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I tried to make a spooky horror game using GB Studio. You're a babysitter trying to babysit the baby and do chores around the house when a demonic entity breaks into the house in the middle of the night and hunts you, or rather, the baby.
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The true horror was assuming how to do someone's laundry for them!
That was cool! The art and concept is charming, and the execution is quite proficient! The pickup mechanics are competent in the first half, and they made the second half quite tense and unnerving!
Fantastic! Great work!
Engaging!
The audible speaking from the ghost is cool!
Doing the house tasks while knowing there's a ghost around makes me feel very productive! Multitasking, ha ha!
I liked this, very spooky indeed! the slow build of tension and environmental story telling were well done :)
Ok, this one actually creeped me out. Really creeped me out.
The buildup of tension, the way it goes from environmental clues that something is not quite right to survival horror as the convincingly 90s music, crafted to lull you into a false sense of security, just stops dead in its tracks is brilliant. Very well done. Achieved without jumpscares, too. She's just REALLY CREEPY to look at, but at no point you're just flashed with a jumpscare.
The presentation is on point for the gameboy, and this is doubtlessly aided by its being a gbstudio game. I especially liked that there was care to make everything look period-accurate. You're not browsing emails, you're reading diaries. The house isn't too modern, it's furnished like an older home. Our protagonist is dressed in a retro way. It really just feels like something that could've been made back then, and specifically for the Gameboy at that. Good eye for detail there, it greatly helps immerse the player.
All in all, a great, ambitious offering.
Thank you so much for the kind words! When I started working on this for the jam, I had decided early to not include any loud, flashy, egregious jumpscares because I myself don't really like being jumpscared. I am glad that my efforts were noticed and appreciated :')
I'm happy you enjoyed it and thanks for playing!
Insanely good! The GameBoy feel is on point, and the babysitting objective makes the game interesting and engaging.
Thanks for the kind words :') and thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Cool idea to keep the player occupied with the baby, the music itself was a bit annoying but when I triggered the spooky event the silence was genuinly scary.
I would've earned 47 out of a possible $45.
Thank you for playing!
Good job makin all that money! (Also yeah I need to fix that max "possible $value" that is displayed) ^-^"
I like the gameplay to keep the baby with us in each room ! Good story telling :)
the surprising "where is my baby" sound made me laught a lot ! Good entry !
I'm glad you had a good time! Thank you for playing!
Ooh, that was fun. Definitely spooky!! Great job, you nailed that horror vibe well.
I'm glad you enjoyed! Thank you for playing!
This was a fantastic experience, I was genuinely spooked. Silencing the music was very effective. Great job!
Thank you very much! :') I'm happy you enjoyed it
Great horror there! Literally out of this world, nice game!
I'm glad! Thank you for playing!
Great idea and story. The music gets a bit on the nerves after 1-2 minutes :-) I like the art style and I was certainly scared by the “thing”.
Thanks for playing!
It was my first time composing music, so I still got a lot to learn.
Honestly, terrifying.
Thank you for playing!
Absolutely nailed it. I honestly good quite scared by it!
Thanks for playing! :)
SPOOKY! Perfect timing, it got me doing chores and reading all those creepy descriptions when "it" happened haha. Very (very) good one, 5 out of 5 gb feel to it and I love the way the player casually ranks up until the horror comes lol
I'm happy you enjoyed it, thanks for playing! I put a lot of effort in trying to make it feel like a GameBoy game, so I'm happy you feel it.
Surprisingly effective horror!
Thank you for playing!
Horror games about doing chores are the best horror games.
Because doing chores are the scariest thing in ordinary daily life, aren't they? ;)
It's really amazing how much you've been able to put into the game, this one is actually spooky! Loved it!
One thing to point out is a very tedious process of confirming your actions. Like, yes, I want to take the f-ing trash! :D
I understand it might be an homage to one of the older horror games (resident evil, silent hill), but it was tedious even then.
Also it's pretty easy to softlock yourself with a baby if you're already carrying something. You really should consider disabling the colliders for interactive objects and the baby.
Overall - a great experience!!
Thanks for playing and thanks even more for the feedback!
Yeah you're right, in hindsight I may have made all the button confirmations too tedious ^-^"
As for the collider disabling, that's a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
This was pretty fun, I got the bad ending so it was kinda cut short for me but it was a a good experiance.
I think the gameboy soul is this game's best category. I also somehow duplicated the pacifier and then almost got softlocked but I figured out how to fix it.
Overall a very solid game, very well done.
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Trying to get a good GameBoy feel was something I worked hard in, so I'm glad it's paying off.
As for the pacifier duplication and softlocking, thanks for letting me know. I know what to work on after the jam :)
Loved this, very spooky, fun setting and mechanics.
I'm happy you liked it! Thank you for playing.
spectacular game! very spooky and immersive. I got 3 of the endings. very well done!
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'm honored you got all the endings :')