This resembles me of the New Horizon movie... Gave similar feelings. Great textures and sounds helps at that.
I didn't have to mind about fear meter at all before I finished the game. Or maybe I was lucky.
You did good. Best parts are combat, music and that it's actually 2D game (saw from a comment). It looks so much like 3D =)
I try to find bugs too. The graphical one is that the jail bars aren't rendered if you look them from sides and not directly facing those. Another one happened when I tried to use the smiley item. On first use nothing seemed to happen. Then I tried to use it again and got this error.
Yeah, both of those are bugs that I've fixed but can't update the game until the jam ends. There will be new stuff too.
The "block" with a candle next to the fire man is kind of like inverted so it lets you in but not out...sorry =P
Sounds actually gets paused if game window gets focus e.g getting back to game after alt+tabbing. If focus is lost sounds would be resumed but because game doesn't run while unfocused, you don't hear anything. I hope that's the case and not something else too?
You'll need both characters if you want to finish the game.
I liked the idea of two worlds and horror theme fits to that.
Moving around for so many steps was tiring. I couldn't get past the white blocks so I went back for the "normal" world, then came back and nearby the blocks the world changed again and I quit because didn't want to go back again ;)
The biggest bug I found must be that dropping partly used ammo and picking it up again restores the ammo to the max. Feels like it uses the ammo data instead of runtime data?
Nice, thanks =) Good feedback too. I'll update the game after voting ends.
Do you remember what and where it happened when you got stuck? I'll try to fix it but I couldn't find any reason. About items, it's probably because an item is close to you but not on the same grid as you are. It can be kind of confusing so I'll replace picking up to use mouse.
Yes, retry and quit buttons will be there later.
I gave all the treats after all maybe because of so nice atmosphere =P I even had images in my mind about how it all felt like being there while playing and that doesn't happen so often with games. The ending was pretty cool too. Very nice in its own way.
The worst issue is that I couldn't read some of the texts while kiddo walks because they went away way too fast