You play as a dumbass that stays up all night watching murder myseties, and your companion is your equally stupid dog that decides he wants to go out at 2AM, on a literally dark and stormy night in a only-sort-of euclidian suburban neighborhood that backs up into The Mountains. Your Dog has better sensory perception than you, but terrible judgment, and you have at your disposal:
Flashlight that apparently only works for 45 seconds at a time and needs 3 minutes to recharge
Cell Phone (12% battery)
$6 folding knife you got at walmart for opening boxes, and that you have no training with
Bear Mace. Might be expired. Might explode if used.
On your walk through the neighborhood you’ll meet such lovely NPCs as:
Random guy in shorts wandering between the houses looking for “My girlfriend, Kristin, she drives a black honda”
white utility van with no front lisence plate and a broken headlight that’s apparently circling the neighborhood
Karen, drunk crying on her front porch. At 10 PM, that’s not unusual but it’s 2AM and 24 degrees out. She threw a shoe at you last time you asked what was wrong.
The on-and-off sound of someone jogging on the next street over but that stops right before the jogger should come in view. The longer you play, the closer they get before stopping.
Rodger’s large and aggressive bloodhound, roaming the neighborhood
Something with glowing eyes at the end of the hiking road. It might be a deer, but it’s awfully tall.
Enjoy such engaging enviornmental effects as:
Coyote noises!
Shit, those aren’t coyote noises at all!
All the lights are on in every single room in that one house with the rowdy kids, but absolutely nobody is home and it’s kind of a mess
another neighbor has his front door hanging open
a black honda that might belong to “Kristin”, parked half way on a curb right beside the (flooded) creek
Loud wind!
and by consequence, every goddamn creepy-ass windchime clattering around and deafening you!
tumbleweeds that look like wild animals or people in your peripheral vison!
Is that the fox screaming or a child being murdered? Who knows! Not you, unless you want to spend more time out here investigating!
Anyway, I just had a terrific time taking the dog out and salting my doors, happy Firday the fucking thirteenth everyone!
This actually sounds like a great game but I don’t want to move to Colarado(Is that right I’m not 100%) is there a iOS version?
Bad news: No.
Worse news: You can simulate a very simmilar game by going outside in the middle of the night during bad weather witha a dog of dubious effectiveness and a shitty flashlight!
Have fun exploring and maybe take the baseball bat with you.
1. What’s the difference between Easy and Hardcore modes in this game?
B. Will you make Let’s Plays on YouTube of this game?
Your questions, and some others:
1. In easy mode, you can go home as soon as the dog poops and you can’t die if you’re dumb enough to investigate things*
In hard mode, you need to investigate at least five (5) things before your appartment building reappears, and investigating the wrong things will give you a bad ending.
B. I can barely operate a drawing program, let alone make an entire game and YouTube media campaign.
#3. Can I have a big ass cat for a companion instead?
If you send me pictures of your cat on a leash to cheer me up, sure!
– if it wasn’t a deer, what was it?
We have both black bears and murderers out here and I wasn’t sticking around to find out which it was.
6: I was spooked by this post!
Here’s a picture of Charleston Chew, my Noble protector, to cheer you up:
I love him, but he couldn’t protect me from a cabbage.
* I base this on my one expirience with a Call Of Cthulhu campagin in which we were warned not to open the fridge, so like normal D&D players we immediately opened the fridge, thus ending the universe.
I would watch a let’s play of this SO HARD. I would not, however, play it, because I am a wimp, and you can’t hide with a blanket over your head when you’re playing a game.
Bringing this back with some Updates:
I got the plot written out and most of the script. It’s creepy, in a fun way!
I found software that I think I’ll be able to use to get the narrative effect I want, becuase a First-person immesive expirience is way out of my budget rn. Which is to say, I’m repurposing a Dating Sim Builder.
Shh it works.
I’ve got a few friends to help me with the assembly of the game but this project is going to be a bit of a “In everyone’s spare time” deal, so it’s gonna be a while yet.
That said, as I need programmers/Sound&Music/Additional artists/marketing consultants/Voice actors maybe? You’ll all know.
Same with pre-oders and fundrasing. You’ll know when you can throw money at this.
Gonna do some concept art this week for y’all becuase I’m in a halloweeny sort of mood.
I just read this out loud to my partner, a video game designer.
His response was, “It could be done.”
From you guys? That’s a huge fucking compliment. Thank you.
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