Cervidae

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.17
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.26
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%
Cervidae

By Gareth Williams (@garethiw), Carl Hughes (@devilqube), Paul Yendley (@gredgie) and Shaun Reed (@shaunjmr)

You awaken in an unknown room, cold and alone.

Controls:

Cursor Arrows - Movement
Space - Interact

RELEASE NOTES

PLEASE WAIT FOR THE WEBGL VERSION TO LOAD - IT CAN TAKE A MINUTE OR SO!

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The team:
Paul Yendley: Game design and artwork
Gareth Williams: Code, code and more code
Carl Hughes: Additional code and sfx foley work
Shaun Reed: Original soundtrack \m/

Tools Used:

Unity/C#
Aseprite
Photoshop CC
Audacity
Fruity Loops Studio
Sonar

Comments25

arzi13 Dec 2016, 15:04
Interesting! I didn't really get what I was supposed to do in the game, though. Nice artwork.
Thijs Tak13 Dec 2016, 15:38
Interesting game. It was more like an interactive novel, but it was fun.
DeathBySnail13 Dec 2016, 15:44
Got to the end, this was pretty cool yet quite confusing. I had no idea what was going on. Didn't detract much from the experience however, lovely art & animation.
KonH
KonH13 Dec 2016, 15:44
Nice experience :)
JarJarlHalla13 Dec 2016, 15:51
Quite unique, I loved the feel of this.
Graphics are superb, this is more like a story but I liked the story so its ok.
Insality13 Dec 2016, 16:04
The art and mood in the game is beauty
But. wat happening? in doing anything, always happeing something unique
didn't understand game, but this "no understanding" is good in your case
gj!
freyby
freyby13 Dec 2016, 16:55
Wow! That was amazing! The concept is very interesting and the graphics are absolutely kickassing! I hope you guys will make this game much bigger and add in some more interactions.
Miko
Miko13 Dec 2016, 22:25
No clue what happened but I liked it. Great job!
negativice
negativice14 Dec 2016, 13:09
Very great mood setting, at first i thought this will be very dark, but then there was happy ending yay! :D
Also great job on graphics and particles and of course audio, generally great over all :)
Arakade
Arakade14 Dec 2016, 21:23
Awesome job, guys! Gotta say I was really stressed about that last step! Few! Love the snow drifting off the character after standing for a bit! Was it the new particle noise stuff? Excellent aesthetic (you can never have enough bloom ;-) )
TheMightyTeam15 Dec 2016, 21:46
Amazing!! Graphics are really to my liking! Having more options in each iteration would make this piece of art an outstanding game!
zenmumbler
zenmumbler16 Dec 2016, 00:18
Surreal experience where I'm more the facilitator than the player, but nicely executed using the stage sets, weather effects. Cool.
ursagames
ursagames16 Dec 2016, 12:04
That was a really interesting experience. The sound design was superb, and the sprites brought a lot of life into the world. It would have been neat to see a little more branching choices in the room changes to make it feel more puzzle like, but I suppose that might have lessened the narrative.
Shivur16 Dec 2016, 15:00
Very good mood.
pmarincak
pmarincak17 Dec 2016, 00:21
This was a really nice game. It had a lovely mood to it and the animations were very nice. As others had mentioned, having more options (yes and no instead of just interact) and different outcomes would've been great.
MementoGames
MementoGames17 Dec 2016, 17:43
Loved the art and sound! Very intriguing experience. I wish I could do more though.
Gamepopper
Gamepopper18 Dec 2016, 13:13
Really liked the visual style, not to mention how nice the story and transitions between areas flowed.
Nikteddy9219 Dec 2016, 18:01
Really interesting idea.
I like the atmosphere the game creates.
WEll done!
LeoM
LeoM20 Dec 2016, 14:34
Nice !
I really liked the snow and rain effects, great mood in all the game.
wowa_u20 Dec 2016, 22:40
Nice small puzzle game with great atmosphere and art style. Very well done!
Falak
Falak23 Dec 2016, 14:39
Cool! Really scary. GamePad dual shock 3 work with this game
Cosine23 Dec 2016, 18:49
Excellent work! I really enjoyed the sound, graphics, and concept. It sort of unfolded this story about me based on my "choices." The implicit understanding of the connections of my actions was just right, not too in-your-face but easy to understand.
I don't know if this was a bug, but in the web version I couldn't stop moving right. In the windows version I couldn't stop moving left. I sort of had to tap the right button to stay still. It stopped moving when I interacted. It was kind of annoying.
SidewalkSleeper
SidewalkSleeper26 Dec 2016, 09:09
Wow, the presentation and mood are incredible. A short and strange game, but it left me mesmerized.

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