Made it to the checkers wall which I assume is the end. I love the art style and the older game feel of this game. The puzzle gameplay is great and got me thinking which is the sign of a good puzzle, almost got stuck but then I got it and that felt nice. The first person mode is a bit strange and I didn't like being forced into it to interact with the environment. Picking up objects didn't work the best and dropping things was happening a lot. The environment itself looks great and the house itself is made beautifully! Look forward to more being added to this game!

Holy mother of SOUL

A few notes:

• The flashlight shines through the Great Wall: https://imgur.com/0OmcxEF
• The arrows sometimes bounce off the player instead of triggering damage and disappearing: https://imgur.com/O70qHyt
  • Normally this wouldn't be too noticeable, but it stands out because of the trail
• Dunno if this was supposed to happen, but I glitched to the top of this totem pole guy without jumping there. I was standing on one of the rotating planks, and I think a collision triggered that pushed me up there. https://imgur.com/1ft9bfh
• The menu navigation is wonky, particularly the quest menu. For example, if you scroll down and select a placeholder quest, then press right or left a few times, it'll move the cursor on the main menu (map, quests, etc). It's hard to explain, but it's basically just Event System hijinks. I've had similar problems before. Perhaps the main nav should be disabled while you're navigating a submenu. A similar problem occurs when you're in the map submenu and the cursor gets stuck on the scrollbars; it's hard to escape and return to the main menu.
• Don't forget to look into text wrapping. The text doesn't wrap properly when it's reading out, which causes some words to jump from the end of one line to the beginning of the next when the word hits a particular length. I think TMP can handle this?
• It was surprisingly hard to carry the levers around in first-person mode. They kept colliding into walls and falling out of my hands, which isn't realistic.

I think that's all.

This is a genre that I like, and not just for nostalgia. I love the sense of wonder and possibility that can be conveyed with adventure platformers, especially in 3D. Even with this tiny sampling of gameplay, there's a sense that you don't know what will happen when you turn the next corner. I don't think I even found out where the snoring was coming from.

Good luck!

The atmosphere is very comfy, the low poly look is really well done. I think you should focus on tightening the level design and signposting of what to do.  Once I entered the dream the area was just too vast and I had no idea where to go. You might walk on those brick walls or swim somewhere and find nothing of interest for minutes.

Interactable objects should have some kind of faint glow or other indicator that they can be used. I know the game is called dream child, but I still didn't initially realize that I can use the bed to progress into a dream world.

I really like the feelings this game evokes. munching on pizza in dreamland. I’m worried at my age I won’t be challenged by it though.

From watching webms in the thread I thought the camera would be really janky and barfy but it’s probably my favorite 3rd person camera I have ever used

Jump animation doesn’t match the action imo. maybe a different animation while Y velocity is positive?

I went to bed without getting the flashlight. possibly unintentional

you could visually differentiate the gates for the cutscenes by providing some context in the framing, though I don’t know if you WANT to do that.

also I spent like 5 minutes walking down the walls that surround the hedge maze island LOL

Incredible atmosphere and sound design, good music. Just wish the camera would stay focused more when moving it around, feels quite drunk when moving it

Dream Child looks very nice until you look at Champ's parents. That being said it seems like a lot of work has been put into the game otherwise. I'm excited to see where it goes from here.