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A jam submission

A Good Night's SleepView game page

A Good Night’s Sleep is a short horror game about trying to get the rest you so desperately need.
Submitted by indooranimal, Laurie, PumpkinHexed, tine5 — 2 hours, 4 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#14.6384.638
Audio#34.2344.234
Overall#34.2854.285
Art#54.5964.596
Polish#64.2554.255
Gameplay#233.7023.702

Ranked from 47 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Genre

Narrative

Story Driven Gameplay

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Jam Judge(+2)

Super immersive, I loved the dialogue of each item and how they would evolve over time. Amazing visuals and smooth gameplay, really liked the sound design too. The end credits were hilarious too lmao

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!! :D Haha, the credits were a lot of fun!

Developer(+1)

Really glad you liked it and the comment about the credits makes me very happy, we had such a good time making them xD

Jam Judge(+2)

Very haunting atmosphere and creepy soundtrack, big fan of how the game looked. Not a big visual novel guy, but this was super fun to go through! Great work.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing it and really happy you enjoyed it!!! :D 

Submitted(+1)

I can tell your team put in a lot of effort into this project, and it paid off. The story was engaging, and the art style had me spooked. Well done!

Developer

Thanks so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D 

Submitted(+1)

I had to stop in the middle of playing to give your game full points.

I loved the experience! I love visual novels. Yours was terrifying and I usually don't subject myself to scary games because I need to sleep but I still continued playing your game so that was telling!

Yall did a tremendous amount of work and I really salute all of it. I hope you guys will win one of the prizes!

Developer

Ahh thank you so much for playing and rating!!! Im really happy you enjoyed it! (: Thank you loads for your kind words!!!

Submitted(+2)

This. Is the best game of this jam. 

Art - perfect. It's so effective, the dreams had me shaking.

Sound - perfect. The music and the soundeffects add so much to the immersion and atmospere.

Details - oh the amount of details in here! Exploring the house was a lot of fun, noticing things change, getting different dialogue, the cutscenes of the day! perfect.

And there's 3 endings!? I am for sure coming back to get the rest of the endings!

I am flabergasted at the polish and story and idea of this game.

I sit there shocked at how good it is, staring at the ending screen, and then theres this awesome sause up-beat song starts with the beautiful credits!!!

A bizzare experience. I'm at a loss for words.

Developer(+1)

Oh wow, thank you so much for your kind words, I'm so glad you liked it!! It was a lot of fun, coming up with little changes depending on stress level - I hope you enjoy the other endings too :D 

Submitted(+2)

From the very beginning, I thought this game would be something much simpler than it actually is. Congratulations on managing to create a game with so many art assets (which is quite an achievement considering you only had 10 days to make them) and such a well-thought-out story.

Personally, besides the art and the story, my favorite part was the music. Sublime. The transition from reality to dreams is hypnotic and super immersive, I loved it.

I don't usually play narrative-focused games, but this one really hooked me. Thanks for this entry!

Developer

Thank you so much for playing and for all the kind words!! :D It was definitely a much bigger scope than we thought initially, but very happy we got it all together and submitted in time! Thank you again, really appreciate your feedback!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

i'm sooooo sad that I'm unable to play this fully! For some reason it will not pickup my mouse movement and freezes or lags majorly :/ maybe my device is too old. That intro (i refused to sleep) was super chilling and the small bits I was able to witness really had me hooked though. Amazing job putting together this experience and even having a settings menu during a jam!!

Developer

Thank you for trying to play it, sorry it seemed to not work for you! We'll have a look at that and see what it might be!! I'm really glad you enjoyed what you did get to play though!!!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, really eerie but fascinating game y'all made. I'm not usually one for visual novel games, but this one was very captivating. I don't like to specifically say the score I give games unless I give 5 stars in a category, I the art direction in this one earned that fifth star in art for sure. Even just the visuals alone. The bright, blinding, white with black accent day time left you uncomfortable and wanting out of it. The dark, sleeping, easy on the eyes black with white accents is perfect for the home as the main 2 colors. And then the dream colors, and it being the only real movement and animation in the game, was perfect. Made them feel very surreal and fleeting. Excellent job there. The gameplay was not my particular cup of tea, but as I said before, I am not a visual novel guy so I am not your target audience there. The audio was great. Nice and lo-fi and chunky, perfect for the tone of the game. And it picked up the pace for those anxious moments in the dreams. Overall, really superb job here. Y'all should be very proud :)

Developer

Thank you so much for playing the game and Im glad that you enjoyed it despite it being a VN!!! :D I'm really happy you enjoyed the art and art direction! I love working in 1 bit so it was really fun! (: Thanks for all the great feedback, really appreciated!!

