Thank you so much! I'm very glad you liked it, even if combat in these types of games can be a little wacky. I plan on going back and fixing combat a little but I might focus more on improving stealth. It's funny, I tried the dithering style for my first ever game jam but I did the art way too big so when I scaled it down the dithering looked terrible, I'm glad I tried it again though cause the dithering is a cool way to shade stuff.
I'm glad you caught the eye names, if you check the incubator there are a ton of other punny names.
Thanks for all the compliments, I'm gonna go back and fix the game up since some of the stuff can be a bit buggy first, but I also want to try adding more to the story later on.

Thank you so much! I should probably have kept the scope smaller, but two week jams always trick me into thinking I can do a bunch more time. If I was a wiser man I probably would've fixed up fighting and doors instead of doing water since water was one of the last things I did but at least it wasn't too janky.

Obligatory response: doors and fighting will be fixed, lol.

I'm not sure what I'd want to do to expand it as of now but hopefully something will come to me in the future with why the corpses are moving all of a sudden.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you felt progression was nice and that I have a good base to build from! I'm glad the world felt immersive, I was pretty proud of the water animations so I'm happy you picked up on that! Thanks as well for your comments on the art style, I tried this art style for my first ever game jam and it totally flopped but I figured I'd try it again and this time I actually had great success!

On the itch.io page I probably should have wrote this a while ago, but you are correct in how the theme is used!
Erosion  was used as the main motive for why the eye-people have to get new suits. The diminishment of the suits can act as a diminishment of the body and of material. Without the bodies eroding, Eileen wouldn't need Ryan to go down and get the new suit ready, and Ryan wouldn't need to go out into the sewers. This materialistic way of treating humans led into my diversifiers.
I chose two diversifiers: treasure hunting and digging deep. Treasure hunting is used through the objective, the treasures are suits. The importance of them are stated in scene 1. While they are not typical treasures like gold or silver, to the eye-people they might as well be. In scene 3 Ryan goes hunting for a new suit, he doesn't know if it's a guaranteed thing so he has to search and explore the sewers leading into the second diversifier. Digging deep is used in the sense of going deep into the sewers to find a body, even though there's no dirt to dig it's still technically going deeper underground to get something.

The combat was pretty unresponsive, I plan on fixing that soon after the jam ends so it feels better. I plan on having particles on the walking corpses when hit and a proper sound for the axe when it connects with things. Doors are unnecessarily complex but I wanted to try something new and cool, they just need a bit more tweaking to feel good.

Thank you so much, I'm very glad you found the world immersive and story interesting! I've been meaning to play your game since I found out about it but have been caught up with going through the ones with little votes.
I found it super cool that we both focused a lot on eyes, it's eye-tastic!

Thanks for reminding me about the door feedback, I plan on adding more feedback in general but you reminded me that I originally planned on having door stuck sounds if you try to push a pull door or pull a push door.

Thanks! I tried to make something interesting and I felt like there weren't going to be a lot of 2D games, plus I've never made a 3D game before so I was kinda stuck in 2D. Glad you liked the art and humor!

Thank you so much, you're super kind! I'm very glad that you feel I did good with the art and plot. I was pretty excited to see how people would respond with being forced to do what Eileen asked, I'm glad it made an impact! I'm also glad you liked the ending of the last scene, I plan on going back after the game jam and adding a drawn cutscene with Ryan getting on his new suit so hopefully it ends even better.

Thank you so much! I didn’t want to animate a whole bunch but I still wanted there to be movement so I had to cobble something together but it seems it still worked out well. I’m very glad you felt the mix of humor and horror went well, I was planning on having humor be incorporated more in game through enemies tripping on things like the tables, but I’ll have to see after the jam if that’d still be a good idea.

The axe does feel wacky as of now but that’ll be fixed soon, however the humans’ pathfinding will take a bit more time. I think the humans’ are getting too focused on where they felt vibrations the strongest rather than which vibrations were closest so that’s why they’ll sometimes continue to run into a wall.

