Good catch, yeah, there are a couple areas where I think sound effects would have brought some more clarity. Ultimately they got pushed out of scope, I had considered speeding up the walking speed while running away especially, Good commnets.

Thanks! It's not super obvious, but there is a touch of rubber banding where the waves get a bit harder as you get closer to the goal - a kind of implied level system. Good Job!

Thanks! I'm glad you liked the concept! I'm glad you liked the animation! I wasn't necessarily planning on having it as scaled up as it ended up being in game, or I might have doubled the resolution one more time XD.

I'm glad you like it, I quite pixel art stylistically, and I've been working with color-mapped noise textures lately for things like the clouds and ground in this game.

Thanks! I thought that part turned out really well, although it meant giving up variable length nights (so thematically seasons). Alternately, I was considering doing it by pitch-shifting the music to match the selected night duration, but I didn't like how it sounded in testing. Maybe a set of curated pitch shifts would have worked, but even so, this is the speed I composed the music at, which is a definite bonus. Some of the ornamentation gets totally lost in the mix at faster tempos.

Thanks! Yeah, I was trying to do perspective with a shader with mixed success, maybe I'll revisit it when I have more time, if I ever want to try this sort of thing again. There were definitely some visual sacrifices made to help it play better at times, for instance, the chance the enemies have to bounce way off to the side - it totally ignores movement speed and perspective rules, but it can help keep the player hemmed in  sometimes or chase them down, which makes for a better experience. I'd love to do some more advanced pack AI stuff with that (movement rules that take into account where the other zombies are as well)

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I always like to try new things so I learn something new whenever I do these, The terrain is a noise texture mapped to a complex 1d gradient. The tricky aspect was creating a shader to create a perspective effect, and I didn't really nail it, but I'm still pretty happy with what I ended up with. I feel like I know how to approach it now for next time, if I ever take on a similar challenge =P. It was surprisingly difficult to get items at different scales to move at different speeds when you strafe, while still making sure your arrows hit things you are initially lined up with =P.

Thank you!

I'm still figuring out what options I have to unify pixel art graphics with the shader/generative techniques I've been exploring lately. 

Yeah, in a 3d movement sense you would call it strafing based movement. Certainly more of a 2d movement approach, which makes sense in this hybrid context. Sort of a cross between the era of the sonic mania bonus level and the type of first person they were exploring in games like Goonies II (but much less polished!) 

Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! There's actually an interesting point in the development about that. Long story short, I decided to go with a fixed duration for the nights in order to maximize how good the music sounded and worked in other methods to make enemy patterns a little more random. The immediate fix being adding a little variation in how fast they move from where they are to the player, which means their first bump happens at different times (though their time between bumps should be the same.)