Death Sleep - Ludum Dare 50 - jasbrela

Death Sleep

Overall★★★★★★★★★★1.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.75

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

*BREAKING NEWS: Last night, thousands of people woke up dead for no apparent reason. Forensics are still investigating what happened but we still don't have any credible information. No victims were injured, nor do they have a history of chronic illness. It's like they're in a deep sleep, but they can't wake up. The possibility of murder and suicide has already been ruled out, since no traces were found, in addition to the victims being found in several different locations.*

Now, you have to stay awake as long as you can.

Controls:

- move with W, A, S, D
- interact with E

Team:

- gabriela milet,
- patricia milet,
- lucas koerich &
- brenda rocha

Comments1

blobo5 Apr 2022, 14:48

I like the story, but the gameplay is a bit dull. As far as I can tell, the objective is to drink coffee and shine a light on the spooky eyes, but the difficulty never rises. Coffee respawns pretty fast, and you can idly stand between the spawn point of two cups of coffee, and heck, even a single cup brings you back to full energy from the time it takes to respawn. Plus if there are pairs of eyes near coffee spawns, you never have to move. There seriously needs to be more happening during the game to make it engaging. There doesn't seem to be any reason to return to the house. Perhaps if you had to go a great distance to reach coffee, and return home to eat food, or if the flashlight batteries died and you needed to get batteries the game could have more going on.

This is another silly bit of feedback, but I prefer the controls to just move the player in the cardinals, as opposed to following the direction the player is looking.

The background grass texture and bushes are really great looking though. I don't want to come off as too negative, I just wanted to share where I think the game could be improved. It looks like this is your first Ludum Dare, so a huge congrats on finishing something! Be sure to play some other people's game too, so you can get more feedback.