Labyrinthine Dread

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Good beginning for a proof of concept by a new game designer. Nice music and sound effects too.

digipen's doing horror this year, apparently. for a game with only a couple of controls I would have liked controller support out of the box. this one is finished but there's almost nothing here to play. I don't think this would have attracted much attention on a flash games website let alone on Steam.

Nothing fancy too short almost no story and learnt absolutely nothing about the character nor the environment she was placed in. Colliders were insanely large making it almost impossible to move around in certain corners Other than that bug free. Alright 15 min game.

For a college project, I've seen better, but it's ok. Plot was easy to understand, game mechanics were decent.

I'm incidentally realizing that the typical "horror" style is difficult to add a unique mechanical premise, and this was a lesson no better taught than one of my own projects that was unable to continue development. The speed of depletion for the lantern was a pressure wholly mitigated by the lengthy process of refilling it. I gathered the three key-cards of the stone-brick mansion and hastily concluded my dread. The game is skeletal in terms of designing the typical tension of a Nerve game, but I find a fair amount of intrigue for the setting's blend of Victorian drama and science fiction. This juxtaposition could create events where the player needs to fill the door with oil as well as collect its card, whereupon they would be placed in an especially dreadful chase sequence. Amnesia: The Dark Descent was mostly popularized for reasons beyond itself, but its similar blend of aesthetics along with its gritty, blurry health and stealth mechanics give a surreal atmosphere that's retroactively perfected in Pathologic, an even older and more niche title. What this aesthetic lacks to its benefit is a full-blown severity that would dour its fun moments when they manage to appear; this …