Submitted(+2)

Great setting and mood, very suspenseful all the way through. I got a crash getting book but since i was so into the world I thought it was just something else going on in the game haha, had me in it unlike most games. Looks cool too and the way you designed getting around was excellent, never frustrating. Well written and Wort playing.

Developer

Thank you so much for playing it!!! :D I'm really glad you liked it, sorry about that bug!!! We'll definitely look into that when the jam is over! Thank you loads for the kind words (:

Submitted(+2)

Amazing work! Extremely polished product, I got ending 2, may go for the other ones soon.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing and really happy you liked it!!! :D I hope you enjoy the other endings if you play again!!!

Submitted(+2)

This is incredible! It 's so carefully constructed, everything seems to fit very well together 

Developer

Thanks so much for playing and for the kind words, really glad you enjoyed it!! :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+3)

This was cool! I thought the buttons needed for the QTE's were random  at first, but then I realized they spelled run, which was a nice touch! I got "Ending 2: Creeping Doubt" This was very well made, written, and drawn!

Developer(+1)

YES! I'm so glad someone noticed that little detail haha!

Thanks so much for playing and I'm so glad you enjoyed it :D

Submitted(+2)

Great writing and really well put together especially for a jam game!

Developer

Thank you!! I'm really glad you had a good time playing! :D

Submitted(+2)

I'm not a big fan of visual novels, but this one was amazing! Just incredibly cool!

Developer

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D 

Submitted(+2)

Chills, I got goosebumps playing this from start to end. The atmosphere, the music, art, everything is so immersive I got caught in the mechanics and was enthralled the whole way through!

Love the resource management and point-and-click elements. Love the attention to detail, the flavour text, and everything. 

What a feat, to have all this done in 10 days, amazing. I really wanna play a full version of this.

Props for the DOS game-type art and music. Made me nostalgic in a way.

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and the atmosphere was effective :D 

Submitted(+1)

Extremely well made game, I've always liked these type of point and click games. I've got ending 3 at my first run (which I guess it's the best one) and tried to get the others. I thought I was going crazy seeing all the changes in the house based on the stress level! Also loved the theme and the idea that all the things of the past cause stress.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D We all thought it would be fun to have those little changes depending on your current stress level!

Submitted(+2)

Excellent take on the theme. I loved the writing in this one, it really captured how the monotony of everyday life can wear down your spirit. I got ending 2, I also wish I had a bit of a better idea of what effects the ending you end up getting but overall a solid game. I do enjoy a good horror point-and-click visual novel, this hits me right in my nostalgia. 

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing the game and I'm very glad you enjoyed it and the take on the theme! :D Thank you also for the feedback!! The stress bar at the top is the deciding factor on the ending overall, but we definitely could make it clearer at which point the stress levels have an impact!!

Submitted (2 edits) (+2)

Greatly polished. the settings alone are a nice touch story jam games that leave the text go slow always ruin it for me so having an option for that is an entirely different experience. the writing is great for 10 days, I like the metaphors. the art style is great. the music fits the mood extremely well, a bit jarring on my ears but that’s personal bias against a classic technique so don’t mind me. I got ending two, can’t be bothered to replay the entire thing again to get different endings (especially since the criteria for how to get an ending is not clear at all) so ig my feedback for this would be splitting it into chapters so it’s easier to go for more endings and making it clearer what is our role as a player. what choice we do matters. other than that, great job. no reason to dwell on it!

Developer

Thanks very much for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) Thanks loads for your feedback as well!

Submitted(+2)

got ending 2. still its a very kinetic visual novel, a SOLID use of the theme and just overall a very polished and well executed game. i did  manage to 'store' the teh choice box in the living room, think i just clicked too fast. but ya no real complaints, i expect this to be a top rated submission. (god i need to make a horror game for a jam)

Developer

Thank you loads for playing the game and I'm very glad you enjoyed it! I'm very curious how you did that so will check that out after the jam ends in case it's an issue on our end!! Making a horror game was great fun so I very much recommend it!! :D

Submitted(+1)

It was cool! I've got the ending 3 (best one?) but I'm a little bit more stressed now than before, ahaha. 

The credits scene is nice, btw

Developer

Thanks so much for playing! Ending 3 is the good ending, but yeah, it's kind of stressful xD I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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