Night Terrors by mrsylar59
I finished my game, third time in awhile (last time was LD33). So I wanted to learn how to use Monogame to make games, I guess know now. It was really nice to do!
Let's talk about the game.
It's night. You are a child afraid of the dark. Earing strange noises, you decide to get up and investigate. You roam around the house for a bit, without finding anything. Suddenly, your flashlight begin to lose power! You're panicking! The more you stay in the dark, the more They come.
How to play
Once in the game, you can use your WASD or ZQSD keys to move around. This is an arcade-styled game: as long as you're not dead, you win. The longer you stay alive, the more points you will get. You need to find batteries in the environment. But be careful: all the batteries are not safe, try to avoid the red ones!
Links
- Builds of the game: http://gamejolt.com/games/night-terrors/273185 (MacOS + Linux build in "Other")
- Source code: https://github.com/MrSylar59/LudumDare39
- Time Lapse : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-QOSmt2qI
Ratings
| Overall | 451th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 485th | 3.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 452th | 3⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 299th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 531th | 3.227⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 388th | 3.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 340th | 2.588⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 410th | 3.238⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
EDIT: Nevermind, found it. Nice game!
The concept is simple and catchy.
The sound effect when you're about to loose is a personal favorite ;)
Good Job!
Anyways, nice work :smile:
I got the impression that finding the battery was mainly a matter of luck. I couldn't figure out a strategy to find it. It seemed random.
The physics around room entrances are a little bit weird. If I run into the edge of a doorway, I'll get a bit disoriented because my position changes suddenly.
Really cool, good luck with this if you pursue it further! :-)
I love your game, you are right it is quite similar to what we did, yours has great music and I love the graphic style of the pixel art but feel it lacks some contrast of the PC on the background, minor nit pick.
Mechanic wise I love how simple the controls are but some of the collision detection is iffy, i was getting stuck in some places especially doorways, or get nudged to a different place. I like that you included pick up batteries to extend your battery life, we should have incorporated something like that!
Overall a very fun and quirky game, the music is very thematic and atmospheric. Will play again!