I'm entering this into the jam because I used public domain sounds and music from freesound.
The game is (hopefully) a creepy, atmospheric, minimalistic recreation of what it's like to suffer from insomnia and see shadow people (which are a real phenomenon, check out the description at the game's homepage!).
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You suffer from severe insomnia. You close your eyes, but the shadows come. You hear them as they scuttle.. closer.
Open your eyes and the shadows fade. Keep them closed and be devoured.
Fall asleep to escape this waking nightmare. (Defeat 14 shadows to win)
Controls: Press the correct key when prompted. Do so quickly, or the shadows will devour you. M to mute, but I highly recommend keeping the sound on.
Yeah, pretty creepy. Did I just play a typing tutor? :) Well, the last couple of shadows are tough and you have to press a lot of buttons to close your eyes each time, which gets annoying. At least button mashing works!
Good game! Scary! Kind of annoying when you have to restart all over. But that fits the game so don't change it. I did only manged to get to 3. Very innovative.
My one suggestion would be that it would have been even better if the room had some decorations, nooks, or crannies such that the shadow creatures could be plausibly interpreted by a mind in dream-state from the arrangement of objects.
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It'd put less of them in total, I got very sleepy through the first part of the game :P
Insomnia is the best thing a programmer can get from life!