start before the enemies, always felt like I took damage before I could even see them let alone try and get behind furniture to dodge them, but still had fun with it :)!
Will Edwards
29. Aug 2014 · 09:13 UTC
Damn difficult dodging those tarts :)

The dark theme coupled with harmless objects is super creepy - much creepier than if you'd tried to have horror and blood and stuff :)
🎤 SkyWolf
29. Aug 2014 · 13:00 UTC
Haha those were supposed to be evil red eyes, not tarts XD but thanks!
mrexcessive
29. Aug 2014 · 15:56 UTC
Hi there. Lovely artwork, shadows, gameplay. I could not work out how to attack the meanies after 'dark'... some instructions about what to do would have been appreciated... or an obvious example as a tutorial room perhaps. Nice sounds. Good job overall!
🎤 SkyWolf
29. Aug 2014 · 18:03 UTC
Hi mrexcessive! You cannot hurt them but you can throw objects at them to temporarily stun them so use all the furniture at your advantage! You just have to survive until the nightmare phase is gone :)
rogueNoodle
30. Aug 2014 · 13:20 UTC
The first switch to nightmare word scared the hell out of me :P Awesome visual style and great job all around!
Rehacked
03. Sep 2014 · 10:39 UTC
Nice game Goodjob
hb3p8
06. Sep 2014 · 14:27 UTC
Great art and style. Nice game!
Sunflower
10. Sep 2014 · 17:51 UTC
Seems pretty cool, but the movement is slow and I lost twice. The fact it's randomly generated (and the second time I had to walk quite a distance to get a plane) doesn't help. Plus, I had a lot of trouble entering the door. Maybe a little more forgiving...? ^^"

Very cool graphics, though.
The Lag Pack
13. Sep 2014 · 18:16 UTC
Great game, loved the art.

There is a glitch where if you walk through a door as it is changing you become stuck and have to restart.