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The Void

By frib

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness373
Audio963.59
Mood1443.50
Innovation2563.51
Overall3343.40
Humor3562.55
Graphics4163.24
Fun5263.02
Theme8743.20

Comments

lrdkzrth 2013-04-29 08:07

Scared the hell out of me when I died the first time! But very good idea, great execution!

karsyf 2013-04-29 08:09

That was really good =D

sanguine 2013-04-29 10:22

Excellent voice acting and an interesting concept :)

bonezoner 2013-04-29 10:31

Haha love the dialogue, "Don't die on me!". Too late, I died on you, this game is hard!

glbs 2013-04-29 14:07

Loved it, I pissed in my pants when I switched on my goggles to see that monster rushing at me. The architectural graphics are awesome. congratz

glisk 2013-04-29 16:03

Great idea, nice game

cirrial 2013-04-29 18:17

Reasonably good idea, with okay execution. I am just absolutely terrible at this game, though. Could not get past the second part.
Respawn took a while, and hearing the same HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL VOICE ACTING over and over wore a little thing. Over than that, great work!

nuprahtor 2013-04-29 18:19

Voice actiong adds more to the game experience, but after death you must listen to the introduction again and again, it slows the game.

jellycakes 2013-04-29 18:22

That was pretty tense, I yelled a couple of times. Really nice atmosphere. Well Done!

frib 2013-04-29 18:31

@Cirrial haha yeah in hindsight I probably should've separated the 'tutorial introduction' parts from the actual levels in level 1 and 2. As developer I always rushed through or ignored those levels thinking they were fine as-is. Oh well :D

The trick to level 2 is to walk (not run) through the corridor without your goggles activated.

Has anyone made it halfway through yet? Or found the secrets?

somenetworkguy 2013-04-30 07:08

Oooo Wee! Walking past those monsters with my back turned to them was quite a thrilling experience! I don't know how far I made it, or if I found any secrets. (Is one of them a potato?) But I'm going to come back to this and play some more, because it's fun, and I'm curious where it goes.

Great job.

psenfilip 2013-04-30 22:17

Ew, the thing is creepy!
I played no lights/fullscreen and it was pretty interesting, to say the least.

Improvements I would say add a button to skip the intro sequence. Everytime I retry the game it plays back again.

Pretty athmospheric.

jwolf 2013-05-01 01:56

Wow, this is really well done. Rather difficult too, trying to figure out how to get past some of those things later on.

frib 2013-05-01 04:55

This weekend I'll submit a post-compo with a skip tutorials button. Sorry about that :D

intripoon 2013-05-03 10:27

I always get eaten directly at the beginning. For some reason, the monster comes through the closed door even before I push the button and kills me. Directly whne I move around the corner.
I'm also not sure about the limited vision game mechanic. I found that I can hold space forever and always see everything that way?

frib 2013-05-04 13:32

Hmm, the monster shouldn't be able to go through the closed door. Strange :D

As for the goggles, true, but if you are using it, and you see a monster, then that monster can see (and will chase) you. So you can use them 24/7 but it's not safe :D

gremlin 2013-05-04 16:23

Creepy as all get out. Excellent use of everything.

"This part look like it's going to be easy...I guess I was wrong." Ha!

ianmaclarty 2013-05-05 07:35

Crashes on launch for me (I get a "LD26 has stopped working" message). I'm running Windows 7 with latest updates.

ddionisio 2013-05-05 07:45

Wow, love the goggle effects. Great narration and creepy voice. I got pretty immersed in this game! I agree with the narration playing again after death, would make the experience much smoother if the checkpoints are in as soon as you can interact.

blackdogg 2013-05-05 13:34

Good game, loved that wireframe/shaded switch with googles. The keyboard schemes was not really easy to use though (even more using arrows) but still a cool entry !

covenant 2013-05-05 14:19

Excelent mood, loved the voiceovers... :)

dst 2013-05-07 00:58

Really cool concept well executed! Nice work!

angelk 2013-05-09 04:32

Holy crap this was great. Playing it I thought it was a jam entry and just now realized it's just 48 hours! I haven't played a game that made me so anxious in a long time. It was surprisingly challenging. Funny enough when I was going to give up the first time, you gave me an achievement for getting that far, and it encouraged me to keep going. Excellent job.

bipolemoment 2013-05-19 19:49

I swear I almost crap my pants every time I play it
so I haven't beat it yet.

But I will. I need to. I love it too much to not.