{"author_link":"\/author\/kevinworkman\/","author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","comments":[{"author_name":"Jonny D","author_uid":"654","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:01pm","epoch":1367330160,"text":"Yeah, pretty creepy.  Did I just play a typing tutor? :)  Well, the last couple of shadows are tough and you have to press a lot of buttons to close your eyes each time, which gets annoying.  At least button mashing works!"},{"author_name":"Hayawi","author_uid":"20256","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1367356740,"text":"Nice game, and although horror games are not my cup of tea, this was a nice change from platformers"},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1367358120,"text":"Good game! Scary! Kind of annoying when you have to restart all over. But that fits the game so don't change it. I did only manged to get to 3. Very innovative."},{"author_name":"magnpeas","author_uid":"21124","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:58pm","epoch":1367365980,"text":"Niiiiice and spooky!"},{"author_name":"MaxSzlagor","author_uid":"22483","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1367437560,"text":"Interesting idea. If you could host it in a way that didn't require installing multiple files that would be even better. Thank you for sharing!"},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:43am","epoch":1367473080,"text":"My one suggestion would be that it would have been even better if the room had some decorations, nooks, or crannies such that the shadow creatures could be plausibly interpreted by a mind in dream-state from the arrangement of objects."},{"author_name":"KEFIR","author_uid":"14211","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1367775660,"text":"Concept is really interesting. Creepy indeed, but I think you should add some more scary sounds :)"},{"author_name":"Yezu","author_uid":"33","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1368372720,"text":"The last two shadows are very difficult.\r<br\/>It'd put less of them in total, I got very sleepy through the first part of the game :P"},{"author_name":"RawBits","author_uid":"5167","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1368816060,"text":"I love this one! The graphics are bad on my card and I'm a bad typer though. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Insomnia is the best thing a programmer can get from life!"}],"images":["ld26\/5364-21f5d90f4eb5c7fb60fd95c022266813.jpg","ld26\/5364-99447c017e48cc182ea0bb01675de23c.jpg","ld26\/5364-448e909bc63f8a147a515c4670f704a3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/staticvoidgames.com\/play\/?game=shadows","text":"Homepage"},{"url":"http:\/\/staticvoidgames.com\/play\/?game=shadows&amp;view=applet","text":"Applet"},{"url":"http:\/\/staticvoidgames.com\/play\/?game=shadows&amp;view=webstart","text":"Webstart"},{"url":"http:\/\/staticvoidgames.com\/play\/?game=shadows&amp;view=source","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_people","text":"Shadow People"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25178","g_author":"5364","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"25208","g_title":"The Shadows","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"340","g_commentcount":"9","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/5364-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/5364-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/5364-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I'm entering this into the jam because I used public domain sounds and music from freesound.\r\n\r\nThe game is (hopefully) a creepy, atmospheric, minimalistic recreation of what it's like to suffer from insomnia and see shadow people (which are a real phenomenon, check out the description at the game's homepage!).\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nYou suffer from severe insomnia.\r\nYou close your eyes, but the shadows come.\r\nYou hear them as they scuttle.. closer.\r\n\r\nOpen your eyes and the shadows fade.\r\nKeep them closed and be devoured.\r\n\r\nFall asleep to escape this waking nightmare.\r\n(Defeat 14 shadows to win)\r\n\r\n\r\nControls: Press the correct key when prompted. Do so quickly, or the shadows will devour you.\r\nM to mute, but I highly recommend keeping the sound on.\r\n\r\nThanks for playing!\r\n\r\n(And yes, there is a potato in this game!)","title":"The Shadows"}