Hi Omwekiatl,
Thanks for playing my game. Hope you enjoyed it.
Yeah gameplay was a bit empty. Certainly will be more interaction in future, to enhance the story and improve the experience. One thing that nearly made it to this release, but wasn't quite ready and that was combat. The final part of this version of the game would have had you fighting the vampire at the end and seeing their abilities in action. But it was buggy and I wanted to release a stable (I think lol) game in time. So that was cut and handled in dialogue choices instead.
Yeah the pixel art is my first. I am not much an artist, but wanted to create all my own assets so it could truly be my vision, but yeah that walk was a bit funny, but I thought it gave him swagger lols! Yeah the music is by Karl at White Bat Audio. I am not affiliated with him, but I think he does lots of great royalty free tunes and I plan to include a lot more of his work in this in future and maybe have different themes for different rooms, especially the basement and the murder scene. if you want to hear more of his songs, check out his youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteBatAudio/videos I personally find his compilations as great programming music.
Glad you liked the narrative, but this short prototype has barely scratched the surface, I was hoping to scratch more of the surface in this release, but I ran out of time unfortunately, due to work and personal commitments, but I still wanted to submit an entry for this and show the potential. Story-wise we haven't even encountered an experience vampire at this point. This is just a newly blooded vampire, who is part way through his transformation after tasting his first kill. The backstory of this Blood Empire and how these vampires work will be explored as more clues are found and more interactions with other vampires inside and outside of the Blood Empire. I've got the basics of how my vampires work and their society. Similar to most pop culture, but with their own spins, especially with regards to becoming one.
I hope the story has at least intrigued you. I had loads of fun making this and if you are interested in seeing where the story goes, my plan is to finish off the missing features and then complete this first level for around a Christmas release and then a 6 month plan to build a full 3 to 5 hour game.
Sorry I haven't had a chance to play your game yet, but I am getting to most peoples games tomorrow. But I like the look of your hand drawn graphics! Certainly gives it a USP!