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A jam submission

NyctophobiaView game page

A game about the fear of darkness and those around you
Submitted by The Masked Sandwich
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of theme#103.8183.818
Use of prerequisite#172.9092.909
Presentation#193.1823.182
Overall#212.8942.894
Enjoyment#252.4552.455
Controls#282.3642.364
Concept#332.6362.636

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

MiniScript

No

Wasn't made with MiniScript

Bezi

No

Wasn't made with the help of Bezi

GameMaker

No

Wasn't made with GameMaker

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Comments

Submitted

The art style is cool, but I can't really play this game, I read you can't dash when far from the darkness so that needs an indicator, and yeah some cars move at light speed, also I feel like theres supposed to be something else happening but nothing is.

Btw on fullscreen gui is misplaced completely (also dont use esc as a button since it exits fullscreen)

Submitted

Those darn drivers! Pretty interesting, and quite challenging. Well done :)

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Controls don't work too well. The lights force you to stay in the middle of the street, and the police cars don't give you any time to react. It would be nice to have a reason to not run up the center of the street. The darkness also sometimes catches you just as the level starts.

Developer(+1)

I'm really sorry about the bugs, thank you for playing anyway!

Submitted

The art is cool, and the lighting system  creates a nice atmosphere. However, the Reverbair blends into the sidewalk, making it hard to distinguish the two. As for the controls, I didn’t fully understand the race, sometimes it dashes, and other times nothing happens. Did I miss a reload?

Developer

The dash was originally meant to only work a certain distance from the darkness, so it can't be spammed. I probably put some form of visual indicator, though because the game doesn't have a tutorial to tell you that. I'm not quite sure what the Reverbair is though. Regardless, thankyou for playing.

Submitted

Excuse me, I was talking about street lamps, bad translation
Submitted

Like the animations and lightning, but on the web it is too hard to react to police vehicles and sometimes the ghost vehicles span the whole screen. The dash also most of the time does not work

Developer

The dash is supposed to work a certain distance from the darkness, although that should have been communicated. The ghost car though, is just broken and I can't figure out a way to fix it. Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

A bit buggy... And the display is a bit displaced. I played in the browser. The art is amazing tho. I love the art style. all in all, considering it was done in 2 days, it's good.

Developer

Thank you for playing, despite the bugs!

Submitted

Lovely art style!

Unfortunately I seem to be plagued with bugs. The cars are moving at the speed of light (probably not intended), can't seem to be able to pickup items, options menu won't close if opened, and in general everything seems to be strangely placed.

I'm almost sure most of these are caused by viewport and resolution and probably wouldn't be an issue if downloaded, but unfortunately I can't do that (work pc).

Will reattempt later if/when I'm in a position to download stuff.

Developer

The cars and the option menu are generally buggy, and the pickups work, there's just no feedback they've been picked up. If I had to guess, the problems aren't cause by viewport but rather something to do with runtime. Nevertheless, thank you for playing!

Submitted

I love this art style, and great lighting to, great job on this game

Developer

Thank you so much!