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A jam submission

Red FacilityView game page

Submitted by Huliandos — 6 hours, 24 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Best use of: Transhumanism#2n/an/a
Best use of: Apocalypse#3n/an/a
Submitter's Choice Award (top game overall)#33.5003.500
Best use of chosen theme(s)#53.1673.167

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Use of themes
The sun expanded and turned earth into a desolate desert planet. Human scientists remained on earth to study the effect of the apocalypse on earth, but things changed when scientific efforts got too ambitious. We incorporated three subthemes, but our focus was on Transhumanism.

Content warnings
It's a horror game, so a bit of fear induction is part of it, but there's no r-rated content.

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Submitted

You guys did fantastic with this. All I can say is with more time, this could be a really good horror game!

Submitted(+1)

Wow the amount of work that's gone into making this! I'm extremely impressed. Especially with the voice acting, without which the game would be missing so much. For the jam version, my only gripe is with the cursor and feedback when interacting with objects. But I love to see a 3D space horror exploration game made in such a short amount of time. Good job!

Submitted(+2)

Love the atmosphere. The voice acting and level design are well done. I found the enemy mechanics a little boring, but it was still intense to have to navigate while they try to kill you.

Side note: I also had a problem with the cursor leaving the screen on Windows 10.

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Okay, I was pretty excited for this one, I'm not gonna lie. 

I didn't get terribly far (until the yellow room, where I died). I had to unplug my second monitor though or the game was almost unplayable because the mouse would not stick to the game window. If you make first person games, be sure to use: Cursor.visible = false and Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked. This will make sure the mouse sticks to the center of the screen and not be visible, which is ideal for a first person game.

Something I got confused over was that I needed to crouch to pick up the first keycard on the floor. There's no real feedback to the player as to if/when they can or can't pick something up, so I had no idea and struggled for the first few minutes.

Also, I really don't know what a 'locker' looks like in this game. I didn't see one but maybe that's just me. I didn't understand the monster's AI, whether I keep my flashlight off and crouch in a corner, it always seems to find me.

What's more is that the monster seems to teleport? I came out of the blue door into the room with the blue hiding curtains, knowing the enemy was coming from the blue door's side. Yet, suddenly, he was apparently in this dead-end blue curtain room behind me. Unless maybe he came through the purple door.. but it was baffling to experience.

The voice acting was a nice touch and I appreciated the explanation at the start, but I feel like it needs more work for the game itself to actually be a fun to play horror game. 

Mind you, there seems to be a lot of content for a jam game and I'm impressed.

Edit: I see that some of my points were already answered in the post below, so sorry if I re-addressed some of the same issues.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Interesting! I also have a multi-monitor setup, but didn't run into any issues with the cursor leaving the screen. Seems like the kind of bug you usually find from extensive play testing on different setups, so thanks for instantly suggesting a solution to it!

Good point. We planned to have a longer tutorial in the beginning where players could learn each mechanic one by one (crouching underneath debris, picking up an item etc.), but had to boil it down to a very short tutorial. So the goal, was just for player's to use all their buttons at least once before entering the facility.

Yup very true. I already answered as to why this may have happened in my comment below.

The monster teleports the first time you enter a new room, to guarantee that you have to deal with it. In my playtests before implementing the teleportation, I was able to lure it into a corner and then complete the whole game without it ever finding me again, because it couldn't pick up the noise I made.  Within the fiction of the game, one could say that the monster - living in this facility for a longer span of time - knows ways around the facility (like vents and the likes) the player doesn't. Thus, it's able to seemingly appear out of nowhere. ;)

Thank you for your feedback. The game is nowhere near completion and definitely needs more polishing before it's a full-fledged experience.

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

What a fitting game for a Game Jam that ends on Halloween! <3

A friend and I took turns playing that game and we both agree it's one of the best polished games here in this game jam! :)

Biggest Plus Points of this game

First things first - the entire story, the creature, the aesthetics, and the voice acting are all amazing, especially for the little time you had to put it all together! The game mechanics are simple and intuitive, and totally fitting for a game jam game! The 3D models are also all very good, but since you havent listed any 3D Artists on your game page I figure most of them have been taken from filebase or other sources? (Which is totally fine, of course! But if you and your team actually have modelled some of that yourself, then that's even more impressive!) The fact that you had cutscenes and tracking shots at the start even is also hella awesome - the ship approaching gave me a lot of Dead Space vibes! (But for the circle/sphere with the sun texture,on it at the start, I would replace that with a smoother circle, where you dont see the edges as much so that it looks smoother!) 

Things that can be improved

There are a few things that mildly irritated us when playing the game.

