Workplace Sleep Syndrome

poorwill 2021-04-26 18:05

Lovely idea and very nice art. The aesthetics and the feel of it actually remind me of some good older era platformers.

Even though the effect of the opacity increasing and decreasing is cool, I feel like having the platformer translucent most of the time even kind of takes away from the overall look of things. I imagine maybe having a visible circle around the character that expands as you get sleepier and contracts the more awake you are would work interestingly as well. So the faster you go, the less you see the world around you.

lucky90happy 2021-04-26 18:13

Wohoo

kii-krindar 2021-04-26 19:12

Great idea, wonderful art and audio, tons of fun! I really like the concept of not only having to get from platform to platform, but also striking balance between what you can see and how dangerous it is to progress. Loved it, I'll definitely come back to play more!

ygdran 2021-04-26 19:13

Really fun game with an interesting concept and gameplay, the levels are challenging, you must really keep things in balance in order to proceed. Nice work!

omich 2021-04-26 19:30

Awesome! Good idea

etom 2021-04-26 20:16

Wonderfull graphics!!!

zondarg 2021-04-26 22:06

Great, got to the "my boss is a meanie". Wonderful pixel art, and gets more and more removed to fantasy and fairyland as the levels progress. Cool mechanic, the between-sleep-and-awake. And fitting music too. Good job, I like it! :thumbsup:

universeflow 2021-04-26 22:18

the art is awesome but I somehow cannot manage to do the first jump :( I figured it out it's space instead of the up key to jump higher

madking 2021-04-26 22:21

Great concept

pythooonuser 2021-04-27 05:33

Very nice art! Neat idea with fading the actual game in and out :)

vsi 2021-04-27 08:02

great idea, nice mechanics, really liked the art, good job!

stin 2021-04-27 08:03

I like the graphics.And idea of the game is very good.

revilo 2021-04-27 11:41

Wonderful work, the art and layout is great, and has immense re-playability

randomhuman 2021-04-27 12:05

Fun platforming action, gorgeous art and great music.

The changing opacity of the "real world" overlay is a clever way of selling the drift into deeper and deeper sleep. It does make the opening moments of every level a bit unpleasant though. Maybe the curve in the opacity change could be weighted to change very rapidly at the very edge of wakefulness.

iman 2021-04-27 13:17

@randomhuman @poorwill These are definitely great suggestions. The team had been quite unsure of that overlay and tuning it was always on our mind, thanks!

ekaterina 2021-04-27 20:19

Looks cool, I really like the art. The whole game looks pretty polished. Good job! I also like a non-standard approach to the topic.

anactualhuman 2021-04-27 22:29

Gameplay is fun, pixel art is brilliant and audio is good.

dodidouda 2021-04-27 22:29

Very innovative idea, well executed! The pixel art was really good too. I really like this one :)

scruffylooking2121 2021-04-28 04:43

Fun to play and figure out the opacity controls. I also kept losing attempting to use W to jump, instead of SPACE. Once I figured that out, I was on my way. Loved the humor in the mission cutscenes. Thanks for making this.

phi 2021-04-28 19:38

Very cool and meta! I love how the dream slowly fades away as you get more awake. The music is very chill and dreamy, and the combination of traditional platformer pixel art with a slightly-out-of-place office theme works really well! The difficulty progression is really good too. The only annoying thing was that sometimes the camera is a bit too slow to follow the player, so when jumping from a high place it is impossible to see where you're going.

Really impressive, thanks for making this!

patdag 2021-04-29 03:06

Just like the theme of the game, you've managed to also achieve balance it's execution. It's innovative and unique! Nice work!

iman 2021-04-29 05:49

@phi thank you very much for playing! I completely agree that the camera can be tuned a bit more, the intention here was that the camera gets slower as the character gets sleepier. Wanted to go for a sluggish feel with it, however it perhaps gets a bit too slow, as the early part of each level is wasted in not being able to see the game too well at all.

wolfier 2021-05-02 18:08

Definitely a great job on the art direction here, i think you got everything you wanted out of it.

I didn't really enjoy the pillows hitting you since they messed with the physics and getting touched usually resulted in me falling off a platform.

I kind of felt that there was no point not to go for coffee since the game has you in a race against time before you fall asleep and maxing it out simply means you can't see for a few seconds. Plus pillows were usually not in a position to make maxing out awakeness.

There were actually a few jerk moves I didn't like the coffee trail that leads to a bottomless pit or the pillows that are guaranteed to hit you if you keep walking and make you slip off the edge.

pentragon 2021-05-02 19:10

Really creative idea, polished execution and a nice curve of game difficulty!

smbe19 2021-05-04 21:06

Interesting idea, nice game.