Closet Monster by jsmith

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made by jsmith for LD33 (JAM)
Welcome to Closet Monster.

Everyone knows things go bump in the night...

Download and unzip. Then fire it up.

Use the spacebar (the only control you'll need) to guide your monster hero across a room of traps. Audio/Visual cues will help you navigate accordingly. Get to the goal and enjoy your delicious surprise! Alt + F4 to quit.

Thanks for looking and playing!

Feedback

Mr. Chocolate Salmon
25. Aug 2015 · 23:12 UTC
So simple, but I loved it. The movement was a bit frustrating, and I got caught a number of times on the dog, even though I wasn't moving when he saw me. But the sound effects were awesome (aha, that sleeper), and the gameplay was really smooth and fun.
Did I mention the sound effects?
martymon
27. Aug 2015 · 06:15 UTC
Great graphics and audio but the spacebar key moves the monster wayyyy too slow?
TackoramaLtd
02. Sep 2015 · 19:25 UTC
Simple and effective but the spacebar as control was slow and frustrating. Good sound effects.
amras0000
07. Sep 2015 · 01:17 UTC
Ridiculously frustrating game.
First off, movement mechanics: each press of the spacebar seemed to move me at most one pixel forward, maybe less. My hand was starting to cramp before I reached the toybox on the first screen. I had to write up an autohotkey script to get through the game.
Second, the timing on the traps was complete guesswork. I realize in retrospect the audio cues were supposed to help, but the whole audio just became an ambient mess and I ended up just skooching forward and stopping at random points until the threat passed. I can't imagine how frustrating this would've been if I hadn't been mashing space 30 times per second. I generally like audio-based mechanics, but these just didn't work out because of the input system. Sorry.
PeteGrammarman
13. Sep 2015 · 01:49 UTC
Didn't understand what the sounds were supposed to be or what they meant. The hand drawn art was very nice, and it's what pulled me into the game. The spacebar as a control is fine, but moving that slow, especially when nothing happens on the first screen, is very frustrating.