A Relaxing Time At The Arcade

pretty relaxing, you know, funny game and good with the concept, good job

Nice work lads! We also did a very original too, ye mid check it out?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time

Nice and relaxing fun time at the arcade :)

There's a few things I think could've been improved (for example the minigames seem to keep going even after you win), but the concept and mood were pulled off really well. Getting stuck in a room with rows and rows of arcade cabinets (which quickly becomes a maze) and even having an exit door just to find that it's locked really add to the mood.

I started the game more or less unaware of the horrific twist, and the end of the first minigame combined with the great sound design and the expanding environement prevented my fearful self from going very far. A great execution of a great idea !

Pony Island + Five Night at Freddy's. Not the kind of game to play in the middle of the night :-)

Loved the sound: simple but chilled my spine :-)

The music was the best part! Skeleton slayer was the hardest out of all of them for me!

Give my game a look, too! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/platscii

Cool concept! The sounds were quite creepy. I loved the idea of running from the ghost if you die in a mini game.

As soon as I see horror as a theme, I turn off all my lights and play it in the dark with the sound way up. The end of the first game made me just about fall out of my seat. Fantastic work!

Good job with the theme... I liked Hammer Toss!

Wow! The sounds chilled me to the core! I don't usually play horror so this was rough for me. Very nicely executed.

Welp I made a mistake playing this right before bed. Great atmosphere. Was definitely spooked trying to run away from that ghost. Wasn't 100% sure how to progress past some parts beyond running around + replaying the games.

Oh my... i love this graphic. and also weird sound makes me scary. how do you guys completed the hammer game? it's hard to win for me haha. But well done!

Very solid entry. Great job :)

SPOILERS

I actually went like HOLY SHIT when the ghost flew into Space Intruders and then popped out of the machine. Very cool idea and you're right, it was very coherent!

It was a good call to use the same "ghost" sprite throughout, because even after only seeing it twice, it starts to take on the feeling of a real lurking nemesis!

Very good idea for the theme. Loved the combination of multiple mini games and survival horror. Good job :)

Great game, really well done. Just enough horror to creep me out! Kudos.

Man, what a great game for the jam. Personally, i am really not fond of spoopy games, and this game stepped the line to give me butterflies. Which made me more immersed in the game, which made it more fun :smile:.

Mechanically, the minigames were easy enough the play/control and finish. Even with zero instructions on how to play the controls were very intuitive and consistent.

The minigames were great for its own right, there could be a little polish to make them feel better.

I did find that first moving around my sensitivity was a little to high, it might've been my mouse settings but it was a little sensitive. And the movement speed was a tad quick, but i adjusted quickly and it was fine.

When i first joined and played the game, i looked at all the machines and was like "do i really have to play like 20 minigames", until i saw the coloured machine. Very nice touch. Implementing the rule of three's gave the game its balance. Not too little and not too many games.

Sound and audio was great. the ambient sound kept me on my toes and the chasing music gave me feedback on the 'ghost?' allowing me to know when the chase is done. If u had the time, adding extra sound effects would've been nice, like footsteps or the classic arcade machine control sound.

Hoped i helped with this comment. This is a very immersive and great game. I like it. Congratulations man! :smile:

@tyranosaw Thanks for the detailed critique! I didn't think about adding options for things like mouse sensitivity.

Furthermore, adding sounds for footsteps and button presses on the arcade machines would be awesome for creating immersion.

Finally, thanks for letting me play your game on stream! It can be hard for people to show off their work to the world. Keep at it!

Very polished game. The arcade games were pretty fun on their own, and the added ghost mechanics was a cool challenge. The arcade world was also done very well. Overall a very good experience.

The horror didn't really work for me. It was a bit more silly than scary. Although perhaps that's what was intended for a "spoopy" game!👻👻👻 I think the sound was pretty good for a horror game, but I didn't have any feeling of tension, and there weren't any big scary jump scares. Even when the ghost popped out of the second arcade machine, it was more funny than scary. I think it might have been creepier if there was more weird ambient stuff in the arcade itself. Maybe have the ghost wandering around the arcade, and you have to hide from it when it gets near. But anyways, it seemed like the horror parts worked for some of the other commenters so maybe I'm just too old and jaded...

Despite the horror stuff not really working for me, I found myself enjoying the 3 different arcade games. The first one was especially fun, it was interesting how you have to dodge your own hammers but also shoot fast enough to break all the boxes before they reach you.

Nice concept. Nice graphics and sounds. It was really creepy and high-quality.