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A jam submission

Stop the DecayView game page

A Scary Zombie game made for a game jam
Submitted by JohnnyApplePie
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
MOOD#123.5503.550
GRAPHICS#243.8003.800
AUDIO#303.2503.250
THEME#433.3003.300
OVERALL#503.1503.150
ENJOYMENT#572.9002.900
INNOVATION#812.4002.400
HUMOR#1471.4501.450

Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Love the graphics and the scary atmosphere! great absolutely great!

Developer

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted

fantastic use of lighting!

Developer

Thank you for the compliment!

Submitted

Really nice atmosphere liked exploring around a bit. The audio was pretty buggy sometimes but idk if that was something on my end. Otherwise very cool concept.

Developer

Thank you

Submitted

Amazing atmosphere! Very cool what you can achieve with some well-placed lighting and sound :) I would love if there was a timer so I know how I stack up, otherwise, great job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback 

Submitted

Love the vibe that the visuals and audio are creating! Really great ambiance. Found the reloading hard (with dragging) and there is no way to get away from zombies once you are out of bullets?

Developer

Thank you. The point of the reloading was for it to be pretty difficult to increase the danger and horror of the game.

Submitted

Prety atmospheric game   °o°, the horror element is maybe lessened a bit by you being able to 1 shot enemies, and I didnt find myself being scared at all, even dou i am a scaredy cat :3
On the other hand, the slow reload is prety cool.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback 

Submitted

Nice Game

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted (1 edit)

This game is brilliant, you have a really good sense of creating atmosphere. And even though the graphics aren't super detailed and are very simple, you make the most out of them! The art style feels coherent and everything feels like its supposed to be in this game and from this game. The armosphere with the sound effects etc. is really awesome. The lighting is also great, and the way you have to stop to reload your weapon is really cool, makes you scared and when a zombie bites you from behind, its really scary, and really cool. Only bug I found was that when I reloaded my gun for the first time the bullets went out of the pouch and floated above it, and stayed there for the rest of my playthrough. You NEED to make a story driven game based around this, I would love to see you make something with more mechanics or a story, like I wanna know what happened to this dude, who is he? where is he going? what happened? really cool stuff, keep it up.

Developer

Thank you! I wasn’t planning on expanding this project but as more people say it I’m starting to consider it. I would probably completely remake it because the code for this is absolutely horrible.

Submitted

A good game with a scary atmosphere and a constant need to look for a cure.

Developer

Thanks

Submitted

great game,spooked me when i turned

Developer(+1)

Thanks

Submitted

Nice lighting and fitting ambient sounds! You've made a good project, with an eerie atmosphere. Gratz!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Missing some in game stuff like menus, restarting after dying, help on how the game works, but this is a really well made game. The kind of game I think if it had another two days it would be really top tier. Love the visuals, physics with the map and audio design. Couldn’t find many bullets, just alot of syringes and died early on but for a two day jam balancing isn’t something you get much time for so it’s not a big deal for me. Great reload mechanic too.

Main criticism is the name, I didn’t check this game out for a while because whenever I see someone use the theme directly in the name, I think it is cheap and not alot of effort has been put into the game. Which is mostly true but you have something cool here. I would spend 5-10 minutes brainstorming a unique name next time and maybe do a quick icon for the page even if it is just text on a screenshot. Well done.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback. As you mentioned time was the main limiting factor here and I would probably make all the changes you mentioned if I had more time.

Submitted

Yea it’s understandable but you got a really good game made so well done

Submitted

Yeah, thats good. I really like the sound design and interesting controls

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted

Very nice! The light effect was really good. I enjoyed it a lot, it was maybe too easy at the start but it got progressively harder which was nice. Well done!

The only criticism I have is that it seemed like some zombies could attack from a distance, and even through walls  or crates (that's how I lost)

The reload mechanic was perfect and really smart, I encountered a bug  and the bullet I was supposed to drag teleported to the bottom middle of the screen making the drag distance smaller-> the game easier.

Really nice game, well done!  

Developer

Thank you for the feedback! I’m sorry to hear about your bug, but I’m not surprised because about 90% of the bugs had to do with the bullets.

Submitted

i really like the atmosphere! the flashlight vs the darkness gives a cool unique feel to the game, great work!

Developer

Thanks