Deeper Sleeper

co-authored: @vitluke

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Deeper Sleeper is a simple isometric top-down shooter. You play as the Deeper Sleeper 3000, a turret-like product designed to defend Sleepers (sleeping people) from things that would wake them up: bright lights, loud noises, nightmares, etc. Defend your Sleeper (a little girl named Amy) as long as possible to earn a high score. But beware, nightmares become more abundant the deeper sleep she reaches.

CONTROLS

Mouse: Aim

Hold Left-Click: Shoot

M key: Clear screen (3 available per run)

DEV NOTE

Create using Unreal Engine 4.26 using FMOD plugin.

CREDITS

All programming done by Michael Harris

All sounds and music done by vitluke

Sourced Art:
- Kenny.nl (all furniture + the turret gun)
- CGTrader (megaphone model)
- Bitgem (ghost model)

Tags: #3d, #isometric, #low-poly, #top down shooter, #top-down, #unreal engine

Genres: shooter

Comments22

teenythanos27 Apr 2021, 02:18

Bummed that your build doesn't work for Mac! Still calls it a Windows app. Love the idea, though!

MaximeGammaitoni27 Apr 2021, 02:19

Nice action game ! try to beat my 480 score X)

T C27 Apr 2021, 02:20

Nice! Tough to click so fast but I like the idea and it was pretty fun. Good job

kr0s27 Apr 2021, 02:28

Pros: fun and addictive, and I like the take on the theme. Cons: nothing, really.

Easy to learn, hard to master. One of my favorite games so far. Got 1200 on first try.

Also, you don't have to click, you can simply hold the button.

Jfroggg27 Apr 2021, 02:45

The audio in this is great guys!

Mika31427 Apr 2021, 03:52

Nice graphics, nice sound design, nice background music. Intresting idea. Solid, fun game.

LocustJin27 Apr 2021, 10:16

Nice viusuals with sparkle effect. Game is quite nice but i was not able to exit when i wanted. Overall game is good.

Matheus MaDTrilhas27 Apr 2021, 18:15

I was listening to the lullaby from the home screen for about 3 minutes. Very good music! I loved the gameplay and the art. Great game!

MattyAlanEstock27 Apr 2021, 21:31

Good stuff! The enemy lights help telegraph, & keeping those top doors clear is necessary to stay "asleep". Nice aim-practice game. I scored 3340. 😎

Nomppie27 Apr 2021, 23:43

This is very fun. What a creative idea and twist on the theme. I appreciate that all the enemies have lights. Makes them a lot more noticable. Very nice job

SamarthMP500228 Apr 2021, 05:16

Very cool game, Love the art, maybe tweak the UI a little bit, it doesn't look the best. Keep up the good work!

SaltFactory Studio28 Apr 2021, 05:16

Really like the concept you guys got for this game. Not quite what we're expecting but it was still fun to play. The audio and music overall was great and really fit the mood. Nicely done!

tengusheath28 Apr 2021, 05:29

Simple but fun game. Nice job

yeppe28 Apr 2021, 20:51

Very fun, good sound design and effects. Really have 0 complains about this game, good job!

Adil29 Apr 2021, 18:24

Really cool, in my opinion you should improve content in the game, but overall i played it straight for 10 minutes and i hope it will be improved in the future!

Ryan Dotsikas1 May 2021, 00:03

Nice job here, I definitely enjoyed playing this. I really like the sound design, shooting the lamps was particularly satisfying. Would've been cool if the different enemies did different things, or had slight impacts on the gameplay. I also like the feedback of having the sleeper shift around restlessly when they get "damaged". Overall great job!

Shaymin1 May 2021, 00:12

Very great game, audio is perfect. Cool Tower Defense-ish mechanic. Would definitely love to have more content of it, perhaps some upgrades between Sleep Levels.

A suggestion to make it a tad bit harder and more challenging for players, you could probably implement some kind of simple gun magazine feature, where there's like a maximum of bullets to shoot before reloading. This would also prevent the hold left-click to spam shoot.

Overall, very innovative game with amazing audio sound!

Rashcan1 May 2021, 09:43

Very nice lighting and audio. Minor nitpick: I think the right mouse button could have been used for the bomb instead. Overall a very solid experience!

Sn4pi2 May 2021, 18:21

Nice game! I had a blast playing it. The gameplay was fairly simple but as soon as I used up all the Melantonin and saw a bunch of enemies, I started to panick so hard! Ambience and sound was good too - would have been nice if Amy actually woke up or something to make it feel more clean :) Good job!

Roberto Braga5 May 2021, 17:48

Cool game! Visually nice and the music and sound are very good. I like the surrealistic idea of avoiding someone to wakeup shooting a loud and noisy gun, haha

Phoenix Fireflower8 May 2021, 15:09

Nice little tower defense-style game. The visual effects are great and the music was a banger to listen to.

One minor critique: I feel the difficulty doesn't go up quickly enough as you progress through the sleep levels; I reached above 1000 points on my first try.

Hobzone10 May 2021, 10:17

Really cool effect ! the art and the gameplay are pretty strong too.

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