You wake up in the mess hall, with a wicked headache and some very dead crewmates. The Emergency light system must have taken a hit in the chaos, because the lights are switching on and off in some sort of loop. Not good. For you, or that pesky headache. To top it all off, somewhere, lurking in the shadows, is the creature that started all of this mess. Your only chance to survive, is to search the corpses of your fallen friends for anything that can even the odds.
Win Conditions: 1. Torch the Creature by burning it 3 times with the flamethrower. *(NOTE Creature does not take damage while fleeing after hit) 2. Use the switch in the helm to seal off the airlock doors, then the switch right outside the airlock to blast it into space.
CONTROLS - Movement: WASD (keyboard), left stick (controller) - Sprint: Shift (keyboard), left trigger (controller) - Interact: E (keyboard) X, (controller) - Fire Flamethrower: left click (keyboard), right trigger (controller) - Exit Game: good ol' alt+f4
NOTE: A game-breaking fix was added to this game that disabled the usage of SteamVR on 2020-10-07.
Great concept, and I haven't even figured out the puzzle. Maybe I just enjoy looting dead friends in the dark? Something to add would be another kill animation, probably the thing attacking from behind. Great horror mood, lights in a pattern is definitely new to me. Sounds effects are great. Nice work. I can tell you have the hang of creating tension already, and that will take you far!
really awesome vibe here. When the lights go out for the first time and you hear the growl, I was scared lol. I wasn't sure entirely what the goal was? I looted everyone, and got the flamethrower. I pulled the lever in the far left room and trapped the beast in the room to the right, but then couldn't get inside to fight it. Maybe I did things out of order? Anyway, I played it a while. Some creepy music could have been nice to enhance the mood too. Congrats on your entry!
Mood is great, audio is perfect. Lightning loop is great! I looted the flamethrower and could kill the beast. Oh and the first time i died they showed me cutscene. Really cool :D
This was an awesome gameplay experience! The level is simple, it's clean and the presence of the space hound gives just enough of an aura of danger to watch where you're going.
I'm a sucker for 3D graphics, so this game gets a win for that in my book. The spaceman looked cool, the level design and decoration was well made, the only things that didn't seem to work right was the flamethrower and its particle effect. Occasionally either one or both wouldn't render/show during gameplay. Made it hard to tell if I hit the beast or not until it ran away.
The sound design was simple but effective in establishing the terror of knowing your light is going out and the beast is still somewhere in there. Made me get cautious some times by only walking or standing still when I saw it in a room nearby. In the small room in the upper right it still seemed to get me no matter where I stood. Guess I couldn't hide from it well in there.
The second victory condition was not wholly clear; I thought I found airlock switches at times, but couldn't seem to activate them when nearby. Maybe they were the wrong object...
One way or another, this was an awesome little experience and another great submission in LD47!
The visuals, animation, and audio here are stellar (har har). I really appreciate the little victory/fail state animations on the ending screen. I do wish there was a little more ambience to the audio, though.
My biggest complaint is probably the fact that it seemed like you can't pull airlock switches once you have a flamethrower. I haven't really investigated if this is intentional or a bug.
I also got the flamethrower to pick up as an invisible object once, not sure how it happened.
I liked the beast AI and how you can successfully outrun it depending on how you approach the environments, and I once accidentally doomed myself by pulling the airlock helm switch and getting cornered right where the doors seal off.
I do have one major bug report, however. Your game is launching SteamVR when I boot it up on my system. This is a default behavior to my knowledge and a gripe I have with a lot of Unreal Engine 4 games. If possible, a patch to remove SteamVR functionality would be greatly appreciated.
Very cool! The mood was handled perfectly and I was actually scared on my first time around. I did feel a bit bewildered with what to do initially, but after dying once i found the flamethrower and that made things cleared. Art and sounds are great! Good job!
@thiago-nascimento Nope! Most of the AI is done via Unreal's AI perception system, which we hook into in both c++ and blueprints. All player controls are c++ (with final BPs set up for design configs, like run speed, reload time etc.)
Was not expecting cut scenes like that in a game jam. Only thing I can think to improve would be making the character turn towards the mouse since it was weird to point the character in the right direction when I could see my mouse on the screen.
An effective horror game in a gamejam?! Really suspenseful experience. I would make the flamethrower aim at the mouse though. An it could light up the surroundings as well. I didn't really now which pattern the hound was following but that added to the horror feeling nowing it could be anywhere. I'm really impressed with the leveldesign and the graphics. Both added great to the mood.
Agree with most sentiments above - it did what I think it aimed to and creeped me the hell out. That's a hard thing to achieve even with enough time and budget, so quite impressive given the limitation of at least one of those! Great work. The only immediate improvements that would come to my mind would be to 1) make it so that the weapon aim follows the cursor (while running is handled as it is) and 2) make the flamethrower ammo use up smoother as it confused me at first how it wasn't shooting while holding mouse down but rather in increments post click (or i bugged the game out somehow:D).
Oh and LOVED the win/lose animations/cutscenes. Very nice style.
Nice concept for a game, I would have liked to see more uses for the mini map and for other things to interact with other than searching the bodies. The creature also got bugged out for me and wouldn't move around, attack or was able to be damaged.
I wasn't able to damage the creature due to some reason, but the concept looks very cool overall! Great work for a jam, would love to play some more when and if you take it further
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I'm a sucker for 3D graphics, so this game gets a win for that in my book. The spaceman looked cool, the level design and decoration was well made, the only things that didn't seem to work right was the flamethrower and its particle effect. Occasionally either one or both wouldn't render/show during gameplay. Made it hard to tell if I hit the beast or not until it ran away.
The sound design was simple but effective in establishing the terror of knowing your light is going out and the beast is still somewhere in there. Made me get cautious some times by only walking or standing still when I saw it in a room nearby. In the small room in the upper right it still seemed to get me no matter where I stood. Guess I couldn't hide from it well in there.
The second victory condition was not wholly clear; I thought I found airlock switches at times, but couldn't seem to activate them when nearby. Maybe they were the wrong object...
One way or another, this was an awesome little experience and another great submission in LD47!
My biggest complaint is probably the fact that it seemed like you can't pull airlock switches once you have a flamethrower. I haven't really investigated if this is intentional or a bug.
I also got the flamethrower to pick up as an invisible object once, not sure how it happened.
I liked the beast AI and how you can successfully outrun it depending on how you approach the environments, and I once accidentally doomed myself by pulling the airlock helm switch and getting cornered right where the doors seal off.
I do have one major bug report, however. Your game is launching SteamVR when I boot it up on my system. This is a default behavior to my knowledge and a gripe I have with a lot of Unreal Engine 4 games. If possible, a patch to remove SteamVR functionality would be greatly appreciated.
Good work!
Oh and LOVED the win/lose animations/cutscenes. Very nice style.
I hate scary games and this was a pretty scary :D So you did a good job. I can see it with some changes on a full game