Whoah very shocking! Great use of theme, very well done.
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The Boy in the Dark's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Visuals | #39 | 3.296 | 3.296 |
Audio | #52 | 2.926 | 2.926 |
Unexpectedness | #61 | 2.815 | 2.815 |
Overall | #95 | 2.519 | 2.519 |
Fun | #104 | 2.296 | 2.296 |
Gameplay Innovation | #104 | 2.074 | 2.074 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Please list any pre-made art/music/code/other assets that you used.
Footage was Shot by me in 2016 - and one piece of free to use green screen was used everything else is new
How many members in your team?
List each team member's role, along with their social media / website links!
Nick Box , https://twitter.com/NickFMVdev
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Comments
Is very nice, I watched on twitch, is not really my jam, but I can see is a cool game 😊
Really liked the FMV style and ambience! It was just a little bit too hard for me, especially when you die and have to se all the animations of the boy turning around again, it could make the gameplay flow better if the player could jump the videos (if this is already a feature, i could not find it, sorry) but it would be awesome to see a full game with this style and more gameplay. Also, the jumpscares really got me haha.
Thanks that's awesome. This was whipped up in a matter of hours I have alot of years film making experience so made the jump recently to FMV games got lots in the pipeline some pretty ambitious projects and some quirky little things like this. Thanks for playing and I'd be interested to see any FMV stuff you end up doing
Very unique experience. Polished and unexpected. Not fun for me but still managed to try awhile because it had me in suspense..I'll try this again in a dark room later :)
This game has some really nice aesthetics to it. Honestly I wasn't scared of the horrifying jumpscares, they were kinda expected judging by the screenshots of the game. But I think that's okay, I had a horror game that not many would get scared, so I just got like mixed reviews. Nonetheless, its a pretty cool game!
Thanks this was thrown together as a bit of a test really as for over a decade I have made indie horror movies and I am now branching out into games. Utilizing alot of old footage I have I've been really impressed with the feedback I have had from it the aesthetics has been the thing its been praised on the most and that really pleases me going into the bigger projects I am working on as I feel I have carried over that aspect. Thanks again for playing
interesting game, i felt uncomfortable from the beginning, i am not a fan of screamers but neither i hate it, I think that the atmosphere of the game is creepy enough. cool experience in general.
Thanks it was thrown together very quickly hence why i focused more on the screamer aspect but i do have plans to make a more fuller creepy game based on the footage in the future as i have a lot from that shoot to make an interesting more story driven experience. but yes for what this is for something i threw together in a matter of hours i am happy with the responses its getting thanks for playing .
The atmosphere and visuals is real good in this game. The gameplay idea was okay, but it got a bit boring watching the same clips again and again and again and again. Overall was this a pretty good but also a bit too long jam game.
Hey! I was really impressed that you managed to take a relatively simple gameplay concept and create a really unnerving/spooky creation out of it. Especially just utilizing one screen! I wish there was more to interact with and that there was a bit more variation, but I think you really nailed what you were going for. Great job :)
Man, screamers is soooo expected in this kind of games :) Can't finish, Tired of watching the same vids, sorry. But I like the atmoshere. And the lack of the "Skip" and "Restart" buttons is a mess)
Oh my god that scared the crap out of me the first time! Not too sure what to do but you got me good and I have to give points for that lol. Definitely unexpected.
Thanks it is a little messed up, did you make it to the end? Good shout with the Volume i was strapped for time so i threw it together in a matter of hours to submit in time, Volume controls or Even better mixed audio is certainly something i will look into as the audio levels are all over the place. Thanks for playing
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