- The biggest thing is that dying feels way too punishing.  It can happen very quick and all your progress is reset. (Admittedly, this was also why we did not finish the game, so we could not see what's the reveal/twist at the end - I hope that didnt make us miss out on too much of the games content!) It feels really frustrating having to start all over, so maybe something like checkpoints when you collect the keycards would be great?

- Something that also plays into the frustration of dying is having to listen to all the audio logs over and over. There should be a way to make the audio logs optional - like after collecting a keycard, maybe show a prompt "Press G to listen to audio log". Also regarding the audiologs: It's really hard to focus on the monster and not getting spotted, while you are trying to listen to the audio log too. That could be helped by either different things like placing the cards in some sort of safe zone, where the player can not be spotted / where the monster can not follow, or even by adding subtitles! (Even though I know thats a lot to ask from an indie game, but thats just what jumped to my mind!). Placing the Key Cards in visible safe zones would also help to make them easier to find - but I figure that finding them in the first place is supposed to be part of the challenge of the game!

- Another gamefeel aspect would be that the pathfinding and detection zones of the creature seem to be fuzzy most of the time. Sometimes walking nearby seemed to be just fine, sometimes walking alarms it immediately. It would be nice to have some kind of indicator for when the creature actually notices the player and tries to catch them (maybe a special roaring sound from them and/or animation that the creature is doing when it detects the player, so that you know its chasing you right now - or something like a looping heartbeat sound that starts playing in the backrgound as long as its actively looking for you). 

- Regarding the pathfinding of the creature, it would be great to know to where it is actually going to. Sometimes crouching away from where it seems to have detected you works just fine, sometimes it seems to know where you are anyway and just follows you even when you are crouching. (Also on the topic of crouching - it feels almost painfully slow, but I think that is a matter of taste!)

- Adding to the last point about being detected - it also seems unclear where or how to hide effectively when you are being chased. The intro voice log says something about hiding in a locker, but to be honest, we couldn't find any locker whenever we were chased (and neither did we know what to look for exactly). I feel just putting a bunch of lockers at the starting area of the game, and making the player naturally interact with it out of curiosity, would help with that a lot! This way the player immediately knows how the hiding mechanic works, and what to look for when they are chased.

- One last thing is that the flashlight felt like it didnt add a lot of value. My friend kept saying that the areas should be darker, so that you would actually need the flashlight to find your way, but my approach would be to make the flashlight brighter or to give it a longer range instead! As far as we came, we could easily play through the game without having to use the flashlight once to navigate through the rooms. That is not particularly a bad thing (I for one am glad that it wasnt completely dark!) but it feels unintended that the flashlight is only giving so little value!


I know that's a lot of feedback and nitpicking, but it's all in a constructive and well meant spirit and I hope you find it valuable <3 All in all, we really enjoyed your game! :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the extensive feedback!

The 3D art and animations were taken from different sources. We had to do some tweaking and cleaning of some models and animations, but we didn't think that was worth mentioning in the credits.

- Very true. We were experimenting with that, but didn't get it stable enough before we ran out of time. It's definitely a feature we'd implement after the jam ends.

- Definitely something to keep in mind for further development/future projects. Thanks for the ideas.

- We were also working on an indicator, but as always, time was running low, and it wasn't stable enough for release.

- Did you by any chance shine the flashlight towards the creature? It can in fact also detect you shining light at it, so that could explain it following you even if you crouch away!
Else, just a quick explanation for the monster walking towards a sound: depending on the distance of the sound, the monster chooses a random location close to the sound source (the further away the sound, the bigger the radius of the randomly chosen position). That means, that it may sometimes randomly move to a position you crouched away to. So that could also be why you experienced it seemingly knowing where you are.

- Fair point, and to be perfectly honest with you, we recorded this audio log before finishing all features. So currently there are no actual lockers you can hide it, and you can only crouch away from the monster. That was a slight misdirection on our parts, but it'll again be something that'll definitely be added after the jam.

- That's something we sadly only realized right at the end of the jam. The problem is, that our chosen render pipeline in Unity didn't support ambient occlusion in builds. So in the editor the game is much, much darker and the flashlight is necessary to be able to navigate through the labs. Changing the render pipeline sadly often takes much longer than you want it to, so we decided to leave the build as is for the jam. Again, for future versions, we'd prolly switch the render pipeline to be able to use ambient occlusion to its full effect.


Thank you again for your extensive feedback, and I am glad you and your friend enjoyed our take on the Apocalypse Jam!

Submitted(+1)

Tha's all perfectly reasonable, the time really was short for such a big game, afterall!

Ah, that is an interesting way to do the pathfinding, and definitely makes sense! I dont think we had the flashlight on, because we just kept it off the whole time at a certain point. I think most of the time that was just by chance then! Thank you for explaining it :)