The Locker Room Update

Developer Note

It's been a whopping 90 days since we first launched Needle Sleep for the Horror Themed Jam #20. The game did really well and came in second place after all the voting was done, plus, it got some awesome feedback and lots of gameplay videos on youtube which we watched very closely to discover and nail any bugs. And boy where there some bugs! 

Life has been hectic though so updating has been sluggish at best, but I didn't want to abandon this project and finally pushed through with a big update to the game: The locker room update! When designing the gameplay for the gamejam, I came up with a puzzle that we just didn't have the time to develop for the deadline's delivery date and even though it's not amazing by any measures, it was one of the first things I wanted to get done after the jam finished. More language options where also added and full gamepad support as well. Not to mention a whole sleuth of bugs that got fixed.

So without any further ado, here are the...

Needle Sleep v0.2 Updates

• Added Locker Room Puzzle
• Added full gamepad support (With rumble!)
• Now supports english, spanish and portuguese
• Fixed a bug that screwed up the game's resolution and would break the inspection mode.
• Increased the sensitivity range (What sensitivity are y'all used to that thought this game's was low? lol)
• Visual polish overall
• Interactable items have a better way of letting the player know they can be interacted with.
• Interactable items can now be rotated while inspecting them. What clues could this reveal?
• Added a checkpoint and continue system that will be useful to keeping progression as the game is expanded upon.

There's a lot of polish over the first area of the game overall, so stay tuned for the next update which will include a whole new area to explore and some new gameplay features! Promise not to take 90 days to get that done...hopefully lol

Also, just as a general note, as the game kept expanding, having it be web browser friendly was not really viable anymore. Time is limited and having it work as intended on a browser is too much work so that option will not be available moving forward.

Cheers,

Paper Ghost