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A jam submission

Echoes WithinView game page

Find and place three hearts on a pressure plate to escape… before the dark eats you.
Submitted by tom (@tomziin_) — 21 hours, 46 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#66241.8122.667
Artwork#81831.8122.667
Audio#90181.1321.667
Enjoyment#91351.2461.833
Creativity#93381.0191.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The layout never changes, it’s always the same level, but with each loop, the atmosphere grows darker, more disturbing, and psychologically intense

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Assets are from Fab, Freesound, Itch.io,, OpenGameArt and Mixamo.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
tom

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Comments

(+1)

The atmosphere is thick and oppressive, and the sound design keeps you on the edge of your seat. An excellent and truly terrifying experience. Good job.

Submitted(+1)

the game looks very nice,  with nice interpretation of theme

Submitted(+1)

I figured  out you could fling the hearts like a baseball and it was really fun launching them from one end of the warehouse to the other

Submitted(+1)

Really nice atmosphere- definitely eerie and did make me anxious while playing! 

The art and set-dressing is pretty well done, and the place has character. Though I admit I got pretty nauseous with the level of headbobbing and visual noise ;; I also didn't really understand the 3rd level very well? I saw one of the mannequin guys right by the start and they didn't do anything. I just kind of walked around and I think got caught by something a few times, the level of darkness is a little excessive so I don't actually know what happened haha. The hearts are a cool concept, and the outline on them is cool, I also enjoyed flinging them around.

Submitted(+1)

First of all, the atmosphere is very good. You did a great job at that.

The sound effects seem to loop and refire, stacking over time which makes them very loud and very distorted. Not very pleasant for the ear, even for a horror setting. So at the start of the level the sounds were good, but by the end they were very annoying.

The second level also felt a bit like work. Walking around in this big level with nothing actually changing on your task was not very fun. It would have needed some form of gameplay change from the first to the second level, like you kind if indirectly did witht he third one.

Also it is very very dark, even with the flashlight, which even has a battery limit. You don't need it to be this dark to get the atmosphere that you were aiming for. 

The noise filter over the image was a bit unpleasant for the eyes too. This also goes for the strong headbobbing. A lot of people can't play a game if it has something like this and it can't be turned off in the settings somewhere.

It still is a good game :3