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A jam submission

A night in the darkView game page

A short horror game for the Devsquad halloween game jam
Submitted by Dabt — 3 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#13.0003.000
Theme#14.0004.000
Asthetics#14.0004.000
Gameplay#23.0003.000
Overall#23.4003.400
Sound#43.0003.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Name
Dabt and friends(composed of dabt, dabt2, dabt3, dabt4)

Team Email Contact
didd.bdc@gmail.com

Discord ID #
Dabt#7840

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Comments

Jam Host

Great job! I love the look of the enemies and all their unique features and customizations; it made me play a handful of times to try and see them all. I also appreciate the warnings you give going into the game. The rat killed me super quick my first play through and my second play through the camera face guy killed me quickly. I would just reduce the speed or limit how they can get you so it isn't as instant. Would love to see you keep working on this!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! The rat is on a random timer, which can be 10-50 secs(so luck applies alot) , and the camera guy takes 1min  to get triggered, during my testing it seemed fine and my testers also thought it was fine, but they did have alot of time to learn tactics. Need to learn how to balance without my own skill making it hard on other people. Glad you enjoyed it.

Submitted

What a great game! looks great! Love the graininess, and general style. It also is actually scary! it's night time and I'm very easily scared so I couldn't play the game for more then a minute but that is definitely a compliment! Camera guy really freaked me out in a good way! It was also very hard, maybe a little harder than it should be? I've found in horror games dying multiple times take you out of the game and makes it less scary. If you slowed down the timer movement of everyone and slowed down battery decay? Other than the difficulty and  just some inevitable game jam bugs, I have no complaints! Honestly one of the best game Jam gave I've seen. You're for sure gonna get first or second place and if you don't I'll have a bone to pick with the judges. Very impressed!

Developer

Thank you. The fast time was just to speed the game up , because there wasnt alot to do but i still wanted a 6am end. And the battery speed was just a quick band aid solution to force you to keep moving. On the difficulty, I got mixed messages from my testers, some said it was too easy some too hard, so I did a half and half solution(some enemies only get active later on, and some are really slow on getting triggered), but it could definitely have more balancing. Glad you liked it!

Submitted

Good effort. Maybe some sonic textures, background ambiance etc. Models are awesome so well done there. Me too loves pixelated textures. Rat keeps getting me though damm thing. Hats off dude :)

Developer

Thanks! I did struggle with making audio stuff. Weird the rat was the issue, people that played told me it was too easy to deal with, but i'll keep it in mind if I get to continue with it.

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Liked that. The idea is interesting. Cool models tho).Awesome

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

I loved this one, I am a big fan of the pixelated games and this was both cute and stressing for me. I had a little trouble at the start with just understanding as the text was a little hard to read but once I understood I had a lot more fun. It is such a good game you did a amazing job. 

Developer

Thank you! The font was  picked because it was the only one I found that matched the style without being "minecraft.font". Glad you enjoyed it.