Wow. The subject matter is very dark in a way I didn't think was possible. The decisions I made felt like they had weight, and as the story progressed I was drawn into it more and more.
With just a bit of polish (sprite resizing, adjusting camera angles, pulling back on walking and chain shaking sound effects) this could enhance the game beyond great and into best, IMO.
I really appreciated the movie reference too, as a fellow fan of classic horror.
I had forgotten about the movie, having first heard of it and then watched it as a teen due to liking the band White Zombie, so it was a trip when I started researching the origins of zombies and stumbling across the movie again from that. I got the idea for the game from a YouTube video positing that the end of slavery in America didn't really happen until the 1940s when convict leasing was outlawed, and having remembered that originally zombies were tied to Voodoo and slavery, I knew I had to make a game about it.
Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad you enjoyed the game. I'm still trying to figure out how to resize/skewer in Gimp without getting terrible distortion. XD It took me forever to cobble together the artwork. If you're interested, I plan on continue to work on the game, so I'll be posting updates on my itchio page in the future.
