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A jam submission

Are You Alone?View game page

Find out what's going on before losing your sanity
Submitted by Rubix (@rbix404) — 1 hour, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#1203.7373.737
Graphics#1273.8423.842
Audio#1393.4743.474
Overall#1653.4653.465
Game Design#1963.4473.447
Fun#2203.3163.316
Innovation#3652.9742.974

Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
The character in-game thinks that he is alone, just to discover that he is haunted by ghosts

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I have written most of the code in this game, I have used some premade scripts.
As for the house model its from scratch, except the furniture.
Sounds and materials are not made by me.
I have made sure that I have the right license to use every asset in this game.

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Submitted(+1)
Semi-on-the-fly remarks:
  1. The game page says E is useful, but not mentioned in the controls page.
  2. The sanity concept is really reminiscent of Amnesia!
  3. Ambience sounds are super oppressive and frightening!
  4. Controls are QWERTY-only instead of layout-independent (I have an AZERTY keyboard), BUT arrow keys are enabled.
  5. Nice scenery (skybox, probably?) outside of the window! :) The city night ambience is great.
  6. Showing the current objective helps, good idea.
  7. Television static sound?
  8. Nice outlining of the doors for interaction, very clear.
  9. That first ‘ghost’ was almost a jumpscare.
  10. The pills context is more Big-Pharma-friendly than finding light, but this is a detail. XD
  11. Clockwork sounds… You really went into a lot of audio details, this is great.
  12. Wow, ghosts can reappear where you already went!
  13. Game over. X) Ah, I like how the text comes successively after pressing Enter, but at first, I was wondering if I should press or not, as I was not sure this was standard dialogue. Maybe write at the bottom which key to press?
  14. Rather many possible interactions. :) Makes finding what to do harder, which is a good thing.
  15. Is crouching really useful at all?
  16. A way to avoid the ghosts would be interesting as a mechanic; it looks like not looking at them works, but I am not sure.
  17. You can see the television turn itself on alone (hence the static sound); is there any use turning it off? For example, less ghosts? And I did not find the clock, but can you?
  18. After some attempts: finally found those damn pills!! Is there only one place or several of them?
    Spoiler: if someone finds them early, then the game is too short for them… I think designing the house in such a way that you are forced to explore would be a good idea. I went through more stuff and interactions during my second-to-last attempt losing as opposed to the last winning one. X)

Takeaway: this game takes the cake for ambience, both in sound and visually (many details bathed in a gloomy darkness). I also enjoyed the narration, with dramatisation through dialogue (or rather, monologue!). I just wish there were a bit more to do, even though exploring was already interesting in itself and the interactions made it feel like the environment was responsive. As an ironical comparison to the very first game I tested, Not Alone, yours offers a way more horrific/frightening experience, while the other offers more game content (‘puzzles’). As to the connection with the theme, it is a classic interpretation, but fair.

This feels like the beginning of a modern-era Amnesia, nice experience and nice base for more! :)

Developer(+1)

Hey! Thanks for the feedback!!

1 - i forgot to add in game controls
4 - i should have implemented that too but i forgor
5 - i used an hdri
7 - the tv turns no by itself for, scary reasons ;)
11 - the clock plays when the difficulty increases
13 - i need to do the enter thing there
15 - crouching is part of my controller,  its useless in this game
16 - i might do that? idk
17 - there is no clock, its for --11-- and the tv is just to scare the player o__o
18 - pills can spawn in many locations

ok wow, longest feedback yet..
im still planning on updating the game tho

Submitted

Thanks for answering.

18 - pills can spawn in many locations

Aaaah, great! :) I found them in the bathroom, which is so close to the beginning. XD It is not obvious for a tester that this is random unless he manages to win at least two times, with different pills positions.

Submitted(+1)

Hey, great game!

Submitted(+1)

This game pretty good and its pretty creepy, I love it

Developer

Thanks for the feedback

Submitted(+1)

omg! I think I needed some sanity pills after playing this game! 

Submitted(+1)

It's hot dang creepy, but I think it's neat

Submitted(+1)

great game! gave me a real scare 

Developer

thanks! glad you enjoyed the game :)

Submitted(+1)

Liked the game, I won in the 3rd attempt (but had to do force close it every time, dunno why)
very sus os the guy have haha

Developer

hey glad you enjoyed the game! i gotta fix the losing screen in the future version, thanks for the feedback!
yes the os is questionable lmao

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Developer

thanks! glad you liked the game!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Damn thats really good but for some reasons it soft locked me into a black screen went my sanity when too low

Developer

thanks for the feedback! yeah there is something wrong when you lose i gotta fix it

Submitted(+1)

Lmao, didn't expect the ending. Love it, good mix of horror and small bit of comedy

Developer

thanks for the feedback! glad you enjoyed the game :)

Submitted(+1)

Cool game ! Appreciate the sus easteregg ;)

Submitted(+1)

Spoookyy! Very cool game, well done!

(+1)

Not a big fan of horror games, so I only played for a little while, but I could tell this game was really well designed! Do you mind rating mine when you get a chance?

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!
Sure I will check out your game :)

Submitted(+1)

UI was pretty good ... overall a pretty decent game, keep it up!

Developer

thanks!

Submitted(+1)

AmogOS was funny.

The groaning sound coming from another room is scary. The anticipation of what will happen is scary. The actual jumpscare is not scary at all and takes away from the anticipation and confusion of the groaning. The game was at its scariest when I was walking to the garage and heard groaning from somewhere and it was at its least scary when I saw one of the monsters running at me after the groaning stopped and I knew that it was just a mini jumpscare.

The objective "Get pills" is a bit weird considering I already have pills. Maybe you meant to say "Get more pills"?

The atmosphere of the game is fantastic, I love the foggy effect. Even though it was probably done for time, the simplistic untextured geometry kinda helped to give the game a dreamy surreal feel.

One more thing, right-click for interact is a weird choice but it's an actual problem when sanity pills are e. It's very common for games to make e the interact key but now it consumes my pills. I accidentally consumed pills multiple times while trying to instinctively open doors with e.

Developer

hey thanks for the feedback!
yes amogos is pretty funny

as for the jumpscare, i didnt rly know what to do with it lol, ik its not scary... but a not making it a mini jumpscare would be kinda lame because  the monster spawns multiple times during the game so losing to it from the first time would be bad


"Get Pills" didnt refer to the sanity pills you have, it refers to the other pills in game "Normal Pills". I will fix that so the player doesnt get confused

actually i play minecraft alot so im used to interact with right click, ik that most games use E for interaction, so ill have to add custom controls to the game soon

Thanks again for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Oh, nice scary game! :$

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting game. It's pretty fun to play, and the graphics are amazing. The fog looks so cool. The jumpscares are pretty repetitive but I would be lying if I said they didn't scare the living heck out of me every time they occured. I couldn't sadly find the pills and ended up dying. :(

Overall really good game, I enjoyed it a lot, very scary.

Also the character's OS on their PC is amazing. 10/10.

Developer

Hey thanks for playing!
the pills are random, sometimes you will find them in the first room you search for
and yea i made sure the character has the best OS in existence

(+2)

This shit goes hard with Dream - Mask (Official Sus Remix) 4k Ultra HD no-scope 360 POV Samsung Ultra wide your mom Smart fridge

Can Vouch!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game! A little too much fog and jumped a few times. Solid!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game. very eerie atmosphere. Great job. 

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