I'm glad you liked what you were able to play. I'm very sorry that you experienced the crash, I'm not sure how many people have experienced it but I'll be fixing that immediately after the jam ends.
If you still want to try the sewer level just for fun you can press "CTRL + ALT + P" on the scene select screen. I don't believe there are any crashes in the sewers as breaking the tables in scene 2 is what causes the crash.

Thank you for playing! The ending was pretty abrupt, I originally wanted the man to shoot and run away in triggers around the sewers till finding him in the ending room but I ran low on time. Combat is planned to be fixed, I might keep it a little stiff feeling since I want to prioritize stealth a bit more in the future but I want to give it good feedback so the player knows the axe connected.

Thanks, the plot was definitely one of the stronger aspects of my game. I totally get your reasoning for stopping in the sewers, I have a craptop too and most of the jam entries have been making it want to blow up.

Thank you so much for playing and catching that missing wall, the screenshot really helps! I'm glad you thought the gameplay was fun and that the dialogue was humorous. I'm glad you liked combat, when I update it I'll be adding a lot more feedback to hitting things with your axe.

Thank you so much! I tried my hardest to get a compact but thorough story across and I think I accomplished what I wanted for the most part. Originally I was planning on more sound effects and voices so I have a few scrapped sounds for if Eileen gets shoved around lol.

Thank you so much! I'm super sorry that that bug happened but I'm very appreciative of you going back through the sewers to finish it.
I'm glad you thought the dialogue was well written, usually I'm a pretty bad writer when I work on games but I think this time my somewhat alien way of speaking pulled through. Thanks for streaming it btw, it's awesome to see my game out there and I'm glad it worked for the most part.

Also, thanks for reminding me, Enter also works for pausing the game, I'd just been testing it so much through the debugger that I had forgotten to list proper controls that wouldn't mess with full screen mode.

I meant to add a checkpoint at the area with the eye-man in the sewers but unfortunately I ran out of time. Once I the jam is over I plan on going back and fixing bugs as well as adding polish.



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Thank you so much! I'm glad you found some of the dialogue funny. The doors are a bit jank, I think I fell into the developer mindset of knowing how they worked pretty early on so I just kinda hoped and prayed that people would figure them out.
Thanks as well for the compliment about being 2D! I was a little worried at first that a 2D game just wouldn't hit the same as a first person 3D game but I still tried it anyway.

Thanks, I'm really glad you liked the visual style and environment!

Sorry about the combat, your axe does deal damage rather than an OHKO and certain enemies in the Sewers have different stats for health and defense. The enemy makes a noise when its hit but it's way too quiet, when I go back post-jam I'll add a sound for the axe connecting to give it better feedback.

Thanks, I'm glad you felt it was playable! I was worried that the crash in Scene 2 would ruin everything but I'm hoping not many people had to experience it first hand.

Doors are a little wonky, I wanted to do something fancy rather than just pressing space but I didn't spend enough time making them feel smooth. When I go back after the jam I want to try and fix that but it may take more time than other bugs.

Thanks, I tried really hard to get the shading to look good! The doors came out a little wacky but I thought it'd be cool to make them have some more interaction than just pressing space.

The combat is a bit tough, I originally planned more on having stealth be better but I was walking a tightrope between having them be super dumb and not notice you at all to being able to track you wherever. The enemies do take damage and certain ones have different stats for speed, health, and defense. The head of the axe deals damage regardless of direction but there's a lack of feedback when you hit something since the enemies' hurt sounds are too quiet. When I go back to fix bugs I want to make a sound for the axe hitting something and also add a blood particle effect to properly display a connecting hit.

Thank you! I wanted to add a cutscene at the end of the sewers but ran out of time, I think I'll add it after the game jam ends when I go back to fix bugs.

Thank you so much! That's super kind of you and I'm glad you enjoyed it.