You are the Nightmare by petmonkey

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made by petmonkey for LD33 (COMPO)
You find yourself in the same nightmare as so many times before. But this time, you decide to fight back. But beware - your nightmares are part of you, and what you do is in some way reflected in them...

HOW TO PLAY
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WASD or Arrow Keys to move
Space to fire
Kill all nightmares on each level
Beat all 8 levels to win!


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I went for a pretty literal interpretation of the theme. You control the hero and at the same time all the monsters. Although their movement is mapped differently than the hero's.

At first I was thinking of explaining it with a faulty mind-control device. But with the monsters from a game mechanics point of view already sort of being distorted versions of the player, it seemed to fit better to have them be inner demons and nightmares instead.


Other features:

-Randomly generated levels.

-Randomly generated movement and attack patterns for monsters. Becoming more difficult the futher one makes it.

Ratings

Coolness 0% 2355
Overall 3.05 527
Audio 1.69 660
Fun 2.59 749
Graphics 3.95 115
Humor 1.76 776
Innovation 2.64 691
Mood 3.19 327
Theme 2.77 785

Feedback

rogual
24. Aug 2015 · 11:30 UTC
Amazing graphics. I love the warped perspective effect. Fog, trees & fences are also all awsesome. Too bad there aren't any animations!

The levels did all feel very similar; there wasn't much to distinguish one from the last.
TiByte
24. Aug 2015 · 12:27 UTC
Music would make the mood of the game sooo much better, but all in all it's a very nice and hard game.
Hyoga-3D
24. Aug 2015 · 12:47 UTC
cool game and great mood, also congrats for the trick on the trees, a love this tricks, it reminded me of okami, that uses something very similiar. Good game.
g_o
24. Aug 2015 · 16:44 UTC
Great graphics on this one!
The movement was linked to my movement I reckoned but what's going on with the firing mechanism?
afisicos
24. Aug 2015 · 19:22 UTC
Excelent game. Nice graphics and an interesting idea.
2011petia
25. Aug 2015 · 02:07 UTC
Nice game,you have a nice job
Kaltic
25. Aug 2015 · 03:05 UTC
Absolutely love the warped camera and visuals. The idea is great and a bit SuperHot, but it was a little difficult to line yourself up while also not getting hit by auto-firing enemies.
Shina69
25. Aug 2015 · 05:00 UTC
Loved the movement mechanism, adding a puzzle component to an apparent shooting game that would be boring without it. A morbid soundtrack would make it even better.
collaboration
25. Aug 2015 · 09:30 UTC
Love this artstyle so much, need to improve gameplay and add music, it will be much more cooler!
mboaj
25. Aug 2015 · 11:14 UTC
I have some difficulty at aiming to the nightmares. But the mood is really Tim Burtonish :)
Pampattitude
25. Aug 2015 · 21:07 UTC
It's a really cool work! Gorgeous and no bugs observed. Some music would have make it more awesome but it's already a huge work.
lightsoda
13. Sep 2015 · 20:12 UTC
Looks pretty nice. A tip: next time check horizontal and vertical movement independent of each other.